I just learned that it wasn't extemporaneous:
Timex decided to end the torture tests [advertising] campaign in 1977 with a staged failure: an elephant stomped and crushed a watch. "It worked," Swayze quipped to the television audience, "in rehearsal."
I guess I was a gullible kid!
It's all about good directions with good pictures. Left on my own, I was very frustrated with Basilisk II because I couldn't get it to run. I started with the Basilisk II Setup Guide at the Macscene Wiki.
The first tip I needed was to use Nigel Pearson's v19 for PPC on my MacBook Pro. I was downloading Intel or Universal versions before.
I added the disk image called Network Access.image, but I actually booted from Starterdisk.hfv [ref] just fine.
But the best part of these directions are the screenshots! A picture is worth a thousand words. I made my settings look almost exactly like these (just added Starterdisk.hfv), and Basilisk II booted into System 7.5.5! Holy dogcow!
Now that I've got all of the emulators working, it's time to retire the old clutter! If I ever need to roll back to Mac II MatLab for unexpected reasons (hey, it happened to me once: I had to revive a IIci on a tight deadline!), I can do it without the hardware. None of my Mac IIci computers want to boot right now anyway.
I installed SIMBL today so that I could install OMSavePanel. For a while, I thought I might not have installed OMSavePanel properly, so I also installed SafariStand. I like the Stand menu, and when it didn't show up, I knew I had a problem with SIMBL. MacoOSXHints had one on InputManagers with the line I needed:
sudo chown -R root:admin /Library/InputManagers
Now it all works! Look out tags, here I come!
(Adding tags when you save a file is the best time for many reasons. One is that it's fresh on your mind then, but another is that dumb backup programs won't have to check ctime, just mtime, to back up your tags with the file, assuming it supports extended attributes but not ctimes.)
Holy cow! I must be on a roll, because the next emulator I tried was also a waltz in the park. In the comments of an article on How to run Classic (pre OS X) apps on Intel Macs is
Pre-built SheepShaver setup for download
I've built a complete SheepShaver install, including _everything_ needed to run, as well as the last version of WordPerfect and several utilities. To download this 243mb image, go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wordperfectmac, to the Links section, to the "SheepShaver and Basilisk" folder, and click "SheepShaver-WordPerfect Install". It's about 20 minutes on a fast connection.
Enjoy,
John
Yeah, so you have to join that group (I set it not to send me mail, claiming I'd read it on the web), and suddenly there I was scrolling down to the bottom to download. Follow the directions (seriously), and bam! It Really Works.
Surprisingly enough, I read Getting started with Mini vMac, I gave it an old ROM (I have an old SE ... and why do most versions of CopyROM give me a corrupt ROM?), I fired it up ...
... moment of doubt at the floppy with a flashing question mark ...
File menu, Open Disk Image to a bootable image like System Startup extracted from SSW_6.0.8-1.4MB_Disk1of2.sea.bin, and voila!
Shockingly easy, in fact.
UPDATE: the mini vMac blanks are handy! I renamed hfs20M.DSK to hfs20M.dmg, and it mounted just fine (both sides, OS X 10.5.7 and mini vMac 3.0.4-imch). Sure, I could use Disk Utility to make a new custom 20M image as Mac OS Standard and read-write, but I think the download was faster!
The common directions to use SheepShaver instruct the user to use TomeViewer (on a PowerPC Mac running a classic Mac OS or running Classic under OS X) to extract the ROM from "MacOS ROM Update 1.0" ... I like to refer to this as circular irony.
What's nice is that the SheepShaver ROM FAQ lists other sources, and I think I have two of those if I can find the CDs ...
ROM files known to work with SheepShaver
The following NewWorld ROMs are known to work:
I like to test things before I go on a trip. I was hoping to go on a trip without my laptop (this may be the first in years for a week-long trip), and I wanted to be sure I could charge my Treo from my iPod's wall charger (a small adapter from wall current to USB). Cell phones come in handy on the road, at least while the battery lasts.
My Treo 700p failed the test! It would not charge from anything but my actual laptop. The closest I could come to faking it out was to plug a powered USB hub into my laptop, plug Treo cable into hub, plug Treo into cable, let Treo start charging, and then sneakily unplug the hub from my laptop. That's a lot of hassle just to get it to charge!!!
I'll just bring the spare battery instead, but it's annoying not to be able to charge how I wish, so I had to ask Google why. From Treo charging in cradle from Palm Support Forums:
Besides using the charger to charge the phone, the PC will need to be on to use the trickle charge method. Some motherboards can allow continuous current even if PC is shut down but clearly your PC does not have such motherboard. The reason why your powered usb hub is not charging the phone is that the hub itself regulates power by "On Demand" and that demand is active data xfers from A to B or vice versa. So if no data is moving, then there will be insufficient power from that usb port to initiate a trickle charge.
Phooey. At least the mystery is explained; too bad my Treo wall and car chargers died (I think it wears out the connectors somehow since new cables work, but that's another story).
