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Development & Programming / Re: I made Modern API Documentation for Mac OS 9.
« Last post by Greystash on Today at 07:05:22 PM »This is an amazing resource!! Thank you lolxD!
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i still cant beleive we now live in a world where the browser software developers are so f**kin lazy that they can only compile browser support for os'es from 2019 or above.. (the last 5 years)
Hoping to help bamdad, I have posted two files that maybe of his interest :
https://www.mediafire.com/file/3gv482z8zqyn7d3/Apple+ROMs+Matrix.pdf.zip
a PDF document with many infos about all Mac ROMs
https://www.mediafire.com/file/7q2qr22s94vyu97/New_World_ROMs.zip/file
an archive of New World Mac ROMs
A full set of Mac ROMs is available here :
https://archive.org/details/Macintosh_ROMs_Collection_1990s
The issue probably has to do with resource (fork?) compression/decompression. This feature was (for no good reason?) removed in 9.1. There's quite a list of software that got affected by this, such as After Dark, and possibly also Power MachTen, although the former got a patch fix for it, and the latter even an official patch fix.
If you can bring this ability back to 9.1, and thus also 9.2, 9.2.1, and 9.2.2, it might fix the problem entirely, and also fix a bunch of other software.
I don't think it has anything to do with the "ROM" file: if you install Mac OS 9.2.2 on an Old World ROM machine (using i.e. OS9Helper), you will most likely encounter the exact same issues.
Also, when you ask for "version 9.1 of the ROM", do you mean a ROM file included with some release of Mac OS 9.1, or a ROM file whose version is "9.1"?
Being an avid Hellcats fan since the 90's (perhaps THE essential 90's Mac game for me personally :-) ) I've been following your thread, hoping you could find a solution. (note to myself: My Pismo runs 9.0.4 so I need to check if it runs on there.)
Have the sources for Hellcats ever been showing up somewhere? Has anyone tried to contact Eric Parker about it? Taking the sources and recompiling the game might be the easier way than getting a 9.1 ROM working on the Mini? (though that would be an interesting project and one I'd love to see!)