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On a personal note, I get concerned seeing the sudden switch from the casual, amicable language to "Since there's nothing in Registration Agreement <snip>

Don't worry, this is not what I intended. I was making a suggestion, while simultaniously pointing to a "hole" in agreement. I am sorry if you saw it as "offensive".  :)
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@ssp3 You can edit the content of posts (attachments or otherwise) by requesting it to admins/mods and providing them with what will be the replacement. In your case, you need to create the specific watermarked pictures you want to replace the original pictures with, and appropriately send them over. Then you need to specify what posts they will go to, and provide their URLs.

I think this is fair of you to request, especially if the content is sensitive (which doesn't seem to be the case here, but that's besides the point), as long as it doesn't become common practice: from now on you should always upload them watermarked, so that the very limited forum resources (admin/mod time) are not irresponsibly wasted.

But to fulfill what you are asking, there is absolutely zero need to compromise the forum engine as a whole: We shouldn't systematically allow this for an edge case, at the risk of facilitating the destruction of history, as @Knezzen correctly alluded to.

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On a personal note, I get concerned seeing the sudden switch from the casual, amicable language to "Since there's nothing in Registration Agreement about transfer of ownership of original content to forum owner, from legal point of view [...]", because we are not arguing in those terms, and ideally we all should be discussing things in good faith. But this approach and language is destructive, and I strongly condemn this: it shifts our focus from the theme and goals of this forum, which is OS9, to, of all things, legal technicality and jargon. It raises distrust, and makes us defensive. This is not worth it, and anything that shifts us to that direction is a threat. People here are generally good, amicable, and will listen to your plea if there's anything you want edited within reason, without any need for such approach or language.

Incidentally, even if we are to go down that route, the Terms of Use ("Terms and Policy" as it is called on the bottom right corner) can nonetheless be accordingly updated with immediate effect to reflect this, perhaps with something along the lines of "While you own what you post, the proof of which being the fact that you can freely repost and reuse your content anywhere else, posts that are older than X and/or were responded to freeze and can no longer be edited within these forums, and the staff is not responsible nor has the obligation to spend its limited time resources to make such 'post-mortem' changes for you on a whimsy. At most, you can contact staff nonetheless, but the staff won't address the matter unless if the content in question is extremely sensitive, and that too only according to the staff's own discretion.". (I hate the fact I even "had" to type this sh!7: It shouldn't have to come down to this, I'd rather have used that time for something OS9-centric. Also of note: I'm not part of the staff, nor do I aspire to be.)


TL;DR: C'mon. Let's remain reasonable. We don't mess the forum, but if you want to retroactively watermark your stuff that badly, simply send them over, along with the links of the posts they correspond to. We might be able to go from there instead.
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Editing posts retroactively is a bit sensitive.
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I'm not talking about editing text, I'm talking about editing attachments (pictures).

Since there's nothing in Registration Agreement about transfer of ownership of original content to forum owner, from legal point of view, the copyright remains with original poster and he/she has all rights to request removal/replacement etc. of his/her original material. Therefore, I think, it would be better to leave such option to user, if technically possible.

I've been to forums where you have separate page in your profile where you can work with your attachments only.
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Welcome to Our Community - Guidelines, News, & Social Posts / Re: Retro Masochists
« Last post by aBc on March 27, 2024, 09:28:53 PM »
Quote from: IIO
Zuse is retro, MacOS9 is not.
Aha, the thread again shifts focus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WNFBjoJbBA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu3Zch5tcM0

Thanks IIO, I might have mistakenly guessed Alan Turing. ;)
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I found this monitor https://www.beetronics.es/pantalla-tactil-15-pulgadas-4-3 But dont know where to find the driver.

I also found a few ElO  https://www.ebay.com/itm/145222695773 https://www.ebay.com/itm/266677247212 Ones near my local area, but again drivers are the issue here.

I'm getting close to simply going the route of a raspberry pi or linux thin client / hackintosh.

But then I'd have to figure out a relay configuration to make a speaker properly interface with a push button for turning on ONLY (not off so I cant just wire it up to the button... I think, unless that button is wired to a direct on off switch).
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jumping in to make sure that some things aren’t forgotten.

The issue that sometimes prevents the cursor from moving but allows it to click the Apple menu: in my experience, this only happens when a widely circulated archive of “patched” ATI drivers is installed. Long post a couple of years ago. Use the vanilla drivers.

A blinking question mark usually means that the boot disk hasn’t been formatted with the “Mac OS 9 Drivers”. I wrote a patch to fix it, but honestly the easiest fix is just to wipe your disk with Drive Setup. Another cause is a hardware fault, namely a hard drive that returns a lot of read errors.
i'm trying to use your script to patch my ROM but there's ssome python error that i'm really not good enough at the language to debug (see attachment)..
could you point me in the right direction?
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Zuse is retro, MacOS9 is not.
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All of those OSX installers you tried, "see" they're on a non-native OS9 eMac and so the OS9 drivers option is simply not presented.

Yeah, that's exactly what I figured. Another approach I considered was to maybe try using the IdentityTool described here: http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?topic=2141.0
That might have done the trick and could be a new how-to technique, but the Box link on that thread is broken. Also, given the minor difference between my RevB emac and the one released 6 months earlier which IS native OS9 capable, isn't this something I could spoof using OF commands? I don't really need the answer to that now, but researching OF tricks was going to be my next attempt.
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All of those OSX installers you tried, "see" they're on a non-native OS9 eMac and so the OS9 drivers option is simply not presented.
It's just one of the little fun things you get to overcome when you defy Apple's wisdom.
The "Install OS 9 Drivers" option can appear on my Power Mac G5 and Intel Mac running Tiger or Leopard. It might depend on the drive. I think it works at least for FireWire drives and disk images.
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@vaccinemedia I was re-reading your update posts and wondered about the .hqx method you abandoned. Were you at one point getting an output patched ROM file with a .hqx extension?? And if so, what about then converting it to Mac binary format again (un-binhex the file). Shouldn't that result in a single, properly written ROM file?

Aaaaaahhhhhh! It's been a while since I used OS9 back in the day. I never recognised the .hqx extension so I never thought about using Stuffit Expander to expand the ROM. Instead I spent way too many hours with the separate files using ResEdit trying to make a full ROM again. Yes I'm assuming what you are suggesting may well work! The thing is... I abandoned the idea and instead decided to leave MorphOS out of the equation. The goal was to have as many operating systems on a brand new 128GB SSD using an IDE to M.2 adapter. Each additional OS install was removing the OS9 Drivers so I left that bit til last and left out MorphOS which was not playing nice with the multiboot setup at all.

I ended up with: OS9 / OS 10.4 (with classic) / OS 10.5 / Debian 12 / Adelie Linux / Lubuntu 16 Remix / OpenBSD 7.4

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I nearly forgot! You CAN partition a HD with OS9 drivers installed using a Tiger install CD using the terminal using a command like this:
diskutil partitonDisk /dev/disk0 OS9Drivers HFS+ macos9 35G JHFS+ macosx 35G

The above partitions the first HD with 2x 35GB partitions and installs OS9 drivers
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