No. Nothing changed here recently. I even logged out, shut down and logged back in and it was still locked. Now after some time has passed, all seems to be working absolutely fine again. And no Ad Blocker other than what might be considered a Do Not Track - but that’s always been on.

Who knows?

Nothing is changed and nothing is locked. Just tried it on my machine and it works just like it always has. Have you changed browsers or added a new "ad blocker"? The image zoom function uses JavaScript, so if you have a browser plugin that somehow disables that (usually for ad blocking), then you wont get the expand/zoom effect.

Very interesting! Thanks for the heads up!

Temporarily perhaps? Attached images (thumbnails) do not currently expand for viewing. No amount of double-clicking resolves this - but view counts do rise with each attempt. I'll now try to embed a full sized image.

Well that was a stupid and futile attempt... as the thumbnails don't enlarge with a double-click.
AND it's just images attached today. Older, previously posted images are not affected.

Seems that I’ve encountered the same (or even more extreme) “bug” after installing Stuffit Deluxe 7.0.3 here on a much-maligned 800 MHz G3 iBook running OS 9.2.2. (This iBook serves as a sort of gateway or “first line of defense” test bed - before any software makes it’s way on to other bigger, faster, and more powerful machines here.) Anyway, screen freezes abounded with Stuffit’s “Magic Menu” and also with “True Finder Integration”. (Not to forget “Stuffit Helper” too.)

Confused? Some pics attached below.

And, no attempts a various combinations of the above items being… off or on, or disabled, solved the condition. Selected all 109 items in the Extensions Folder to be stuffed and it simply froze everything, no matter what I had on or off, etc. I even tried moving the individual Stuffit elements (aliases) to a folder of their own under the Apple Menu so that they might be individually utilized from there… and nope.

Then (quite by accident) I selected the entire System Folder of 2,680 items (instead of only the 109 Extensions) from the G3 iBook - and then Drop Stuff 6.0 didn’t hesitate to reduce all of those files down to a 114.4 MB .sit file. Of course it took about 10 minutes or so… but it worked.

So is it a “bug” with Stuffit Deluxe 7.0.3… or some unknown, or yet undiscovered possible other conflict? Usually my next step would be a completely, clean re-install OS 9.2.2 and then re-install & re-test 7.0.3 again but I’ve other things to do, especially as Stuffit 6.0 remains so reliable for me.

But if anyone else would care to chase this further, Aladdin Stuffit Deluxe 7.0.3’s Control Panel is entitled “True Finder Integration” which can be turned off or on AND it can also control the “Magic Menu”.

“Stuffit Helper” can be found under Startup Items, located within the Extensions Manager.

Or perhaps Jubadub’s FinderPop suggestion might be a workaround solution?

Hope you get it all figured out.

@MigMac Once you install FinderPop, you won't have any need for StuffIt Helper anymore (nor Magic Menu).

Hi All,

Earlier today I released an episode of my podcast that features an interview with this forum's very own @ELN. As you may know, Elliot was an instrumental part of the team from this forum that hacked Mac OS 9 to run on the Mac mini G4. Elliot and I discussed how several parts of the Classic Mac OS worked on a technical level and some of his projects hacking it. You can check out the episode here with links to various podcast players:
https://pnc.st/s/kopec-explains-software/087ec4eb/hacking-the-classic-mac-os

I thought about putting this in the Off Topic forum but hopefully it's appropriate here since it's related to a hack!

I installed qemu using Homebrew (https://brew.sh/).  I have two disk images, named MacO9.img and extra.img and use the foliowing command to run it:

qemu-system-ppc -M mac99 -m 512 -hda MacOS9.img -hdb extra.img -netdev user,id=mynet -device sungem,netdev=mynet -device usb-mouse -device usb-kbd

I'd installed MacOS9 using an iso image from mactinsohgarden.  It's been a while, but I believe I just mounted it as -hdb, with MacOS9.img as -hda.

I created the disk images with a command something like:
dd if=/dev/zero of=IMAGENAME.im bs=1G count=4
Used MacOS 9 booted from the cd to format them, I think.
(can't remember if the 1G is correct, or if I calculated the amount of bytes in 1 gig)

I also frequently use SheepShaver, I believe it's an old Intel binary I kept from when I upgraded that still works.  I can't necessarily recommend it because it is very crashy, but serves its purpose.

But UTM is probably a lot more user friendly!

Hi!

I'm using UTM on my MacBook Air nowadays and it works very well actually.
Give it a go

https://mac.getutm.app/

Hi there, it's just me trying to run mac os 9 on qemu to play the games of my childhood. had anyone success with this on m1?
i'm stuck debugging qemu ...