Mac OS 9 Lives
Mac OS 9 Discussion => Mac OS 9, Hacks & Upgrades => Topic started by: IIO on August 18, 2026, 07:00:21 AM
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the USB 2.0 bomb made me think again about something which is in my head for quite a while:
couldn´t we run a hotline-folder-script-based or web-based auto-tbxi service?
where people upload the driver in question and their personal*) ROM file - or choose which content to delete - and then the "dump" and "build" python commands run in background?
most people probably do not have the patience and/or boldness to boot into OSX or linux, install python, explode the ROM file and edit the tree in the finder.
*) and they can be personal, the might have been edited before for something else.
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A local web app or small drag-and-drop utility would probably be ideal: select your ROM + the driver/extension, it runs the existing dump/build Python tools locally, patches the device tree, and spits out the modified ROM.
That would give us essentially the same “auto-tbxi service” experience without having to store or transmit anyone’s ROM.
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if python 3 would run on a PPC, that is probably what everyone would do.
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lets throw Claude at that problem