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davecom

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Hacking the Classic Mac OS Interview
« on: March 20, 2025, 08:48:42 AM »

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!
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Re: Hacking the Classic Mac OS Interview
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2025, 12:36:39 PM »

Very interesting! Thanks for the heads up! :)
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Re: Hacking the Classic Mac OS Interview
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2025, 04:08:06 AM »

It was generally a very informative podcast. I'm not entirely onboard with every single aspect discussed in it (e.g. """security""" points, and some others), but I really enjoyed a lot from it. It was great to finally hear @ELN's perspective on so much of this. Never give up on that Mac OS 9 on G5 dream! I know that if you, of all people, go all the way with it, you will most, most, most likely pull it off one day, however long that takes.

I will add one more reason for which people use System 7 or Mac OS 9 besides what was stated: it is just the better system. We can expand on all that "better" stands for here, but you guys actually already covered some of the points that make it so. But yes, there are more. The whole package that is "Mac OS" (not OS X) is to this day extremely appealing! Even after we put all "nostalgia" aside.

Anyway, thanks a lot for the podcast, to both of you.
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Re: Hacking the Classic Mac OS Interview
« Reply #3 on: April 10, 2025, 04:10:28 PM »

Thanks for sharing I really enjoyed this! Great podcast
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