mihaip/infinite-mac

A classic Mac loaded with everything you'd want

infinite-mac's Issues

Finder windows do not update when files are created

Mostly affects the Downloads folder when new files are dragged in, or new files are created when expanding. May be an ExtFS bug or limitation.

Consider changing default screen depth to 256 colors

Too much software asks to switch at startup, or doesn't work in millions at all (KidPix, Civ, etc.)

Changing resolutions breaks

Selecting 640x480 from the little checkerboard menu at the bottom (needed for games that expect that resolution like Pipe Dream) causes the displayed screen to shred (the display resolution doesn't change to match the linear pixel buffer).

Why is the audio so laggy?

Add parsing of StuffIt 5.x Finder metadata

Marathon and others use StuffIt 5, and mihaip/XADMaster@cf6767f only added parsing for the older (StuffIt 3?) format.

Why does Marathon a second time lead to crashes/memory corruption?

Happens to Prince of Persia too

Screen top is chopped off at top and can't be scrolled into view if window is very wide

One way to trigger this is to open devtools and make it dock at the bottom. Or have a wide screen and make your browser window very wide. The top of the mac will be cut off and you can't scroll it into view.

Screenshot (this is scrolled as far up as possible):

Chrome 100.0.4896.75 (Official Build) (x86_64)

Drag and Drop does not work on Linux Mint

I tried dragging and dropping a file from Linux Mint's file manager (Nemo) into system7.app's main window and the file never transfers. The UI for drag/drop appears, but the actual transfer does not happen. I tried in both Firefox and Ungoogled Chromium, same result.

Set compatibility date for Cloudflare Worker

https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/compatibility-dates

Not an Issue, Just Praise

Hello @mihaip, I am very impressed at what you accomplished here, in particular with the upload and download feature! That is amazing! That feature was something I always wanted for my own emulator web site (http://retroweb.maclab.org) so I commend you on figuring out how to do it! I might have to dig into your source code to figure out how you pulled this off!

Make Finder windows better sized by default

e.g. Games needs to be better. Generate some better Finder metadata in build-disk-image.py?

Kid Pix won't launch due to imagined memory constraints

When Kid Pix is launched (after switching to 256 colors), it complains that there is not enough memory to run.

Capture close window and quit application shortcuts?

I grew up with System 7 and Mac OS 8 and absolutely love this! I was playing around with it just now and reflexively hit Cmd-W to close the window inside Infinite Mac and instead closed my whole browser tab instead. 😂 Would it be worth (and in fact even possible?) to have those keyboard shortcuts work within Infinite Mac instead?

Allow CD-ROM images to be mounted without restarting the simulator (or the Mac)

We can do some minor surgery to cdrom.cpp to not require that files are present (https://github.com/mihaip/macemu/blob/089f77754b8afc53ac22f24e534f0702c3e09989/BasiliskII/src/cdrom.cpp#L298-L300) and then trigger CDROMMountVolume (https://github.com/mihaip/macemu/blob/089f77754b8afc53ac22f24e534f0702c3e09989/BasiliskII/src/cdrom.cpp#L322) when they are actually created.

Followup to 800b508

[Feature request] Fixed integer scaling

Using on the tablet (Tab S7+ on Android 12) it doesn't lock to any integer scale, so trying to zoom in and out to get it to look good is very tricky. Full screen tries but is still off by a little.

Prefetching may need tweaking

Pencil Test playback still lags

Add StuffIt Expander alias to Downloads folder

Makes it easier to drag archives onto it to expand them.

May have to create the alias programatically via the Emscripten FS APIs. IIRC aliases are just a normal file with a resource fork, and will fall back to a path, so we may not need to preserve the full file metadata in it.

Why is unstuffing Marathon so slow?

Affects native Basilisk II too

Fix trackpad input on iPad

Report that it didn't: https://twitter.com/kaplanfx/status/1509993270096498693

Battle Chess won’t run

Support for international Mac OS versions?

Most of my vintage Macintosh work is done in Japanese System 7 (specifically J-7.5.3) which uses MacJapanese encoding (rather than MacRoman).

There are dozens of other international versions of System 7 and 8, with lots of text encoding systems. Luckily the installers are all available on WinWorld etc and the official Apple text encoding mappings are preserved as part of Tcl.

I'd be interested to hear what might be involved to support arbitrary International Macintosh versions?

ps: insanely great work on this!

Redo disk images to have a more complete versions of the OS

I took out Apple Guide, OpenTransport, and other things in an early attempt to slim down the image. However, given that we have streaming downloads of them now, it may be worth re-evaluating this, so that a more accurate experience is recreated.

Allow direct drag and drop of URLs

Would avoid having to download files from Macintosh Garden etc. and then re-upload them.

Cosmic Osmo/Hypercard: Movies do not play due to a Not Enough Memory error.

Exactly what it says on the tin.

To make an educated (if untested) guess as to what's going on- the 256MB of memory assigned might be larger than the PlayMovie extension ever expected to see- 1-4MB was far more common when the game was made, let alone the HyperCard program behind it, and the absolute max -with a Macintosh SE/30 or Macintosh II- was 128MB in the same period.

Slow dissolve transition (eg. in HyperCard)

This isn't unique to your project, I've seen it in BasiliskII proper. Apparently the CPU hits 100% during the transition for some reason.

So I'm interested in your thoughts on it?

The attached file will need to be expanded using Stuffit Expander, and opened using HyperCard. Compare the speed of the transition with Mini vMac.

Thoru Yamamoto's "A Little Tree" HyperCard stack
A Little Tree.sit.zip

Add infinity symbol to Mac glyph

In both the favicon and the site icon

Feature request: Locally hosting instructions?

Could one post instructions -or a link to instructions for locally hosting this on Mac/PC/Linux this in the Readme?

Also, it would be really nice if one could put it on a usb key.

Edmund

Cmd+W and Cmd+Q

Not sure there's anything that can be done about these, but muscle memory means I've quit the emulator numerous times and my browser once! Oops.

Control panel/options

Triggered by clicking the Apple logo, or something more discoverable?

Allow things like the modifier pref from #10 to be controlled.

Also a soft reboot button for cases where Mac crashes.

Alternate ROM option.

Toolbox call optimizations

Can we accelerate CopyBits and similar Toolbox calls by trapping them in Basilisk and implementing them as pure native functions?

Re-evaluate screen hashing functions

See mihaip/macemu@2dbd859#commitcomment-51812217

Or perhaps we don't need to hash the screen contents at all, if we can intercept all changes to it and set a dirty bit?

Photoshop won't launch on MacOS 8

Reported by https://twitter.com/vordio/status/1509864309140111363

Support control as alternate modifier to command

Allow control-w, control-q etc. shortcuts without being in full-screen mode (where we take a keyboard lock)

Keyboard input mode for iOS

Some way to bring up the soft keyboard

Improve machfs DesktopDB rebuilding

Files get the correct icon, but double-clicking on text files does not open SimpleText (and PDFS don't open Adobe Reader, etc.), so clearly something is not quite right.

Run Bloaty McBloatface or the like to see where the binary size is going

Emulator randomly freezes while playing SimCity 2000

The System 7 emulator keeps freezing randomly while I'm playing SimCity 2000, and I'm unable to figure out the cause for it. I'm accessing it from an iPad Pro when this happens if that helps any.

Allow maximum resolution to be changed

Make modifications similar to oldweb-today/macemu@30f1459 to allow the hardcoded 800x600 to be changed.

Investigate SheepShaver

Would allow running versions of Mac OS beyond 8.1, as well as PPC-only software.

It's also in the macemu repo, and can likely share the same Emscripten/web interfaces.

• video
• input
• idle_wait
• 100% even when idle_wait is implemented (and triggering)
• Register macos9.app
• audio (modulo #67)
• clipboard
• "The Outside World" naming and icon
• ethernet
• disk image mounting
• Make PPC decode cache work (and check that it has a benefit)
• #153
• Make tick/blitting hit closer to 60fps (it lags behind sometimes)
• Check that gfxaccel pref is actually beneficial (compare Speedometer runs) -- it's not
• #154
• Sherlock 2's brushed metal background does not render
• Background picture in Finder secret about box does not render
• QuickTime Player refuses to launch
• Remove Sherlock index when building the disk image, the pointers to results do not appear to work once the image is rewritten

Typo in green Post-It

Found a Typo in the green Post-It.

It says „brwoser“ instead of „browser“.

Re-evaluate Basilisk II build system

Right now it's a pile of shell script, autoconf and Makefile hacks. It should be simple enough that we could use CMake/Ninja instead?

Investigate allowing CD-ROM images to be dragged in

May require a restart of the Basilisk II emulator to pick them up

Some way to more reliably simulate double-clicks on mobile

Can we detect double-clicks ourselves (with more tolerance) and tweak the coordinates that we sent to BasiliskII to snap them to the previous ones?

Stop using the SDL port of Basilisk II

Unclear if it's getting us much. We could more directly use the UNIX port and talk to Emscripten/the worker directly.

Civilization: Text in main menu + on buttons fails to render

Not aware of what Civilization uses for these.

Additionally, the quit dialog renders text successfully when the "Yes, quit!" radio button is selected- but selecting the other option makes it fail to render again.

I have confirmed this happens on both versions of the site.

Make 16-bit display mode work

Need custom 16→32 expand function

See if Emscripten is generating inefficient code for the main emulator switch statement

At least historically this as an issue: emscripten-core/emscripten#1909 and https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=2275 and https://artemis.sh/2022/08/07/emulating-calculators-fast-in-js.html

Why do the scroll thumbs in the Mac OS 8 version not move?

They're OK in the native version of Basilisk II

Add TCP/IP support so apps like Netscape and Hotline Connect will work.

Hotline Connect won't launch because there is not TCP/IP driver loaded nor an active internet connection.

Netscape also won't work, though it will launch.

clarisworks

I've got a bunch of old clarisworks documents that I don't have a way to open. Any chance of adding clarisworks as one of the apps in the emulator?