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macOS: Erneut Spekulationen über Touchscreen-Fähigkeit

Im Zusammenhang mit aktuellen Gerüchten über ein Apple-Foldable gibt es auch wieder Spekulationen über ein Touchscreen-macOS. Doch was ist dran an der Idee?

heise.de/news/macOS-Erneut-Spe

heise online · macOS: Erneut Spekulationen über Touchscreen-FähigkeitBy Ben Schwan
#Apple#iPad#iPadOS

I have an old #mac mini in the office, and would like set up a persistent reverse tunnel so I can always SSH in from home.

Running the ssh command manually isn't a problem, but how do I turn this into a persistent service on #macos so it restarts when the connection drops for whatever reason? Anything in #homebrew ? (The Mac in question is on #mojave 14.7 IIRC, if that helps.)

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Next, I compared the good and bad files in Hex Fiend. The good ones had an "lh1" signature in the header, while the bad ones had an "lh5."

Okay, clearly they were using different compression methods. But how could I extract the lh5 ones?

Googling turned up this Keka issue on GitHub --
github.com/aonez/Keka/issues/1 -- which mentions a different problematic Atari ST LZH file on Discmaster and how dexvert handles it fine.

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Another odd LZH, from Atari ST http://discmaster.textfiles.com/file/11869/www.umich.edu.archive.2014.03.zip/www.umich.edu/~archive/atari/Games/Puzzle/nanjin11.lzh Originally posted by @gingerbeardm...
GitHubAnother odd LZH from Atari ST · Issue #1257 · aonez/KekaBy aonez

Interesting discovery today ... Came across a cache of 20 issues of "Express Times", an electronic newsletter for sysops running BBS Express! ST software on the Atari ST.

But all 20 issues were .LZH archives. I tried to open them on my Mac using Keka, but only about half of them worked.

So I booted Hatari and used UNLZH, but it also began throwing CRC errors for several files.

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KeyCue 11: Tastaturkürzel lernen auf dem Mac in neuem Gewand

Viele macOS-Apps lassen sich per Tastatur flotter bedienen als mit der Maus. KeyCue 11 kennt sie für alle Programme und zeigt sie nun übersichtlicher an.

heise.de/news/KeyCue-11-Tastat

heise online · KeyCue 11: Tastaturkürzel lernen auf dem Mac in neuem GewandBy Ben Schwan
#Mac#macOS#Tastatur

I had to reinstall #Mac #OS9 as I was suddenly running into some weird boot issues, but then again it was a nice opportunity to get a clean OS install going on my #G4 #iMac.
I tried the OS9 9.2.1 CD that came with the original #OSX, but that did not work. I guess it is missing some iMac-specific bits. Regardless, my burned 9.2.2 "universal" installer CD worked beautifully.
And of course, I had to install #SereneScreen #Marine #Aquarium.
#MARCHintosh #RetroComputing #Macintosh #Apple

#blind #mac #voiceOver users, I'm working on a #stream idea to essentially set up a mac from scratch for efficiency/productivity for a blind power user and am gathering tricks, tools and techniques to include in said stream. I know about the obvious like VOCR, Hammerspoon, launchers like raycast/alfred, specialized apps like Drafts/Logic/Vmware Fusion/BBEdit/VS Code, even more specialized stuff like RCMD, Vollama and Shortcat, maybe some Rogue Amoeba stuff. I will also mention VoiceOver features like hotspots, item chooser, fastSearch and activities. Is there anything major I am missing? @FreakyFwoof @pitermach

So, here's my actually-planned-for-this-year #MARCHintosh project. Attached is a photo of four very dusty containers full of floppy disks. These are the actual disks from my childhood IIfx!

Most of these disks aren't original. The originals lived at Dad's workplace. He would periodically bring home software from work, make a copy of the disks, and return the originals to work. These were, I'm told, the "off-site backups", in case there was a fire at the workplace or something like that. But we also had all this software installed on the family IIfx so Dad could read any files that he brought home from work with him.

Of course, we also bought our own software for the home, and those are mixed in with these disks as well. And that stack of CD-ROMs in the top left are my MacAddict cover disks - those are already archived.

Anyway, because these are just consumer-grade diskettes, they degrade quicker than the professionally-manufactured original ones. I've already lost a few, so I want to get these archived! And of course, anything that doesn't already exist on the Garden will be uploaded there and shared on #GlobalTalk as well.

(expect this to be a long-ass foone-style thread with lots of updates over several days)

Tried out InterPrint on my IIfx today and I've got to say, it works beautifully!

macintoshgarden.org/apps/inter

This Chooser extension allows you to print to LPR queues over TCP/IP. But unlike the IP printing support in LaserWriter 8 (which "requires" Mac OS 8, though I think you can manually install it on as low as System 7.5.3), InterPrint works all the way down to System 6.0.5! It fully supports PostScript, too.

What this means for me is that after #MARCHintosh is over, I can repurpose my Raspberry Pi, which currently acts as an AppleTalk print server for my local network (and #GlobalTalk, by extension).