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Hardware / FW Hard Drive Drivers
December 15, 2007, 04:13 |
When I bought my FantomDrives 120GB FireWire drive a while back, it came packaged with a limited version of Hard Disk SpeedTools. HDST installed some extensions in my System Folder (Mac OS 9.1 at the time) to load FireWire drives, USB drives and MO Cartridges. Perhaps that extension would work in System 7. This reminds me of SCSI cards of yesteryear requiring SCSI Probe (or some similar utility from ATTO, MicroNet, etc) to mount disks connected to the card. Without that utility, the Mac would never even try loading the disk driver from the hard drive. Perhaps this is similar. Also, I want to note that the Apple System Profiler in Mac OS 9 would always show me the USB cards I had installed, but it never shows FireWire cards or the devices attached to FW. At least this was the case on my 8500, 9500, and 9600, which don't have USB or FW built-in. Macs with built-in FW seems to always "see" FW in ASP. Go figure. I never had problems using FW; it was just annoying that ASP wouldn't acknowledge its existence. USB cards are supposed to be OHCI-compliant, though some older ones are not. I wonder if FireWire has something similar. If your Apple FireWire card is standards-compliant, then any other standards-compliant card should work. If the Apple card is proprietary, then that might be why the 2.3.3 drivers break it. (That might also be why it only works with DV -- a portion of the 1394 spec. More likely, though, is that v 2.3.3 is binded to some other part of OS 8.6 behind the scenes. Anyhow... Good luck with this. I find it fascinating. |
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Operating System / AppleShare between 7, 8, 9 and X
December 15, 2007, 02:52 |
On Mac OS 9 and older, you can have AppleTalk on one network port (ethernet, localtalk, AirPort, etc.) and TCP/IP on one port. OS X can have TCP/IP setup on as many ports that you want all at the same time, but AppleTalk only on one. Furthermore, you have to manually turn AppleTalk on for that port. AppleShare comes in many versions. The older versions that came with System 6 and 7 only supported File Sharing over AppleTalk. Later versions supported connecting to a AppleShare server via TCP/IP. From what I can tell, Mac OS X can use AppleTalk to "find" an AppleShare file server, but uses TCP/IP to actually connect. Your best bet is to update AppleShare AND your Chooser to a newer version that allows serving files and connecting to file servers via TCP/IP connections. Find the newest version of OpenTransport that your computer and System will work with. That should have the necessary components. AppleTalk printing still works fine with OS X. It is the file sharing aspect that has changed a lot. Just make sure AppleTalk is turned ON in System Preferences/Network/Ethernet/AppleTalk (Make AppleTalk Active). This works under 10.3 and 10.4. The most Amazing thing I've done with in this department is print from a 68k Powerbook Duo 280c to an Epson Stylus c82 color inkjet. There are no 68k drivers, and no 68k Mac has USB. I connected the printer to my Powermac G4 and used GimpPrint with Ghostscript and OS X Printer Sharing. Then on the Powerbook, I used the Desktop Printer Utility to create a network printer over TCP/IP using the LaserWriter 8 driver. How many people do that?! |
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Software / What is a good Internet MP3 Streaming Application for OS 7?
September 16, 2006, 16:33 |
MpegDec will certainly work to play internet radio stations. At least the ones that use the MP3 format. Shoutcast and Live365 stations work just fine with MpegDec. MpegDec's biggest claim to fame is that it works on 68k Macs. I know this because I helped on the MpegDec project. Mark White did all the real work porting MPEGDEC from Amiga to Mac, but I helped with creating an icon set, the web site, and doing plenty of beta testing. PLS and M3U files are simply text files with one or more URLs in them. Quite a few iTunes Radio Stations are from Live365. Just Get Info on it in iTunes, and it will show you the URL. Unfortunately, that particular address only works in iTunes, but most stations can be found by searching the Live365 web site. There is also a directory of streams at IceCast.org. The Official MpegDec for Mac Web Site: > http://www.jwgdesign.com/mpegdec Enjoy. John |
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