OS9Map

(yllan.org)

102 points | by LaSombra 4 hours ago

8 comments

  • steve-atx-7600 1 hour ago
    Reminds me of this guy's solid work that includes an LLM integration that works on classic macs 68k and PPC https://www.macintoshrepository.org/68191-legacyai. Use it on my OS 9 PPC.
  • generalpf 1 hour ago
    16 MB RAM required, 32 MB RAM recommended... how refreshing! Great work.
  • nhubbard 1 hour ago
    Would love to see the source code for this and the underlying details like Classic or Carbon, and the libraries mentioned on Tinker Different for TLS, HTTP/2, and Unicode
  • ccamrobertson 1 hour ago
    This is really cool, time to dust off an old PowerPC. I've been thinking about building apps for old Mac OS versions for a while with the advent of LLMs, glad to see someone is doing it.
  • ktallett 2 hours ago
    Great work developing for OS9 still. I had taken started developing in Think C for a few months as a fun side project to work , and it still has some interesting ideas for development. Plenty of communities for this nowadays still.
  • robot_jesus 1 hour ago
    I love stuff like this. Even though I don’t have a machine capable with running OS 9 natively, I’m glad this exists. Looks awesome!
  • guerrilla 1 hour ago
    Hmmm. I wonder what the most beefed up OS 9 computer would be... I loved that OS so much.
    • fleeno 28 minutes ago
      I believe from Apple officially it would be the dual 1.25ghz MDD G4. I had one new, and still have it running today!
    • classichasclass 1 hour ago
      Currently my "big" native 9.2.2 system is a MDD G4 with a Sonnet 1.8GHz dual 7447A upgrade, 2GB RAM (1.5GB useable in OS 9) and an ATI Radeon 9000 Pro. I'm sure there's a config more extreme than that out there. It is a pleasure to use even though it's one of the windtunnel systems.
    • joao 42 minutes ago
      Laptop wise: it's a PowerBook G4 1Ghz 15', Titanium model. Desktop: PowerMac G4 Tower, MDD version.
    • timw4mail 1 hour ago
      Officially? A single cpu G4 tower. Beyond that, I'm not sure.
    • benj111 37 minutes ago
      Quite a lot. I remember my dad's SE(?) could be upgraded to 128mb ram or some ludicrous figure, compared to my 8mb 486.
  • analogpixel 43 minutes ago
    The cool thing isn't so much os9map (yes it's cool) , but the fact that the data wasn't locked behind some wall and they were able to do whatever they wanted with it. There are a lot of cool ideas out there that are thwarted because the data is just locked away behind something only a very limited web gui can access, and you are at the mercy of people who's greatest ideas are ways to make the most horrible money extracting experience they can.