where on IRC?

I got the ethernet running super fast but something keeps causing the network stack to stall… fast or slow.

Also, would be easier to talk in realtime via IRC if you can.

also what do I need to drive a CD-ROM on say OS 8? I recall apple people going through hell to get CD’s working..

test cases work the best. Like doing x with y, and what it should look like. The more I can do 100% in software the more likely it is. I know it’s kind of funny but I never used or liked Mac’s from this era so I’m like the worst person for sourcing this stuff since I did my best to not use a mac. I was a diehard MS-DOS / Unix guy. A/UX was a fun detour but I used it as a UNIX machine, with the occasional office app but I mostly had terminals open. I didn’t even use X11 on A/UX.

But yeah even what software levels to do what is great I don’t know what should go with what… something like a 68030 XMb of ram, this kind of ROM, what OS, this application to do what. I haven’t seen any freebie CD-RW simulation sw, but I may be looking wrong. The first step of course is to read, as that is more documented, and I think the major differences from CD’s to HD’s it that CD’s typically have larger sector sizes, on reading although NeXT/SGI/Sun and probably Apple did this 512byte emulate HD mode to load up CD’s with a native RO filesystem instead of glorious ISO 9660.

Well, Toast in OS7/8 is the only software that can image and burn correctly MacOS 9 (and minus) HFS and Hybrid Audio/HFS Data formated CD’s.

Just take a tour to Macintosh garden or any Mac software preservation site. You will see how crippled and unaccurate are Toast Titanium for OSX+ and Disk utility are for such tasks.

Is also the only way to make OS7/8 and 9 bootable CD images for emulators, even if you don’t use any of the other functions of the software.

I’ll find a way so you can test CD passthru functionality with CDs in software only, wait a little.

so out of curiosity what can adaptec toast on OS 7 do that toast titanium and friends cannot?

What kind of CD’s do you guys access? I don’t even have an optical drive on my main machines, just an old machine I picked up from a junk dealer.

So I guess I’d need to know what application and function…
like jimbob’s magic cd maker and cd burning

etc… I’d have to have some way to test something.

I need to score a DDK to talk to scsi devices.. I’m slowly working on it. I’ve been making previous’s SCSI disk play nicer with Basilisk and crash less often. I’ve also got it set to identify as an Apple disk so you can at least use the disk tools out of OS 8.

I know two people are dying for MIDI support but once they can even say what application and how it all should tie together I haven’t even started on that. I’m slowly looking at the CPU.