#1997 Emulator Software When Necessary#

The last time I accessed mainframe many years ago, there was only Windows 3270 emulator.Copyright 1997 TidBITS Electronic Publishing. The Nintendo 64 game console (one of the first launched that worked on 64 bits), appeared in 1997 and brought with it very good games, like Super Mario 64, Turok 3 (a Hercules runs under Linux, Windows, Solaris, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X. To enjoy this development its necessary to download some ROMs from the Internet. Globetrotter: Brilliant Yet Bewildering1964, also known as Nineteen64, is an emulator for Nintendo 64 games that has a control system and a very easy-to-use interface. Has transformed Mac OS 8 in January 1997, Apple Mac OS 8.1 Booting up.

When Chuck announced that StarNine had acquired MacHTTP and would be renaming it WebSTAR, we were concerned. The other products notwithstanding, WebSTAR and then ListSTAR really put StarNine on the map for us.WebSTAR began as the shareware MacHTTP, created by Chuck Shotton. As many of you know, StarNine makes the popular Macintosh Web and mailing list servers, WebSTAR and ListSTAR, along with some mail gateways and Quarterdeck Mail (nee Microsoft Mail). StarNine Technologies - 800/525-2580 - Top Internet tools: WebSTAR, WebCollage, ListSTAR, and more.StarNine Technologies Sponsoring TidBITS - We're extremely pleased to welcome our latest sponsor, StarNine Technologies.

Little development came of it, but StarNine has remained a wholly-owned subsidiary and thrives on its own. Considering that there are over 46,000 people on the TidBITS list, ListSTAR demonstrates the fact that Macintosh is a serious Internet server machine.In September of 1995, the now-beleaguered Quarterdeck Corporation acquired StarNine, which initially looked like a synergistic move. We moved the entire list to a Power Mac 7100 running ListSTAR, and it (along with a custom FileMaker database) has run smoothly since.

1997 Emulator Software When Necessary

PC in a Mac - No, it's not a late April Fools joke, though it does point the way to another method for keeping a Mac on your desk and running PC software when necessary. Already a content provider with efforts like MSN and MSNBC, WebTV also gives Microsoft a strong foothold in an emerging online consumer electronics market and - perhaps more importantly - may let Microsoft control key patents relating to set-top box design and software technology. Microsoft Buying WebTV - On 06-Apr-97, Microsoft announced a surprising $425 million dollar stock and cash deal to buy WebTV Networks, Inc., makers of the WebTV set-top box that enables users to surf the Web via their television (see TidBITS-367).

Although there are emulation alternatives like Insignia's SoftWindows or plugging in a hardware card, I expect that Virtual PC will inject new blood into the emulation market. Virtual PC should ship in June and run on any Power Mac with System 7.5. Because Virtual PC aims to emulate a processor, not an operating system, it reportedly will enable Mac users to run off-the-shelf versions of DOS, Windows 3.1, 95, and NT, plus NeXT OpenStep and OS/2, with support for key PC options including SoundBlaster Pro, Ethernet, printing, and modems.

If you didn't get a chance to take the survey, Microsoft has a general feedback area where users can comment on any of their products. Nice job, folks - we'll see if we can convince Microsoft to pass along the survey results. Despite problems with their server, Microsoft collected more than ten times the data it was looking for in a week and a half, and says it received a strong message about what Macintosh users expect from software.

Apple says localized versions of the update should be available within 90 days.So What Is It? Mac OS 7.6.1 is mostly an incremental OS update to support new Apple hardware, like the PowerBook 3400 and the Power Mac 4400, 5500, 6500, 7300, 86 models. You don't need DiskCopy to use the net install version.Currently, Mac OS 7.6.1 Update is only available for U.S. The 7.6.1 disk images use Apple's new NDIF format, so you must use the newly-revised DiskCopy 6.1.2 (itself a 1.1 MB download) to use the disk image (utilities like ShrinkWrap don't yet support Apple's new format). For further information, see the files that accompany the online version of the update or URLs below.Online, the Mac OS 7.6.1 Update is available as a net install or as disk images totalling about 6.5 MB. The disk images versions are freely available for downloading from Apple's Internet sites getting physical copies is more complicated, but CD-ROM (for owners of the latest Macs) or floppy disk versions can be obtained through Apple's Mac OS Up-To-Date program (800/335-9258).

The big talk about Mac OS 7.6.1 is the elimination of nearly all Type 11 crashes on PowerPC-based Macintoshes, which at first glance seems like a spectacular thing. Remember: unless you buy the full CD-ROM version of 7.6.1, you must already own Mac OS 7.6 to upgrade to Mac OS 7.6.1.About Those Type 11 Errors. (For a detailed overview of Mac OS 7.6, see TidBITS-363). However, it also contains a handful of subtle fixes that can be useful for owners of Mac OS 7.6.

This doesn't mean the crashes have gone away, but rather that the system software can now report them accurately.So what? If the crash is still going to happen, what does it matter if a different error number is reported? The difference is in how the Mac can handle those errors. The big change in Mac OS 7.6.1 is that errors in PowerPC code now map to the correct error numbers. Frequently, the Macintosh had another error code that accurately described the problem, but because the crash happened in PowerPC code the Mac couldn't do anything more precise, and users saw the number 11.

In recent months there has been a cacophony of versions, reversions, and regressions of ObjectSupportLib, which would be funny if all the shenanigans hadn't caused so much confusion. Mac OS 7.6.1 also includes Apple CD-ROM 5.3.3 (which supports high-speed IDE CD-ROM drives), Apple System Profiler 1.1.4, Apple Video Player 1.6 (now scriptable!), and improved software for PowerBook PC Cards.Mac OS 7.6.1 also includes a library called ObjectSupportLib 1.2, which is important if you do any Macintosh scripting, or need to run scripts on your Mac. Including CFM-68K 4.0 in Mac OS 7.6.1 lets Apple have a single version of the System software that offers comparable features for all 32-bit clean Macs (from the Mac IIci onwards).

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