Alright so I'm sure that's a bit of a weird question but here is the situation- my PC is a Windows ME running Gateway from like 1998 or so. It's mainly an office machine and it's the place where I like to compile all of my stuff into one organized place. I do alot of stuff on my iMac "Green Morpho" and I find it soooo annoying having to transfer the files floppy by floppy. I'd use flash drives but the mac is in...

There was a bug under Mac OS 9 (and maybe Mac OS 8 too?) that, under a special circumstance, prevented some files to be locked, unlocked or even deleted.  They would sit there in your trash forever and prevent you to empty it even when the OPTION KEY is held down.  Rebuilding the desktop does NOT resolve the issue. Trying to get file info with ResEdit results in the following error: The reason this is happening is generally...

Alright, so next week in late february at some point, we're going to start coding chat v3.  We've been on chat v2 for about 2 years, so it's time for improving it.  Here are the initial ideas, some based on previous feedback, some to improve things that I already hated from day one in v2 :P   DONE - Dark mode, [color/themes: not done, users can use plugins like "Firefox Color"] We need dark mode...

A mac user said : While setting up a PowerBook G4 (17" 1.33Ghz) to boot into Mac OS 9 natively, there is the lack of controlling the fans. Mac OS 9 is terrible at monitoring hardware temperatures, and especially with unsupported machines. There is no software that runs under Mac OS 9 that can control system fan speeds. G4FanControl is an excellent tool for PPC machines running Mac OS X, but may not work with all machines. After...

Getting an "Unexpected end of file" or "There was a problem while reading the contents" error when trying to expand a .zip archive under Windows, Linux or even with an utility like The Unarchiver under Mac OS X? I was stumped to discover recently that, sometimes, Apple's Archive Utility app that is bundled with OSX is the only ZIP utility that can successfully expand those .zip files by ignoring invalid ZIP...

If you used a Mac back in the 90's, then you remember that among Mac users, nobody ever used ZIP format for compressing files.  Everybody used SIT files instead and some used HQX, BIN or CPT files, but not a single Mac user zipped their files.  The reason is simple: ZIP files are not compatible with Mac resource forks (old Mac files before Mac OS X) and zipping an old Mac file (such as a Mac OS 9 application program) would destroy...

Sometimes a classic Mac application opens a document that expects a font that is not installed. For instance, here is Macromedia Director lamenting the absence of Arial: Installed fonts are in the HD/System Folder/Fonts directory. If you look there, you may find some TTF files that suggest you can transfer TTF fonts from a more modern system, restart your application and resolve the issue, but not all TrueType fonts work with the classic...