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IIMU this is the ROM expected by the Mac Toolbox, but I am not that familiar with the guts of NuBus Macs. I haven't touched Explorer emulation in years, when it

IIMU this is the ROM expected by the Mac Toolbox, but I am not that familiar with the guts of NuBus Macs. I haven't touched Explorer emulation in years, when it dead-ended I moved on to LMI stuff and then gave up on lisp stuff completely when working on the LMI stuff attracted a bunch of outrage.

pinewurst 3y ago
What outrage if I can ask? Your LMI emulator (if you're who I think you are) is great!
- Suzuran 3y ago
  The outrage was primarily centered on what my work wasn't - It wasn't written in (Insert trendy language here) which meant it was an attack on those, it wasn't advancing (Insert cause here) which meant it was an attack on them, it wasn't a CADR, it wasn't Symbolics Genera, it wasn't running on (Insert environment here), and it wasn't living up to the hype surrounding Lisp Machines in general. When I got actual hardware to examine it got a lot worse; nearly all of the feedback I got after that revolved around my being too poor/young/not-famous-youtuber-X/unwilling to part them out. When pictures of my house were posted because I was unwilling to sell a keyboard that was too much. None of this stuff was worth my safety. On top of that, the vast majority of the people who downloaded the emulator didn't even bother to download the disk images or documentation - they just cloned the source repository, did "./configure", and then sent hate mail when it didn't work because the source repository wasn't a release source and required you to do the whole autotools thing. It became a no-win scenario - there was no way I was going to live up to the expectations people had and no way I was ever going to make the gatekeepers happy so I just stopped trying. I moved on to other things that seem to be a lot less controversial and when I do work on something that may be controversial I just don't tell anyone about it.
  - pinewurst 3y ago
    Hell is other people. I thank you for an excellent effort regardless of them. I built it using your very descriptive docs and images and it ran well.

pinewurst 3y ago

What outrage if I can ask? Your LMI emulator (if you're who I think you are) is great!

Suzuran 3y ago
The outrage was primarily centered on what my work wasn't - It wasn't written in (Insert trendy language here) which meant it was an attack on those, it wasn't advancing (Insert cause here) which meant it was an attack on them, it wasn't a CADR, it wasn't Symbolics Genera, it wasn't running on (Insert environment here), and it wasn't living up to the hype surrounding Lisp Machines in general. When I got actual hardware to examine it got a lot worse; nearly all of the feedback I got after that revolved around my being too poor/young/not-famous-youtuber-X/unwilling to part them out. When pictures of my house were posted because I was unwilling to sell a keyboard that was too much. None of this stuff was worth my safety. On top of that, the vast majority of the people who downloaded the emulator didn't even bother to download the disk images or documentation - they just cloned the source repository, did "./configure", and then sent hate mail when it didn't work because the source repository wasn't a release source and required you to do the whole autotools thing. It became a no-win scenario - there was no way I was going to live up to the expectations people had and no way I was ever going to make the gatekeepers happy so I just stopped trying. I moved on to other things that seem to be a lot less controversial and when I do work on something that may be controversial I just don't tell anyone about it.
- pinewurst 3y ago
  Hell is other people. I thank you for an excellent effort regardless of them. I built it using your very descriptive docs and images and it ran well.