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The era of it having a port of Mac System 7 is so interesting, somewhere there must be disks with that on it (project Star Trek). Who is still alive that might
by stuaxo 2y ago
The era of it having a port of Mac System 7 is so interesting, somewhere there must be disks with that on it (project Star Trek).
Who is still alive that might have it?
- bbarn 2y agoSounds like that never made it to market. Would have been great for me at the time, I was stuck having to trade my Outbound notebook in for a PC one because I couldn't get system 7 on it, and 7 was a game changer compared to 6 (Multi-tasking!!). Would likely have never left mac if it weren't for that.
- skissane 2y agoProbably some developer still has a stack of floppy disks with the source code on it. Issue is, they aren’t supposed to, do they want to risk getting in legal trouble with their former employer over it?
- snvzz 2y agoThese floppies won't be readable forever. There's a level of moral obligation to do preservation.
- skissane 2y agoThe problem is that copyright laws were not designed to encourage historical preservation, at least not for computer software. Source code escrow should be a condition of copyright for closed source software.
- anthk 2y agoApple gave versions up to 7.5.3 for free on its page. Not libre, but there's Executor (a fork of it) under Github which can run System 6/7 binaries.
- skissane 2y agoThat’s not what we are talking about here. We are talking about the unreleased “Star Trek” project in which Apple ported System 7.1 to run on top of Novell DOS 7 (descendant of DR-DOS) - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_project https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_project
- snvzz 2y agoWe're talking about something else entirely. But even for "up to 7.5.3", it is just binaries; no source code.