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Here you go – I took a look on a Mac OS 9 VM, and the System suitcase is what you want; MENU resources; resource ID -16489 on here but expect that to vary by ve
by Lammy 1y ago
Here you go – I took a look on a Mac OS 9 VM, and the System suitcase is what you want; MENU resources; resource ID -16489 on here but expect that to vary by version. Select the menu item you want and you can set a “CMD Key” in the bottom right corner https://i.imgur.com/wcqQ27j.png https://i.imgur.com/wcqQ27j.png
Don't do this on the running System suitcase. ResEdit will warn you about this too. Make a backup copy, make your changes to the backup copy, then boot from some other blessed System Folder (install CD is fine) and swap them out.
The mindset where you can edit anything on everything is what we truly lost when we lost the Classic Mac OS. These themes are merely one embodiment of that mindset. It's just Resources all the way down; Any user-facing String, any UI graphics, any icons, any cursors, any sounds, any menus, any window definitions, any dialogs. ResEdit can even be extended to support editing custom (non-Apple) Resource types, to say nothing of the more powerful third-party Resource editors like Resourcerer.
Applications' code even lived in `CODE` resources in the original 68k days before the era of PowerPC and Code Fragment Manager moved that stuff to the Data Fork. A classic 68k-only Application would be a 0-byte file if one copied it to a PC improperly and discarded the Resource Fork. It's literally all Resources and that's so cool!
Here's Apple's ResEdit Reference if you need it: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/mac/pdf/ResEditReference.pdf https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/ma...
Relevant Folklore: https://www.folklore.org/The_Grand_Unified_Model.html https://www.folklore.org/The_Grand_Unified_Model.html
Relevant Inside Macintosh: https://vintageapple.org/inside_o/pdf/Inside_Macintosh_Volume_I_1985.pdf#page=113 https://vintageapple.org/inside_o/pdf/Inside_Macintosh_Volum... (warning: massive PDF)
I highly highly recommend you and anybody else interested in Classic Mac OS spend some time with David Pogue's excellent Macworld Mac Secrets 5th Edition: https://archive.org/details/mac_Macworld_Mac_Secrets_5th_Edition_1999 https://archive.org/details/mac_Macworld_Mac_Secrets_5th_Edi... (there's a 6th edition that covers early Mac OS X topics, but that just muddies the water)
edit: and keep your unmodified System suitcase backup somewhere besides the System Folder to ensure the Startup Disk control panel can't “bless” the unmodified one instead of the edited one. You can tell which suitcase is “blessed” because it will have the “Picasso” Mac OS face laid on top of the regular suitcase icon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_folder#Location_and_%22blessed%22_folders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_folder#Location_and_%22...
- Eramdam 1y agoThank you for the very detailed response! Appreciate it!