Here are my Macintosh trinkets. No warranty of any kind is included or implied (U get what U pay for).
Hope that you find them useful in some small way.
Hope that you find them useful in some small way.
All of the OS X stuff uses Apple’s native windowing system, Aqua. The ports would be much easier using X11 or SDL, but that just doesn’t seem right.
Ten years of “spare” time? Doesn’t look like much.
Nigel’s Software
MythTV port
Started June 2004
MythTV is a fantastic Linux PVR, audio-video, client-server system. It records TV, stores music, rips MP3s and DVDs,
looks up the internet for TV programme information, CD, DVD and movie details and the weather, and generally kicks ass!
looks up the internet for TV programme information, CD, DVD and movie details and the weather, and generally kicks ass!
I did the initial work in porting the MythTV frontend to Mac OS X. The packages are too big for my puny site, but here are some links.
Basilisk II port
Started November 2000
This is my port of Basilisk II to Mac OS X. I did this so that
I could run really old 68k Mac programs under OS X.
I could run really old 68k Mac programs under OS X.
DNetCWrapper
Started May 2001
The Distributed Net Client was a command-line utility that
performs computational work on behalf of a third-party.
(sort of like the SETI clients, but distributed.net is older).
At the moment, they are mainly involved in cryptography. Look up www.distributed.net for more info, or to download the client utility.
performs computational work on behalf of a third-party.
(sort of like the SETI clients, but distributed.net is older).
At the moment, they are mainly involved in cryptography. Look up www.distributed.net for more info, or to download the client utility.
My wrapper is a small program that runs this utility in a window, and allowed me to start the client at login and stop it at logout.
diffutils 2.7
June 2001
Text files which originally came from MacOS 6-9, such as source code,
use a different way of storing the end of each line than Unix does.
use a different way of storing the end of each line than Unix does.
These hacked utilities cope better when comparing Unix and MacOS text files.
BSD/Mac68k Booter
Started maintaining March 1997
NetBSD/Mac68k is a version of Unix for old (pre PowerPC)
Macintoshes. The Booter is the Mac OS program that loads
Macintoshes. The Booter is the Mac OS program that loads
