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| Hacking the Happy Mac | |
| Posted by: bigmessowires on 2015-02-05 15:24:46 I spent some time making new Happy Mac icons today:  I put the sunglasses dude on my Mac Plus with the ROM-inator board. I like to reboot repeatedly, just to see the icon. 🙂 | |
| Posted by: techknight on 2015-02-05 16:30:06 Nice. Idea: for a modern-day cool factor, why not the new mac os logo dithered for 1-bit? | |
| Posted by: MinerAl on 2015-02-05 18:07:32 Fun! | |
| Posted by: bigmessowires on 2015-02-05 18:17:03 As it stands, I can easily modify the 16x10 pixel area inside the "screen" area of the Macintosh icon. Replacing the whole thing would require a more complex ROM change. | |
| Posted by: uniserver on 2015-02-05 19:35:49 hahhahhahaha  awesome...  with every hack makes the Plus Just that much more fun! pretty soon the Plus will be the in , gotta have mac!  🙂 | |
| Posted by: markyb86 on 2015-02-05 20:33:35 That's awesome! I would totally use the zombie Mac! | |
| Posted by: TheWhiteFalcon on 2015-02-05 20:35:24 I think I'd use Pirate or Evil. | |
| Posted by: jsarchibald on 2015-02-05 23:35:16 I miss the vampire for the Levco SE accelerator install | |
| Posted by: unity on 2015-02-05 23:42:45 Can ResEdit be used to edit the ROM files? Its the only thing I ever used to edit anything resembling "code". | |
| Posted by: Elfen on 2015-02-06 06:34:49 These are cute | |
Posted by: bigmessowires on 2015-02-06 07:39:48Can ResEdit be used to edit the ROM files? Its the only thing I ever used to edit anything resembling "code".Not ResEdit, because it's not a resource. But you could probably use a hex editor like FEdit. I edit the ROM data file on a Windows computer, using the free hex editor xvi32. Then I copy it to the Mac and update the ROM-inator's flash memory. The happy face is stored beginning at offset $FD2 (hex) in the ROM code file. It's 20 bytes long (16 x 10 bitmap at 1 bit per pixel). | |
| Posted by: olePigeon on 2015-02-06 09:50:45 By the way, the Happy mac can be in color, provided you have a color screen. | |
| Posted by: bigmessowires on 2015-02-06 10:06:22 Good point! ROM-inator is specifically for the Plus and 128K/512K, but I bet with dougg3's ROM SIMM for the Mac II series, you could bang out a new full-color Happy Mac. | |
| Posted by: olePigeon on 2015-02-06 11:25:57 Yeah, he tested it. 🙂 | |
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