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rayarachelian:
So, there's a new Art Department listing on 3.5" disks on ebay here: https://www.ebay.com/itm/384444956314
I tried to make an offer for this, but got back "Sorry, the seller is not accepting bids or offers from you at this time. This may occur for various reasons. For example, the seller might have a limit for the amount of items that can be purchased within a given time."
Not sure if the seller doesn't like my specific account, or if they're not accepting Make an Offer. The price is quite high for "just a bunch of clip art."
...Edit: and... it sold for $235. Hope whoever got it will preserve the disk images once they receive it.
blusnowkitty:
--- Quote from: rayarachelian on October 14, 2021, 10:54:23 am ---Hope whoever got it will preserve the disk images once they receive it.
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Check the Files subforum :)
I'd show it in action but while I was installing my Lisa decided to have a cascading disk failure that trashed the filesystem on both of my real Profiles and my X/Profile. Welp. All the file contents do appear to be on the disks, though.
rayarachelian:
--- Quote from: blusnowkitty on October 18, 2021, 02:58:59 pm ---
Check the Files subforum :)
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Well done, thank you for this. Much appreciate. While not something of personal interest to me, totally would want this archived and saved for posterity.
--- Quote from: blusnowkitty on October 18, 2021, 02:58:59 pm ---
I'd show it in action but while I was installing my Lisa decided to have a cascading disk failure that trashed the filesystem on both of my real Profiles and my X/Profile. Welp. All the file contents do appear to be on the disks, though.
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Ouch! Sorry to hear, hope you've got backups or can recover. :( Hope your Lisa and her drives are ok. :(
Please let me know if you need help scanning the manuals.
blusnowkitty:
--- Quote from: rayarachelian on October 18, 2021, 04:02:36 pm ---Ouch! Sorry to hear, hope you've got backups or can recover. :( Hope your Lisa and her drives are ok. :(
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Well I don't really care about the data that was on the disks, most of the stuff was just me screwing around with the Office System. Unfortunately I think the best thing to do is retire the Profile disks; one of them keeps trying to seek out past the final sector on the disk and crashing into the head stop, and the other probably needs to be LLFed but won't even come ready with the LLF ROM installed. With the normal Profile Z8 installed it tries to do the startup seek but it takes around 30 seconds per sector before it advances which sounds like it's having some severe read issues to me.
andrew:
I'd also love to see LisaPaint/LisaSketch/SketchPad. I love doodling in MacPaint and it would be a joy to be able to do similar drawings on my Lisa.
Then again, after taking another look at the page on Folklore (https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=MacPaint_Evolution.txt) it seems like many of the more interesting features of MacPaint were developed well after Bill had switched to Macintosh development. I wonder how much of a technical challenge it would be to port MacPaint back to the Lisa. The source code is out there, after all, but certain parts of the original code were moved to the Macintosh ROM so I'm guessing the whole thing would be a nontrivial undertaking.
Regardless, a barebones version of LisaPaint would be better than nothing!
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