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General Category => LisaList2 => Topic started by: stepleton on April 03, 2021, 07:18:44 pm

Title: MacFlim, and also ZTerm
Post by: stepleton on April 03, 2021, 07:18:44 pm
The 68kmla announcement of MacFlim (https://68kmla.org/forums/topic/62652-just-released-macflim-the-impracticable-vintage-video-player-for-compact-macs/) (a cute Classic Mac video player that just furiously blits uncompressed bitmaps to the screen) gave me a reason to boot into MacWorks Plus for once. The "primitive" (no screen mod, no accelerator) Mac XL is not a platform that the app was designed for, and the app itself is not so stable, but it's at least amusing to see it do anything at all (https://twitter.com/tstepleton/status/1378481010640310273)!

The hardest part of giving this a try was getting the video file onto the Lisa in the first place, and the best I could manage was zmodem at 9600 bps (over serial port B) with ZTerm 1.0.1. Faster speeds gained me CRC errors. This is a far cry from BLU's 57600 bps disk image transfer --- of course BLU is written in assembly and talking to the bare metal. So, the question: if you had to transfer a file to a Mac XL over the serial port, how would you do it? Can you go faster than I did? (Assume that LocalTalk networking isn't an option, though.)
Title: Re: MacFlim, and also ZTerm
Post by: compu_85 on April 06, 2021, 09:55:23 am
You can do localtalk with a crossover cable - I've been trying it on my Lisas in the past week and found it works quite well, even on a stock machine.