I was born in 1993, and grew up with my family in Perth, Western Australia. I have a younger brother and a younger sister. Since 2021 Emma and I have lived in Albany, a nice town on the south coast of WA. I am training to be a Rural Generalist.
Outside the day job I like to tinker with vintage Macintoshes and their unusual operating system. My friends at UCC and #mac68k indulge this. Emma and I also enjoy Latin dance and early morning running and swimming with our friends at Middleton Beach.
The four-character code “CDG5” appears frequently in my Mac hacking projects, a reference to this delightful April Fool's joke.
Virtio drivers to make running Mac OS 7-9 on Qemu much more convenient. On GitHub.
A command-line virtual machine to run the vaguely Unix-like
Macintosh Programmer's Workshop, which you can use to write Mac OS programs. The name is a nod
to MPW's development name, which stood for Meyers, Parrish and
Smith. Related efforts are
mpw (Kelvin
Sherlock) and
mosrun
(Matthias Melcher). My program differs by supporting all of MPW,
including its unusual shell interpreter.
On GitHub.
With the help of some friends on the MacOS9Lives forum, I patched Mac OS 9 file to boot on the Mac mini. darthnVader and whoisthisguy helped immensely with accelerated video support. Patch script on GitHub. Installer.
A command-line tool to take apart and rebuild Power Mac ROM images and “Mac OS ROM” files. On GitHub.
A separate repository contains scripts apply useful patches to ROM images. On GitHub.
Python libraries and command-line tools to work with HFS disk images and Mac resource forks. machfs on GitHub/PyPI, macresources on GitHub/PyPI.
Working to enable the latent network startup functionality in some 68k Mac ROMs. On GitHub.
Working to back-port the HFS+ filesystem of Mac OS 8.1, to System 7.x, with mixed success. On GitHub.
Miscellaneous scripts useful for Mac OS hacking. On GitHub.