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Snow - Classic Macintosh emulator

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281 points ColinWright | 1 comments | 26 Jun 25 09:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.347s | source

GitHub repo: https://github.com/twvd/snow, Announcement from creator: https://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12509, Originally-submitted source with further details: https://oldbytes.space/@smallsco/114747196289375530
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jakedata ◴[26 Jun 25 11:36 UTC] No.44386387[source]▶
Much of my early post-college work is stored across a stack of Mac formatted Bernoulli disks. The software requires an ADB dongle to run, so physical hardware is required. I wonder if any of those ADB to USB adapters could be mapped into the emulator?
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kalleboo ◴[26 Jun 25 11:59 UTC] No.44386548[source]▶
All of the ADB to USB adapters I know of only support mice and keyboards and have internal firmware that maps to USB HID. You'd have to write a custom firmware to make a raw pass through to an emulator...

It would probably be easier to crack the software!

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longtimelistnr ◴[26 Jun 25 13:49 UTC] No.44387410[source]▶
I have a large collection of vintage Mac's and peripherals, with the largest quantity being the Apple Keyboard II [1]. Archive forums all suggest the Belkin ADB Adapter [2] but that has long since been retired. I would like to make my own, i know instructions exist for a raw passthrough.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_Keyboard_II.jpg

[2]https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/hack-your-old-macs-adb-k...

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1. mewse-hn ◴[27 Jun 25 09:14 UTC] No.44395189[source]▶
I made a adb-to-usb adapter for my AEK2 using a teensy 2.0 and a cut up s-video cable. The TMK and QMK firmware have this functionality, but I used this firmware because it's much smaller and not a "kitchen sink" keyboard firmware:

https://github.com/gblargg/adb-usb

Unfortunately it's US-ANSI only so my pile of 4 french canadian AEK2s don't work very well with it.