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Snow - Classic Macintosh emulator

(snowemu.com)
281 points ColinWright | 1 comments | 26 Jun 25 09:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | 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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mrpippy ◴[26 Jun 25 13:36 UTC] No.44387288[source]▶
The Griffin iMate was the most popular ADB-USB adapter from the time, and probably supports non-input devices (it would’ve been the only option at the time to make those dongles work).
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kalleboo ◴[26 Jun 25 15:34 UTC] No.44388406[source]▶
Ah yeah, the ones that were sold at the time would work if you passed through USB to an emulator that supported USB hardware, or reverse-engineered their proprietary protocol. I was only thinking of the modern options when I wrote my comment.
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1. brirec ◴[27 Jun 25 15:54 UTC] No.44397780[source]▶
You can get used Griffin iMates on eBay from time to time, but you'll want to solder in a new coin cell battery.