Getting your BlueSCSI working on your classic Mac is WAY easier than you think! #BLUESCSI #GIVEAWAY
138*** Join BlueSCSI's Eric Helgeson and I on Wednesday, October 27th at 8pm Central for a moderated discussion of BlueSCSI, the state of solid state storage solutions designed for retrocomputing, and what the future holds for the project. ***
Eric has also kindly offered to give away a BlueSCSI device live on the stream (https://youtu.be/yTE4yw4fL7o)!
To enter, simply leave the tag #BlueSCSI on THIS VIDEO!
Full giveaway rules: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BpwEmLZ6zaWQw7sp0QJ5HopTFLuTi5WEhAIpzGMORiA/edit?usp=sharing
Now, on with the video ;)
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I've read a couple of social media posts recently where people returning to retrocomputing on the Macintosh are at a loss on how to get BlueSCSI working on machines (especially on a Plus, SE, or Mac II) that use 800K floppy drives. It's tough to get working system disks for those systems without having another working Mac with the right hardware to make those disks - so what is an enthusiast to do!?
Well... you could maybe watch this quick and easy how-to video that outlines how to use emulators to configure disk images for use with the BlueSCSI on your real Mac?
1) Download a Mac emulator for your modern desktop machine (Basilisk II is a good one)
2) Download a pre-rolled bootable 2GB Mac system software image from Savage Taylor (https://www.savagetaylor.com/downloads/downloads-macintosh/)
3) Downloaded “Apple Legacy Recovery CD” from Macintosh Garden (http://macintoshgarden.org/.../apple-legacy-software...)
4) Download the archive of "blank" HDA images for the BlueSCSI from the project's GitHub (https://github.com/erichelgeson/BlueSCSI/wiki/Usage#blanks)
5) In your emulator, add the Savage Taylor image, the "blank" HDA image (from the BlueSCSI project page) and the Apple Legacy Recovery CD to the drives list in your emulator… making sure that the Apple Legacy Recovery CD is the top bootable item on the list.
6) Perform any additional configuration you need in your emulator, then boot the emulator.
7) After your virtual Mac boots, install the version of MacOS you wish to use onto the "blank" HDA image file.
8 ) After the OS install is complete, copy the apps/utils you’d like to use from the Savage Taylor image over to your newly installed system boot HDA (if in doubt, copy everything except the system folder)
9) Once you are satisfied with your setup, shutdown the emulator.
10) To verify that your newly customized HDA is bootable, change the drive order in your emulator by moving the HDA to the top of the list. If it boots, you're done. Shutdown the emulator.
11) Now, rename your customized HDA in accordance with the naming conventions laid out in the BlueSCSI documentation (https://github.com/erichelgeson/BlueSCSI#examples)
CONGRATS! You now have a bootable, customized HDA image file that can be copied to your BlueSCSI's SD card and booted in a real Mac!
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
03:35 Get Your Emulator
05:03 Apple Legacy Software Recovery CD
06:53 Savage Taylor
08:33 Blank HDA Files (Thanks, Eric Helgeson!)
10:56 Extract Your Files
12:14 Configure Your Emulator
13:55 Install Your OS
19:01 Copy Utilities Over From Savage Taylor Image
23:09 Transfer ALSR CD to HDA (For Future Experimentation!)
25:50 Properly Name Your Files
31:41 [Giveaway Announcement!]
34:44 Outro
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