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by ianhanschen 1942 days ago
This is cool, but I am not really sure what they are doing for this 68k Mac project on top of what the original coder has already done when he created this for the X68000. If you look at the code, they translated his comments from Japanese to English and there are a lot of do-nothing/cleanup commits.

Turn on translation and hit the original author's site: http://retropc.net/gimons/rascsi/index.html
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tyingq 1942 days ago
Just that they are testing it on real Macs probably has some value for other vintage Mac folks. Some of the english docs seem to have more than just Google translate applied, like: https://github.com/akuker/RASCSI/wiki/Setup-Instructions
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akuker 1942 days ago
Its not really specific to 68k Macs. This project was forked to add the following: - The obvious translation of the code to English - Github repo to allow for easier community contributions (pull requests) - Create a community-driven Wiki for the documentation

We're definitely not trying "compete" with the original version or anything.

Side note, the hardware is compatible with both versions of the software. The main difference is that the "68k Mac" version uses a DB-25 connector, which is more typical for old Macs.

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