Show HN: FocusedEdit – a classic Macintosh to web browser shared text editor

by camhenlin on 10/2/2022, 2:30:22 PM with 28 comments

  • by digitalsankhara on 10/2/2022, 6:54:27 PM

    I like your idea and I'd not heard of CoprocessorJS. If I had only a serial port for networking (e.g. the Mac Classic I wish I'd never parted with), I'd be tempted to emulate tail -f on the Mac side sending to the filesystem on the "remote" machine but not bi-directional. But, IIRC, AppleTalk to ethernet adaptors existed I think so maybe that's the route I'd go.

    Writing on the Mac to a remote file for onward processing is cool, so have fun.

  • by kiawe_fire on 10/2/2022, 5:45:21 PM

    I love the classic box art, and love the concept of building new tools for beloved legacy systems like this.

  • by ireflect on 10/3/2022, 1:31:04 AM

    Consider adding an RSS feed to your blog! I tried to add it to my NetNewsWire and was disappointed.

  • by bitwize on 10/2/2022, 7:06:13 PM

    This is a nice little utility that supports a conjecture of mine: Powerful modern computers can enhance the utility, and extend the useful lifespan, of old computers.

  • by bananamerica on 10/2/2022, 4:03:01 PM

    I guess I have to be that guy: Emacs have a mode/Browser addon combo for that :P

  • by akkartik on 10/2/2022, 3:34:15 PM

    Why do you call this bidirectional? It doesn't look like you can edit in the web browser and pick up the edits inside the Macintosh emulator?

  • by akkartik on 10/2/2022, 3:44:25 PM

    What is the goal? Is it to make using the classic Macintosh more ergonomic in a modern world?

  • by gandalfff on 10/3/2022, 1:22:11 PM

    Any way to run this on an iMac G4 700Mhz, running MacOS 9.2.2?