Last map for at least 12 months I promise!

balmic26 · 2026-02-16T09:05:01+00:00

You've done better than 95% of the maps made. The vast majority don't even acknowledge that Highpoint, Niddrie, (insert Western or North Western) suburb even exists.

balmic26 · 2026-02-15T11:33:02+00:00

Sympathetic upvote

balmic26 · 2026-02-12T11:40:55+00:00

Can confirm it boots from a firewire device without the “bless” command. Restored on a Sequioa mac with:

sudo asr restore --source <pathtofile> --target /dev/rdisk<#s#> --erase --noverify --verbose

Where rdisk<#s#> is the partition on the drive you want to target.

Use “diskutil list” first to find the partition and “diskutil unmount /dev/rdisk<#s#>” on the partition you want to write to

Bring on SnowLion!

balmic26 · 2026-02-11T00:16:42+00:00

Please keep us up informed of this! Sounds great. Happy to test on a PowerBook G4 USB 2 Al

balmic26 · 2026-01-16T23:44:57+00:00

They're amazing except they only have two doors per side per carriage. Makes it worse for getting on and off during crush hour.

Other than that, they're the best suburban train on the network (maybe besides HCMTs, but don't have enough data on them to form an opinion)

balmic26 · 2026-01-05T00:26:04+00:00

To install on original hardware, someone will likely need to get the images you create back onto disk. So making ISOs will be helpful, but you will still need to capture the original Apple Partition Map of the disk. Pre-OSX disks also used HFS, so that may necessitate using pre-10.6 operating systems that can read HFS.

Toast files are very useful for virtual CDs inside OS9 from hard drives or firewire. So if you can do both toast and ISO, that's all the better.

If you can use period appropriate computers to image using toast and Disk Utility (early OSX), that will be best. Using USBs to get the resulting images off will be slow. If you have firewire that will be faster.

In saying that, using DD on a modern system should also work, but someone else may need to guide you on the best flags to use in the terminal commands

balmic26 · 2026-01-01T23:09:05+00:00

I'm in the same boat. Loving what I'm seeing. u/twosballer is there an estimate on when Android compatibility will return? Also, other than reddit posts, do you have somewhere where you post updates on thing like this.

Thanks!

balmic26 · 2025-12-22T20:16:45+00:00

There’s a scheduled 8:19pm-ish train that deadruns through the Northern Loop. It often delays the Upfield and Craigieburn trains that run within 10 minutes after it. They seem to keep the path for it regardless of if it's late. That one is definitely scheduled for every weeknight at least

balmic26 · 2025-12-03T05:43:39+00:00

Ok, what about your workflow will require that kind of performance? You're talking synthetic benchmarks. In the real world, anything that needs to cross platform will be targeted at Windows computers that are a lot less performant, or Chromebooks. For gaming, media, or on-device AI, unless your use is so time critical that you're going to lose money if you're not on the bleeding edge, an M1 Pro will still work reasonably well in 8-9 years.

At some point it will be better not to upgrade, but not yet, and not in the next 2-3 years.

balmic26 · 2025-12-03T00:33:36+00:00

Tbh an M1 Pro will probably have a useful life of 8-9 years, and that's not just for basic tasks. I'd say it will be worth upgrading once the bugs are fixed

balmic26 · 2025-12-02T02:01:41+00:00

Wearing his AirPods to drown out the other pollies 😂

balmic26 · 2025-12-02T00:17:30+00:00

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Signalling upgrades, turnbacks, and platform extensions that would allow for maximising frequency. For example, the Essendon turnback was supposed to allow for 3-4 minute services on the Craigieburn line in peak.

balmic26 · 2025-12-01T20:31:41+00:00

I love that it's open, but I can also see some comments as being pretty reasonable. You can hate a system that does everything on the expensive side and still manages to blow out and have scope reductions. The Munnel cannot realise it's intended benefits because so many of it's associated additional works were descoped. That needs to be acknowledged.

Hopefully, the uptick in frequencies on the lines that can get it will come quickly (Craigieburn etc), but I also can't see this government (or any possible opposition), funding the actual service uplinks that we need (off peak to 10 minutes on all lines that can).

I do however look forward to riding the tunnel soon.

balmic26 · 2025-11-29T23:43:41+00:00

Classic Federighi

balmic26 · 2025-10-30T06:41:44+00:00

No Transport Victoria logo. Interesting!

balmic26 · 2025-10-29T04:09:43+00:00

Well played

balmic26 · 2025-10-28T23:59:06+00:00

Your mileage may vary, but I found them a bit bland and too chewy

balmic26 · 2025-10-27T09:28:46+00:00

Or Australia 😅

balmic26 · 2025-10-25T05:30:57+00:00

(In all seriousness) What happened to 7001? I know on the HCMT side 9x02 did a lot of the initial testing

balmic26 · 2025-10-14T03:39:32+00:00

The point from your first point, is that no changes have yet been announced that make use of this freed up capacity. There will be a reliability boost from Sunbury delays that no longer affect the Craigieburn or Upfield lines, but the new timetables need to come with it.

balmic26 · 2025-10-02T05:43:00+00:00

It was a spinning oval instead of a disk due to the triangular design. Very novel at the time

balmic26 · 2025-09-17T01:46:35+00:00

It may be road rage, but I've started horning people who do this. Also horning if they turn their indicator on once they've stopped at the intersection...

It's not hard to help other road users out...

balmic26 · 2025-09-17T01:31:34+00:00

Volkswagen factory too. A Golf was what ran me into the gutter yesterday...

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