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[anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz]

@morc H o w

[morc@mstdn.social]

@anthropy Basilisk II on the emulator side for Mac OS and a decommissioned+hacked PAX terminal

+ a lot of tears and sweat for the effort of getting it built for the old target

[anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz]

@morc nice! insane haha, how did you even get it on there, some exposed SPI flash you could clamp onto or did you manage to get normal flashing options to accept the macos based firmware?

[morc@mstdn.social]

@anthropy well... since it's a obscure but mostly regular Linux terminal but hacked up, we got SSH and other stuff these days

the system disk image + ROMs and the binary is being ran from the SD card since the internal storage has only 128MB and that's not enough for everything (and also because it also includes an SD slot for some reason)

[anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz]

@morc ohh, neat! I would've expect it to be far more tied down, the ones I played with wouldn't budge in any way and had all kinds of anti tamper mechanisms.

nice, thanks for explaining!

[morc@mstdn.social]

@anthropy yeah... there's a bunch of subtle roadblocks that some cool people before figured out.

The file transfer protocol is partially based on ADB and is rather easily accessible, but by default it only runs signed binaries and no one obviously provides the official toolchain with signing. You have to abuse a bug where the existing signed apps start loading shared libraries, since those are not checked for signing

There's also a bunch of other flaws that add up to a rooted env in the end :3

[reiddragon@fedi.catto.garden]

@morc wait, is that a card payment thing?

[morc@mstdn.social]

@reiddragon Yes, it's a PAX S920!

[reiddragon@fedi.catto.garden]

@morc now that's a computer that will turn heads at the next lan party

[morc@mstdn.social]

@reiddragon maybe soon on #GPN?