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

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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?

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

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

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