Mac Like It's 1984

When last I posted about the Macintosh emulator Snow, I’d been inspired by it beginning to offer the first 68030-powered machines to see if it could run QuickTime. Not that long afterwards, a “milestone release” promising serial bridging had me wondering if that previous diversion I’d found in it, “simulated dot matrix printouts,” would be easier to manage at last. I sorted out how the bridging was supposed to work and got a terminal program running in Terminal itself, but when I tried attaching the captured ImageWriter commands to the PostScript file that would turn them into more modern page images I realised from those garbled images that data was dropping out. Wondering if this had something to do with requiring the terminal to be set to a specific baud rate, I went back to the old manuals I’d found back while daydreaming about somehow converting my previous Epson-interpreter programs. Connecting at a variety of speeds and trying out different terminal programs still didn’t work.
( The eventual solution, and going forward and back )