“Yay! No more damned System Enablers!” “Um, but they held identification strings and icons for the new machines.” “Oh, don’t worry: Apple will make sure that all those resources don’t get left out of System 7.5.” “Gee, that’s good. I wouldn't want to see some sort of generic identification under ‘About this Macintosh’...”
Oops.
Well, this program will place the appropriate resources into a copy of your System 7.5 file. (For those of you who have the System 7.5 Update, these resources must also be added to a copy of the Update file.) I know that the name is on the faceplate, but it just feels better to think that the computer knows what it is. (And for those of us who hacked our Centris 650s into Quadras, we can see a reminder of this little feat. 40MHz is (are?) nicer than 25.)
This is being released "as is." I have been pretty good about fixing all reported bugs and have even cleaned up the logic a bit. That's because I've received some positive response from the Mac community (lots of e-mail, but only two postcards... (and of course no money)).
This was written as a run-once-and-forget-it application rather than an extension because extensions are black magic and always seem to break when you add just one more to your extensions folder.
If your machine isn't represented here, or is not quite right, drop me a line and I'll try to set it right.
Feel free to distribute this package to all the usual places as long as you do not modify the program or documentation. Oh, yes, this does NOT apply to any service that makes money beyond the costs of distribution of the media on which the program resides, without my written permission. (This means YOU, Educorp, unless you are willing to fork over some of those bucks.) If ZiffNet wants to post it, I’ll happily exchange it for free access. If any publisher wishes to include this program on a
CD-ROM collection they may do so if I get a subscription and a copy of the CD.
Any bug reports, praise or renumeration should be sent to:
Jonathan Jacobs
2374 Euclid Hts. Blvd. #407
Cleveland Hts., OH 44106-2745
jxj24@po.cwru.edu
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Wickenden Building
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH 44106
Enjoy.
!!! Please send postcards: I'm trying to impress my officemates !!!
•••Version History.•••
1.1.1
•“WhoAmI?” is a fat binary again! I learned the hard way (while working on Kill FinderZooms) that you are probably better off removing outdated 'SIZE' resources, rather than assuming they'll be modified properly. This had been making the PPC version choke and die on launch.
•Minor rewrites to some of the dialog routines.
1.1
•“WhoAmI?” has been updated to work with System 7.5.2 and (hopefully) the various enablers that seem to have unexpectedly reappeared.
•Updated the list of machines using the GestaltSelectorList, maintained by Rene G. A. Ros. •Corrected some icons, cleaned some code.
1.0.1
•In anticipation of the many new machines to come, the program now displays the machine ID number in the progress window. If you are using this program and find that there is no appropriate ID string (or icon) for your macine, you can send me this information: model name (as it appears on the front of your machine); ID number; and if you like, feel free to send an icon that you think should go with your machine (and any really neat icons you feel like including). I hope in the future to allow for easy customization of the string and icon resources by you, the user.
1.0
•“WhoAmI?” is now capable of dealing with System 7.5.1 by adding the necessary resources to the System 7.5 Update file. Also added IDs for the new, faster (Apple speed-bumped) PowerMacs and the WGS 9150.
•This release is 68K only, due to some anomalous behavior seen when compiling the PPC version. I will try to make a fat binary later.
0.99
•Somehow the LC III had been removed from the identifier strings. It’s back, now.
•Also you can reapply the patch as many times as you wish without gumming things up. This is useful if you move your system file to a new machine.
•Oh, yeah: for what it's worth, “WhoAmI?” is now a fat binary. Just because I could...
0.91
•Added the older machines, too. (The Quadra 630 and the PowerBooks actually were in version 0.9; I just didn't update this file correctly.)
0.9
•First release. I think I got everything except a few of the older machines. Let’s see what happens.
