Good deal. I have been on boards where strict moderation was the rule, so being new I didn't want to run afoul of the practices. The core of my little squad of rescue-Macs is my pais of IIcis, so a lot of my comments might be here in this forum.
I'll take a look at that recommended software, thanks much--I am mostly looking for something that I can use with a Wacom pad to produce finished works.
Today was a pretty productive day. I had a small pile of stuff waiting for me when I got home. Diablo, a Radius PrecisionPro 24X, 16MB of RAM for the LaserWriter, another MacPnP adapter for another Sony SDM-HS73 that I have my eye on either as a second monitor for the primary machine or a monitor for the second IIci, and Snoopy Teaches Geography for my daughter. Got the Radius board and associated RadiusWare installed, and am pleased at the results. Not terribly different than the Apple board I had installed except that I can do millions of colors at 1152x870 now instead of just 256, and I have the RadiusWare change resolutions on the fly which is nice for games that run at 640x480. I am a little on the lookout for a card or cards that can do 1280x1024 in at least thousands of colors, since that's the native resolution of my monitor, but no hurry.
Sound was intermittent on the IIci. I took a close look at the logic board yesterday when I noticed no sound during a game of Syndicate, and sure enough, cap leakage. So I did a logic board swapout with the other IIci and I have sound back. So, it looks like a recapping for both of the boards sometime soon. I understand Trag has the tantalum caps.
I noticed that a 2GB 50-pin SCSI hard drive went for over $60 on eBay today. I had no idea they could be so pricey. I may fish the 170MB drive out of the SCSI enclosure of the external HD I have if I can't find something reasonable down the line.
I installed 8.6 and got the Orinoco drivers installed on the 1400c. I was within striking distance of getting it online but decided against screwing around with my wireless network settings late in the day when my mental powers are at their nadir and I wouldn't have enough time to figure it out before I went to bed if I messed everything up. I expect that I'll set my wireless router to 128-bit WEP tomorrow, make sure that my existing Wintel machines can still access the internet, and try again tomorrow. Diablo was fun to see running on the 1400, too. I called up a friend and floated the proposal to do a run at it multiplayer--that brought on a few laughs as we ran down the technical challenges of setting up a cross-platform IPX network with his machine being a Win95 virtual machine and all the general bridges to cross.
Best,
John
I'll take a look at that recommended software, thanks much--I am mostly looking for something that I can use with a Wacom pad to produce finished works.
Today was a pretty productive day. I had a small pile of stuff waiting for me when I got home. Diablo, a Radius PrecisionPro 24X, 16MB of RAM for the LaserWriter, another MacPnP adapter for another Sony SDM-HS73 that I have my eye on either as a second monitor for the primary machine or a monitor for the second IIci, and Snoopy Teaches Geography for my daughter. Got the Radius board and associated RadiusWare installed, and am pleased at the results. Not terribly different than the Apple board I had installed except that I can do millions of colors at 1152x870 now instead of just 256, and I have the RadiusWare change resolutions on the fly which is nice for games that run at 640x480. I am a little on the lookout for a card or cards that can do 1280x1024 in at least thousands of colors, since that's the native resolution of my monitor, but no hurry.
Sound was intermittent on the IIci. I took a close look at the logic board yesterday when I noticed no sound during a game of Syndicate, and sure enough, cap leakage. So I did a logic board swapout with the other IIci and I have sound back. So, it looks like a recapping for both of the boards sometime soon. I understand Trag has the tantalum caps.
I noticed that a 2GB 50-pin SCSI hard drive went for over $60 on eBay today. I had no idea they could be so pricey. I may fish the 170MB drive out of the SCSI enclosure of the external HD I have if I can't find something reasonable down the line.
I installed 8.6 and got the Orinoco drivers installed on the 1400c. I was within striking distance of getting it online but decided against screwing around with my wireless network settings late in the day when my mental powers are at their nadir and I wouldn't have enough time to figure it out before I went to bed if I messed everything up. I expect that I'll set my wireless router to 128-bit WEP tomorrow, make sure that my existing Wintel machines can still access the internet, and try again tomorrow. Diablo was fun to see running on the 1400, too. I called up a friend and floated the proposal to do a run at it multiplayer--that brought on a few laughs as we ran down the technical challenges of setting up a cross-platform IPX network with his machine being a Win95 virtual machine and all the general bridges to cross.
Best,
John