Skip to main content
Advanced filters

Source

Software
Today I had to press the reset button on the back of my Lombard. After doing so MacOS X attempts to boot and stops at a circle with a line through it on a gray …
· 10 posts · started 14 Oct 2008 - 20:39 · last 15 Oct 2008 - 21:14
Software
Does anyone know if there's an animated pumpkin application that can be displayed on a 9" screen, so the computer can be used as a Halloween decoration of sorts…
· 4 posts · started 15 Oct 2008 - 11:41 · last 15 Oct 2008 - 19:56
Software
I purchased an iBook yesterday that was supposedly broken for $140 - no video. I made an aluminum shim for the graphics chip and viola! We have video. It has 25…
· 3 posts · started 12 Oct 2008 - 18:20 · last 13 Oct 2008 - 19:46
Software
In The Woodlands, TX, residents are not allowed to hold garage sales. Instead, twice a year, the community as a whole holds a huge flea market in a multi level …
· 3 posts · started 13 Oct 2008 - 00:15 · last 13 Oct 2008 - 00:45
Software
I bought a computer from someone and it has foolproof installed. The seller do not know the password. I cant even make it boot from the floppy. I look other inf…
· 19 posts · started 10 Oct 2008 - 19:57 · last 12 Oct 2008 - 17:48
Software
If anyone has or uses a Wacom digitizer tablet I could sure use some help. I have not been able to locate any kind of user guide for this thing. I was given a W…
· 4 posts · started 11 Oct 2008 - 03:41 · last 11 Oct 2008 - 06:05
Software
I'm trying to get Sweet16 up and running. The disks for System 6 have been downloaded but are in SEA format. My B/W G4 has no floppy drives and Sweet16 does not…
· 4 posts · started 10 Oct 2008 - 14:21 · last 10 Oct 2008 - 16:34
Software
Some months ago I "found" an external hard disk from an ex-Amiga user which is very unusual as I´ve never seen such a device before. Googleing for that box didn…
· 6 posts · started 8 Oct 2008 - 15:42 · last 9 Oct 2008 - 14:49
Software
Hi, I'm looking for a utility similar to Apple Disk Copy which will make disk images of a floppy disk, but will ignore errors instead of failing. That is, I wan…
· 5 posts · started 8 Oct 2008 - 22:05 · last 9 Oct 2008 - 04:48
Software
Well, I think I've mentioned this in IRC a few times, and to a few people individually, but I've decided to go ahead and post about it here. The machine in ques…
· 4 posts · started 3 Oct 2008 - 05:48 · last 5 Oct 2008 - 04:32
Software
After over a decade serving the Mac community, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's HyperArchive was shut down today as part of the ongoing process of co…
· 2 posts · started 2 Oct 2008 - 02:02 · last 3 Oct 2008 - 22:09
Software
I've spent quite a bit of time over the years, especially in the past year or two, thinking about recreating the look of the classic Mac UI. (I like Platinum! I…
· 13 posts · started 4 Apr 2008 - 16:30 · last 3 Oct 2008 - 21:05
Software
One of my prized computers when I was a kid (10-12 years ago) was a pair of Amigas - a 1000 (got in a trade for a TRS-80, IIRC) and a 500 (found abandoned in my…
· 3 posts · started 3 Oct 2008 - 18:16 · last 3 Oct 2008 - 19:28
Software
Just finished a fresh install of System 7.1.1 on my newly arrived Quadra 700 w/ 1MB VRAM and 20MB RAM. Everything looks OK, but the Options button in the Monito…
· 3 posts · started 1 Oct 2008 - 07:31 · last 2 Oct 2008 - 12:57
Software
I'm planning on selling my Centris 650 and to do that, I want to put a fresh install of System 7 on there. However when I put in the Install disk it tells me: T…
· 18 posts · started 27 Sep 2008 - 09:30 · last 2 Oct 2008 - 07:48
Software
Prices are what I paid, not sale prices. 2x Power Mac G4 533 MHz 1x Power Mac G4 500 MHz Nice specs. $45 each. Working, ready to go condition. Can re-sell on ad…
· 8 posts · started 1 Oct 2008 - 07:18 · last 1 Oct 2008 - 22:36
Software
I recently acquired a Powermac 7600/132 with video inputs. Does anyone know if I can use this to digitize VHS tapes? What application would you use? The CPU has…
· 5 posts · started 29 Sep 2008 - 16:02 · last 29 Sep 2008 - 21:37
Software
Just came across a sealed box of claris works 2.1 for both 68k macs, and early power pc.. Myself, always like claris..up to 4.0 better than MS word....but Word …
· 4 posts · started 27 Sep 2008 - 08:07 · last 28 Sep 2008 - 08:45
Software
Just won a boxed MacWrite II in the final minute on eBay!!! I now have three MacWrite IIs, two of which are in their original box. My new dilemma is whether I i…
· 3 posts · started 18 Sep 2008 - 18:27 · last 27 Sep 2008 - 04:28
Software
does anyone know where i can find a coppy of mac os system 7.6 or how i can make floppies of system 7.5.3 from the apple arcived files from their site? i have a…
· 2 posts · started 25 Sep 2008 - 19:24 · last 25 Sep 2008 - 19:28
Software
Hi, How can I remove the startup password to the notebook "Apple Macintosh Duo 230"? I remember the startup password is removeable from any kind of Apple Vintag…
· 5 posts · started 22 Sep 2008 - 05:38 · last 24 Sep 2008 - 12:12
Software
I am trying to set up a couple G3 500 MHz computers for my grandkids. They are on a DSL connection. They are running OS 9.2 I can connect to the internet using …
· 4 posts · started 22 Sep 2008 - 22:10 · last 23 Sep 2008 - 00:33
Software
I just snagged a copy of ClarisWorks from a thrift store today. Version 1.0, the shrinkwrap was still on the box (albeit ripped open) and the floppy envelope wa…
· 3 posts · started 22 Sep 2008 - 16:59 · last 22 Sep 2008 - 17:41
Software
So it seems that Apple offers free downloads to 6.0.3 and other software from that era but nothing earlier. Since the earliest Mac that will run it is the Plus,…
· 24 posts · started 27 Aug 2008 - 19:15 · last 17 Sep 2008 - 05:05
mp.ls