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Hi everyone, Looking for some help in recovering from a less-than-brilliant move on my part. I recently came across a Mac 128k for sale in my area, and quickly …
· 5 posts · started 2 Sep 2010 - 07:32 · last 7 Sep 2010 - 10:29
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Now that my PowerBook 180c is up and running and my PowerBook 150 has been broken in as a tutoring machine, I feel it's time to solve some problems with display…
· 7 posts · started 18 Aug 2010 - 04:02 · last 5 Sep 2010 - 19:08
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Hi - I'm new to Macs, I have just bought an Macintosh Plus with no disks. I read a Windows PC cannot make a floppy the little Mac+ can read, is that correct? If…
· 39 posts · started 10 Aug 2010 - 12:46 · last 28 Aug 2010 - 07:50
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Is it OK to power a G3 Lombard from a PowerBook 1400's power supply? I had two 1400 style PSUs which unfortunately broke so I bought a new one a couple of years…
· 8 posts · started 7 Aug 2010 - 00:16 · last 28 Aug 2010 - 03:10
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What are some of the signs of a flyback transformer that is bad or going bad?
· 6 posts · started 26 Feb 2010 - 04:13 · last 21 Aug 2010 - 19:10
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Because MIDI latency and jitter on modern computers is a problem. I've been contemplating in either get a dedicated hardware MIDI sequencer or an old Mac for MI…
· 12 posts · started 10 Mar 2010 - 21:31 · last 20 Aug 2010 - 18:04
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Hi everybody, I have an issue with my Quadra 700 + MacOs 8.1: my second HD automounts and works fine, but doesn't boot. I attached a second HD (MAB3045SC, 4.5GB…
· 3 posts · started 26 Jul 2010 - 15:33 · last 20 Aug 2010 - 07:44
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I have a IIfx to sort, today I've sorted many problems (at one point the PSU blew smoke into the room whilst switched off! freeky ) but currently have a few iss…
· 10 posts · started 15 Aug 2010 - 15:52 · last 16 Aug 2010 - 14:02
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September 19, 2009 Ross Martin has implemented FPU emulation for Mini vMac, for x86 linux. This is a major step towards a more complete Mac II emulation. He als…
· 30 posts · started 21 Sep 2009 - 03:08 · last 10 Aug 2010 - 19:38
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another opcode app to discover + researchhttp://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1994_articles/dec94/opcodeoverture.htmlQuoteCONCLUSIONAny successful music typesetting …
· 5 posts · started 9 Dec 2014 - 12:50 · last 8 Aug 2010 - 05:01
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Classilla 9.2 is out today. Here's what I posted to the Mac OS 9 list, for your entertainment. ) This is posted with it, natch. Classilla 9.2 is out today. Afte…
· 28 posts · started 4 Jun 2010 - 19:41 · last 6 Aug 2010 - 13:57
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Hi everyone. I got a g3 today, rev. 2 300 MHz from a school. I can't get it to connect to the Internet. Any ideas? It's running OS 8.6. I don't think the cd dri…
· 11 posts · started 2 Aug 2010 - 00:51 · last 6 Aug 2010 - 02:43
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i seem to remember i needed this to fix he bugs in myst 68k. cyanworlds and google are not helpful has anyone got a copy? - I own a real, legal copy of myt i bo…
· 2 posts · started 2 Aug 2010 - 06:33 · last 2 Aug 2010 - 12:22
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As this Conner hard drive I have seems very noisy and about to die, I'd like to try building a dual floppy Macintosh Portable. I have never owned a dual floppy …
· 24 posts · started 29 Mar 2010 - 03:46 · last 1 Aug 2010 - 16:15
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I took apart my Macintosh Portable this evening to make a count of the different capacitors I'll be needing to replace as part of the standard "holy crap this i…
· 12 posts · started 13 Mar 2010 - 05:37 · last 1 Aug 2010 - 16:06
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Hi all, I am currently working on repairing the keyboard that came with my Macintosh 512k(e). Four of they keys have broken off, and one of the keyswitches is b…
· 18 posts · started 7 Jul 2010 - 11:49 · last 25 Jul 2010 - 12:15
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I have a G5 1.9ghz I-sight, and of course, it has the dreaded lines in the LCD problem. also had the random shutdowns and no bootups. I cured that problem by re…
· 3 posts · started 22 Jul 2010 - 03:38 · last 23 Jul 2010 - 03:10
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Most think that Macintosh System started at version 0.97. Before the forums went down, we went through modding a 128k Guide Disk to allow access to the full Sys…
· 53 posts · started 11 May 2007 - 18:24 · last 21 Jul 2010 - 19:48
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A Mac 128k that starts up and displays the Sad Mac with vertical lines has what- capacitor failure? A friend has asked, and I have never even seen one of these …
· 6 posts · started 15 Jul 2010 - 12:39 · last 16 Jul 2010 - 15:15
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I have here a Mac Portable that has been through a lot, but for a while I had it working perfectly. Then, for no reason out of the blue, every other scanline on…
· 2 posts · started 14 Jul 2010 - 05:13 · last 14 Jul 2010 - 05:38
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Hi. I just got my hands on a Macintosh Classic II, shipped to me for free from a guy who said it worked fine. I plugged in the keyboard, mouse, and power, and f…
· 32 posts · started 7 Mar 2008 - 05:59 · last 14 Jul 2010 - 04:37
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Hi, I am in the process of setting up my apple 2GS, and was informed I really need to get Guss. I have been unable to locate a download. Is this available somew…
· 9 posts · started 5 Jun 2010 - 04:27 · last 14 Jul 2010 - 02:10
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As I got my PB150 out today to prepare it for the tutoring that I will be doing with it (which also happens to be my RetroChallenge project this year), I notice…
· 9 posts · started 1 Jul 2010 - 02:29 · last 10 Jul 2010 - 05:04
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Well, I'm just tossing the idea around in my head (maybe this belongs in mods more?), but I can't find any info on somebody doing an ATX conversion of a G5 iMac…
· 6 posts · started 1 Jul 2010 - 22:31 · last 6 Jul 2010 - 21:50
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A while back I found a 400mhz G4 Sawtooth for $5. After replacing the DVD-ROM drive with something I can actually use, it works except for one strange issue. Ea…
· 4 posts · started 30 Jun 2010 - 15:29 · last 1 Jul 2010 - 12:05
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