I had a PB100 that did the exact same thing - weird flickering screen/static noises and needed a firm slap on the 2.5" SCSI drive before it span up after years of not being turned …

I'm probably going to have to grab the whole frame. The scan doubling sounds interesting, but it will be displayed on an LCD monitor. What I think I'm going to do is make the bitma…

I'm using Mac OS 9.2.2, but I imagine it'll work even with System 7 (I could try tomorrow, as I still have an easily-bootable version of it... I didn't stop using System 7 until ab…

Excellent work, Noidentity. I suspect that you are repeating some of the investigations performed by the authors of the various shareware "set res" utilities, but it is much better…

Heh. While doing a quick Google I happened to run into your thread on the Parallax.com forum, and it looks the last answer in that forum is basically what I was suggesting, other t…

This is marvellous stuff. Under what System/s will it work?

Geez... eMacs. The kind of machine that you have to stop every 15 minutes, get up and shout as loud as possible into a paper bag to restrain yourself from kicking the neck off the …

I did have my eye on that at first, having wanted a Colour Classic for some time (and for some reason, technically I don't need one but oh well). The lack of logic board is what pu…

Sorry, I was writing my post while you made your post. Taking the signal off the board is an option, but then the two boards are physically locked together. I really don't want to …

As noted, why not just tap the frequency straight off the motherboard? It's right there. But whatever works for you. (And also, just have to ask... the specs for the propeller say…

I think the "16MHz" quoted for the Plus is probably nominal (ie near enough) and is actually 15.6672MHz Click to expand... Oscillators with a 7.8336 frequency and its multiples…

I think the "16MHz" quoted for the Plus is probably nominal (ie near enough) and is actually 15.6672MHz.Have you considered taking your clock straight from the Mac's onboard oscill…

Although I thought it did have a bit too many screws I didn't find it difficult to open up and get in.

I am in nashville, tn and I already have the ram maxed and leopard installed

Please do post your goodies. I'm not currently using any monitor larger than 17 inches on the 8600 but who knows what might happen in the future.

Interesting project MarkS. By coincidence, I've been reading the following similar projects in the last 24hrs: Prop-6502 laptop pPropQL020 and pPropQL I think the "16MHz" quote…

Excellent. For some reason I didn't think to change the style, even though I've done it on other boards for this very reason. Argh

Change your theme to SubSilver and it works fine.

What does it do when you turn it on?

I have been able to hack the built-in video driver of my PowerMac 8500 to support 1920x1080 and 1680x1050 LCD panels perfectly (been using 1920x1080 for over a month now with zero …

This site requires turning off stylesheets when viewed with Classilla 9.0 (View->Use Style->None), each time the link is opened in a fresh window/tab. It's somewhat i…

Ok, the title of this topic is maybe not the most original… sorry for that! I recently conquered a "dead" PowerBook 100 which cost me next to nothing. It came with its power brick…

The machine (240 V Classic - not II) has not been switched on for about 4 years and appears dead. I have opened up and can see the voltage on the inside of the mains switch but I …

The Apple II uses a 14.31818MHz crystal (4x color burst) which gives it the ability to generate pseudo-color video on a TV. Click to expand... And so did the original IBM PC, i…

Everything in a Plus runs off a single crystal which was chosen for compatibility with the SCC chip and standard baud rates. If you change the crystal, the Mac may beep and start, …