In fact I have a perfectly functional serial MacBottom for use with a 128K, but cannot find a copy of the driver software anywhere. Click to expand... I'll look see what I've g…

You're awfully generous with your relatives! Click to expand... Oh not me, we had a freakin //e until 94

The apple 2 was a computer made by a dork for other dorks to toy with and share, that sprit still lives in the // world Click to expand... Eloquently put ;-) Mac on th…

The apple 2 was a computer made by a dork for other dorks to toy with and share, that sprit still lives in the // world Mac on the other hand was something you gave your aunt so s…

Like Flash and Real Audio and VideoWorks, the player program was free. The movie encoder program was for sale. So the MacMovies on a BMUG disk won't make a movie, but will play bac…

Hi trag, yes you remember right, but why anybody'd want to add ROM code to a 25-year old Mac is beyond me. In the day, we needed to add code to init our SCSI port and support the …

a MacMovies movie player distributed on the BMUG disks, some of which I have and will look through. With any luck it will take standard MacPaint files for use as frames. Sound rema…

why anybody'd want to add ROM code to a 25-year old Mac is beyond me. In the day, we needed to add code to init our SCSI port and support the Micah hard disk in the 64K ROM enviro…

but its not 1984 any more ... and yes I have been reading this thread, and video works uses a propitiatory format, so good luck figuring that one out! One would need to write a pl…

Hi trag, yes you remember right, but why anybody'd want to add ROM code to a 25-year old Mac is beyond me. In the day, we needed to add code to init our SCSI port and support the …

but its not 1984 any more and yes I have been reading this thread, and video works uses a propitiatory format, so good luck figuring that one out! One would need to write a playe…

I'm not 100% sure I understand your point. In 1984, such a thing took hours and hours with 128K RAM, 400K discs and your Imagewriter printer with Thunderscan. Which explains why we…

The only way to get anything like full frame video on a 68000 was to literally scan each frame of video one at a time, dither it for 1-bit, and then string them together in an anim…

Okay, whoever was laughing at the start of this thread needs to see these clips... really quite remarkable! Click to expand... I'm still laughing. You realize how much work it …

With a RAM upgrade to 1MB or more and an 800K floppy, short full screen animations were possible, such as these:http://web.me.com/henryspragens/stuff/Mac_Movies/Mac_Movies.html Cl…

Okay, whoever was laughing at the start of this thread needs to see these clips... really quite remarkable! The Apple II music is awesome too!

Rodime were one of the worst makes of drive back in the day. I believe an early edition of The Macintosh Bible mentions Rodime as an unreliable drive. A simple Google search reveal…

That is indeed a very respectable first conquest. Well done, soldier!

Yeah, the SE FDHD upgrade involved replacing the IWM chip with a SWIM chip, as you said, as well as replacement ROMs.

The original 128 and 512 could do very little animation because of the lack of memory. About the only option was MacroMind's VideoWorks, which allowed animating a small software sp…

The original SE (4 SIMMs are angled) doesn't have much clearance for the motherboard, a SE30 with the 8 SIMM slots (that stick straight out) will not fit. The difference between a …

I would like to have a 1.44 MB floppy, but I think I read somewhere that it would require a logic board upgrade, and then I wouldn't be able to use a second built-in floppy. Can an…

Very nice! There's just something about these compact Macs that you can't describe until you use one. You could get addicted to them. I like how the external fits nicely under the …

I spotted that auction! Great job on the conquest!

I have that same Rodime drive on my Plus... it is indeed quite loud.