If System 7 had been on the market for 2 years by the time the LCIII was released, then it's not surprising that you can't run System 6 on it. You can't downgrade a system to a ver…
The 68060 didn't scale well, either. The fastest versions lack the MMU, FPU, or both. Too many transistors for a wafer that size back then. The fastest 060's required separate chip…
Are you saying it definitely is NOT in the IIci ROM?
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Yep, as far as I can tell, it is not in there.
The one ting the IIci and fx have in common is tha…
I can date these "animation" frames back to the IIfx, but after the IIci.
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Are you saying it definitely is NOT in the IIci ROM?
The one ting the IIci and fx …
Very interesting. It's not animated on the LC III/Performa 450 either as far as I can tell. But the LC III ROM also contains normal 32x32 images of the complete happy mac and sad…
Isn't that just how it is? (Like your animation)
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Are you saying that it is indeed animated like this on the actual Macintosh Classic machine?
I just spotted…
I admit that I do not own a Mac Classic. Intrigued by the command+option+o+x bootable ROM ability, I peeked inside this ROM. I found this by importing the ROM as a fairly tall ra…
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To save going over the same ground again, here are previous '060 and Coldfire discussions:
viewtopic.php?p=106530#p106530
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In the consumer market, the LC III was sold as the Performa 450. It's identical except for the sticker on the front of the case, and some accessories that came bundled with it.
L…
I can confirm that the LCIII definitely does support 24 bit mode, in fact when an LCIII has a flat PRAM battery, or no PRAM battery, it boots up in 24 bit mode by default. And it d…
For that Apple IIe card keep in mind IIRC you need to run that in 24-bit mode. 32-bit mode won't work. So the IIe card in a LC III may not work since I"m not sure you can run t…
Yes, both of my LC III's were from a school. I think the guy I got them from had a trailer full of them.
LC's and the AIO LC models must have been very popular with schools and th…
The LCIII wasn't quite as common as the LCII, for one thing it cost a bit more than the LCII, but I'd think it was still a bit common. My Dad bought an LCIII back in 1993, and I re…
I'm wondering how popular the LC III was (or not)?
Reason, I don't encounter hardly any of them where I look. Even on ebay they seem scarce.
I figured, I want one of those since …
The Amiga used some software patches to get the 68060 to work, Apple could have done something in ROM to get around it. An old thread here mentioned Daystar didn't see a major spee…
The 68040 didn't include all the functionality of a 68030+68882, either. (In particular, the 68040's FPU is missing hardware support for IEEE transcendental functions.) The differe…
This list is not exhaustive, but it is very long, and might help some of us trying to identify old upgrades:
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-13220825/buyers-guide-upgra…
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-15070641/daystar-68060-accelerators-near.html
Galen Gruman
DayStar Digital has announced that it will introduce a series of Macint…
Welcome to the forums.
Good to see younger folks picking up the same interests. Me, not a frequent poster here but certainly reading along. I got myself into classic Macs some yea…