games system wise - what would people be doing with them? Click to expand... Well, one of my ideas, for example: Using a Gameboy to emulate a serial LCD (HD44780 or a graphic …

In the earliest days of the retrochallenge it was a straight date cutoff, of ten years I believe, however this was changed a few years ago because 1994 seemed retro then, but 1999/…

Oops I read incorrectly.

In the earliest days of the retrochallenge it was a straight date cutoff, of ten years I believe, however this was changed a few years ago because 1994 seemed retro then, but 1999/…

Any chance of selling the TiBook cheap? I have been wanting a TiBook for a while... Click to expand... Uh... There's no TiBook. There are a couple G3s, and an Aluminum G4. A…

Any chance of selling the TiBook cheap? I have been wanting a TiBook for a while...

Well, that was a productive bit of archaeology!

Alright, in my cleaning effort, (nearly) all of my PowerBooks have been dug out. I have found the following: Macintosh Portable, Backlit: Dead. Documented in my sale thread. (A…

If a programmer ceases support of a product they should either make an unprotected full version available for distribution...their software will be made available in unprotected fo…

Woah! Nice collection there alk!

Apart from the LCD, what's "souped up"? Click to expand... The LCD is nice, sure. The PowerBook Mustang is somewhere between a 5300 and a 1400. (Interestingly, my copy of "Ap…

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you know that this thread went cold 1.5 years ago

Speaking of the waveLan driver (of which I know nothing except that it exists), what was the last version you tried? The last version available on the site is 1.08a and Mark Hoekst…

getting an AVR cross-development IDE working on my Mac Plus Click to expand... Please do! But maybe there's better ways to consider newer machines. Click to expand...…

One issue with even introducing PPC G1-era Macs is that because they have so much more capability, there could be a tendency for them to dominate retrochallenge. Considering I keep…

the old ones are pretty easy to develop for, so instead of killing people all day you could make math blaster for intellivision or maybe a telnet client on a atari 2600

games system wise - what would people be doing with them? playing space invaders for a month instead of call of duty?

I would say anything pre 3d

I dunno- I think that's pushing it. Pre-Pentium sounds about right to me. As for game systems, make the cutoff be by bit count on the main processor. 8 bit, say. That would keep th…

Christmas came sort of early for me this year, well last year now. I gots my hands on a 17 inch iMac (G4/800), a snow iBook (G3/800), and a Bondi iMac (G3/233). The Bondi's drive…

M6498 I suspect it may have been opened up before, an upgrade prior to delivery to the original owner? As it has 512 Megs of RAM, 256/256. Course I want to take it to the maximu…

The takeapart is really not too bad. You're right about the PSU in them though, they can be a little meagre. Which model of iMac do you have?

These are very nice machines. I got given one a few weeks ago. A mate was having a clean out and I got lucky. My machine has issues though, the pro speakers won't work for some …

Here is a link of some pictures, that I took when I overhauled one of my 7100's. Although the pictures don't give you step by step instructions, they should give you an idea what…