Get off all your important data now, and chuck it. You can map out bad sectors but more will come, and within a short time everything will be inaccessible. JB

my cube died and on a surface scan tech tools found bad sectors. can I fix it or new drive time?

If calibration doesn't do it, then I'd say the battery's dead. I saw that wit my first gen "BlackBook": one day 85% of full charge capacity, and the next day it shuts off without w…

That was the same case with my iBook. Calibrating did nothing.

First I'd suggest you go through a full calibration circle. The fact that the iBook shuts off without warning nor sleep seems to tell the battery doesn't know what's its charge.

I checked...it's not a recall battery....therefore, that can't be it... any other ideas anyone?

It sounds like a dead cell possibly, or the chip board for the batteries is messed up, check to see if it follows under the recall program. https://support.apple.com/ibook_powerbo…

Hey everyone! Lately I've been having some issues with my iBook's battery. When I open an application that tells me its health and its current status, it says it has 86% health (3…

VISICalc! Now you're talking! http://playpower.org/blog/2009/03/wired-article-visicalc/ here’s a picture of Jeremy and I talking to Bob Frankston, who developed Visicalc. …

i just wanted to post these links for anyone else reading this and also ...i guess for myself so i know where to find them. they are resources for more apple // info and assembly i…

hmmm don't really know much about the z80. i mainly focused on the 6502 because it was in all the machines i wanted to code for apple //, commodore 64, pc engine, and nes/snes, and…

I've never really liked the 6502, it's like an 8 bit CPU going out of it's way to limit everything to 8 bits. For a simple accumulator CPU the 6800 more closely matched my model o…

thanks guys, i've been working with sc assembler and its just like basic and the commands are pretty easy to understand. i just have one question. i can creat the program in the as…

hi everyone i've been learning assembly language for a few weeks, and felt most comfortable doing it on an apple // well, and emulated apple // .i dont' have any money to buy a re…

I was on my iBook G4 tonight, when the machine froze up. I thought it was due to having a lot of tabs open in FireFox. I did the Command-Option-Escape command, but nothing came up.…

Well, the title says it all, really... I have a sneaky suspicion that there's something wrong with my PowerBook. It boots without chiming (I have reset the PRAM to no avail), and t…

I was on my iBook G4 tonight, when the machine froze up. I thought it was due to having a lot of tabs open in FireFox. I did the Command-Option-Escape command, but nothing came up.…

I'll have to try getting into OF.. didn't seem to work when I tried.

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As far as assemblers go, I prefer S-C Assembler... there's versions for DOS and ProDOS and the docs are pretty decent.

Some resources for you: Books: Now that you know APPLE ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE: What can you do with it? by http://www.1000bit.it/support/manuali/apple/AALby_JH_Gilder.pdf Machine La…

hi i've recently gotten back into programming and in addition to the higher level stuff, i'm working on programming the 6502. so i've gotten applewin and believe it or not my libr…

I got one of my friends to tell me how he did it with his G4 iBook. He had to boot into Open Firmware and run a command to do it, but it (USB DVD-ROM) worked.

Everything I've read says they wont. Only the intel ones. I'll just snag a firewire cable this weekend and try disk mode on my G3 if I can get THAT to boot OSX......

Plenty of G4s will boot from USB, although none of the Power Macs will IIRC. It's worth a shot on the mini.