My Classic II also quit working. I just finished putting it back together yesterday. There was some signs of leaking capacitors on the mother board. I scrubbed down that area o…

I don't know what that website is, but it sure is down.

Yeah I've seen so many times people describe computers as "Dead" and they just needed a reinstall.

it wokrs fine in my windows macheen. and this drive is only 6 mo old and I've only burned about 25 disks, so thats not the problem, I do not have a usb thing for ide is there a osx…

The serial port input device I've heard of is called the MacRecorder. One of them should be fine for doing visualisations, even though it's only mono 8-bit. Doing realtime audio …

Early 2005 is presumably a dual-core model and while I think the top end was water-cooled, the low end dual 2GHz was definitely standard and ought to be pretty reliable. Probably …

The power connector on the bottom isn't stuck in place. It's on a metal frame - you'll note that to the sides of the mating molex connector there are two circular pins with flaps o…

Good luck!

MacNifty produced a sound digitizer for use on the first 512K, which plugged into the serial port. You could feed a microphone or a line input into it and through the Mac's speaker…

One thing I would recommend is seeing of the DVD drive manufacturer has released a firmware update for the drive. I would also source (borrow?) another dvd burner. You may be hav…

The HyperCard stack. Definitely. And a few B&W games like Dark Castle, which will run in demo mode or let your guests play with the thing while sipping a long one.

Have you got another drive you can try, or another machine to try that drive in?

it even with normal files, I can burn the disks in any othter os except mac and i talk to people on anohter fourm and they say macs can, its just a normal dvd, disk no drm ..ect so…

Even if its legal in your country, copying the games is illegal in most other countries, including the USA as far as I'm aware (where most of our members are based)...if you need h…

If I were to get one of them, I'd skip the trays and hard-mount some high capacity SATA drives with SATA to IDE adapters. You could have 8 terabytes of storage for $600 USD.

Oh, man....... I'm so tempted to grab a complete system... $100-ish shipped. (Although that's without vid card or HD trays even. I can live without the vid card, I can even do …

http://www.apple.com/batteries/notebooks.html , paragraph entitled "Long-Term Storage." That advice goes back a good way, at least to the time of the Wallstreets.

That's really cool and I hope you find some good tricks for it. It's great to have older hardware doing tricks in places where they can shown off in style!

It's looking more and more like I'm going to have to replace the mylar sheet. The break is actually in the cable section off the bottom of the sheet, under that black tape that co…

So, I've gone ahead and installed Leopard to the second drive... it actually seems to run pretty nicely, especially after turning off the glass dock and some of the finder visual e…

I am sure it varies from model to model, I know I didnt get a 550 watt power supply on sale for < 50$ becuase they were being nice (although I just saw a 500 watt ultra lsp …

I dunno, the thermaltake power supply I put in my wifes computer was very cheaply built, and constantly runs hot (not OMG hot but enough to make you wonder) ... Its not even a year…

Why use a G4 for such a task? I don't think a G4 would be good for a Studio machine... Please prove me wrong Click to expand... Firstly, it we be arrogant of me to "prove" the …

its mainly switched by the 1 and only transistor on the IIc, might be easier to deal with and yea I have not seen a computer monitor in a long time that will accept ntsc rgb, I ha…

Which Apple II do you have? It's easy to defeat the color killer on a II or II+, and I bet it can be done on a //e or //c as well. Bear in mind, text will have purple & gre…