My GE G4 is running on the stock 16mb ATI Rage card it came with. I've added a Pioneer burner, ram, USB 2.0 and larger HD's. My next step is a new video card, a…
Advanced filters
Source 68kMLA
Hi guys, I'm looking into buying a Mac Plus/Se/Se30 or Classic and a Laser Writer or similiar for some productivity tasks, esp. word processing. I've never owne…
When I get Leopard I plan to completely wipe my drive and reformat it or whatever, then install leopard. But my question is that, I assume no iLife apps are on …
JDW discovered my use of MFS under OS X on my site and posted his findings here: http://68kmla.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=26059#26059 Since MFSLives has nothing…
Anyone who's listened to the most recent episode of RetroMacCast will have heard all about these by now. There's one of them on eBay UK at the moment, :LINK. Si…
It seems Apache 2.2 broke a few things with the .htaccess files from previous versions, so when my host upgraded today the forums went down. Oops! Hopefully it …
What tool can I use to defragment a PPC mac?, preferably freeware. I want to defragment 2 PPC ones that are running OS 9.1 and OS 7.6....Thanks!!
Do you have any "must have" stuff that you install on every 68k or ppc Mac you own? If so, what are they? These are the things that get installed on to every Ma…
If any of you out there use a Dvorak keyboard, I'd like to announce that I have just joined your ranks. It's rather slow going right now, but I am already picki…
Our trusty Performa 6400/200 refuses to read or boot from CD-ROMs. The Apple System Profiler acknowledges the presence of the CD drive, but none of the discs we…
I chose to update the operating system on a PowerBook 1400 from Mac OS 8.1 to OS 8.6. A good move, the system is still fast and responsive yet does so much more…
Picked up a PB 145 and 150 yesterday. The 150 looks almost new and works perfectly (although the drive is noisy - but this is an easy fix, as the 150s' are IDEs…
Hello, I want to download ALLLLLL applications (games) that run only in System 6.0.1, like Words, Calculator, Media Player, CD player, etc, etc, etc, etc. Where…
Dear 68k Mac Kameraden, Please visit the Software Depot at www.myoldmac.net/software/ - its upgraded! I have set up a nice download manager and there are more t…
Broke down and bought this card from ebay. There was no shipping costs as he lives 5 minutes from me. I amlooking for thedriver/ software for it. It may be just…
Ugh, I hate asking this here but I can't find it on the web... What are some good image viewers for Systems 6 and 7? Mainly for GIF and bitmaps, but other forma…
have seen drivers for other Rasterops cards but not this one. any help would be appreciated.
In the days before we could have a laser printer in every home, I would work on documents on various Macs, print to PostSript files to preserve all the settings…
I got it in the mail yesterday from the guy I bought it from. It comes with 3 floppydisks. They're labled -- Studio Session - Program/Studio Session - Music/Stu…
i have been looking for the easy install cd or image of the cd that came with the orange micro PC 660. everything i have seen has been for the app and the win95…
I just picked up one of these things at a flea market for $2. It doesn't have the base, but the ball is very distinctly a connectix one, but it's black, not whi…
I was looking for a half-assed decent browser to run on my Quadra 950, and I settled on Internet Explorer 4.01. Part of the Internet Explorer archive that I dow…
Just bought this; { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", "lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be load…
I recently rolled back my Classic II from System 7.5 to 7.0.1 with some original Apple disks I got off e-Bay. I'm trying to update it with the System 7 updater …
Using the wonderful "SoundMaster" I have the the TOS Enterprise's computervoice .... *whirr* .... *click* .... "... working ...." How about you guys ? :b&am…
ok, here's the problem, ive got the hard drive, but it's still locking up, and it was doing this before the crash, I have the HD partitioned into 2, and ran dis…
I have noted a disturbing trend in the vintage Mac community of "borrowing" images, software, PDFs, information and resources from other Mac sites for use on ou…
In mint contition. Shows all the Mac OS Basics. And how to take care of your computer. A nice addition to my computer book collection. Reading it right now. :be…
Does anyone here remember a game in the 90's called "Bebop"? It was basically a version of Breakout with better graphics and ran on colour 68ks under System 7. …
I've just finishing documenting my Apple Computer collection, see here for the details: Apple Collection. I have tried to do more than just list, but actually d…
Apparently it IS possible. http://www.jump-ing.de/index.php?Lang=en&Menu=3&SubMenu=2 I wonder if it will work on my 6500??
Noticed something weird about WordPerfect today. I had to use GraphicConverter to scale some images for inclusion in a Word Perfect document, so I did that on m…
I found an Apple sticker in one of the lecture halls of my school today in class. I brushed the stuffs off the sticky bits and stuck it on the external HDD for …
On my System 7.5.5 LC475, I want to replace the v5.5 StuffIt Expander with the Deluxe version. If it is not available free, I am willing to pay for it. The prob…
I have 2 versions of Word on my 6500 since my HD was extracted from a 630CD. The thing is that when I open a word document with a .doc extension, it keeps openi…
I was looking through some of my old MacAddict CDROMs and I found this little gem. It is the full commercial version and it looks like it might be an interestin…
On the computer my parents use(which is in the goldfishes' bedroom)Firefox has mysteriously vanished! It's icon is still in the Dock, but with a ? over it. This…
I am in need of some software that I can use to keep an extensive journal. This software should date and time stamp all entries and allow for an enormous amount…
Here's my list of Commercial and Shareware that have been made freeware by their authors.
There used to be a Linux/Unix forum. It looks like it was not recreated. Could we have one again? Thanks! David
Where can I get 800k floppies for the Apple IIgs? I've looked around and they seem scarce. Is it possible to format 720k PC floppies as 800k IIgs ones?
So i post his question to any/all windows geeks out there: how in the hell do i get rid of that goddamned language bar from the task bar? i keep deselecting it …
I love my Powerbook 540c.... Well I like the look of it. It came with Apple os 8.1 & it came with all bits and bobs & I've tried to cut down the…
I am in the process of going through all of my computers, floppies, and CD's and archiving all of the software to a hard drive. I have an 80 GB Firewire HD conn…
Speaker CAD and Modeler Design Program, both old apps used by BOSE some 15 years back. I searched very hard, but couldnt find a bite of this stuff, so I thought…
OK folks, you should be glad to hear this. I dug out Cairo ShootOut, an old 80s Mac game - and I've put it back into distribution here: http://www.fastforwardsw…
Source PPCMLA
Hi This is basically addressed to the admins. My brother inlaw, an old "Sunbury Festival hippy" recently put his business online. He asked me to post in a forum…
What adapter do I need to buy to hook my Mac up to my PC via the serial(localtalk) port? I recently discovered that the port is a none-standard min-din 9. (and …