I've been looking high and low for this piece of software. HyperChina was a lovely piece of software that was created in the mid 1990's by SinoLogic software (b…
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So I've got this Quicksilver that I've had for quite sometime now, but unfortunately, its spent more time occupying my closet floor than being used. What is thi…
Hi, I've never had/or been given a slot-loading iMac before, so i was rather pleased to receive two today - and my favourite colour, the dark blue models! One h…
The idea was that I could write a program to run on my box that takes a mac disk image, and serves it to a real mac via the parallel port through the mac's flop…
As part of on-going efforts to generally improve the forums, we have decided to make some changes to what is allowed to be discussed in the Conquests, Software/…
Do the greyscale active matrix screens in the PowerBook 1xx series consume significantly more power than the passive matrix displays? I know that the early colo…
After experiencing some weird occurrences (menu bar disappearing) on my Performa 6200, I decided to format and start fresh. I zeroed the drive, and attempted to…
. . . to be whaling away with the ole' plexi scribe & the Japanese pull saws again! } I liberated what is to be a wide aspect ratio, NO maintenance MacQ…
This seems to work, the major drawback being that changes to the forum may break it. Code: http://68kmla.org/forums/search.php?fid[]=1&fid[]=3&f…
Could a Quadra 700 hard disk caddy be used in a Macintosh IIcx? I have my eyes set on a Macintosh IIcx on eBay which is missing the hard drive and the caddy, an…
I managed to find a PowerBook Video adapter on ebay for a very affordable $3 ($9 with shipping). The item came in its original 1992 Apple packaging and worked o…
... where you follow the woman diver underwater? Anyone know the name and where I can find a copy? Tomorrow's going to be another rainy day and I thought I'd ta…
Here's the thing: My mother-in-law has some old Windows software on floppy disk and a Toshiba laptop with no floppy drive... the only machines I have with flopp…
This time: An Apple ][gs Woz Edition. To my knowledge, it's fully functional. It came with a system disk (old one, probably should make new ones). The lady was …
Today I decided to get out the Mac Classic II I got for my 15th birthday and restore it. Aside from the original CRT I was able to round up all of my original c…
Got a spares/repairs Macintosh SE 800K/20SC HD for £1. Powers on but has the flashing question mark. My guess is that the hard drive needs replacing...no worrie…
Can anyone recommend a good utility for monitoring the ADB port? Something that can show what's connected, device handlers used, or addresses, etc. Thanks.
Have you seen this thread over at the vintage Mac google group? http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs/browse_thread/thread/b0a72a522959bdcf/fde234bfaa875f…
I spotted a Apple property tag on this Macintosh SE SuperDrive. Link (last photo in the auction) Would this necessarily mean that it was a late stage testing pr…
I received an LC475 running 7.1P and the system software was using 32Mb out of 36Mb. I did a clean install of 7.5.3 and it's just as bad. Surely it should be us…
Hello. Well i got my mac off of eBay. It ran for about 45 minutes and when i went to use it later on it gave me the vertical bars. It looked like the capacitors…
Some time ago I salvaged an old version of ConcertWare (version 1.00 as it turns out) from one of the floppies I still had lying around. The application basical…
I've been experiencing problems running SCI engine games on modern PPC systems. Both Space Quest 1 Enhanced and Larry 1 Enhanced enters into infinite loops duri…
Well, my Duo 280c is not being nice with me today. Its keyboard types junk at random, and for example, if I type e, it will do ea. Any solutions to this annoyin…
I finally had time to assemble my latest pet project (after my Duo 2300c): 1400c/133 with: 400mhz Sonnet Crescendo G3/1MB L2 Cache, which seems to be running st…
I'm at my wit's end and thought I'd give it a shot on this forum. I have two hard drives, one an external WD Passport 120GB that was formatted for Mac and the o…
I posted a TrueType scalable version of the original Mac 18pt bitmap font London to the 68kmla wiki. :b&w: http://68kmla.org/wiki/File:LondonTTF.sit { "…
Wife called to say that she turned on the MacPlus for my daughter to use and she smelled smoke and burning. Analog board probably cooked. Rats. Time to find ano…
You guys may have heard of this dude before, Herb Johnson? Apparently he has a bunch of cool and semi rare stuff for sale, including 6100 Nubus Adaptors, which …
I cant help but notice that the 10mb/s ethernet on board is far from it. When doing file transfers from my macbook ,it takes a few minutes to transfer about 4mb…
Hello again. This time i am trying to install a bigger HDD in my G4 tower. It came with a 10gb drive. I cannot get 10.4 to install on there with any other HDD o…
A few weeks ago I got a nice external Apple 2GB SCSI hard disk from a friend. I tried using it with my Classic (running system 6.0. 8) and no matter what device…
This is a rather interesting guide to solving the usual troubles. The writer effectively remove the whole capacitor before the soldering iron is ever applied. S…
While my classic-computing hobby has been dramatically slowed by work / life / random distractions, I have managed to snag a couple of additions to my ever-expa…
Sorry folks, but when I got the Torx screwdriver today, I couldn´t resist. Opened the Mac. Figured how to get out the board. ALL CAPS LEAKING! 8-o I´m washing i…
Hello 68kmla, :?: I'm looking for a little help to get my entry up and running. I'm planning on taking part in the Retro Challenge coming up in about a week. Wh…
So I have a PowerBook 180 running System 7.1 with OpenTransport 1.1.2 installed. It works great, I want to try and get this one online, just for fun. So I have …
Talk about hazardous to your health. The thing is sitting on the carpet, with no visible means of support. LOL http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&…
Having had some recent successes in re-celling Duo and 5xx-series batteries, I just opened a PB1xx series battery, expecting to find something like 5 x 1.2v NiC…
Okay, I did some reading yesterday about the SE. Seems the SE was the improved Plus. It works between 10-20 % faster, option for internal HD, later models with …
Yes, I've finally done it. I've had 2 drives running flawlessly in my 1st B&W G3 for many years now, so today I decided to try and get 3 running in my #…
So i was having a look around the net today, and found something rather neat: Dale Adams on the Fall '93 '040 Macs For those who don't feel like clicking the li…
Over the past couple days or so I've been working on a G3 mini tower I picked up on ebay for $30 shipped. So far all I've done is clean it up a bit, get it runn…
As per title, grabbed myself a sweet, brand new in box, never opened ZIP drive for my 3400c but it don't seem to work. When I insert a disk it grunts 3 times an…
Freecycle FTW... hopefully no-one nabs before me! "I have a Mac 512K (circa 1984) and Mac SE30 (circa 1987?), including operating system disks. Also an Apple Co…
Hi all, I'm the proud owner of a pristine PowerBook 145B, with its stock 4 MB of Ram and 80 MB hard disk, which runs just fine. Today I took the 4 MB Ram card i…
So my PowerBook 140's hinges just broke today. Miraculously, the video cable seems to be alright. Is there any real way of fixing the hinges?
The following article mentions that the APDA distributed a generic SCSI driver in assembler... http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.04/04.01/ModifyingSCS…
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My Mac Plus is stored at my parent's place and I don't have any plan to make a 400-ish miles trip just to get the Mac Plus. I did find the 20MB hard drive with …