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Hi all, I have an M4551 that I need help with. This monitor displays a series of vertical lines and 'garbage' when connected to VGA. I have disassembled this un…
Hi all, as this is my first posting i like to introduce myself a bit. I'm Carlo from Germany and I'm an longtime Apple user. I started with an Apple //c in 1990…
Ok so I grabbed that Outbound 125 a few months ago from ebay.. So glad I grabbed it.. I cleaned it all up!! Of course all the batteries were dead.. Replaced all…
Protocol7 and I traded quite a few PMs on this one. Summary: ** There is macbootable Sil3112 firmware. FirmTek SeriTek/1s2 is the card. aka Sonnet Tempo SATA (T…
Yes! On September 4th I was over at a basement "yard" sale of ye olde local church, and it had been over for two weeks, so they were going to recycle/ throw out…
I'm bringing my Classic in to work tommorow (I work at a camp, but in a digital music classroom) and I'm wondering how I can best showcase the slickness of Syst…
I'm revisiting one of the "classic" goals of compact Mac hacking: changing the resolution of the internal CRT screen. I've been poking at this for a few months,…
We (bf and I) have decided to have a go at writing some software for System 7.5 and OS 9. We've now found ourselves with several Macs running various versions o…
Anybody here ever mess with Tokenring Nubus cards? At this point I have 3 different Nubus TR cards that I am going to integrate with some Thinkpad laptops (PCMC…
I'm yrying to get a Bernoulli 230 drive working with my macs but while the system can see the drive it can't mount anything or even complain about the disk bein…
I touched on this subject awhile back, but now I am thinking about it and going forward with it. The ram card was a successful failure, it worked great and I so…
I have a nice looking Macintosh Classic, the only problem is that the image is slightly tilted to the right. It needs a little adjustment to make everything rig…
I started an archiving project using a Mac Quadra 610 here: https://68kmla.org/forums/index.php?/topic/25007-starting-archiving-project-using-quadra-610/ Howeve…
A fresh new topic for the MacIPgw virtual machine. I move this item out of the Lounche to Hacks & Development The MacIPgw virtual machine is way of conn…
Hi, I have a seemingly uncommon PowerMac clone here, and I can't get it to boot. I had it in storage, and something made a nest inside and ruined the logic boar…
Met up with CelGen this afternoon and traded my Mac SE PC Drive interface for his spare Nubus PC Drive interface... -J
OMG, there's one in the Power Mac G3 ROM too! Who knows how to access these normally?? This one is located at 0x2E6E80:2FC268 in the checksum = 0x78F57389 ROM.
Hello, I have been looking for a pinout for a mac se/40 and was referred to here from macrumors.com. I recently got a macintosh se /40 in a sale but the mainboa…
Anyone on here have a failed Cube PS? I have just repaired mine. The "hairdryer fix" which I reported on some time ago suggested that I had capacitor trouble, a…
One of the bugs I fixed in Classilla 9.3.2 was an issue with cookies far in the future overflowing the 32-bit time value in the classic Mac OS. Interestingly, t…
It seems I have started to have enough Apple stuff to warrant my own thread! My current collection consists of: (1) Macintosh Portable 5120 (which Uniserver, Te…
Yep, makeshift computing. When I first got my LC I immediately assumed buying such a custom battery would be impossible, so I set out to make one. Parts: 3xAAA …
Hey folks, I just received a Classic II with the common "thick vertical bar" problem. So far, so good, same procedure as every year. Wash the logic board thorou…
Hey, I was working on a project involving putting a iMac G3 Rev.A board in a xbox 360 case and someone happend to tell me that the iMac G3 Rev A / B / C acutual…
i was wondering how many people lately have done programing in hypercard, and if so, what you made. Right now i'm working on a database stack that allows the ow…
Bought a Flower Power iMac G3 that turned out to have a G4 upgrade inside. It started out as a Snow G3 400 but over time has had many parts added/swapped out in…
I picked up a Macintosh Classic knowing it was non functioning for a very nice price. It has horizontal lines across the screen on start up with no bong. When t…
Hi all, I've been getting back into the Mac liberation game lately and I seem to be acquiring more machines than I have keyboards/mice and monitors for :beige: …
There are a handful of us who like the G5, and want to keep the machines running. The rest of you can ignore this post! The following link could be of use to so…
By luck I came across an OrangePC Nubus (can't seem to tell the model but it's a full-length card with a 100mhz DX4 on it) card and I installed it in my Quadra.…
Hi, I have a very nice functioning Portable but I'm worried about the 20+ year old HDD. I'd love to replace it with a CF card, but for that I'd need one of thos…
Looking for drivers for an Applied Engineering Transwarp TW6400 (68040 25 or 33) PDS card used in a IIci.
I have a weird issue with my Powerbooks 160 and 165: I can't set the time and date anymore. As soon as I leave the date/time Control panel, the date/time immedi…
My Power Mac 6100/60 AV refuses to run 7.6.1. I installed a brand new system from a retail 7.6.1 CD and everything went fine during the installation, but as soo…
I'll keep this short. Two thought: PS/2 and VGA KVM with home-made adapter cables as ADB/Mac video switcher (PS/2 socket = ADB?) 25 pin printer switch box ditto…
So I dug up my PowerBook 160 and found out that the hinge is already starting to separate. Is there anything I can do to hold the hinge together?
i need one for the Macintosh SE i need one for the Macintosh LC 1 i need one for the Macintosh LC 3 i would like one for the Color Classic - but i am not greedy…
I was trying out different SCSI configurations for an external HD when I noticed my LC III started giving the chimes of death immediately after startup. I can't…
To the moderators: Please consider making this a sticky as these questions get asked quite frequently on here. There have been some recent discussions about the…
Woohoo! Not as cool as the Roland, but still damn cool! And at $20, I couldn't pass it up. Has pens, too. Although, I ran into a slight problem, then pens are t…
Hi I've just bought on ebay a Lapis color card for my SE/30. The seller didn't test the card himself as he had no external monitor... but the SE/30 which came w…
Like the title, can the LCD panel be used on a different computer for testing? i don't have a IIc yet.
Hey everybody! Tom Lee reminded me recently that the Classic Mac Repair Notes document is still around The file is located here: http://68kmla.org/files/classic…
I'm trying to fix a 128k Analog Board and would like to know if I can test the diodes and resistors and capacitors without removing them from the board? i have …
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The following thread was started to gauge interest in updates to various parts of OS 9.There has been a lot of great input from many.http://macos9lives.com/smfo…
Introduction:Powermac 9600 machines are the very last Macs to boot System 7 natively, with System 7 originally being programmed to run on 68k machines. The tran…
NOTE: Ableton Live 5 isn't available for Mac Os 9 (This is listed for Comparative Reference Only)trying to find the "Whats new" documentation from 5 to see spec…
http://themacelite.wikidot.com/9250-trickim surprised on macelite theres no info about flashing 9200 radeon pci cards (for use in agp ppc machines as second dis…