I've been running the SheepShaver Mac PPC emulator for I guess about a month now. I use it to run my old Hermes II BBS, as well as my old Hotline server. Howeve…
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A few people asked about this recently, so here's the source code for a certain falling blocks game for the Macintosh you may remember from the 1990's. This is …
The copy on all the Mac Driver Museum mirrors is corrupted. Hoping someone here might have it. Also, is the only the only difference between the 17 and the 20 t…
So a week or so ago, I serviced the LCS of my Quad G5, draining, cleaning, etc. All that is something of a story in itself, but I wanted to report here that the…
All.... Just an FYI... Ebay item: 291389918191... for those of you who want to populate those remaining IC spots on your RAM cards for the portables... This is …
Does anyone have a good backup of the Blackhawk ADB drivers? The only download I can find for them are from the MacintoshGarden site and the second disk comes u…
I’ve been trying to reassemble at least one working Pismo from a collection of parts able to make one great unit and one functional unit—in theory. The machines…
So i have some Spare LC cases. I have a Couple Spare LC-III mainboards. I have some 15in - 17in Flat spare flat screens. So i am thinking. Well you know what i …
Hello, this is my first post so please forgive me if some of my questions have already been answered. I did try and look them up to see if they have already bee…
I'm thinking of doing the VGA mod to my Color Classic A/B. I read that the mod changes the horizontal scan voltage from 60V to 84V. I have a couple of questions…
Thought you all might get a kick out of a project of mine. I used Deluxe Music to create several songs back in high school, and for years now, I've been wonderi…
I can't believe there'd be ingest on this list, and my research (years ago) never led me to conclude it's necessarily possible... By this I meant handwriting re…
There is an estate auction with this poster at it this weekend and I was wondering if it was original. I have seen several of these Wheels for the Mind posters …
Hello, i would like to change my apple internal 4x scsi cd rom on my performa 6116 with a fast cd recorder. I would like fast reading speed, not (necessarily fa…
So I'm installing a 9gb Quantum Atlas 10k Ultra160 scsi drive with a 68 pin interface into my PowerMac 8500. I have a 68 to 50 pin adapter to hook it up. So I g…
Im going to assume there is some defect with the RAM card I installed. But what threw me off is that it boots then halfway through startup it pauses to say some…
G'day, I've got a 5500/250 cranking and fed it upto 9.2.2 using third party installer. Specs at everymac say that big Bertha's capable of 1024x768 in 16bit. I c…
Greetings, i installed system 7.1 in my powerbook 540c and i want to enable 24 bit addressing mode in order to run an old game (Rex Nebular). Although there is …
Hello everyone, I setup my IIGS (ROM 1 with an accelerator, SCSI, and RAM card) last night along with my PowerBook G3 (Mac OS 8.6). I was able to make a floppy …
Today I was feeling nostalgic, and I wanted to find some of the Kaleidoscope schemes I loved as a kid. Unfortunately the original official website is no longer …
Got the first of my G3 all-in-ones running. I installed virtual of with windows 95 then installed Microsoft rdp which is happily letting me download files direc…
My partner's mother used to work for a local school district, and she would frequently get Mac equipment at low or no cost. She had mentioned to me that she had…
Greetings all- I'm trying to get some classics from macintoshgarden.org to my newly restored Classic II. I have lots of pieces to the puzzle but no clear soluti…
Hi, does anyone know where to find the Appletalk Peek/Poke tools which are mentioned, e.g., in http://basalgangster.macgui.com/RetroMacComputing/The_Long_View/E…
Hi,I am considering the purchase of a low cost second hand sampler. I read about a program for the AKAI samplers (I am watching a sx3000 for 80 euros), that is …
I bought a color classic on ebay the other day. When it arrived the front and side had been cracked in the shipping process. does anyone have a recommendation o…
A friend gave me a complete Apple IIc set with the system, monitor, stand and printer including the boxes (with the foam intact!), manuals and software. There's…
I recently got a Newton MessagePad 2000 in nice shape for a very low price. However, the reason the cost was so low is the fact that it does not have a battery …
Hello all.. I need help.. My Global Village PowerPort software for my Powerbook Duo 2300c that was on floppies was ruined in my basement... I thought I had back…
I spent some time making new Happy Mac icons today: { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", "lightbox_error": "Th…
Hello everyone, I've got a IIgs with Rom00. My question is I see a lot of the upgraded IIgs' with Rom 01/03 but not too many Rom00's. Are they worth more?
I have a HD20 SC that works great when attached to my SE, but will not boot up either one of two Mac Plus machines. The manual says I need the "Hard Disk 20SC I…
This isn't really a peripheral... Many compact Macs came standard with a lock roughly dead-center on the back of the case. The icon next to the slot is of two l…
Anyone ever heard of this? I can't find it online. I'd be curious to see my Portfolio interface with a Mac. Let me clarify... this is a Mac application, purport…
Hi, on System 7.1. and 7.5 I cannot choose another partition of my external drive to boot from. I can click on e.g. the 2nd partition/volume in the control pane…
Posted this on FB, but not everybody's there so here.. Any software suggestions for imaging / reading Macintosh 3.5" disks (400k, 800k and 1.4Mb) more deeply th…
I have an iBook G3 14'' with ram installed but without hard disk and when I try to boot it makes 3 beeps and then nothing.The previous owner said that it was de…
I was recently given a PB180c to replace the one that died on me 12 years ago and I'm trying to get together some software to put on it. Right now I'm wondering…
Hi! Do you guys know what this card is for? { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", "lightbox_error": "The reques…
Hi every one! I'm glad to be here. (This is my first Topic) I´m having problems to install the 7.1 at my LC III its been a long since since the mac is power off…
I have tried to do some scripting with applescript on my 9500 (System 7.6.1) and I am always having the same error. This is a strange one and it is always comin…
I fairly recently restored my fathers old SE/30 thanks to uniserver and techknight, however the harddrive had failed quite brutally mechanically. Software can a…
Even further back in ' the cave ' was this 512k with no rear case placard ( product description ) Also bottom of case has a rectangular depression molded into t…
I recently dug up my laptop from 20 years ago, and after a lot of fiddling around I got it to boot up. The screen is flickery, it crashes every third or fourth …
Hi everyone! I have an old and classic PowerBook 170 that I'm still using (along some more recent equipment, perhaps I should add ). Unfortunately the screen ba…
I restored this Apple IIc system, and turned it on today for the first time. Well: it seems to work just fine, but the keyboard doesn't do anything: the reset k…
Does 32-bit QuickDraw in SSW 6.0.8 actually serve any purpose for a Mac Plus, as in does it actually work with the programs that need it or can use it, or is it…
In a fit of stupidity I decided to upgrade my blueray combo drive to a blueray burner. On the good side that left me with a Pioneer combo drive to play with. So…
I just picked up this 512k off ebay. Before this the oldest mac I had was a Quicksilver so I am quite new to the pre OS X macs. { "lightbox_close": "Close", "li…
Hello, I have an LCII that I recently re-capped and acquired a DaynaPORT LC II ethernet card for. I installed the card and it successfully passes the diagnostic…