Skip to main content
Forum
Mac OS 9 Lives

Mac OS 9 Lives

237 threads · 2,334 posts · All forums
Advanced filters

Source 68kMLA

If anyone wants to upgrade their old Radius Videovision Nubus to Telecast (and has the big breakout box with cables) here is your chance. http://www.ebay.com/it…
· 5 posts · started 1 Jun 2013 - 04:45 · last 4 Jun 2013 - 23:04
After years of trying to track one down in my price range I have finally managed to get a hold of one of these little guys. So now I have to get rid of things t…
· 16 posts · started 30 May 2013 - 14:47 · last 4 Jun 2013 - 21:59
Newbie here...Sorry for my first post being in need of something. I have a machine shop in SoCal. We run our CNC machine programming software on a Quadra 840AV.…
· 13 posts · started 11 May 2013 - 16:57 · last 31 May 2013 - 23:20
Hey all! Preface: I had a Powerbook 5300c with a cracked screen, Beachycove gave me a 5300c with a dislodged power socket. With the magic of screwdrivers, solde…
· 8 posts · started 26 Mar 2013 - 15:13 · last 31 May 2013 - 16:16
So I have this like 11 x 14 book that shows the classic, LC, II, portable an the SE/30. In the operating system block on each page by each its says system 7, so…
· 7 posts · started 24 May 2013 - 21:33 · last 30 May 2013 - 22:42
The Macintosh Plus (and earlier) keyboard contains a microcontroller. The microcontroller has on-board mask (factory programmed) ROM. An interesting project wou…
· 8 posts · started 22 May 2013 - 21:59 · last 30 May 2013 - 22:23
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57586204-37/apple-1-breaks-auction-record-goes-for-1400/ Truly amazing what some people will pay for these artefacts.
· 4 posts · started 26 May 2013 - 01:47 · last 30 May 2013 - 18:59
Hello, i am trying to make a copy of an installer disk for the first time. I will be using a Mac G3 to download the installer files from the internet. I am just…
· 14 posts · started 21 May 2013 - 23:32 · last 29 May 2013 - 05:59
Hey all It's been a while since I checked in here, but you never really leave Classicville. I'm trying to kit out my G4 as a OS9-based DAW with whatever freewar…
· 1 posts · started 27 May 2013 - 23:40 · last 27 May 2013 - 23:40
This is a Lazyweb request. Don't research it but answer if you know off the top of your head. The Mac Plus allegedly assigns a higher processor interrupt to the…
· 4 posts · started 20 May 2013 - 20:08 · last 23 May 2013 - 17:06
Was there ever an equivalent of the OSX Mac Hardware Test suite for Compacts? I could really do with some diagnostics. Maybe a library of scripts to exercise th…
· 6 posts · started 16 May 2013 - 02:02 · last 17 May 2013 - 12:58
Hey everyone! I know some of you have followed my experiments with getting the Mac 512Ke talking to modern devices. Apparently, I caught the eye of Mac|Life mag…
· 6 posts · started 7 May 2013 - 19:16 · last 13 May 2013 - 10:05
Hello-- So today when I went to use my quadra at my school, I looked at the front of it, and someone had pried the rainbow apple logo right of the front of my c…
· 7 posts · started 30 Apr 2013 - 22:00 · last 7 May 2013 - 22:43
Does anybody know about these software packages? It seems like one of those things that might have failed, as I have never heard of it. Here is an article about…
· 2 posts · started 5 May 2013 - 19:37 · last 6 May 2013 - 00:40
I'm trying to strategize a setup for my slowly-increasing collection of MIDI gear, and one of the things I'd like is for it to be portable. To that end, I'd lik…
· 4 posts · started 9 Mar 2013 - 01:10 · last 4 May 2013 - 17:14
I am the owner of a brand new ImageWriter II, I want to find customizeable label software for Macs OS 7-8 would be perfect... Can anyone help me think of one th…
· 3 posts · started 27 Apr 2013 - 03:21 · last 27 Apr 2013 - 20:41
Not mine ad by any means, but i thought to put it here as it's not very common to have newly released games for Apple ][-serie in 2013. http://brutaldeluxe.fr/s…
· 10 posts · started 10 Apr 2013 - 07:08 · last 26 Apr 2013 - 05:20
Home today, and wanted to try a leopard install in the Powermac G4. Already tried a couple of weeks ago, but didn't worked (KP at the installation process) Toda…
· 11 posts · started 22 Apr 2013 - 13:06 · last 24 Apr 2013 - 20:13
Just wondering if there was any chance of using this ultra-thin CD/ROM slot loader with a PowerBook 1400 MoBo? :?: Connectors don't matter in this application, …
· 7 posts · started 23 Apr 2013 - 07:00 · last 24 Apr 2013 - 17:41
I've found a possible Mac conquest however it's located in Delft Netherlands!! What a long shot, but is anyone within reasonable distance and can help me out at…
· 16 posts · started 16 Apr 2013 - 01:48 · last 21 Apr 2013 - 20:24
Well what do I do with this card? I assume its monochrome because it has a 9 pin D. It doesn't kill the SCSI drive like the power book "superview" is said to, d…
· 2 posts · started 20 Apr 2013 - 06:55 · last 20 Apr 2013 - 22:17
Hi, I'm trying to start the Color QuickCam software (QuickPICT and QuickMovie) on my Quadra 950 running 7.6.1. I've tried versions 2.1.2 and 2.1.3, but the comp…
· 2 posts · started 18 Apr 2013 - 19:05 · last 18 Apr 2013 - 19:44
I'm aware for OS X you can just install Java and install a pretty good and visual emulator but I got word that there WAS also an emulator that was native to 68K…
· 6 posts · started 14 Apr 2013 - 02:55 · last 14 Apr 2013 - 21:07
I recently aquired an LC475 with a IIe card. The card had one of the two caps missing. A friend on the forum was kind enough to help me out and replace the caps…
· 5 posts · started 28 Mar 2013 - 15:31 · last 11 Apr 2013 - 20:41
I'm looking for software that will let me burn videos to a video DVD that will playback in a DVD player. I can do it using Toast 11 on my MBP, but I want to do …
· 4 posts · started 5 Apr 2013 - 20:42 · last 8 Apr 2013 - 23:06
These feet are huge and I only have 1. Anyone here know where to get rubber the correct thickness to cut and glue new ones on?
· 5 posts · started 6 Apr 2013 - 03:50 · last 6 Apr 2013 - 13:09
I've been in touch with a guy who has an archive of reverse-engineered schematics, including for Mac IIsi and its PSU. I've told him I'm a restorer and he is wi…
· 25 posts · started 20 Mar 2013 - 06:18 · last 6 Apr 2013 - 09:03
I know it's a longshot but, has anyone here had any luck running one of these: http://www.macwireless.com/html/products/wireless_cards/11g_11b_cards/11bPCCard.p…
· 10 posts · started 30 Mar 2013 - 02:28 · last 4 Apr 2013 - 06:09
Does anyone have a good copy or a link to the software for the Farallon EtherMac SE card? Mine was unopened but the floppy disk is corrupted after all these yea…
· 6 posts · started 7 Feb 2013 - 20:20 · last 4 Apr 2013 - 01:01
DECEMBER 17, 2012 -- KansasFest 2013, the Apple II convention scheduled for July 23-28 in Kansas City, Missouri, comes on the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Di…
· 3 posts · started 18 Dec 2012 - 22:30 · last 3 Apr 2013 - 16:13
caught a glimpse of the chat earlier when I finally got the SE FDHD online. Uniserver suggested throwing this screen shot up ) Macintosh SE FDHD, 4MB Ram, 100MB…
· 4 posts · started 2 Apr 2013 - 07:01 · last 2 Apr 2013 - 19:43
I have a Mac Mini G4 and a Leopard install DVD. For some reason, my Mac Mini won't read the DVD in the internal drive so I can't boot from it. I also have an ex…
· 9 posts · started 26 Mar 2013 - 22:31 · last 28 Mar 2013 - 22:29
What is the best way to backup an old Mac? Do you use the built-in imaging tool or some other tool? Will the built-in imaging tool backup my partiation drive to…
· 6 posts · started 21 Mar 2013 - 20:12 · last 28 Mar 2013 - 06:26
does anyone have the OS X server 1.0 source? Also known as Darwin 0.1 files stamped 16th March 1999 it contains a lot of Next code and Apple's original OS X pla…
· 1 posts · started 23 Mar 2013 - 22:22 · last 23 Mar 2013 - 22:22
Yes, there is some yellowing in the first gen iMac already. I have three. One has a good picture, but yellowed case, another has a good case, but bad picture, s…
· 7 posts · started 22 Mar 2013 - 15:34 · last 23 Mar 2013 - 19:54
I have an Ehman external drive with a non-working Seagate ST 157N 45MB drive in it. I want to find a replacement drive for it but I can't seem to find an afford…
· 4 posts · started 21 Jan 2013 - 01:49 · last 23 Mar 2013 - 14:54
This is an article scanned from the Spetember 1990 issue of MacUser. Pretty handy for finding what hardware at the time was top-end. { "lightbox_close": "Close"…
· 6 posts · started 21 Mar 2013 - 02:47 · last 22 Mar 2013 - 06:35
This is a follow up video to my previous experiment where I dictated an email to Siri that was sent to a Mac 512K. In the new video, the Mac 512K itself talks t…
· 12 posts · started 11 Mar 2013 - 02:18 · last 18 Mar 2013 - 21:40
I have Basilisk II, but the sound doesn't work right. It can be up to ten seconds before a sound plays, and most programs complain about lack of sound hardware …
· 13 posts · started 15 Mar 2013 - 17:55 · last 18 Mar 2013 - 20:04
I have a dual boot FW 800 PowerMac (Tiger and Jaguar), it did not come to me with the original optical drive (it has a LiteOn that works ok, but won't boot from…
· 11 posts · started 25 Feb 2013 - 01:20 · last 15 Mar 2013 - 17:20
Further to my SE/30's restoration (viewtopic.php?f=7&t=20122), I've mounted my hard drive by suspending it between two large rubber bands. Although the …
· 13 posts · started 18 Feb 2013 - 04:48 · last 14 Mar 2013 - 19:57
Hi again! I've just installed system 7.5.3 on a Macintosh emulator. I've got it set up with 7.1 in one system folder and 7.5 in another (both on the same disk).…
· 3 posts · started 12 Mar 2013 - 17:45 · last 14 Mar 2013 - 16:36
not mine, but somebody is very lucky { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", "lightbox_error": "The requested con…
· 58 posts · started 26 Jan 2012 - 07:41 · last 14 Mar 2013 - 05:59
Shrine od apple has posted a pictures of unifile twiggy drive http://t.co/SWdaqMbQ { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "P…
· 5 posts · started 14 Jun 2012 - 09:53 · last 13 Mar 2013 - 04:37
mp.ls