Gorgonops, your keyboard issue kinda sorta sounds like a problem I had with a //c that ended up being the character ROM being bad.
This kind of seems more like a blog listing more applicable to the Lounge than hacking, but hey.
For my projects, I've mainly been working on getting the AppleTalk over IP project up and running, with a hosted DDP file server, complete with per-user public_html directories. And speaking of the QuickTake, I was using one recently and had a ball dragging photos directly from the QuickTake to my afp mounted public_html directory to make them publicly accessible on duh web. All from a PowerBook 540c over wireless using the Netgear WNCE2001.
Just sitting on the couch with the pb540c on wifi, plugged the QT150 in, dragged the pictures over, and boom. iPad accessible.
I had originally started working on the http disk/cloud7 (which actually works quite well on 7.6.1/OT right now, but beware on <= 7.5.3 I think) because of the wifi pb540c. Modern access points don't pass appletalk, and this netgear bridge thing certainly doesn't, so I was looking for a network storage solution that was classic macos friendly. I think I've found it with the appletalk over ip + hosted file server.
I just got TylerEss' Turbo040 and have been investigating 1) how to make the romdisk work with it (I don't have promising news in this area), and 2) figure out just how that thing does what it does. I've mostly been using it in a Performa 600 at this point.
I've made a couple contributions to MESS. I got networking happy on OSX, and I think I've got the mouse way happier by exposing the absolute mouse position via a pseudo-nubus card, and then wrote an INIT for MacOS to keep the mouse cursor in sync. It's a much more usable native OSX app for me now.
I went through that pile of two dozen compact macs cleaning them up, lubricating the floppy drives, fixing any obvious problems like the all too common cracked solder joints on the analog board connector, and creating a bit of an inventory. With some minor repairs all but about 2 work well (boot, working floppy, screen is usably clear). I've also gotten a silly little appletalk app working so mouse/keyboard events from one are fed to all of them over appletalk. Which is convenient for 1) bulk testing on all at the same time, and 2) I only have one keyboard/mouse combo for 2 dozen compacts.
Found a nifty little diagnostic mode built into ROM on at least the IIx, IIci, IIsi, presumably what is used by TechStep devices (I don't have one to verify).
So, working on that kind of stuff. I recapped a 6100, Classic, Color Classic and maybe one or two others in there too. I'm kind of thinking my next big project will involve HyperTalk. It just seems so applicable even today.
This kind of seems more like a blog listing more applicable to the Lounge than hacking, but hey.
For my projects, I've mainly been working on getting the AppleTalk over IP project up and running, with a hosted DDP file server, complete with per-user public_html directories. And speaking of the QuickTake, I was using one recently and had a ball dragging photos directly from the QuickTake to my afp mounted public_html directory to make them publicly accessible on duh web. All from a PowerBook 540c over wireless using the Netgear WNCE2001.
Just sitting on the couch with the pb540c on wifi, plugged the QT150 in, dragged the pictures over, and boom. iPad accessible.
I had originally started working on the http disk/cloud7 (which actually works quite well on 7.6.1/OT right now, but beware on <= 7.5.3 I think) because of the wifi pb540c. Modern access points don't pass appletalk, and this netgear bridge thing certainly doesn't, so I was looking for a network storage solution that was classic macos friendly. I think I've found it with the appletalk over ip + hosted file server.
I just got TylerEss' Turbo040 and have been investigating 1) how to make the romdisk work with it (I don't have promising news in this area), and 2) figure out just how that thing does what it does. I've mostly been using it in a Performa 600 at this point.
I've made a couple contributions to MESS. I got networking happy on OSX, and I think I've got the mouse way happier by exposing the absolute mouse position via a pseudo-nubus card, and then wrote an INIT for MacOS to keep the mouse cursor in sync. It's a much more usable native OSX app for me now.
I went through that pile of two dozen compact macs cleaning them up, lubricating the floppy drives, fixing any obvious problems like the all too common cracked solder joints on the analog board connector, and creating a bit of an inventory. With some minor repairs all but about 2 work well (boot, working floppy, screen is usably clear). I've also gotten a silly little appletalk app working so mouse/keyboard events from one are fed to all of them over appletalk. Which is convenient for 1) bulk testing on all at the same time, and 2) I only have one keyboard/mouse combo for 2 dozen compacts.
Found a nifty little diagnostic mode built into ROM on at least the IIx, IIci, IIsi, presumably what is used by TechStep devices (I don't have one to verify).
So, working on that kind of stuff. I recapped a 6100, Classic, Color Classic and maybe one or two others in there too. I'm kind of thinking my next big project will involve HyperTalk. It just seems so applicable even today.