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I got my MacSD! And I‘ve managed to fit it to my LC475, inside the case, with a BlueSCSI (which I prefer for its CD selection method - I know the MacSD can read CDs, it just doesn’t do it quite as elegantly from my perspective.) But MIDI! That’s the real party trick. I want to use the MacSD for...

I installed MacX, using the muscle memory from twenty years ago when I used to connect to VMS, and tried to open Evolution (running on my Raspberry Pi) on my Mac. I got an randr error - `Xlib: extension “RANDR” missing on display “:1.0”` Any thoughts at the real Genius Bar (68kmla!)

My 1.8GHz Dual G5 (the late model, with a memory ceiling of 4GB) quietly died this afternoon. No bad smells. No bangs. No drama. It just turned off, mid way through doing a CPU intensive render. Why use the G5 instead of something more modern? Well why not? In any event. It died. I thought...

I have a few Zip drives. A couple of USB drives (still working), an IDE drive in my beige G3 (still working), and a SCSI Zip drive - the most used because it connects to my 68k Macs, which failed with the dreaded click of death last year. Honestly, I'm surprised it didn't fail sooner -...

For no good reason at all other than "because it's there", I was pondering the AST Mac 86 PDS card for the Mac SE, and it got me wondering whether it would be feasible to implement on a Raspberry Pi card, slotted into the PDS card of a Mac SE. Presumably, once a PDS to Pi had been developed...

I was pondering the possibility of installing a MacSD and BlueSCSI in the same Mac at the same time. The BlueSCSI support for CD ROM drives seems to be the best in the business, but at the same time the MacSD has Midi emulation. It seems to me that if they could happily co-exist on the same...

I have a Laserwriter 8500 which produces very dirty output. Once printed, the pages don't smudge when rubbed with my finger - so I don't think there's a fault with the fuser, and turning the contrast dial doesn't make that much difference. It's just that too much toner is deposited in the...

I was talking to a friend who has just replaced their Pismo (with Tiger) with a new MacBook Air. Talk about a speed rush! He loves it - except for one thing. And it's a big one. He doesn't like Microsoft Office. He doesn't like Apple iWork. What he wants is a properly integrated package...

Does anyone know what the circuit diagram for the NewTechnology PowerClip is? Would there be any particular difficulty in creating one - I wouldn’t mind giving my Quadra a bit of pep, but I can’t find an original anywhere!

So I got an Ethernet card for my Mac SE. A properly cheap Ethernet card - £20 all in - which looks to be in good condition. It's an Asante Maccon, which is the same family of card as I have in my SE/30. But why so cheap? Erm - because it's missing a key part. There's no daughterboard. The...

Every year, my wife and I make advent calendars for the children and for ourselves. The kids are getting more interested in code and electronics, so they got advent calendars from The PiHut. My wife is really crafty, so I made her a calendar containing calligraphy nibs, sealing kits, inks and...

I have a Racal Interlan Nubus Ethernet card - but no drivers for it. Does anyone have any experience of these cards? Do they even need a driver? I can't test right now, because my IIci is in need of a re-cap.

I'm a menace and an idiot. I'm sorry, but it's true. I have a hard drive, from the early nineties, that was used in a store demo Mac in the UK (back then they were called Apple Centres). It worked, I moved it into another Mac, I used the wrong screw, and I popped the oscillator on the...

I think that I might have partially broken my LCIII. I was trying out a 'new' hard drive in it (9GB, with a 68 to 50 pin adaptor) and now it won't recognise or boot from the old hard drive (APD shows "The Hard Drive test cannot be run because there are no drives available". If I disconnect the...

I have a Quantum Viking II hard drive which I originally used in my PowerMac 9600 (I think - after all this time my memory fails me slightly, it might have been my G3). I don't have the 9600 any more. Is there any chance I could install it in my LCIII? What jumper settings would I need?

My LC475 has a dead PSU (I tested it briefly with the lower rated PSU from my LCIII and it worked fine - so it's definitely the PSU and not the logic board). There are no odd smells, no scorch marks, and no leaking or bulging caps - the PSU board looks as good as new. The fuse is fine - so I...

My Quadra 650 has suddenly decided that it doesn't like SCSI replacement devices like BlueSCSI any more (even ones that my SE/30 will use quite happily). Whilst this could be a sign of an impending failure, it should be said that the 'Like BlueSCSI' part of the previous sentence is doing some...

I thought I'd take a break from the day job of hacking with C, and play with ReadBASIC on the Mac. It seems VERY limited - but perhaps that's me (probably is). How do I, for example, create an application which doesn't have a window? It seems like it should be possible (because in Project...

I recently got a 'broken' Mac SE for very little. The only problem with it was no video, bar a dot in the centre of the screen. That was easily fixed, and the display is bright and stable and the right size. Happy days. Or so I thought. System 6.0.8 and System 7.1 installed easily on...

ConfigPPP is notoriously fragile, and I’m stuck. I first encountered the problem discussed in this thread, and now I have an exciting new problem. When I click ‘Open’ in ConfigPPP it dies instantly with the unhelpful dialogue box “Resource Error”. I’ve tried both Printer and Modem port, and...