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    AEK & AEK II restoration

    Yeah my AEK was likely never cleaned either - huge hunks of grime inside. I removed every key, soaked them and scrubbed each one clean with a toothbrush. I then carefully cleaned around the switches with some cue tips and alcohol. I got my ADB to USB adapter from this site...
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    AEK & AEK II restoration

    There's a great synopsis of the different switches that Apple used over the years here: https://deskthority.net/wiki/Apple_Extended_Keyboard_II
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    AEK & AEK II restoration

    Hi all, I finally got some time off work, so I took the opportunity to clean up some Apple Extended Keyboards I had. They turned out almost immaculate! The AEK II was from 1989, and was in pretty good condition already, but the original AEK was badly yellowed and really filthy. My...
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    Wifi Extension Development Thread

    Well done! It looks great and thank you for the detailed steps. Maybe you should try out the MacPlayer Spotify client? (https://github.com/antscode/MacPlayer) :tongue:  You're probably the only other person in the world apart for me who's got the MacWifi extension working with OpenWRT  :grin...
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    Wifi Extension Development Thread

    Hey @stormy sorry for the delay, unfortunately life has gotten in the way of all my hobbies! It's great to hear you got the wifi menu working with OpenWRT, please post a screenshot! I don't think the DNS issues will be too sinister, I'll fire up my Mac today and check my settings. But can you...
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    Wifi Extension Development Thread

    @10001001sos can you remind me of your OS version and how much RAM you have? I'll then try testing from my end.
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    Help Getting Started with TCP development using Retro68 and emulator

    I use Windows 10. Getting Networking alive in Basilisk II on Windows is a piece of cake. Unfortunately I know next to nothing about Linux sorry.
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    Fun with colour on my SE/30

    I have a Colour Classic so yeah it would be possible for me to make a cast of the CRT. But I'm curious why you'd want to replace the Trinitron screen with a TFT? It will undoubtedly not look as good. The LCD I sourced for my SE/30 project was pretty good, but still nowhere near as good as the...
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    System 7 & Philips Hue Lightbulbs

    That is awesome!! Well done!!!  8-o 8-)
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    Fun with colour on my SE/30

    Sure - PM me and we can sort something out.
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    Fun with colour on my SE/30

    Hi all, thanks for your ongoing interest - however, I've decided not to continue with this project. As cool as it was to see a colour screen in an SE/30 - for me personally I feel the original B&W CRT is a big part of what makes these old machines so special. Staring at an LCD in a SE/30...
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    Wifi Extension Development Thread

    Thanks @Crutch and great work on releasing your screensaver. I'm using Retro68 which is a gcc cross compiler on my Windows 10 laptop. It's using C++ 11, which I believe the full library is over 10mb - so I think it's already only including the bits it needs. It just shows how software gets more...
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    Wifi Extension Development Thread

    The simplest thing would be to rewrite it in C - that'd probably get it down to about 200k...
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    Wifi Extension Development Thread

    That's the problem. The extension itself is over 2mb in size, and it's memory requirement is set to 4mb. On a SE/30 with 128mb of RAM that's of course not an issue, but I didn't realise the SE's maximum memory was so low! The reason the extension is so big is due to a combination of factors...
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    Wifi Extension Development Thread

    How much RAM is in your SE?
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