At some point on one of the PPC threads I mentioned I was doing work on the Adélie Linux distribution, trying to bring up new media on PowerPC.
Wanted to give a bit of a progress update. Still no traction on Node.js for 32-bit, so Firefox is still unbuildable. The Solaris people have made a...
The Game Boy emulator I wrote with my friends a few years ago is only playable on a 600MHz G3, but then it's straight C with no asm. That in itself is an accomplishment, since it is also cycle-accurate. There are a number of hacks if you don't care about "pure" accuracy that should make it go...
Good to know, thanks!
I have two battery-bombed Compaq 486 boards somewhere. I could definitely practice on those without losses. One of the port headers fell off of one from all the corrosion…
Thanks for the link! I'll definitely check it out.
I'm pretty confident in doing through-hole...
Besides small tinkering, I have zero experience with SMD. I have a dead LC II but I don't even know where to start on it and I didn't see obvious capacitor issues on it the last time I pulled it out of storage. I could start with recapping it for the experience, I suppose, but I'm under the...
FastMac. Those things are unobtainum any more, though I would love to get my paws on one. I actually use Blu-Ray as a replacement for tape as one of the three modes of long-term archival backups (a set of BD-Rs, a rotational disk, and an SSD comprise my off-site solution, taken at semi-regular...
So I've been given (for free!) a II with the symptom of "does not power on". Looking, thankfully it has not bombed yet – and yes, the very first thing I did to it after taking these photos was to snip those Vartas off. C7 and C10 don't look so bad, but the legs on UC7, UG8 are a bit bad. Then...
Torx T-8. There are seven, and two of them are "long". I can't find my T-8 driver right now so I can't find the exact lengths; I'll check after work tomorrow. (click thumbnail for larger size)
It will do WPA, but not WPA2. The CardBus slot will accept many different cards that should...
I believe olePigeon was referring to this passage:
However, the article mentions before that she lived in Wales, so this is on the NHS, not the US healthcare system. They're all shambles.
You know, I wonder if one could port netatalk to the Mac OS and have newer Macs share to older Macs. I might have something to add to my never-ending list of projects…
Yosemite was the first Mac OS to support iCloud Drive. I was able to use "Get Info" on a folder inside iCloud Drive, tick "Shared folder", and have it show up in File Sharing on Monterey. Theoretically it should work that way in Yosemite as well. Unfortunately, I believe Yosemite requires...
I have a Graphite Rev. C Apple Studio Display with no power adaptor. For the life of me, I cannot find a replacement, nor the specifications of what it would need. I have a universal power adaptor that seems to fit the jack, but I don't know the required voltage nor amperage. I can't even...