Recent content by dafoomie

Net Trek is my all time favorite 68k game and I'd never have any problem remembering the title.  We had rooms full of Mac Pluses in high school that were perfect for that. Though I haven't been able to track down the earlier shareware version we had, only one available seems to be the "final"...

Just installed it and that's it!  Thank you so much.

It was very much like Starflight as well, not quite a straight clone but definitely borrowed elements, not nearly as deep though.  The graphics were closer to something like Escape Velocity. Sorry, was not on a disc to my knowledge.

I can't for the life of me remember the name of this game, I downloaded it on AOL at some point between 95 and 97 on an LC III running System 7.  Graphics and sound were pretty nice for shareware in its day, had to have supported at least 256 colors. The main screen and some aspects are...

Fortunately my cover is decent looking and I was able to find the correct CD-ROM bezel for it. It came out right after all those awesome snow white macs but before the Spindler plastic so it's not a bad case, but it looks like every other beige box that was around in the mid 90s.  The Quadra...

Hell I'd be happy with a 50mhz overclock today on my Quadra 650 let alone back in 1994 when it was still relevant.

I just tested it on my D-Link DES-1105 switch and that also works.  Those go for under $10 all day.

I use a Farallon AAUI adapter on my Quadra 650 without any issue.  It's this model. My router is an Asus WL-520GU running Tomato.  From what I hear, modern switches don't always deal with half duplex 10bt stuff properly.

That's true.  It's a much more capable monitor than it'll ever be used for again though. I'm lucky the Mac adapter plays nice with the sync on green 13w3 port.

I'm not sure yet.  If I upgrade my 512Ke to a Plus I might try to network them but what I would do beyond firing up Net Trek once in a while, I don't know. Thanks.  Almost a waste to be using it on this Mac and a Dreamcast.

 Good to know, will have to keep an eye out for one.  Thanks.

Yeah, the case is why it gets no love from collectors.  I originally wanted an SE/30 or a Quadra 700 but a 33mhz '040 with interleaved memory and all tantalum caps for less than half the price was too good.

It's really cool having a machine that would've cost thousands and thousands of dollars when you were a kid. It was a lot of fun making it all work, but now that it's done I'm starting to wonder what I'll do with it.

I wanted to mess around with A/UX and the Quadra 650 was the cheapest '040 I could find.  Came with a 320mb hard drive and nothing else, so I eventually pieced together:   128mb RAM (+ the 8mb on board) 1mb VRAM AppleCD 300i Plus (2x tray), rails and bezel Ethernet transceiver VGA adapter...