Recent content by djhaloeight

My Performa 475 is also in very good condition after all these years. Still works perfectly on all original caps, with no signs of leakage as of yet. I do have new tantalum caps for it though, along with caps for my other LC machines that need them. I plan on tackling it once I grab a hot air...

I threw a 7200rpm SCSI drive in my B&W G3 when I got it out of storage and working again. Mac OS 8.6 boots super quick. I know it’s not 9 or 9.2.2 but it’s super snappy to use.

Any easy fix is a good thing!

Mine turned out to three corroded open traces on the RAM address bus. Probably from the original caps that leaked before I had them replaced. I ended up having max1zzz swap my chips and components over to one of his new reverse engineered purple motherboards. It’s been fine since :)

Agreed. My LC II is completely non functional, yet my older LC still works. LC caps leaked less than the LC II. I’m ordering a hot air rework solder station soon and I already have caps on hand to replace both machines.

Definitely gonna check this out when I fire up one of my old Macs :)

Haven’t had any issues with my board and the PDS ethernet card I use. :)

Max, you’re a mad scientist!

Very nice

Never noticed any of my machines running any slower with older/original caps that needed replacing. And oh yeah, SimCity 2K on an LC or LCII is gonna be painful...lol! Its still pretty damn slow on my LCIII+. I play it on my Performa 475 at minimum, or the B&W G3 if I want the fastest snappy...

Not sure. If it supports using .hda files as hard drive images I’d imagine it would.

I don’t have any experience with mini vMac, so I don’t know if it even supports using .hda files as hard disk images. But you just drag the .hda file in the Finder to the sd to copy it for use in the bluescsi, just like you’d copy any other file to an sd.

I don't see why it wouldn't, provided it can use HDA files for hard drives like Basilik can.

I've found its best to use Basilisk II to get your HDA images ready to go before you try to use them on real hardware. I use Disk Jockey to make the size I want, mount it in Basilisk II so I can format the drive, install any system software and applications I need then copy the HDA file to my SD...

Hey very nice. I've been meaning to get a nice solder/hot rework station myself.