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    Tiger utility to analyse disc space?

    Disc Inventory X (https://www.derlien.com/index.html) was always my go-to back in the day (and today too). Looks like the downloads page still has an old Universal Binary version that supports down to 10.3.
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    TWAIN (film) Scanning

    Just depends on what you consider to be retro! My 35mm-scanning workflow runs on a Quicksilver G4 with a SCSI card connected to a Nikon LS-2000 :). Works great, either with Nikon's own software on Mac OS 9, or VueScan on 10.4. There are older versions of VueScan floating around that will work...
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    A/UX modern cross-compile toolchain (modern ELF Binutils and GCC)

    Oh that's extremely neat! I'll have to play with that when I get a chance.
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    A/UX 3.1.1 open source packages

    I grabbed it from ftp://ftp.atlas.altexxa.net/software/mac/unix/robbraun/aux-usr.local-10172010.tar.bz2 a while ago; found it linked from https://wiki.preterhuman.net/Newbie_Guide_To_A/UX_(Apple_UNIX) which has a few other tips and tricks and useful software on it too.
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    Unidentified PDS ethernet card

    There seem to be a few cases of this! Somewhat surprising (and annoying) in hindsight I suppose, but having looked long and hard at the 3Com/Apple/Asante design, there are some fairly strong arguments for not doing things the way they did (especially for a PDS-only card that doesn't need to be...
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    Unidentified PDS ethernet card

    To make sure that the ROM is being read correctly, this tool will dump all your slot ROMs to files https://www.gryphel.com/c/minivmac/extras/slotrom/ - might be worthwhile to make sure that that dump matches up to the one you took 'externally.' Since your card is based around the same DP8390...
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    E-Machines Futura MX issues in IIci

    Yeah, per Joevt's post I wasn't 100% correct about some of my other conclusions about the sense codes, but 678 definitely works for me - my card is an SX as well, and can only do 256 colours at 1024x768, though it can do higher colour depths at lower resolutions. If you're getting garbled...
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    A/UX not launching on IIsi

    Yeah, that grey screen is (I'm pretty sure) the point at which A/UX probes for expansion cards and reinitialises the video driver - A/UX does some truly cursed shenanigans in the video department, emulating a subset of Mac OS ROM traps to allow any video card's ROM to run unmodified. In my IIfx...
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    Suffice to say, I think my hinge repairs on my 180c are holding up OK [ATTACH]

    Suffice to say, I think my hinge repairs on my 180c are holding up OK
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    Cabletron Ethernet SE/30 driver installation

    Yes! SEthernet is my unruly brainchild. Sorry that perfectionism and other hobbies have got in the way of me actually getting boards into production (hopefully I'll have some more time to work on it this winter), but if you'd like to have a go at building one yourself, you're welcome to! Feel...
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    Releasing AirTalk: Wireless plug-and-play LocalTalk dongle

    Any off-the-shelf wifi-to-ethernet bridge should do the job there - I haven't used it personally but I gather the Vonets VAP11G is a popular and easy-to-use choice for that. The only snag is that not all wifi access points handle AppleTalk traffic correctly, so while something like that will...
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    I have both an ADB-USB Wombat and a QuokkaADB, they're both excellent. No latency issues as far...

    I have both an ADB-USB Wombat and a QuokkaADB, they're both excellent. No latency issues as far as I can notice, the only gotcha is that the QuokkaADB is a bit picky about having a USB hub connected to it.
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    Accelerator Test Floppy?

    Just open it up and see what’s in there, it’ll be much easier than trying to make up a disc, and if it is indeed a wild scene in there’s it’s far better to deal with it than leave it to deteriorate.
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    SEthernet and SEthernet/30: A new take on PDS Ethernet

    Well, that was surprisingly straightforward! The issues with the Mac environment boiled down to a permissions issue on the /etc/master.d file that describes the driver (which the Mac environment has to read in order to map slot numbers to Unix interface names). After fixing that and a bit of...
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    SEthernet and SEthernet/30: A new take on PDS Ethernet

    Well, I suppose it's been a while. Sorry for the radio silence. In all honesty, after the frenetic pace of getting SEthernet working and building the beta cards, I kind of burned out on it for a while there and needed to take a break. Combine that with the summer weather making me less inclined...
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