Recent content by james_w

@MrFahrenheit I have a WGS 95 being delivered this Friday. The person who I've bought it off is ex-Apple and the WGS 95 was used inside Apple. It's got some assets stickers on it which is fun. Unfortunately upgraded to a WGS 9150, so I'll probably swap out the board for a 950 board. But no...

ooh nice, it just so happens I may need something like this in a few weeks time when I have a new arrival...

Anyone found a way to ship these to the UK without the extortionate delivery and taxes that Etsy wants to charge?

@cheesestraws please sign me up for 3 :-) this is super great!

You’ve been working on this most of the time I’ve known you. So exciting you’ve succeeded! also that’s a very clear and in-depth explanation - thanks! I doubt I’ll be attempting to duplicate your efforts any time soon but I’d love a hi-res grayscale compact Mac one day :)

Thanks! Yeah totally understand, I feel the same. But I've had quite some fun running my instagram account over the years and I'm not quite ready to give that up...

I've recently got hold of a Lego Dacta Control Lab Interface B, which can control all sorts of motors, sensors etc with Lego Technic parts. I want to interface it with the proper Macintosh software from the era but I've had no luck in the usual places, and it's not been on eBay for at least 2...

Fairly sure this is from the short lived period of Microsoft publishing other company's software for Macintosh, under the "MacLibrary" name. Here's the box for my copy... although I don't have the disk!

Thanks for your tips @trag and @Franklinstein, I don't think replacing the CPU heatsink compound would ever have occurred to me as a thing to fix. I think I've only done it once before many years ago. Sounds like I'd better be very careful! Time is super limited right now, but hopefully I can...

Thanks for checking about that. I do have the PDS terminator installed. Sometimes on startup the computer reports a problem with the cache card. So I'm wondering if I need to give all the contacts in the ROM, Cache, and PDS slots a really good clean. If they're a little corroded perhaps the...

Oh wow! And you're in the UK! I've uploaded one of my more recent stacks into that collection :)  and it's super fun to explore being a mega HyperCard enthusiast myself

The adapter I use has no settings or switches, just a pass through. I've replaced all the capacitors - see my original post. Thanks for the suggestions, I think it's more likely a faulty chip or a damaged trace somewhere on the board. I'll keep looking!

It is an LCD, but worked absolutely fine at 832 x 642 with it until now. The video works fine from a Nubus card, and may well do from a PDS card too, but I'm trying to fix the *internal* video

So I've been restoring a couple of WGS 9150s. One is an original (80mhz) and the other a 9150/120. The 9150/80 was exhibiting these issues regularly: crashing with type 1, type 2, and type 3 errors after some usage internal video sometimes had random pixels of noise (in random colours)...

Nice!  8)