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The way that has worked best for me is to connect with telnet but only to start up a xterm displaying to X on my laptop. At one point I did tunnel it through SSH, but in a rather roundabout way: running ssh -R to port 6000 on a server on the same LAN as the A/UX machine, connecting to local port...

I noticed my 7500's PSU is making very high-pitched noises while running certain loads. It's worse when I put in a replacement 150MHz 604 CPU card, and then especially bad on System 7. I'm guessing this is a sign of capacitor failure on the PSU, which given its age is to be expected. Does...

No worries feeef -- I'm working at a snail's pace on this stuff.

Yup, I got an older version (0.9.6) to compile OK with CW Pro 7.1 and GUSI (POSIX compatibility library). Although there is a port that is totally "native" (i.e. not using GUSI) it is completely unmaintained. I managed to get a newer version built later, but I had to manually sync the file list...

I couldn't find anything to replace them with. This was around 1998 (when I was 14... no financial resources) and I had a really hard time finding anything about it. I did once get it to load some early startup screen with the help of someone on Usenet, using something to weigh down the RAM so...

Ah, thanks for clearing that up. uniserver, yeah it's a full 25MHz 040 but running at the stock 20. It came from an Amiga 4000 whose RAM sockets I broke while removing a huge Video Toaster board it had come with. Still one of my greatest retrocomputing-related disasters and regrets.

Thanks. I noticed OWC has a 64mb SIMM listed for the Centris 610, but they didn't get back to me on whether it was actually compatible or listed by mistake. From your explanation it sounds like it is indeed possible, despite what Apple says. I might take a chance on those at some point. It'd be...

bbraun, I ran across your site while googling the true RAM limit for these guys. (that's my board that uniserver recapped) So it sounds like you could do 64mb or 128mb SIMMS, but the OS would need to be patched, correct? I use this primarily for running A/UX, so there's no hope of changing anything.

Thanks, that's good to hear.

Yeah, I cleaned the surfaces really well. I bought a 2-step cleaning kit as well that left things very clean. No dust or lint was visible.

I decided to replace the thermal compound on a few of my PowerMacs lately. I noticed on one of them in particular (Digital Audio G4, DP/533) the heatsink is noticeably hotter (not too hot; it's warm to the touch but not uncomfortable). Since I have no way to tell if the processor itself is...

PolarSSL ported to CW Pro 1 is up here: https://github.com/leitec/polarssl. It's not well-tested but I figure others might be interested. Disclaimer: basic SSL client connections work fine as far as I can tell but I don't know if it's actually secure. PolarSSL supports platforms that don't have...

You're welcome! I am not very familiar with C++, but I did try to figure that out today. The C/C++ compiler manual and MSL reference both indicate that that is possible, but testing showed otherwise. I finally found the answer in the release notes. If you look at vector.h, the part that defines...

Have you checked this site? http://gona.mactar.hu/ATI_Mac/ I have a B&W G3 (also 8.6) with an original Radeon card. For whatever reason the latest drivers give me a slightly wrong resolution that is 8 pixels wider than the monitor's native resolution. But the original Radeon Mac retail...

I've been working a bit more on the SSL issue. I'm working on a port of PolarSSL in CW Pro 1. I have a few more interfaces to adapt to native MacOS calls, including the rather important sockets code. There's also a bit of PPC assembly code that I need to adapt to Metrowerks' syntax. But what's...