Recent content by VMSZealot

Hmm. I shall look into getting another - if I can find out for a reasonable price. I shall offer the old one for repair at the cost of the postage.

Okay. I found myself with a few spare moments this afternoon, so I popped the top of my G5 and did a little digging - and it may not be dead after all. In a tidy up, I found another AGP graphics card - popped that in instead, and bong! It booted. Put the old one back in? Dead. The card that...

Thanks for this - that’s great.

How do you do that? What parts do I need? Photo?

Yeah, that's the config I'm using at the moment - but with the USB and mpu_401 configs removed. Still no dice. Internally, the 475 doesn't have stereo, but I wonder if I could just use the mono output to the internal speaker? Or would the power be too high? When I get a moment, I'll try MacSD...

Yeah. I'm thinking I should try it without the BlueSCSI - but the BlueSCSI, with its better CD Support, is more useful to me at the moment. When I get a moment.

MacOS 7.6, and the supplied version of OMS (Can’t remember which version that is!)

It comes with the drivers, and without the special driver it isn't detected at all (which is kinda what you'd expect). All the software I'm using is software that comes with MacSD. And I thought I had it configured right - but OMS just crashes. And yes, I want to use the onboard synth - but...

I got my MacSD! And I‘ve managed to fit it to my LC475, inside the case, with a BlueSCSI (which I prefer for its CD selection method - I know the MacSD can read CDs, it just doesn’t do it quite as elegantly from my perspective.) But MIDI! That’s the real party trick. I want to use the MacSD for...

Yeah, I know - it's how ScuzzyGraph worked. So, IIRC, CricketDraw supported it. It can't be the only software that did though. I wonder if any games, either deliberately or accidentally, had support? Weirdly, I don't think that CricketDraw displayed colour on a Mac II or newer - so how did...

It's interesting that Scuzzygraph enabled colour (3bit, I think) on the 68000 Macs. I wonder if there's a way to hack this internally? I've also seen kits for resurrecting compact Macs into a desktop case, and driving a VGA monitor - how awesome would these be if they enabled 3bit colour! And...

Ahh. Top tips. Thank you both.

I installed MacX, using the muscle memory from twenty years ago when I used to connect to VMS, and tried to open Evolution (running on my Raspberry Pi) on my Mac. I got an randr error - `Xlib: extension “RANDR” missing on display “:1.0”` Any thoughts at the real Genius Bar (68kmla!)

Would it be possible for an emulator to access some kind of hardware hat so that it could use a Mac floppy disk drive?

My 1.8GHz Dual G5 (the late model, with a memory ceiling of 4GB) quietly died this afternoon. No bad smells. No bangs. No drama. It just turned off, mid way through doing a CPU intensive render. Why use the G5 instead of something more modern? Well why not? In any event. It died. I thought...