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  1. VMSZealot

    PowerClip reproduction

    Does anyone know what the circuit diagram for the NewTechnology PowerClip is? Would there be any particular difficulty in creating one - I wouldn’t mind giving my Quadra a bit of pep, but I can’t find an original anywhere!
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    Ethernet Card - proper cheap!

    So I got an Ethernet card for my Mac SE. A properly cheap Ethernet card - £20 all in - which looks to be in good condition. It's an Asante Maccon, which is the same family of card as I have in my SE/30. But why so cheap? Erm - because it's missing a key part. There's no daughterboard. The...
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    ZX Spectrum (unless I'm being pranked)

    Every year, my wife and I make advent calendars for the children and for ourselves. The kids are getting more interested in code and electronics, so they got advent calendars from The PiHut. My wife is really crafty, so I made her a calendar containing calligraphy nibs, sealing kits, inks and...
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    Racal Interlan Nubus Ethernet Card

    I have a Racal Interlan Nubus Ethernet card - but no drivers for it. Does anyone have any experience of these cards? Do they even need a driver? I can't test right now, because my IIci is in need of a re-cap.
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    Broken Hard Drive

    I'm a menace and an idiot. I'm sorry, but it's true. I have a hard drive, from the early nineties, that was used in a store demo Mac in the UK (back then they were called Apple Centres). It worked, I moved it into another Mac, I used the wrong screw, and I popped the oscillator on the...
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    Oops! I may have messed up (Broken LCIII?)

    I think that I might have partially broken my LCIII. I was trying out a 'new' hard drive in it (9GB, with a 68 to 50 pin adaptor) and now it won't recognise or boot from the old hard drive (APD shows "The Hard Drive test cannot be run because there are no drives available". If I disconnect the...
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    Quantum Viking II Hard drive

    I have a Quantum Viking II hard drive which I originally used in my PowerMac 9600 (I think - after all this time my memory fails me slightly, it might have been my G3). I don't have the 9600 any more. Is there any chance I could install it in my LCIII? What jumper settings would I need?
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    LC475 PSU RIFA Capacitor Replacement

    My LC475 has a dead PSU (I tested it briefly with the lower rated PSU from my LCIII and it worked fine - so it's definitely the PSU and not the logic board). There are no odd smells, no scorch marks, and no leaking or bulging caps - the PSU board looks as good as new. The fuse is fine - so I...
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    Old Seagate Hard Drives

    My Quadra 650 has suddenly decided that it doesn't like SCSI replacement devices like BlueSCSI any more (even ones that my SE/30 will use quite happily). Whilst this could be a sign of an impending failure, it should be said that the 'Like BlueSCSI' part of the previous sentence is doing some...
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    Programming with ReadBASIC

    I thought I'd take a break from the day job of hacking with C, and play with ReadBASIC on the Mac. It seems VERY limited - but perhaps that's me (probably is). How do I, for example, create an application which doesn't have a window? It seems like it should be possible (because in Project...
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    Oddities with a Mac SE - what's the most thorough diagnostic that I can run?

    I recently got a 'broken' Mac SE for very little. The only problem with it was no video, bar a dot in the centre of the screen. That was easily fixed, and the display is bright and stable and the right size. Happy days. Or so I thought. System 6.0.8 and System 7.1 installed easily on...
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    The Problem with ConfigPPP / MacPPP

    ConfigPPP is notoriously fragile, and I’m stuck. I first encountered the problem discussed in this thread, and now I have an exciting new problem. When I click ‘Open’ in ConfigPPP it dies instantly with the unhelpful dialogue box “Resource Error”. I’ve tried both Printer and Modem port, and...
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    Quadra 650 - but no luck with BlueSCSI

    I have a Quadra 650, with internal CD drive, that will happily boot from a SCSI hard disk, Zip drive, CD - it's a happy Mac. It's fast for a 68k too. But it won't boot from BlueSCSI. If I put a BlueSCSI in there then it just sits, all day, with a grey screen - only the mouse pointer visible...
  14. VMSZealot

    CF Card in a Blue G3

    I thought that this would be so simple. A nice, CF based, SSD for my blue and white G3. It works in my PC - so what could possibly go wrong? CompactFlash is based on IDE after all, and the adaptor is pretty dumb. Well, firstly, if it’s on the same bus as the hard drive it won’t boot. Master...
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    A/UX - on a real hard disk

    I have a Quadra 650, with A/UX and a failing hard drive. I have a new hard drive ready to go, but I really can't be faffed with reinstalling A/UX from scratch and then adding all the patches - and particularly not when someone has done the work already (here...
  16. VMSZealot

    LCIII rebuild - recommendations welcome.

    I have an LCIII logic board (working), an LC PSU (unbranded, not working, but I'll have a crack at getting it going again, or rig up a new supply using its molex connector), floppy and an empty case, but I'm missing most other parts (including the floppy drive cable). Are there any particular...
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    Laserwriter 8500 Fault

    I've owned a Laserwriter 8500 pretty much since it was new (it was an ex-demo unit at a place I worked), and it's been my one consistent bit of kit for the last 23 years. Whilst my main computers were 9600, Yosemite G3, Digital Audio G4, G5 Dual, Xeon Mac Pro and now M1 Mac Mini, my main printer...
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    Any MagiCMac users out there?

    I’ve been fiddling around with MagiCMac, trying to work out what it can do and what it can’t. Turns out that what can do is not very much, at least in my experience, and compatibility seems to be poor. I’m thinking that I might compile a list of the software that I have been able to get it to...
  19. VMSZealot

    LC475 for a tenner

    An eBay find, the plastics are in excellent shape - but on first examination, it appeared to be as lifeless as Mars. I removed the PSU, and fitted a known good PSU from one of my LCIIIs. I fitted a stick of RAM and some VRAM, gave it the old double tap on the power (one to prime the caps, the...
  20. VMSZealot

    Wombat with a gamepad

    I’ve read the documentation - I understand that the wombat only works with keyboard and mice, and not with gamepad but… If there are any USB gamepads without analogue sticks, which identify as keyboards (hence requiring no drivers, and hence only requiring configuration in the game itself), I...
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