Search results

The latest QT Components is OS X only, QT 7 only, and supports Ogg FLAC only. But, I guess it might be a starting point, together with the reference FLAC encoder/decoder and the source for the QT 6 components, for kludging together some sort of FLAC component... 

Does anyone know of a Mac OS 9 FLAC decoder? A QuickTime Component would be ideal for this task, but I don't believe one exists.  I'd love to run my music collection off my Power Mac G4, but don't want to install OS X to do so :)  

For what it's worth, there are now several guides on using Let's Encrypt with FreeBSD. It's not the nuisance it used to be. https://oddball.tech/ is running on lighttpd + freebsd/ppc and uses Let's Encrypt for SSL certificates. It also plays nicely with Classilla, so that's good.  (Don't mind...

Update: In the absence of more information, I pulled apart my own SE. Damn Apple and their weird ideas of parts. Get a ceramic disc capacitor of the type I specified, and replace that charred mess with it. Was in fact a capacitor, my bad. And then be ready to see if anything got fried elsewhere.

Anonymous Freak! I beg to differ!  The audio input on mostbeige macs is in fact a line-level input; that's why it uses the weird-ass long TRS for the PlainTalk microphones! Those mics have an inbuilt pre-amplifier to bring the microphone output to line level, the extra position on the connector...

"Somewhat suspect"... That's not a capacitor, it's a resistor. And it is /FUBAR/. My copy of the Mac SE Analog Board schematic says that C23 is a ceramic disc capacitor, rated .1uF 50V (the code on the capacitor would be 104F ...) between the 5V out and the GND. Is there another component...

Wallstreet or 1400c.  Can't go wrong. 

Congrats on the new G4.  Isn't it wonderful that so many people share information freely on how to do this stuff? :)  

Let me look at the 6500 board I have here to see if I can identify the power circuitry - I have a sneaking suspicion it's using a normal off-the-shelf voltage regulator which could be adjusted with trivial effort, from memory. 

olePigeon: forget the sockets, solder the QFP EEPROMs down directly, then they'll be compatible with the ROMinator anyway? Alternatively, burn the ROMs and then solder 'em down, and don't screw up muahaha!

603ev in BGA package is found in: 6500/225 and faster, 1400/166, 3400c. Any of which would benefit from affordable G3 upgradeability these days, let's be real.

If these are still going, I'd very much like a tangerine iBook. My kernel work isn't going to test itself :) Can you provide an idea of what shipping to Australia might cost?

The 740 is pin- and code- compatible with the 603ev; the 750 (the G3 that Apple shipped in things) isn't... the 750 has on-die cache. A 740 should still whip a 603 cycle-for-cycle though. Can't find any places to source a PPC740L-GB366 though...

Would the same principle work for replacing BGA 603ev with PPC 740? I investigated this as a possible upgrade route for the 6500 and 1400c a while back, but never got my 740 ICs...

Cory: If I'm hearing you correctly, you're saying - I could run Final Cut 3 on my Pismo, yeah? This opens up ... possibilities.

This is really solid work, sharpjon! If your endpoint is to create a replacement ROM, you're in luck, as the Macintosh is an extensively documented computer; while there may indeed only really be one way to make some things work, it should also be pretty possible to build that from first...

Boards are boards are boards, insofar as the techniques needed for repair. If you're wanting someone else to recap for you, I'd be willing to do the work, for the cost of parts + time.  If the capacitor has leaked, the best thing to do is wash the residue off with isopropyl alcohol and replace...

May I suggest to you, asaggynoodle, that you consider using Noctua NT-H1 thermal interface instead of AS5? I've found that NT-H1 is comparably priced and better at conducting heat, to the point where it's now my standard TIM for pretty much everything. That may give you just a little extra...

I'd suggest freshening up a few solder joints on the analogue board if a simple thud was enough to fix the issue.  Intermittent contact might appear like this, in which case it could just be cracking of the solder joints.  Don't use lead-free solder, it's more brittle and will cause problems...

It'll work with PC133 RAM just fine, but it'll run at PC100 speeds.  At least, that's been my experience with the iBooks. Also, certain types of 512MB SO-DIMM don't work in those iBooks. I think they're the ones that are "Low Density", but I can't recall correctly.