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Hello! As I've talked about in a few places, I've been teaching myself Mac programming and reactivating what little knowledge I had of C++ by making a to do list. It's very much one of those "we chose to do it not because it was easy, but because we thought it would be easy" things. A to do...

For my todo list app, which targets OS 7-9, I'm looking for a few small, generic icons for a toolbar - a pencil icon, a wastebasket, and a checkmark, maybe one or two more. Short of just nicking some from an app I like, I wonder if there's somewhere I can look for pixel icons in an appropriate...

I'm writing my first MacOS application, a to do list, using C++ and the MacZoop framework (2.5.1, pre-Carbon) which reads and writes simple plain text files. My first language uses a few non-ASCII characters, so I'd like to keep the on-disk format as UTF-8 so I can share the files with more...

I've been trying on and off to compile an example using the MacZoop framework, using CW5 and I've had a lovely old time learning about Universal Interfaces and pre-compiled headers and such. I'm down from about 2500 error messages (about 4 actual problems) to 56, and they seem to originate with...

I bought myself a very nice 867 MHz Titanium Powerbook to run OS 9. It came with Leopard installed and I used it for a short while before I swapped the spinning drive for an SSD and installed OS 9 by mounting it as a Firewire Target Disk and copying the OS 9.2.2 installation over from my G4...

I bought a 5m S-video cable with the naive expectation that it would be possible to put my 7100 in a cupboard. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work. Sometimes I can get the keyboard to turn the machine on, but it doesn't work after boot-up. I am running an Extended II, teardrop mouse, and a...

Hey! I have a G3 Lombard with a rather dim display, dimmer than I'm assuming they came from the factory. I'm wondering if I can replace the backlight or panel? I also just tripped over a guide to replace the 12" Powerbook's LCD with a higher resolution one (1400x1050) - I don't know if that's...

Here is a weird one: I have a SCSI2SD 5.1 that I've been running my Quadra 700 off for a while. This works great. Before that, I had also run it from an ACARD IDE->SCSI bridge with CF adapter. It still works great. I've moved the ACARD into an external SCSI enclosure that used to have a...

Was out walking earlier when I passed by a local institute of higher learning. They put all their electronics recycling outside in marked bins (behind their walls, but there's no gate, you can walk right so I'm not sure it's technically trespassing). I've gotten good stuff from there in the...

Hi! Can anyone recommend a good, quiet fan to replace the one in my Quadra 700 power supply?

I have a 1 GHz G4 iMac that I use for running a few music applications under Tiger. One of them is a bit heavy, and sometimes I think about getting a G5 iMac to replace it just for performance, although I much prefer the look of the G4. Does anybody know in some sort of numbers how big the...

Hey. I'm using my Lombard with an external monitor, and I only get to pick up to 1280x1024 in the Monitors control panel. Do I need a different control panel or an extension or anything to enable the higher resolutions that Low End Mac suggests are possible?

Hello. I've been poking around my Sawtooth and Lombard, and I just now noticed that the modem in them is identical. I know that there existed boards for the PowerMac towers that added a serial port by replacing the modem and looking at pictures of the Stealth ports as well as the datasheets...

Dave Jones takes us on a tour through the Lisa hardware:

Hi all. I recently found a beautiful near-mint Color Stylewriter 2200. It's got an ink cartridge in it, but I'm guessing it hasn't been used for several years. I hooked it up to my Quadra and installed the software and attempted to print out some text. It seems to be working, the paper gets...

I got some Apple Developer CDs. January '92: The Winter of Our Disc Content March '92: The Hound of Bitmapsville August '92: Hack to the Future October '92: The Hexorcist Nov/Dec '92: Waynes GWorld December '93: Of mouse and men (Reference Library Edition) Volume X (undated): On a clear...

There's a Fujitsi Scanpartner 300C for sale near me, which is SCSI-scanner with a feeder. I've been looking for such a thing to pair with my Power Mac. The manual I've found makes no mention of the software, but there's an illustration of it connected to a 'Mac', so I'm guessing it's...

I recently conquered a beige G3 desktop from university. It's stock + RAM. Unfortunately, I can't get it to boot. Booting from the HD which has OS9 or an OS9 CD bombs after loading one extension, with the message 'illegal instruction'. Booting without extensions just gives a blank white dialog...

Just got one of those along with some other stuff. G3 upgrade, Power Mac RAM, some Sun cards, Zip disks, and a Roland TR-505 (which doesn't have the analogue sounds of e.g. the 808, but seems to have all of the groove and MIDI output to boot...) Since I'm not into (3D) games I just might sell...

I've got a Powermac 7500 with the video input and I'd like to use that in BeOS/ppc (which runs well on a 7500 upgraded with the 604e from my 7300, which sits in a corner, pining for the fjords). I've been looking at the hardware manual and it makes no mention at all about how the inputs work. I...