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It should be quite possible to do a variation with digital video out, incl. color support. At a bare minimum we could probably integrate Toby, the Macintosh II's video card, for 8-bit 640x480, because that card is about as simple as possible and very well documented in the Designing Cards and...

Hey, this is a different take on a project I was considering taking on! My main focus was to output color to a modern external display rather than provide grayscale to the internal one, but this still sounds very interesting, and I definitely don't have any engineering experience in my project...

Silverlining included a First Aid program that actually worked for me, unlike the one on my System 6 disk. (Is that locked to Apple hard drives again?) Verify and repair and it was good. I ran Silverlining’s short tests to see if anything else would go wrong and they didn’t. So, yay...

It booted! It seems to be working, except: all the text is backwards. But it all starts in the right place, so most of the text just gets clipped immediately. Well, I guess I’m about to run Silverlinings so wish me luck. 

So I booted up my SE/30 I've left alone for a bit. I put in a younger (ca. 1995) hard drive I had laying around last time I messed with it, which I used LaCie Silverlining v5.7 to initialize and install a disk driver for. Everything was working fine as of then, excepting quiet audio and display...

@balrog These are beautiful, I almost forgot you mentioned you had them laying around somewhere! Thank you very much for your contribution.

I kinda figured that any card that'd come close to modern resolutions would need acceleration. I was hoping that this discussion would decide on 030 PDS because, selfishly, I've got an SE/30 myself, and also, the increased bandwidth might make higher resolutions more possible. But honestly, the...

So, let me get this straight: in practice, a video card for one of these Macs is, from the Mac's perspective, a RAM expansion that includes one or more frame buffers, and then components that read those buffers and sends them to a display? And that expansion attaches to the rest of the system...

Wow, that's an amazing document you've got there, Bolle. I'm really starting to develop an appreciation for vintageapple.org that I wasn't expecting, they do some amazing work collecting and digitizing all of that. Obviously this isn't going to be a very inexpensive project if I do decide to do...

Are you offering to sell it? Give me a price and I'll consider it, for sure. I'm just across the rockies from you so shipping should be reasonable too.

Oh man, that would have been cool. That's a good thing to keep an eye out for just in case, thanks.

What's the cheapest way to get color video out of an SE/30? Even 256 colors at 512x384 would be perfectly fine. I find that my interests in this computer are more often limited by lack of color than lack of hardware on this. And I could just pull out my Performa 630CD for that, but it takes up...

That label thing is a kind of funny piece of trivia. And you all were right, as soon as the TE jumper was set up, everything ran perfectly. Wow, this machine boots fast with a hard drive.

Okay, that's good to know. I've managed to track down the jumper guide for this drive and I'll see how it's configured later today. Edit: And thanks to SE30_Neal for getting this discussion started. I will try the copy of Silverlining I've got lying around or Lido, if the termination isn't the...

Okay, good to know! I know that the external casing it was in before could select the SCSI ID, and a trace of Silverlining from the last Mac to use this drive showed that it was recognized as 0 when installed internally, so I just assumed it was automatic. What really confuses me is that the...

It's simplified for internal hard drives. You know how an external SCSI drive can use numbers 1-6? An internal hard drive automatically gets 0, just like the Mac automatically gets 7. And the Mac handles the termination, too. Thanks for your help, though.

I have an SE/30 with no hard drive (courtesy of jupo on these forums, whom I can't speak highly enough of), and a Quantum Fireball TM 2110s from an external SCSI enclosure. It seemed like a good match to me, so I installed it in the SE/30. I'm running off the System Startup disk from 6.0.8, and...

I'm curious what the other forumgoers think the demand for these computers is. It's obviously not huge, these middle model Performas were kinda lackluster compared to similar year PowerPCs or even Quadras, but also not anywhere near early enough to be historical. On the other hand, these...

oh dang. I literally don't have anything between the two. I've got the 630CD, the Sawtooth, and an 800MHz iMac G4. Besides that I have an Ivy Bridge era desktop, and an old Gateway PC (2004-ish) that has both USB/Ethernet and a floppy drive (was hoping I could use the floppy in my desktop with a...

I've got here a Performa 630CD, and a 400 MHz Sawtooth Power Mac G4. Is there any compatibility reason why I couldn't pop open the 630CD, remove the floppy drive, and attach it to the G4?  I have a bunch of software on floppy that I want to get backed up to a modern computer. Unfortunately, my...