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I was hoping for some semblance of smooth scrolling, though not super necessary. Will look at that book, it's one I haven't checked yet. Graphics limitations was part of the reason I stopped looking at the Genesis, though it is definitely better suited to what I was envisioning. Basically, was...

Good day, all. I've been looking into the classic Mac OS (late 68k, early PPC era) for developing a game project I had in mind. And while I'm making a little bit of progress, so far it's been hard to find examples of what I'm looking to do, or if it's even possible. I was originally thinking...

I'm wanting to get my PB180 back up to snuff. I've left it in a cabinet for awhile, and the battery had swollen up and is now leaking acid out of a crack in the casing, but thankfully I had removed it from the 'Book a few months ago. I'm in the process of getting another battery, but I had a...

I found some places to keep eyes on for the displays, but I may be switching my focus to my PowerBooks for restoration. I got some RAM and checked out some of the parts in my machine. The graphics card is a GeForce 4MX 32MB that isn't immediately supported under OS 9. This may be reason to...

Thanks, mate! The RAM info is good, I was just looking at some of the cheaper stuff on eBay. And I reckon the IDE will be enough, then. The graphics card is not native to the machine, but does have that ADC port. I'll keep a look out for the LCD ones. Also, This G4 and my iMac G3 are the only...

Hey all, I've got a Gigabit Ethernet model that I'm wanting to upgrade. It has the 500Mhz Dual Processor in it, and I believe it has a GeForce 2 or 3 in it. I also got it sans memory, and the SCSI card, hard disks, and hard disk 'caddy' is missing. It also has an upgraded DVD Burner in it, but...

I checked out PDA-Soft, and got pretty darn afraid. Possibly he was just writing to force cautiousness, but it was almost to the point I doubted my screen switch would work... But the screen was just scratched beyond my ADHD's forgiveness level, so I had to do the switch. And about an hour and...

Sorry for the bump, but I have a good question: So after looking around, I found a utility for OS 9 that can supposedly beam packages to the Newton's inbox via IR. As my only OS 9 computer with IR is currently not responding (very long story), I'm just planning in advance. If I can do this...

I had tried ShrinkWrap before, and found it not to work, even after I finally got Stuffit installed correctly. I'll have to give it another shot now. But another thing that will help massively is if this ZIP Disk drive works. I'll have to get my PowerMac G4 running again but hey, 100MB of pure...

PM sent. I just realized the disk images thing you mentioned first. That'd work great, actually. I'd just have to find a way to get all the images over to the drive and then get a working boot disk...oh, and make sure I've got the right image mounting software (one of the banes of the 7.5.3...

What I'm trying to do is load System 7 Pro onto the PowerBook 180. I've got a set of disk images that are Sys7Pro, and after some major tweaking, they're into a format where Windows and Rawrite can handle them. I edited the disk tools image to contain the System Enabler 131 so it could boot...

So, I have a PB180 that was running 7.5.3 for awhile, but that didn't work out so well because of how slow it was. I had been told to try putting System 7 Pro on it, so just recently in a massive clean, I got everything back together for another try. I got the System 7 Pro disk images from when...

I know about NCU and the other ways of syncing stuff after I get the newton connected, but my major problem is connecting it. That's why I mentioned all that stuff. If really the only thing I can do is grab a serial adapter or something, I guess I'll be looking for that, but if I can do it any...

Amazingly, I found my Newton that I had 'lost' at college. Put it in a drawer, then never saw it again. It ended up back at the house, but as I wondered why I hadn't used it more, the realization flooded back: I had no way of syncing this thing to any computer I had. Its a MP2000 with the 2100...

Verbose didn't give any clues, it just would not load. I decided to take the plunge with it and used the hard drive from my Pismo (which honestly doesn't get as much use as my other laptops). I've got a 10GB the Pismo will take and run OS 9 just fine. So about an hour and a half's work later...

I got what I thought was an absolute steal today: An iBook G4 in amazing condition for 30$. I had no assurance on the computer's working state, but was willing to take that shot (I'm in need of another laptop...and G4s seem to be my favorites). Well, I get it home and plug it in, and...

Well what do you know! One extremely dodgy logic board and about 2 hours worth of disassembly/reassembly, I've got the Mac back! Awesome. Thanks to all you guys for helping out with this. I will say though, that last time I checked, the thing said 450Mhz. After looking all over for 450 G4...

I have always liked the Latitude series, never had one myself. To think, I found this Pismo, a dead iBook, and a dead 12" PowerBook G4 for FREE in a flea market, yet they wanted 150$ for a Pentium II desktop. No. I scavenged the iBook for RAM and the screen. The RAM went into the Pismo (which...

I have honestly not loved a laptop more than this Pismo. Simply looking at it just gets me nostalgic. Ever since I first used a random Mac in 2001 or so (running OS 8, at school, for some edutainment game), I've been attracted to them. 11 years later, I've got 6 genuine Macs (one Intel) and a...

Sorry for the double post... The cable came in (with a new hard drive 'holder'), and it looks in much better shape than the original one. Problem is that it didn't fix the problem. Next step is...what? I've got eyes on rather decent prices for the: - DC in board - Voltage regulator/PMU card...