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10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 This simple oneliner in Commodore BASIC has become quite famous for its nice complex output: For this year's #MARCHintosh I asked myself, why should only the 8-bitters have all the fun? Sure, the Mac promised to not ever bother users with all that...

Today I scored this 800 Mhz first generation iMac G4. It's in a nice shape but very dirty inside. So I went on to clean it thoroughly - and broke one of the fan blades. :( This has never happened to me before, but in my defence - I had to clean it hard. Well any hints on how to get a fan...

For a few months I was eyeing a working G5 Quad including a 23" Cinema HD Display with DVI Adapter that was offered for pickup at a price of 50 Euros! I always shied away from the Quads due to their water cooling issues, but at that price I could hardly say no. Only it was about 9 hrs drive...

Hi! I found mentioned late 2005 G4 Mac mini with 1.5 GHz and 64 MB graphics. The seller does not ask too much so I will just get it in any case. Right now my "goto" PPC Mac is a 1.25 Ghz Mac mini model, running OS 9.2, Tiger and Leopard. It is great and having a (faster) spare will be a good...

I have been loking for a long time to find a 12" 1.5 Ghz Powerbook to repair the one I bought new in 2005 and that is pretty much worn out. Now I got a working one in pretty good condition for only 50 EUR. Neat! I'm looking forward to a refurbished 12" Powerbook 1.5 GHz, the Mac I liked most of...

Hi! Following the recent completion of my Mac Classic renovation I've continued to Software. I am looking for a Gopher client that works on System 7.1 (with Thread Manager) on a 68000 machine. TurboGopher is an obvious choice but on the Classic it crashes with an Error 2 just after the...

Hi! I have a SCSI2SD 5.0a set up in a Mac Classic and it works fine so far. Now I would like to be able to easily reach the SD-Card for swapping it out/making backups etc. So I got a SD-Card extension cord and wanted to put it behind the Classic's lock slot in the back. But unfortunately it...

Hi! I have a Performa 630 DOS Compatible that I want to "spec to the maximum" - at least as far as possible. It came with the DOS Card and a Comm-Slot Ethernet card. I increased the RAM to the maximum, replaced the HD with a CF card and was given an AV-card and tuner for it. Now i secured a...

Hi! I have a Mac Classic that is working fine but has a wobbly screen. The "wobblyness" is more apparent at the top and can be linked to Harddrive activity. Moving e.g. a white window in front of a dark background does not skew or wobble the screen! I'm in the process of completely...

Hi! Maybe this is old news for everyone, but I just discovered how to directly access a floppy disk from minivmac without any of the usual detours using disk images and the like. Using an external USB Floppy Drive, it is possible to directly drag and drop the /dev/sd* device file on the...

Hi! I have a 2004 G4 MDD - Apple's last machine capable of booting OS9. It has its standard Radeon 9000 installed which is fine for OS9, but does not support Core Image on OS X. Not that I really need it, but I could get a nice 256 MB Radeon 9800 XT from a PowerMac G5 :) Now there is my...