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  1. falen6

    Macintosh Color Classic with No Video (Chimes & Disk Activity)

    bad solder connections on A/B Bad connections from A/B
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    Mac plus Issue

    i had the same problem with an old SE recapped the analog board think it would fix it but it is exactly the same
  3. falen6

    Mosfet problem

    cheers ymk
  4. falen6

    Mosfet problem

    Im trying to fix a dodgy laptop - Looks like mosfet problem - Can anyone recommend a good forum for general electronics problems as this is not related to Apple products in any way
  5. falen6

    Mac Plus Bridge Machine

    the 400 and 800k floppy drives used varying speeds that cant be replicated on the usb floppy but I have ( only last night ) downloaded an 800k image of system 6.08, wrote it with transmac and my se booted from it - it comes up on the mac as an 800k disk Again its something like stuffit - a...
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    Mac Plus Bridge Machine

    no idea porta something that really gets me is when you transfer something in a .sit to the mac - run stuffit on it and it wont work - then you try different versions of stuffit ....... i have spent hours trying to get my head around it - as far as i can see you need stuffit 1.51 all the way up...
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    Mac Plus Bridge Machine

    I use a USB floppy drive on my PC and a small program called transmac. https://www.acutesystems.com/scrtm.htm Transmac can format floppys ( 1.4 mb ) it can create images of mac floppies on your PC it can also write 800k images to floppys i use it to quickly get software from the internet onto...
  8. falen6

    Mac Classic - Floppy Drive Eject drive dont turn.

    take out the floppy drive and clean it. The ejection is driven by a motor and small gearbox the gears in these gearbox's break or get seized with old dried up grease to remove the gearbox there are 2 screws and the connector for the motor the gearbox lid just clips together - carefully pull...
  9. falen6

    Simulators

    Remembered some more I used to have Apachie Strike Harrier Strike Mission
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    Simulators

    oh yay ...... more titles - thanks people - iver never heard of road racer or splaters - great stuff I notice there are very little utube vids of Macintosh games , just a few top 10's etc On SubBattle alone I could make a 30 min vid explaining how to play it and how the game works. Looking...
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    Simulators

    tried Falcon and got it running on my classic 2 - great game although i have to keep going to the manual all the time to see the key commands didnt know vette would run on B/W machines - i played that on my qudra back in the day as well - will have a go at this one as well come on folks -...
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    Simulators

    SubBattle was 3D ish ( sprites being scaled up and down ) but the graphics were very very basic. That Macintalk voice , the digitized sounds - truly loved this game , even thought it could crash at any time - Does f/a18 run on a 68k Mac - I should of said that above , was looking for title...
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    Simulators

    Would like to hear of any 3D simulators people like to play on their Macs. I was playing SubBattle Simulator on an SE back in the early 90's way before the PC was a thing. This got me into all kinds of simulators. So just wondering what simulators people used to like and hoping there might be...
  14. falen6

    Bombed Macintosh Classic Failing to start after attempted fix + recap

    I use beed tants because they are so much easier to solder on - I never liked those flat , rectangular tantalums because you cannot see the connection underneath. If it was me i would take off all the tants again and clean up all the pads with some soldering brade - get rid of all the old...
  15. falen6

    Recapped Macintosh Classic with checkered screen

    i hear ya xeiter mac wont go out the window ......... not until i find and fix this problem !!!! haha like you i just put it away for a while , calm down and try again. I have a vintage Casio 1000 synth here for over a year - power supply board problems ( low voltages) ive taken that thing...
  16. falen6

    Recapped Macintosh Classic with checkered screen

    i only changed caps - dont have a scope - wouldnt know how to use it if i did but i do have a doner board so will change DP3 and DP4 (1N4148), TDA4605, CNY17G, IRFBC40 1 by 1 and see if it makes any difference just need to take a week time out otherwise the machine will become a UFO from my...
  17. falen6

    Recapped Macintosh Classic with checkered screen

    reflowed all the usual culprits when i first recapped it - washed the board in acetone - cleaned both sides over and over looking for anything there is nothing visibly wrong have now reflowed prbably half the board ....... no change i thought i was lucky earlier but im in the same boat as...
  18. falen6

    Recapped Macintosh Classic with checkered screen

    The machine is allot better When i powered it up after changing the 470us 50 volt is was perfect Now it starts everytime , beep , boot , no 'wavy' screen but i am getting jittering on the screen all the time that wont go away plus it just resets a random times all the voltages are good and...
  19. falen6

    Recapped Macintosh Classic with checkered screen

    dont believe this i put the machine all back together and got ready to play loom for the night , connected keyboard / mouse and hit the power the dam problem is back sickened to say the least
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