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Years ago I remember reading a tutorial in an old MacFormat (UK) magazine which had an example of converting a regular application into an extension by changing the type code with ResEdit and making sure that the application didn't have a UI (I think they actually hid the UI off the screen). A...

https://github.com/Wack0/maciNTosh What an interesting project!

This is probably the silliest decision I’ve ever made in a “vintage” Mac sense (is a G5 vintage now? I feel old) I am currently crossing various parts of the London Underground with a G5 on a small plastic rolling trolley (because the only thing sillier would be trying to do this using the...

Does anyone have any of Nubz's plugins archived? I'm particularly interested in the OTPlugin but they all seem interesting (and should be preserved!) I've tried the usual archive.org / MG / MR etc. and nothing has come up yet, so I'm hoping someone has something downloaded and kept in a...

So a long time ago I looked into Mac MPI / LaunchDen Mother&Puppy but never really did anything with it. Recently I was racking my brain trying to remember what it was called without much success. But today I remembered I had the software downloaded somewhere and burned to a CD. Turns out I was...

Not sure if anyone can help me here, but considering I don’t have many other options apart from a replacement motherboard at this point I thought I’d try anyway! I was replacing the capacitors on my Duo 280c and there was a lot more goop than I realised. I thought I cleaned it all up (before my...

I recently acquired a Duo 280c from a fellow forum member @pizzigri for a project which is (as yet) still temporarily paused, but until that resumes I was just playing with the Duo to make it "as good as possible" - this has involved replacing capacitors, 3D printing new feet (still haven't done...

The heating is struggling in my office today, and since it’s 3 degrees C outside there are lots of space heaters around the building to “top up” what the central system can’t manage (it’s being sorted). Anyway I’ve had my old Quad 2.5Ghz G5 sitting under my desk waiting to be taken home for...

I stumbled across this video recently, which shows a Lisa being used to create weather diagrams for broadcast TV. It's from a children's show so somewhat simplified, but despite that the presenter not being at all familiar with a mouse is very strange to watch!

I found this thread: https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/mac-se30-gpio.4427/ I'd love to know more about the ADB I/O device (photos? software?), especially since as ADB is a relatively simple protocol (PDF) and there are implementations of it on AVRs and the like... so it should probably be...

I recently got my hands on a Quadra 650, not in the best shape, but tantalum capacitors on the motherboard and no battery leakage! I replaced the PSU capacitors, and all was well, but then I left it unplugged for a couple of days and now it won't power on at all. I can get the PSU to start by...

So in the main SCSI to Ethernet thread, I mentioned that I’d made a PB100 2.5” version. I have now (finally) received all the parts, assembled it and done some initial testing. IT WORKS! Next step is the 3D printed “base” so it can sit nicely inside the PowerBook, and testing that all the...

So in the 3D printed object thread, markyb86 made an excellent Quadra Pi zero case. I made a matching AppleColour RGB monitor designed to fit a small 640x480 LCD module The module has arrived and I have made it work! I also spent some time making a working Basilisk II image with a HyperCard...

So ages ago I looked into this and couldn't make it work: Recently I saw something on Hackaday which made me think: https://hackaday.com/2019/07/03/amiga-in-the-mist-gets-online-with-an-esp8266/ So I got a copy of the project: https://github.com/martin-ger/esp_slip_router (Had a bit of...

So a while back I was trying to make my old powerbook wireless with an esp8266. Turned out that when it said it did SLIP, it didn't actually do SLIP in the same way. That doesn't really matter anymore. What does matter is that it can become a serial bridge, and I can get a linux shell and...

So... back at the parents' house over the holiday period and I'm playing about with my old 5500. I try to access the internet, but I'm only getting a 169 address... A few hours later, and various combinations of parts/software I have deduced the following: The 8139 card under both Mac OS...

Has anyone tried recovering a PB100 battery? There are a number of guides online regarding recovery of SLA bateries like the one the PB100 has... and having a look at the battery, it's pretty easy to pop the top & remove the caps to get to the cells. I realise these batteries are getting...

Looking at this: http://hackaday.com/2016/08/22/ask-hackaday-calling-all-68k-experts/ I'm wondering if there's just a set of jumpers telling the Mac to look for an FPU or not... But I can't find pictures of the back of a 550c card to check if what look like jumpers between the LSI chip and the...

This is a bit of a long shot... But has anyone ever done Alphasmart SmartApplet development? I can't seem to find anything online about this, bar a few pages on the Renaissance Learning website, which seem to do little more than tell you how to update a few things. (The waybackmachine doesn't...

Anyone know somewhere I can get a replacement SE/30 flyback transformer in the UK? There are a few available to me on eBay via. international shipping, but they're not cheap! Just want to exhaust all the options before I'm resigned to buying one from there. As an alternative, there do seem to...