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  1. BlueBoy

    Video out SE/30 to VGA or HDMI

    Adrian Black from Adrian’s Digital Basement on YouTube posted a video a while back on using a device called RGBtoHDMI to get video from a Mac Classic and convert it, believe it or not, to HDMI. It should work exactly the same for any B&W compact Mac if you tie into the correct signals.
  2. BlueBoy

    Games with color that run on Macintosh IIci

    My brother used to play Escape Velocity from Ambrosia Software on my parents’ IIsi. As I recall it ran pretty well. It has sequels too.  Should run even better on IIci. 
  3. BlueBoy

    3D Print Replica HD 20 SC Enclosure?

    That was my thought. Don’t bother matching filament color. Just print, sand, spray texture and then spray paint the correct color. 
  4. BlueBoy

    3D-Printed Objects

    So I just saw this thread... I bought an SE last year. It came with 2 floppy drives (1 1.4M drive, 1 800K drive), The 800K drive was toast. It's upper head and ribbon cable were torn off the support arm and I have no clue if it can be fixed. The SE has the 800K roms so the 1.4M drive was just...
  5. BlueBoy

    SE/30 + Asante Ethernet: close, but no cigar

    So I recently got a Performa 636CD and put in a farallon 10baseT comm slot card in. When I tried to connect it to my 2011 MacBook Pro, it didn't work until I went into the advanced settings for Ethernet in the Network System Preferences and manually set the speed to 10baseT half-duplex. The 636...
  6. BlueBoy

    Recycled Classic — worth persevering with?

    Your question made me curious so I fired up Mini vMac. I have a bunch of disk images with many system versions from early to late. System Software 2.0 (System Version 4.0, Finder 5.4) introduced the separate "Restart" and "Shutdown" menu items in the "Special" menu. Choosing "Shutdown" on Macs...
  7. BlueBoy

    LC575 Networking : PDS or Comm Slot?

    Let me also add that I agree with Trash80toHP_Mini. The comm slot can only take a modem or network card as far as I can tell. The pds slot can take lots of cards, graphics, apple ii card (not with a comm slot card installed, apparently), accelerators, etc. (I wish my 636 could take a IIe card...
  8. BlueBoy

    LC575 Networking : PDS or Comm Slot?

    I bought a Comm Slot 1 farallon card off eBay a couple months back after getting a Performa 636CD. The seller has 2 more: http://www.ebay.com/itm/151635295689?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT The trick to finding it was searching for the part number. I found the...
  9. BlueBoy

    Are the Classic and Classic II worth buying?

    You are going to have to verify the part numbers on the ROMs and floppy controller chip (IWM - Integrated Woz Machine for 800 KB drives, SWIM - Super Woz Integrated Machine for 1.44 MB drives). See the details at the excellent Mac SE Support Pages: http://www.ccadams.org/se/super.html From...
  10. BlueBoy

    IIfx incomplete system - complete it or pass it on?

    Not to derail the thread but the way I remember it was this... because of the way CRTs work (scanning each line left to right, top to bottom) a refresh rate of 60 Hz, which is not necessarily terrible for smoothness, the subtle changes in brightness from the electron beam caused a not too...
  11. BlueBoy

    Carboy7's conquests!

    My family had one of those optical mice for our Mac Plus when I was a kid.
  12. BlueBoy

    Twopanel Filemanager for System 7.5

    I know this is late but try Greg's Browser by Greg Landweber.
  13. BlueBoy

    Help running files SE FDHD

    What version of StuffIt are you using? If you are using 1.5 that may be the problem. I believe that the format of the stuffit files changed as they added features. If a file was compressed with the new reformat, it may not open with such an old version. Try stuff it expander version 4.0.2. I...
  14. BlueBoy

    Mac SE - Was working, now black screen and no chime

    OK, so update! We opened the SE, reseated cables attached to the logic board and made sure the ram was fully seated and it booted right up. Huzzah!
  15. BlueBoy

    Mac SE - Was working, now black screen and no chime

    I recently acquired a used Macintosh SE, 4MB RAM, 2x 800k drives + 160MB IBM SCSI Drive (internal and Apple Labeled IIRC). It came with some nice extras but the floppy drives weren't working properly. Wife and I disassembled the SE, discovered we actually had a 1.4 MB floppy drive (just needed...
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