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Hey all It's been a while since I checked in here, but you never really leave Classicville. I'm trying to kit out my G4 as a OS9-based DAW with whatever freeware and old licences I have. I have a licence for Live Lite 4 but Ableton don't have the OS9 installers anymore and it seems to have...

So I never did get my dead PSU MDD up and running. It's just been sitting there doing nothing with (what I believe to be) a dual-1.24 G4 CPU. I just got to thinking... would the CPU work in one of my Gigabit Ethernets? I have dual-450 and dual-500 models. The bus speed is a lot lower (100Mhz vs...

I just picked up another Gigabit Ethernet. Unlike my last rescue, this one was complete internally. It didn't chime at first, so I took out the RAM sticks and put in a pair from my other GE. It fired up fine after this (the two sticks installed were PC133R ECC, maybe not the correct kind)...

I've been running my 7500 battery-less for the last few days and the combination of Network Time and PRAM Auto Restore is working fine. The only minor complaint is that Mac OS complains about the date/time being wrong on boot before Network Time has a chance to fix the time. By the time I hit...

My 7500 originally came with a G3 card. I swapped it out with a 604 so I could play about with some old systems that didn't like the G3, but now I'm done with those and I've put the G3 back in. Since doing this, often the 7500 won't start up from a cold boot. It'll chime, the fans power up and...

Yesterday I got this SE/30. My previous conquest (IIfx) is still dead and I spent so long trying to troubleshoot it that I just burned out. At some stage I'll go back to it again, but it probably won't be anytime soon. The SE/30 came with an external zip drive, install floppies and a box of...

I just got my hands on a IIfx :) I bought it blind and when it arrived it wouldn't power up. Opened it up and both battery holders were empty. Filled them up and now it's booting, but I'm not hearing anything out of the hard disk. So until I can take a closer look at that, I'm trying to boot...

I'd really like to get some form of A/UX-compatible Mac and have been thinking about a IIcx. It can run all versions (even the unobtanium 1.x) and will also give me System 6 in colour. The smaller case should make shipping one a bit easier and cheaper too. I'm trying to put together a list of...

Stumbled upon this while looking through Google and figured I'd post it here. CMW+ was a multilevel secure version of A/UX geared towards federal contracts (defense etc) where strong security was required. It was developed by SecureWare and version 1.0 was based on A/UX 1.1.

One thing I really like in BeOS on a Mac is being able to call up context menus by just holding down the mouse button. Was any driver/extension/control panel that could do this in Mac OS?

I've been spending some quality time with my LC III lately and with 7.1 in particular. I added SuperClock early on but there's one thing about it that I find a bit annoying: it draws itself 1 pixel lower than the rest of the system menu. And on a 21" screen it's very noticeable. You can see it...

I have this weird issue with my LC III running 7.1. After I first power it on, whenever an app opens a network connection (Network Time updating the clock or Fetch connecting to my FTP) the system will lock up. Guaranteed. Once I reboot from that, it won't happen again until I shutdown, no...

I was rummaging through some old CDs earlier and found a copy of NetCD. Now that I've managed to get my external Sun CD working with my LC III I wanted to try out some audio CDs and it'd be nice to have the titles pulled from the net. But the first step to getting NetCD working nowadays is to...

Does such a thing exist? I'm running my LC III without a PRAM battery and on startup the 32-bit memory addressing is turned off by default. I could just pop in a battery but I'm trying to see if I can manage without one. I have Network Time loading on startup to fix the date and time. If I...

I have a number of old developer CDs with system software images on them, but while they have 6.0.8, none have 6.0.8L. Was it shipped on floppy or some kind of download?

And it was surprisingly easy. Since I got it I was getting occasional whisting noises out of the speaker and the occasional 3 thick vertical stripes on boot. These would usually show up if it had been left off for a while. They'd stay onscreen for up to 10 seconds and then it would boot fine...

So I had nothing better to do today... I just followed the guide here.

My 68k Mac army has just doubled in size! Just the base unit, but it's in nice shape and everything is working (they even built the low cost computers to last back then). Has 12MB RAM and a 500MB hard disk. I have a few sticks of 72pin SIMMs in my box of tricks and I think one might be 32MB so...

An article I found on Accelerate Your Mac recommended using DayStar's nPower Control for testing memory so I ran a 30 minute extended cycle with that. It passed without errors. But I'm having a weird corruption bug on my 7500 with a 256k L2 cache installed. If I try to mount a disk image in Disk...

So I decided to try and install Leopard onto my Gigabit Ethernet. I ran LeopardAssist from Tiger and rebooted to a kernel panic. Some googling alerted me to the fact that my firmware was a bit on the old side so after applying the update from Apple I happily installed and updated to 10.5.8. I...