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  1. Dog Cow

    Documenting the Macintosh hardware graphics stack (NuBus/built-in/SCSI, QuickDraw and OpenGL acceleration, etc.)

    1.) The Macintosh II, released in spring 1987, was the first Macintosh that did not have built-in video. 2.) Immediately 3.) Framebuffer is accessed thru NuBus memory. The framebuffer is on the NuBus card. It is memory mapped into the CPU's address space. Read Inside Macintosh volume V for...
  2. Dog Cow

    SE/30 with 800K FDD

    1.) If you mean as its internal drive, then I would say no. 2.) There were more FDHS drives produced than any other kind of 3.5" disk drive for Macintosh, so probably more of them still exist today, so probably they are not too hard to find.
  3. Dog Cow

    Email on 7.6.1

    Yes, but you'll probably need a VPS where you control the SMTP and POP3/IMAP server.
  4. Dog Cow

    Web Download client for Mac 128K and 512K

    Yes, that is exactly what this application is for: it's a wget for classic Mac.
  5. Dog Cow

    Web Download client for Mac 128K and 512K

    The Neptune application, part of the Sabina TCP project, is now released in its first beta version. It works to download a web page on a Mac 512K, but I don't have a 128K to test it with. However, the application is intended to work with a Mac 128K too. Anyone who has a Mac 128K and can...
  6. Dog Cow

    What's your recollection of Mac Plus offscreen CopyBits refresh rate?

    Have you read the discussions about CopyBits versus BlockMove? https://macgui.com/usenet/?group=23&id=22149
  7. Dog Cow

    Serial connection over TCP IP

    If the device uses PPP over serial, then you could try MacPPP It works with OpenTransport.
  8. Dog Cow

    "Config PPP Error! Opening Preferences"

    A newer version of MacPPP might fix that problem.
  9. Dog Cow

    Reverse Engineering the MacSnap SCSI

    Have you verified clearance, that is, head height for the populated board?
  10. Dog Cow

    New CPU Accelerator options for 68K Macs?

    My Sabina TCP/IP stack has better ping latency and TCP ACK latency on the SE/30 than any 68000 Mac.
  11. Dog Cow

    Create with retro68 a disk image that boots and runs the app when the disk is inserted (mac 128k)

    Use the Finder's Set Startup command to set the initial application to run when the disk is booted. This startup application name is stored in the disk's boot blocks.
  12. Dog Cow

    Create MFS partition on a HD

    I followed my own advice and last night I read through the DI package chapter in Inside Macintosh IV. Just as you already saw from reading it, the HFS DI package, according to the text, will only make an MFS volume on a single-sided disk. Short of disassembling the package and patching the code...
  13. Dog Cow

    Create MFS partition on a HD

    I pulled my Inside Macintosh volume V off the shelf last evening. If you look in the SCSI Manager chapter there's the documentation on the partition table. There's a code for an MFS format partition. I think that's step 1. Will any utilities create an MFS partition? I don't know, but you can...
  14. Dog Cow

    Mac 512Ke with a VERY strange floppy drive issue...

    Yes. Good. I'm glad that you made some progress there. I use MacTest 7.0
  15. Dog Cow

    Mac 512Ke with a VERY strange floppy drive issue...

    These are System Bomb errors? If so, both are Segment Loader errors. I'm rereading your story again carefully, and I have some more questions and a hypothesis: 1.) The very first floppy you booted from you said  was a "copied System 6 disk I had laying around." Do you remember if this disk was...
  16. Dog Cow

    System 6 Fonts

    Macintosh files with a .bin extension are typically MacBinary encoded. Use either MacBinary 5.0 or StuffIt Expander to decode these files. The .hqx extension means BinHex encoding, and .sea means a StuffIt self-extracting archive. Again, use StuffIt Expander to decode these.
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    Mac 512Ke with a VERY strange floppy drive issue...

    Your response is why I initially didn't want to make that remark about interference with the floppy drive: I wasn't convinced beyond a doubt that it was applicable to your scenario, based on your written description and the photos. But that knowledge may be useful to you or others in future...
  18. Dog Cow

    Mac 512Ke with a VERY strange floppy drive issue...

    I read your story this morning, had an observation to make, but decided against it. Now that I see that still no one has replied, I will go ahead and remark that the CRT emits radiation which interferes with the floppy drive I/O. The metal mounting bracket shields the drive against this...
  19. Dog Cow

    System 6 Fonts

    Are you asking how to copy fonts from one disk to another? Under System 6, you have to use the Font/DA Mover application, as Crutch mentioned.
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