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  1. ry755

    Running a Performa 6300 Mobo in a Power Mac 6500 case?

    Hey all, I have a Performa 6300CD motherboard that has been sitting in a drawer for a few years and I'd like to plug it in and play with it. I *did* previously try running it in my Power Macintosh 6500 case and it worked fine, but now that I think about it, I remember reading somewhere that...
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    iBook G3 - Mac OS X doesn't spin down hard disk before shutting down

    Hi, I recently installed Mac OS X Jaguar on my iBook G3 500 MHz (dual USB). It runs alright, but the main issue I have with it is that shutting down normally (via the Apple menu) does the normal shutdown process but then doesn't spin down the hard disk before cutting power, resulting in it...
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    Setting mouse speed on boot via an INIT?

    Hi! So, I've been playing around with a Macintosh SE that I recently acquired and of course, the PRAM battery on the motherboard is long dead (I plan on opening up the case to remove it soon). This is mostly fine, I don't mind the fact that the date and time aren't accurate. However, what does...
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    Power Macintosh 6500/275 - variable fan speed?

    I recently got a Power Macintosh 6500 and after playing around with it for a little bit, I could've sworn I heard the fans ramp up and down every now and then. But as far as I know, these older generations of Power Macs don't support variable fan speeds, right? The reason I'm curious about this...
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    Learning 68k assembly - issues with _NewWindow

    Hi!! So I've been playing around with learning Macintosh Programmer's Workshop and 68k assembly, and I'm currently trying to just make a simple hello world application. Yet I can't even get a window to render properly for whatever reason. The application starts but it doesn't display anything...
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