Hello,
new member here. In my conquest of all the As (Amiga, Atari, Acorn, Apple, Amstrad), I got what could be on paper one of the Macintoshes the most interesting for me : a Q800.
Why interesting ?
- I wanted a 68040 based computer, it has one. (I already have several 68000s (ST/E 520, A500), a 68020 (A1200), a castrated 68030 (Falcon), a full 68030 (A500+TF536), a 68060 (falcon CT63). The 040 was sadly missing :S)
- It has the level of power I'm most used to (grew up with a 486sx33)(The other power level I'd like is something like a 8500/180 I guess)
- It plays the games of my childhood
- It looks good
- It's reasonably expansible
- It's uncommon
- It's probably the second fastest 040 computer ever made ...
- ... but unlike the 840AV I found it and it has solid capacitors too !
Anyways, here is the beast, my first mac ever :

It runs.
Here is the setup when bought :
- 36MB RAM
- 230MB original HDD
- and that's pretty much it.
The screen I got with it is a multiple scan 15.
I brought it back home, and let my daughter play Shufflepuck café which I found in some corner of the Hard drive. The HDD died after 1 hour of use.
So I opened it and first dealt with that :

No damage to the MB so good save, just in time ! Here she is :

I bought a zulu SCSI compact RP2040, and cleaned the keyboard. I found some 16MB sticks in my memory box. I have a CDROM drive incoming, as well as a midiman macman mini, a asante friendlynet AUII RJ transeiver, and need to find something like a BeigeATX PSU adapter or recap the original one.


On the software side, I found a copy of 8.0, and it came with the original floppies for 7.1. Also bought a few games (civ, simcity 2k)(yes I know about macintosh garden
). I tried OS 7.6, found it too slow, so I went back to 7.5.5 without even trying 8.X. Might do later. Since I'm a new mac user, I take time to discover things. For example I tried to get shufflepuck café to work again for 2 hours with several OS reinstalls before understanding that it probably tries to modify code in the cache and crashes unless the L1 is deactivated. I also need to find a new battery because setting the memory to 32 bits and the mouse to fast at each startup is getting annoying.
Target setup :
- 40MHz CPU (Spicy O'clock ?)
- 72 MB RAM
- 2GB zuluSCSI partitions
- AppleCD 600i
- Asanté friendlyNet
- Midiman macman mini + Roland SC-88
- VGA adapter to OSSC to LCD (67/75hz are nice but I'm getting older)
- many games
So far I'm negatively impressed with game performance (simcity and slow games are fine but fullscreen animation ones such as doom are...not. I've started reading the development books, I understand why it's never gonna be a 320x200 ModeX beast, but I think doom has some margin for improvement
), I find the OS fine and I really like the machine itself.
That's it for the introduction
new member here. In my conquest of all the As (Amiga, Atari, Acorn, Apple, Amstrad), I got what could be on paper one of the Macintoshes the most interesting for me : a Q800.
Why interesting ?
- I wanted a 68040 based computer, it has one. (I already have several 68000s (ST/E 520, A500), a 68020 (A1200), a castrated 68030 (Falcon), a full 68030 (A500+TF536), a 68060 (falcon CT63). The 040 was sadly missing :S)
- It has the level of power I'm most used to (grew up with a 486sx33)(The other power level I'd like is something like a 8500/180 I guess)
- It plays the games of my childhood
- It looks good
- It's reasonably expansible
- It's uncommon
- It's probably the second fastest 040 computer ever made ...
- ... but unlike the 840AV I found it and it has solid capacitors too !
Anyways, here is the beast, my first mac ever :

It runs.
Here is the setup when bought :
- 36MB RAM
- 230MB original HDD
- and that's pretty much it.
The screen I got with it is a multiple scan 15.
I brought it back home, and let my daughter play Shufflepuck café which I found in some corner of the Hard drive. The HDD died after 1 hour of use.
So I opened it and first dealt with that :

No damage to the MB so good save, just in time ! Here she is :

I bought a zulu SCSI compact RP2040, and cleaned the keyboard. I found some 16MB sticks in my memory box. I have a CDROM drive incoming, as well as a midiman macman mini, a asante friendlynet AUII RJ transeiver, and need to find something like a BeigeATX PSU adapter or recap the original one.


On the software side, I found a copy of 8.0, and it came with the original floppies for 7.1. Also bought a few games (civ, simcity 2k)(yes I know about macintosh garden
Target setup :
- 40MHz CPU (Spicy O'clock ?)
- 72 MB RAM
- 2GB zuluSCSI partitions
- AppleCD 600i
- Asanté friendlyNet
- Midiman macman mini + Roland SC-88
- VGA adapter to OSSC to LCD (67/75hz are nice but I'm getting older)
- many games
So far I'm negatively impressed with game performance (simcity and slow games are fine but fullscreen animation ones such as doom are...not. I've started reading the development books, I understand why it's never gonna be a 320x200 ModeX beast, but I think doom has some margin for improvement
That's it for the introduction