Things to Do With Your Networked Vintage Mac

[Phipli]

That's right! (Upgraded from LC to a full 040, new one is actually rated 25Mhz but haven't figured out if I could swap the oscillator on board to up it all the way to 25...)

If you're worried about it and want to just test it, normally pin 1 on the clock is an enable pin, if you bridge it to ground (the other pin on the same side, as in, next going anticlockwise) it disables the clock's output. The next anticlockwise pin is the clock output, and the last is 5v.

If you connect a 12.5mhz clock to the ground, output and 5v pins, you can "inject" the higher clock speed. This is basically what old clock chip kits did.

Removing the extra stuff reverts back to stock.

The clock in question is here on my 25mhz 610 board :



(PS I didn't recap thia board - although I did borrow the 31.3344MHz clock to get an LC 475 running)

 

[Byte Knight]

22. Chat with AI via LegacyAI, which is a ChatGPT client built specifically for Mac OS 9 (https://manticore.nz/legacyai).

 

[jeffmr4]

Great list. Thanks for this!

 

[mactjaap]

23. Use a macip.net solution, like a MacIPRPi, to connect your old Macintosh to the internet, even over LocalTalk. Do file sharing with any device such as iPhone, windows computer, modern MacBook to your old Macintosh.

Many tools for power users on board.

Have a look at www.macip.net

 

[oldmacuser]

thank you! I’m saving this and will try out soon!

 

[ObeyDaleks]

2. Browse some HOTLINE Servers

Ha, what blast from the past!!! Didn’t know if anybody here remembers HOTLINE. It was so much fun. There were even some private servers for people with similar interests that formed great little communities. And pretty much Mac exclusive.

 

[LaPorta]

I still have a copy of Hotline server somewhere.

 

[ironborn65]

18. Connect all your vintage macs together, have friends over, and have an old school LAN party playing Marathon, F/A-18 Hornet, aforementioned Bolo, SuperMazeWars, Spectre, you name it!

I wish I have such friends mine are making fun of me for my collection and retro mac passion

 

[Byte Knight]

Ha, what blast from the past!!! Didn’t know if anybody here remembers HOTLINE. It was so much fun. There were even some private servers for people with similar interests that formed great little communities. And pretty much Mac exclusive.

There are still a bunch of active Hotline servers out there! I recently got a ton of Mac-related text files for CQII BBS from Antelope's Abode.

 

[ObeyDaleks]

There are still a bunch of active Hotline servers out there! I recently got a ton of Mac-related text files for CQII BBS from Antelope's Abode.

View attachment 56545

Oh, had no idea. This is so cool. I will be setting this up tonight to do some browsing. Just like the old times except it won't take me several hours for a 100MB download, LOL. Thanks!!

 

[CC_333]

There are still a bunch of active Hotline servers out there!

Oooo!

I briefly got into hotline a bit during 2009-2011 (the preterhuman? server, I think), and it was pretty swift I thought at the time (there were some interesting Mac-related things on there that I couldn't find elsewhere at the time (I don't think Macintosh Garden existed then?)

This might give me an excuse set up an unsecured guest WiFi for my Pismo and poke around for a bit.

c

 

[mikes-macs]

Connect to a time server and set the Mac Clock.

 

[ironborn65]

in my case, if the mac is not connected to the Internet the boot process takes a minute more . it takes too much time to realise that there is no connection and stop trying. The boot process is probably running in a single process, no threads, but more expert guys here can contribute
I sincerely don't remember the version of the system but it's likely to be 7.5.5 or 7.1 it's the ones I use the most

PS: a thread revived after 18 months

 

[mikes-macs]

Do you have Norton installed?

 

[ironborn65]

nope

 

[Byte Knight]

25. Install Cloud 7 control panel to use a file on an HTTP server as a disk (http://www.synack.net/~bbraun/68khttpdisk.html).