Recent content by adespoton

Bus speed goes from 45MHz down to 40MHz, default HDD/CD-ROM is improved and there was an optional Pentium card available,

Yeah; I suspect it was a case of "we're moving to NuBus; let's just toss some extra capacity on our existing boards and tweak them for the last of our PDS offerings" thing. It didn't take long for Sonnet to eat up the market with their newer, superior designs. I just bought my accelerator a...

I wish I'd read this years ago. So many failed hinges where I've attempted to clean by hand and apply lithium paste. This is obviously a significantly better solution.

Indeed. I ended up with a MicroMac ThunderCache Pro (TCPCC32F) and stuffed the 4 extra SIMM slots that were still 16 bit. Woo! An extra 16MB RAM for a total of 26MB! 50MHz 030, 68882 FPU. When the Sonnet Presto Plus finally showed up (sans PPC), while the numbers on paper were way better...

I believe you are correct here; I remember excitedly waiting for the Sonnet Presto PPC for my CC, only to be disappointed that they never released it, arguing that the data bus was too limited to make it worthwhile.

Those icebooks had a known design flaw with the LCD cable routing. I know two people who had to get their cable replaced. The replacement doesn't fix the issue, and in both cases, the second cable eventually failed as well. I look forward to seeing if the reballing does the trick, just out of...

I've got another: 3. Chips that are physically cracked or have damaged pins by rough handling during re-pasting. I've seen a few of these over the years.

I'm glad it's not me, although we call it a "Postal Code" which helps me resolve the moment of confusion. Regional addresses for classic Macs embedded in the PD ROM would definitely be innovative.

Interestingly, most of the current LLM models appear to have ingested the complete Inside Macintosh and the Think C reference books. The problem is that until you get to the frontier models, the context window is too small to handle analysis and disassembly on the level required here. If...

IIRC, the keyboard and trackpad report as bog standard Bluetooth input devices and are only handled differently on macOS. So if your OS of choice can recognize Bluetooth input devices, they should work. There may be a few mapping oddities (I needed to go in and re-map my Apple keyboard in...

Yeah; that's part of what I was referencing above. Be careful combining it with MultiFinder though; memory can become corrupted. As long as you're not using MultiFinder, it'll just load a new System heap and then launch the frontmost app with its application heap and everything should stay...

You got me doing some digging. Startup Disk was introduced with System 7.0. However, it was essentially a rename of the Startup Device control panel that was introduced with System 4.2. System Picker was a completely different utility that could select which System folder on a disk was...

Well now... THAT gave me an interesting idea: AD emulator as an iTunes visualizer. Of course, since iTunes no longer exists, the time for that is mostly past, but it'd still be neat. Does Apple Music support iTunes visualizers? I can't say I've heard them discussed much since the PPC days...

Back in the day, I had a Color Classic connected to an iMac via null modem cable. But I never got around to setting up PPP; I just used ZTerm on both sides and YMODEM to transfer stuff back and forth. So there's a few tricks here: one is, you need to swap RX and TX on one end of the RJ11 to...

You'd have to add your own resolutions via ROM patch, like in Mini vMac. Alternatively, if you choose a Mac II model, you just need to patch in the size you want into the existing code, replacing the existing standard sizes.