Recent content by adespoton

Well... presented that way, it sure explains the thermal issues. All down to a component swap that hamstrung the convection by removing the thermal plate! And yeah; the flat top... I saw SO MANY cases with the top melted because someone stuck a book over the vents.

I have to admit, I'm also in the ADK camp. The AEK was... fine... and the AEKII made some tradeoffs that always sounded good, but never felt as good. But a good quality ADK always felt way better to me, despite the inferior mechanisms. Of course, a BAD ADK just felt like mush, and was...

:\ That's too bad -- it looks totally and methodically wiped. I had a friend who had that back in the early 90s. Seemed to work reliably. Haven't seen it since, until now. I used another one called DeskPICT for a while; it was a DA that let you set any PICT as a desktop background...

Doesn't it just patch the ROM address with the driver on the disk partition when it spins up, before the filesystem load is even attempted?

Yeah; back in the day, the first thing I did after installing QuickDraw GX was to print a colour image on my IWII from Graphic Converter -- the dithering was SO much better than with the older drivers, and the printing itself appeared to be faster and quieter as well. But I had to disable it in...

Well that was a really weird experience; you said this, and my memory immediately kicked back to the first time I unboxed a Color classic... right beside a bunch of Classic IIs, and beside the color, the extra video space was definitely noticeable. But the strongest part of the memory was the...

It's funny; I haven't had the G4 Mini mouse freeze issue on either of my Minis, which both have USB Overdrive installed. I can't remember which ROM I'm using though; I seem to recall it's the one that was built specifically because of the freezing issue with the other ROM.

Have you assembled and tested these already? Or does all the code still need to be hand-validated?

Macintosh Garden has versions 2.0b3, 3.2, 5.1 and 5.5. A big thing that makes the earlier ones hard to find is that the name changed a number of times; you're looking for macgs, macgsview, macghostscript, MacGhostScript 4 is available on the Tucows archive...

So this should work to let an actual person control a Classic Mac as well, shouldn't it? But unlike leaning on Apple Events, it uses the toolbox, so should work on older OSes and apps with no published dictionaries.

I started off with the one that's bundled with Beyond Dark Castle, and just edited the image. The one that came with the vMac (not Mini vMac) emulator boot floppy also works.

QuickDraw GX exchanged one nightmare for another. It was too overengineered and at the end of the day provided minimal benefit for what people actually wanted to do.

In that case, go with my last suggestion, and for your debug code version, keep a loop counter and a pre-populated A9F4 that your exception handler can call.

If you can't successfully force quit, the solution is to hit the interrupt key (or programmer's key combo, depending on the device), and do: SM FA700 A9F4 PC FA700 G First line sets the memory at address FA700 (usually a safe range to overwrite) to A9F4 ("exit to shell" trap). Second line sets...

I've stuck with the Perfection line of scanners for the past 25 years or so, so it's neat to see the comparison!