Recent content by AEChadwick

Minor update: FAT floppies display their actual, correct name; and, they properly trigger the mount calls, so a successful eject results in the "you may now remove the floppy" dialog. Also a little housekeeping in the code. tl;dr it involves feeding Workspace Manager a fake success number (it...

you are totally correct--i did pull one apart and it's the standard-cells-in-array setup. I've even seen reports that zeroing the power doesn't kill the battery's controller board, so it should be trivial to rebuild and charge up. I just don't have the equipment--spot welder, nickel strips--and...

the 560E is at the top of Rhapsody specs, but other people called it sluggish (link is OpenStep but relevant)--and they're right, out of the box it spends way too much time thrashing around the hard drive, especially at boot. After it sits for a couple hours, it feels on par with other OS of the...

Nothing that fancy, honestly, it's not a Foundation or NSBundle. It's... cruder than that? It's just another folder in /usr/filesystems/, alongside cd9660.fs. Download the archive and take a look! it's all source (except Floppy_reloc, that was a hexedit) I originally hoped it would be as easy...

tl;dr Here is a driver/toolchain/hack for Rhapsody DR2 Intel to read FAT floppies, developed on a ThinkPad 560E. I will be brief, for my short date of breath is not so long as is a tedious tale. Rhapsody is our favorite lost bridge between OpenStep and OS X, the OS Apple built, shipped to...

oh, sir... If "easy" and "cheap" were the qualifiers, none of us would have this infuriating hobby. (ツ)

i just snipped the fuse off entirely. does yours have a switch?? i did not add any diffusion to the LEDs. i have rarely encountered brights spots... i wonder if lightly sanding the top of the LED would add just enough diffusion? i will try that on a build. (i'm playing with a powerbook 1400...

the LED-converter strips and voltage booster boards are all pretty much the same (product links above have rotted, there links are LMGTFY) there's not much more to the install than is shown, but feel free to ask questions to clarify anything: Find the solder points for ENA, GND, VCC, and...

holy cow, pardon me, i copypasta’d some web misinfo... the Sharp LM64P791 is a 9" screen.

howdy friend! the powerbook 10 LCD is a Sharp LM64P791, 10.4" LCD at 640x400pixels i can't get to the bare LCD right now, but the bezel is 193mm x 121mm

i have done (5) iBooks of a couple different generations; i don't use them everyday, but every time i use them they are solid and bright: no drift, no flicker. It's been a great mod for my interests. I cannot report how they run off a battery, and i would be interested to hear about that. it's...

i will play with that, the OMRON R2DG-38 is really just a fat little servo itself... (but i'd still love to understand the Auto-Inject mechanism...)

i had one non-working drive that i decided to dismantle: i couldn't figure out how to just get the mechanism separate. Worth another try, but drives are limited. the bigger problem is: the servo just doesn't have enough torque to push the existing metal cage around. It can flip a wee switch...

the board is dead simple; i asked a friend to throw the code together, “sure, that sounds easy.”

I have been working on a Mock Floppy Drive. My goal is a drop-in unit with a Floppy Emu at its heart, albeit with the screen and controls moved to a fake floppy disk that pops in and out like a real disk. There is no need for this device, it solves no problem, and might be completely...