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Interesting. So it should be doable on the LC/Performa 5xx roms I imagine. No reason why they wouldn't have in rom Color QuickDraw capability. A shame that forum is no longer around. Would have been nice to ask him about it. :(

Do control strip modules have support for preference files? You could implement some of the features of the old control panel/extension combo by allowing overclock settings to stick across reboots for example. That's really the only reason I would want to use the older stuff over the Control...

Well as I recall the SE (or Mac Plus, I forget which) had reproduction injection molded shells. I imagine it would not cheap to startup a run for 5xx chassis though. They are like double the size of the compact macs.

I have a 575 chassis that got beat up in shipping so yeah definitely looking to replace it if such a thing ever becomes a thing. If someone does a limited production run of a reproduction shell I'd definitely be interested in getting it. Also unless your cat is morbidly obese I don't think your...

On the subject of custom roms, how difficult would it be to give older 68k macs a color happy mac screen like the newer PowerMacs had? I seem to recall my Performa 575 still has a black & white happy mac screen like pretty much all the other 68k machines of it's era. I suppose it could present...

Cool. Glad I could help with that. :D

Yeah was able to do that. It would not let me login via the username/password field. Maybe because I hadn't created a account specific to the wiki so used the button you mentioned. My username shows like this. Seems it uses underscore for spaces:

Yo, what you need help testing with? Just point me where. :D

Can't edit that post any longer but here's an example image of what I think a 3D printed MiniCD adapter would look like for caddies. Something I drew up in MSPaint real quick. :P As seen with no CD installed. The red portion represents the removable 3D printed piece designed to fit inside the...

Oh wow that looks over engineered if it was meant for caddies. :P I was thinking it was just a static insert that acted as a smaller enclosure. The one you have is the kind of adapter you'd need for slot feeders (like the CD players in cars for example). In that case that kind of design would...

Anybody up for trying to make a MiniCD adapter for caddies? Seems like the part would be relatively simple. I got a Apple CD 300i in my LC 520 chassis. It will read MiniCDs but right now it's finicky trying to get one in the right position and keep it there while putting the caddy into the...

Oh nice. You have a photo of that? Does it look like something that could be 3D printed?

Oh yeah possible that model drive does not like CD-Rs. I have a newer AppleCD 300i caddy loader (internal drive to my Macintosh LC 520) and it reads every CD-R I've made so far. Even some mini-cds. Just have to carefully position them and a little luck for it to stay aligned on insert. On that...

Oh that one looks like a caddy drive. The caddy drives are the only one's I know of that use a voice coil to move the laser assembly. Yeah those definitely suffer from capacitor issues. However the OP's board does not have SMD caps on it....I am assuming it's the non caddy drive with a failing...

Is it the AppleCD 300 Plus series with the tray. The non plus uses a caddy system and that one is known for leaky caps. However the 300 plus is known for a harder to fix issue...broken worm gear. The way to tell if this is the case is if the laser assembly moves. if it doesn't, the worm gear...