Recent content by Brett B.

ClarisWorks 5.0. I second the Ambrosia games. Spiderweb games as well (Exile series) but I think those are somewhat compatible. I played a lot of Unreal Tournament, Starcraft, Halo, and some other network games back in the day. It's been so long now that I don't even remember what platform I...

IIRC there is a "focus" adjustment - been many years since I've done that but again IIRC it was the rings on the CRT yoke. I would do that as a last resort, try reflowing the solder joints first and reseat everything. Keep in mind that these often improve or change once they have had time to...

Nice! How much RAM did you get with it? Looks like it is an 800k model originally? Some got upgraded with a 1.44MB logic board (like mine.) Curious which you have.

More than I’d pay by a lot but I just sold a nice SE FDHD with no upgrades or extras for $200. If it spoke to you, that’s all that matters. The SE is one of my favorite machines - they are just not very upgradable and I think that hurts the value a bit for most people.

Good luck is all I can say. Mine are like that too. One of my beige G3 towers was working great until the hard drive died. Fortunately I had a backup so I restored that onto a new drive. Now I have issues with software crashing, video card glitches, extension conflicts that disappear on...

So out of curiosity what did you pay for it? QS's are some of my favorite Macs ever, probably my #2 favorite PowerMac. Power supplies were the main failure point. Otherwise they are pretty reliable... mine works really well, I have a 4 port SATA RAID card, a Radeon 9200, and a Giga Designs...

I like the tower version better simply because they have more options for drive expansion. There were a bunch of different drive bezels available back in the day and it was pretty cool to have a couple of CD/DVD drives, a tape drive, Zip, etc and have it look like it should be there.

What format are the sound files saved in? What type of computer are you trying to transfer them to?

The 630's VRAM is soldered onto the logic board, whereas others have a VRAM socket for upgrades (FYI in case you were not aware.) I have no experience with the Spicy-O-Clock but my 630 was overclocked to 40MHz and my LC475 to 33MHz using the resistor moving method. Both have full '040's, both...

Those speakers were terrible from the get go and it was real common for kids to poke holes in them... common enough that you could get a guard for it. If I was in the market for a QS, I'd be happy with one that has an intact speaker for appearance only. Rest of your plan sounds great, QS G4's...

Assuming there is no memory limitation (RAM in many cases is soooo cheap these days, no reason not to max out everything...) this was my go-to for operating systems: 68000/020/LC/LCII - System 6.0.8, 6.0.8L is my preference, 7.1 if I had a good reason Slow 030's - Usually 7.1 Faster 030's, slow...

In my experience there is not much aside from networking that justifies the System 7 performance hit on a 68000. StickyClick and a couple other extensions make System 6 pretty nice to use. When I had LC & LCII machines hanging around I would usually run 6.0.8L on those too. Makes them feel...

The 5260 was a great machine, especially in the 120MHz flavor. I had a bunch of those that were broken and donated their logic boards for upgrades but regardless they just worked well and didn't operate at a snail's pace. I think I sold off one of those a few years ago, it's one that I sort of...

Wild that a mouse found a way in... was there a port cover missing on the back or something? Too bad that it's not fixable, the 5x00 Power Macs are rarely seen in the wild these days. I think whether or not these deserve the Road Apple label really depends on whose perspective you're looking...

Very nice, I had a LW 12/640PS that would leave a couple thin horizontal lines on the first page or two of every print job and I wonder if it was a similar problem that caused it.