Recent content by CC_333

I've kind of been wanting to upgrade my Pismo with a G4 or fast G3 off and on since I first learned of the idea back 2009 or so. I've never really bothered to look too hard, though, because I figure I won't be able to afford it anyway. c

Perhaps the ROMs can be reverse-engineered and the 2.0 ROM can be fixed to properly address the cache? c

I have at least one of these I wouldn't mind re-celling at some point, so I'm keen on finding out how successful @croissantking's effort is. c

There's lots of new slop showing up on Github lately, I've found. This plus the fact that AI data miners shamelessly use human-coded projects as a source for said slop is probably why @cheesestraws is moving away from it and doing development in private. That said, it's getting really hard to...

Agreed. Most Amazon products are adequate, but usually have little quality problems that definitely add up. I'm weary of buying things like vitamins and pain killers (Beyer aspirin, Tylenol, Advil, etc) because who knows if it's real or some sort of inferior counterfeit. Same goes for edibles...

i wonder if the key could be filed down slightly for a better fit in the keyway? Some sort of key/lock (graphite?) lubricant might help too. c

Or cleverly written to mimic one.... c

I wonder if they did that intentionally, because that song symbolically and literally represents the end of The Beatles' existence as a band. c

I'm pretty sure it's a System 7 thing. If you attempt to eject any startup disk by dragging its icon to the Trash, System 7 will refuse and display this dialog: Curiously, it will eject the disk if you choose Eject from the Special menu – at least it does in Mini vMac. Of course, if the...

Do you have access to the patched Apple HD SC Setup? I discovered years ago that if you format a Zip disk using that, it will work without Iomega drivers at all. I used several disks formatted this way, and they worked fantastically on any Mac that supports the standard Apple drivers (pretty...

Any chance you'll ever make it to VCFW? c

Indeed! But, @croissantking discovered how to get the beige G3's unimplemented USB circuits working, so this couldn't be that hard? Perhaps there's some clues in the ROM's floppy driver (is it still referred to as .Sony, as in older 68k ROMs?) Clearly it works mechanically, and electrically...

People will try a PC drive on the Beige G3 because they can, not because it's better! :D c

Agreed. Another symptom of a faulty DC board connection is a lack of sound (both the internal speaker header and headphone out/line/mic in jacks are on that board). c

I remember! It's amazing that it was almost 12 years ago! My how time flies! I still have a bunch of SE/30 and Fat Mac parts floating around from back then. I managed to sell maybe one or two as I recall, and I've been sitting on the rest. And then I had to I move it, at least twice, and...