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I recently acquired a TAM from Japan which works great. Inside, I was surprised to find an Interwire G3 L2 accelerator card. Unfortunately, there was no hard drive and no drivers for this card. Does anyone know where I can find a compatible driver for this card? I saw another thread which...

KQ: Kings Quest SQ: Space Quest I have the original disks for KQ5, and floppy copies of KQ1-3. SQ1, SQ1 (remaster), KQ6,7 are images I downloaded from Macintosh Garden or Maxxx1. The B/W KQ games (1-2) only work if the screen is set to B/W, but do not respond properly to mice at all. If...

I get the same behavior from original disks and disk images from the internet.

“Classic Mac” in this context clearly means pre-PowerPC. As mentioned, I tried this on several machines (all from Plus though CCII) with various monitor settings (as well as CC1/2 with 640x480 update). I also tried running in mini vMac and basilisk with no success. I played these same games on...

I have tried running at all color levels, and various resolutions without success (even in emulators). For B/W games they were not written for large screens and in any case only work if the screen is also set to b/w. The color games will not launch without being set to 256 colors, and the...

I’m trying to figure out why none of the early Sierra games seem to work on any of my classic macs (and basilisk). Im sure it has something to do with the graphics settings, as changing them around may make things slightly better (eg, on the b/w games, I get the full frame instead of the...

Gotcha. None of the other capacitors look bad at all. No leakage or bulging, so I’ll take your advice there. Any idea why the safety cap blew? The machine was connected to a surge protecting power strip, and the fuse (though it looks foggy in the picture) didn’t blow. Could something else have...

That’s exactly what I’m about to do. I’ll let you know how it goes.

BTW, guys thanks for the tips. I’m just getting my little collection started and I’m sure I’ll be asking more questions.

I think this little baby may need more love than that. After using it a little bit, one of the caps on the analog board exploded after a couple of minutes, filling my workbench with smoke. Luckily the case was open or there might have been some auxiliary damage. The machine still seems to work...

I got it to power up! Don’t know if it’ll actually work 100% because that pin connection is not soldered, I just added some pressure to the connection by replacing the risers with ones that were about 1mm shorter and crossing my fingers. Now to see if I can get the HD20 that came with it to...

I reseated the ROMs, but noticed that the chip labeled RP7 on the upgrade board had its pins out of the socket. Looks like a previous owner tried to troubleshoot it by ripping out the MB and unseated them. I reseated it, but no love.  I reseated the RAM as well, but still no love from the MB...

Hey all, I bought a pallet of old macs from a warehouse sale, and one of the machines was an old 512k with some weird upgrades. It looks like someone added more RAM and a SCSI port (which was threaded through the external floppy port hole). I can’t tell if this is one upgrade or two. I’d like...

Is there a ‘master’ list of components and steps for performing this upgrade? I’ve found several ‘guides’ (including this one) which all refer to each other, and have missing or contradictory component lists. I’m looking for something like: 1. Get these tools 2. Source these components 3...