Recent content by lobust

This one matches your description perfectly except for the button layout: https://mouses.info/1988-asher-turbo-trackball/ Is it possible that your dad had several different trackballs and your memory is amalgamating them into one device that didn't actually exist? Of course I'm not discounting...

Yes, it shows as a second monitor like any other.

My recently acquired 8500 thinks it has a television connected and it's a bit of a nuisance. Is it normal for the av video out to be active with nothing plugged in? If yes, how do I disable it? If no, ideas how to fix it?

I've only ever used my SCSI2SD (V6) with the provided utility program and presented it to my macs as raw disks, and formatted them on the mac. Do the "devices" on a SCSI2SD even exist as image files, or are they some kind of raw data? The fact that you set them up as contiguous blocks of...

What do you mean by "dump"? ZuluSCSI and SCSI2SD work very differently, I don't think there's any indication that the images are interchangeable?

Try out a Zuluscsi instead and see if you have the same problems. I have been using them since the scsi2sd and they have been 100% reliable. I have about half a dozen of them in various macs. Bluescsi v1 in particular is a flawed device with known issues. If your bluescsi's are v1, then very...

Appreciate the insights guys. I see no real reason to recap this one and am somewhat emboldened by your answers! I have two 7100 boards that are real basket cases, built just a year earlier than this 8500...

I just bought an 8500 sold as working, and it does in fact boot up and work perfectly. I have very little experience with macs from this generation. I never owned anything of the 604 generation at the time, and this is the first one I've bought this time around. What surprised me is that when I...

A fan would go a long way just to get some air circulating around it. 650 case is much better for dissipating heat away from the cards compared to any of the towers by simple virtue of the cards being vertical. But also the lid is much better ventilated, and there is more air gap above the...

I don't remember what I was doing at the time, but I had the PPC card installed and I had a Supermac Thunder II GX in the upper slot. I started getting video artifacts and shut it down. I took the cover off and found that the video card was getting cooked from the heat coming off the 601. It...

I tried the ppc upgrade card in mine, and it did work, but beware that it gets very hot in that little case - it's bad enough on a stock 700, but the higher clock of the wombat board and the confined space it's in are a bad combo...

+1 here and no problems with it. Q800 psu has to support up to three drives and three expansion cards. Q700 maxes out at one drive and two expansion cards.

What about SAT - Sprite Animation Toolkit by Ingemar Ragnemalm? https://devnonsense.com/posts/sprite-animation-toolkit/ Used in lots of 2d shareware games in the '90's. It was my first foray into C programming as a teenager - after spending a week or two of late nights downloading a pirate...

They would be a fantastic addition, but on the about page it states that since its move to the Computer History Museum, Folklore.org is read only and all interactive elements have been removed, including the ability to add new articles, which is very sad. https://folklore.org/html/about.html

A ten minute job for someone with a lathe if you wanted a like for like replacement. Similarly quick with a 3d printer. I'd replace it either way, there is potential for the spring pressure to warp the board over time and possibly cause bad connections in the connector...