Recent content by mikes-macs

I am curious which games you're planning to play? The Graphics card in eMacs isn't great. eMac were for the education sector. Here is a summary from google. The Radeon 7500 (circa 2001) is an extremely old graphics card, only capable of playing very early 2000s or late 90s games (like Unreal...

Without knowing the current Mac OS version on your 2014 Mac Mini, it's hard to say what to suggest. Assuming you are using Mac OS 10.10 Yosemite (which it shipped with) on it, you're going to have trouble because System 6 and System 7 won't connect to it using AppleTalk, but you already know...

I'm curious which type of drive you're installing to on your iMac. Also, perhaps the CD drive could use cleaning.

I’m hardly an expert but You’ll definitely need to do a complete recap and check all the traces to make sure. You could also check the ROM SIMM is not loose and is seated correctly.

I’m glad someone sent you a floppy disk with the utilities needed. Sorry it didn’t fix the issue. I’ve seen that same phase error in Lido and I believe it is due to improper termination on the SCSI drive IIRC.

The short answer is yes. If you have an external floppy disk drive for the Mac SE/30, whether an 800k drive or 1.44m drive you can boot with the disk tools floppy disk that you already used to boot the Mac with, while using a second floppy disk in the second drive loaded with the utilities that...

Lido wouldn’t have to be on the boot floppy. It could be on its own floppy and do the floppy swap. So any one of us could mail you one. I would also include the hacked version of HD SCSI Setup and SCSI Probe as well. Did you check the scsi cable for rips and bent pins in the slots? It’s really...

The Sony in my IIsi started a fire. I heard a pop and then flames and smoke. No pictures.

It may need reformatting with a different formatting utility. Also check the quality of the SCSI cable from disk to Board.

For full automation of new downloads from the internet via a Modern Mac or iPhone to the Jag server I’ve setup folder actions on a Mac Mini running 10.6.8. The modern mac downloads something from the Macintosh garden or anywhere upon user request. it will save to a special folder on the 10.6.8...

So I put a generic pci FireWire card in my pm 8600. I added a 250 GB external HDD via an enclosure I’ve had for a while which has FireWire and USB. Booted in Mac OS 9.1, running Xpostfacto its possible to boot Mac OS X 10.2.8 or Mac OS X 10.2.8 Server with a helper drive such as a partition on...

Mine is booted with Jaguar Server on a FireWire drive with a helper app. What’s good about Jag Server is that classic Mac OS networking can connect to it. Makes a great file server and has space for an archive.

I thought the G3 came with FireWire btw.

Depending on the amount of Memory it has couldn't you install Mac OS 9 onto a RAM disk and boot from that instead of a CD? How do system setting get saved if booted from a locked CD? I keep a Netboot server around so I can boot from that when needed.

Oh I see, I didn't know that. Very nice.