Recent content by Ra226

My Classic II is kind of love-hate.  So far, it's been very high maintenance--I've recapped the logic board, and partially recapped the Analog Board.  It's very stable now, but I still haven't managed to track down everything wrong with it (the sound is still highly distorted, even through the...

Thought you all might get a kick out of a project of mine.  I used Deluxe Music to create several songs back in high school, and for years now, I've been wondering how I might get them into a modern format.  The file format is proprietary and no other software seems to understand it. So I...

I just did the same exact thing not a week ago--I haven't done the soldering yet, but the parts have arrived and I'm looking forward to getting it done. On Uniserver's advice, I went to Mouser and went with Panasonic, 105 C parts.  Mouser's results are intimmidating, but once you filter by...

After more testing, I've definitely narrowed the problem down to the hard drive.  I booted to a 6.0.8 floppy (actually, a 6.0.8 image on my shiny new floppy emu!) and then played a bit of Crystal Quest (the app was located on the hard drive, not the floppy).  Rock solid throughout.  I quit out...

I just ordered my Floppy Emu a few days ago--can't wait to play with it!  That's definitely the best option, but costs quite a bit more than free...   Forgot to mention, you do have to run HFVE as admin (even if you're logged in as an admin--you still have to right click and select run as...

Yep, assuming your floppy drive is working, you've got it pretty good.  OS 10.6 and newer can't write to Mac floppy format, but you can still use Disk Utility to write images directly to them (or dd if you're into command line). Ironically, it's probably easier just to use HFV Explorer for...

I will when I get a chance, but the floppy drive is being real flakey right now and my Classic II (see other thread, <sigh>) will no longer boot... So I'm kinda stuck now with no 800k boot floppy.  Oddly, the SE behaves pretty well while being used, it only tends to crash after being idle...

Well, now it's got the fish smell so it's probably time to look at the analog board caps...  Classic II--why you so high maintenence!??

I'll give the repartition a shot, but I'm not sure 1.5GB will be big enough... ;)

I only suspected the hard drive because it's not stock and everything else is.  I'll try the boot floppy next...

Hard drive is terminated correctly (single drive, with jumper on "TE").  It's listing 2,053,935k available, 44,558k used--which comes to 2049.3 MB, so that's interesting... I'm surprised it even let me partition it that size if the OS doesn't support it.  I used a patched version of Apple HD SC...

I planned on checking the voltages but figured I'd ask first.  I had completely forgotten that SCSI had to be terminated--I'll definitely look into that.  The drive was from a box of old drives at work--I have no idea their history, though I assume they were old Mac or UNIX workstations. Thanks...

My Mac SE is pretty flakey (crashing randomly with different errors each time), sometimes as often as every 10 minutes.  It came with a dead 20 MB hard drive but I managed to find a 2 GB drive in (smallest I could find) and got that up and running. I'm wondering if the drive is drawing too much...

No, polarized caps can be replaced by non-polarized (though on googling, there seems to be a lot more confusion on the topic than I expected--and it's true that you generally can't go the other way around, replacing non-polarized with polarized). The only reason polarized caps are ever used is...

It's distorted through the headphone jack as well.  The MLC caps I used don't have polarity, so at least I didn't need to worry about that.