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stepleton replied to the thread Doom on SoftPC on an SE/30?.I'm having a hard time finding out for SPARC, but yes, it seems per this old thread that MIPS did have it "from day one". So the GUI... -
stepleton replied to the thread Doom on SoftPC on an SE/30?.Would a multiplier be used all that much to make the RISC OS user interface? I think the ARM probably did have a hardware advantage that...
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stepleton replied to the thread Doom on SoftPC on an SE/30?.I would really like to see some direct proof of this, considering that the Sapphire window manager on the Accent system essentially had...
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stepleton replied to the thread Doom on SoftPC on an SE/30?.The only thing I know it to support is a manoeuvre where you can grab the NeXT logo and drag the dock downward to slide it away and free...
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stepleton replied to the thread Doom on SoftPC on an SE/30?.Possibly the Dock goes all the way back (via NeXTstep) to Accent, a predecessor to Mach that was developed (by Avie Tevanian and others)...
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stepleton replied to the thread You have: AAUI to 10BASE-T ethernet adapter (aka a MAU). You need: regular AUI. A hack....Here's a nice adaptor circuit board that allows me to use these Farallon AAUI MAUs with my AUI-having Ethernet card. I'm satisfied with...
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stepleton replied to the thread Finally found a 1MB L2 cache for my 6100.Amazing! Thanks for doing what you can to get your lucky find reverse-engineered. I hope it will be easy to dump the GALs! My 6100 has...
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stepleton replied to the thread Apple IIe: what cards to choose.My one weird trick for making Apple II DeskTop feel "fast enough" on a regular old Apple IIc is to spend a lot of time using Lisas.
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stepleton replied to the thread More tales from Bandley 3.Ha ha --- take that, Lisa! So much for using "spinach dentist beatles michael jackson apple 32 macintosh" as a passphrase...
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stepleton replied to the thread Any tips on using an ImageWriter II with a Lisa?.I don't think this is so. My PJ-1080A still works and the replacement cartridges I have seem to be OK to me. I used mine with my Lisa to...
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stepleton replied to the thread Apple Lisa - Information & Help!."Macintosh XL" was a marketing term, basically, and its precise interpretation differs in documentation and differs between different...
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stepleton replied to the thread Innecto. Everywhere..I'm reminded that a few years ago, people found that Apple's Thunderbolt 4 Pro cables had a couple of Arm chips inside, each likely to...
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stepleton replied to the thread Need Lisa 2/5 Video Board.OK, yes, on the Lisa this board is called the Video Board... That's a slightly snarky thing for me to say, but it got me wondering, so...
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stepleton replied to the thread Need Lisa 2/5 Video Board.This isn't a mixup of nomenclature either. It's literally called the Video Board. It has "VIDEO BOARD" written on it.
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stepleton replied to the thread Need Lisa 2/5 Video Board.What a bizarre thing to say. And a substantial part of Adrian's episode 8 (or so) is all about fixing it!
