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Has anyone compiled flimmaker 2.0 on Windows/Cygwin or WSL lately? I have a friend who wants to encode their own flims on an ARM thinkpad running Windows 11.

100 batteries are lead-acid unlike the rest of the PowerBook line which used Ni-Cd. You could put a Ni-MH or Lithium pack inside a gutted 100 battery and run off that, charge externally in dedicated charger. Use diodes to prevent the PowerBook from charging the battery itself

B.S. They look the same

2 days of fiddling later... and I find the SuperDrive acting reliably now. Haven't made any adjustments. There are no problems reading or writing to 1.44MB diskettes and exchanging data between multiple known-good floppy drives... Strange! If only there was a program to test R/W on each sector...

How come the pair of 800k heads work in my SuperDrive? It reads, writes to HD diskettes

I remember combing through those two pages 5 months ago. What I don't remember is any of them mentioning a difference in track density between HD and DD diskettes although I could be wrong

It would be interesting to check Sony's BOMs for their MP-F51W (800k) and MP-F75W (Super) drives and see if the head assemblies used therein share the same part no. I'm sure they wrote BOMs for these like the Walkmans but not sure if they're online. Probaby would be at the end of the drive's...

I put an 800k head assembly in a SuperDrive yesterday and it will format 1.44MB diskettes. I believe the zero track alignment is off by a bit. It will only mount correctly aligned disks occasionally. But diskettes formatted in that drive seem to work fine. I really think the 800k and SuperDrive...

I replaced the SuperDrive head assembly with one from the 800k drive. Now, it will format/read/write 1.44MB and 800k diskettes. I can even get it to read disks from a correctly aligned drive sometimes. I think zero track alignment is what needs to be done unless I'm mistaken. And it can be done...

I got around to unmothballing my broken auto-inject SuperDrive (Sony MP-F75W), which I would like to repair using parts from a functional 800k drive (MP-F51W) as I’ve said. Here’s a video which shows the broken SuperDrive installed in a Macintosh IIcx. It doesn’t inject as easily as it should...

oops

Next: A Macintosh Plus built without original parts. I'm sure they're still making b/w CRTs somewhere in China

Dug my PowerBook 180 out of storage again, I want to build a new battery pack. The 3D printed case on my previous battery didn't include rails for the battery door - I appended them incorrectly in the model and they weren't printed. Also the brass strips I used as battery contacts were too...

I want to play crysis on my amiga 1200!!!

Installed RadiusWare 2.2.1, was previously using 3.4.1. The video card is identified correctly by the QuickColor 2.5 control panel and you can toggle acceleration. I benchmarked accelerated vs. non-accelerated graphics using 24-bit color at 1152x870. As you can see, QuickDraw acceleration yields...

My card has ROM V1.2.1 and I'm probably using the youngest release of RadiusWare. Will definitely have to unleash the IIcx and see now

Well, I also don't have a good frame of reference for how slow unaccelerated 24-bit graphics are on the IIcx. This card could be accelerating everything reguardless of the QuickColor control panel and I'd have no way of telling the difference

You're like a prehistoric cave man... Benchmarks that's what that sh*t is for!!

I've had this NuBus card in my Macintosh IIcx for a while now. After installing the RadiusWare utilities set, all video modes are accessible and switchable on-the-fly. But when opening the QuickColor control panel it lists no Radius accelerators present and there's just two radio buttons to...

Why would you trust a machine to tell you about another machine?