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Gulp. I just ordered a 33 mhz 68040 from Hong Kong. Hoping it'll be a good one, will be sure to report back.

Hi, I can't help you much with troubleshooting, but generally in electronics just become something burns doesn't really mean it was causing the problem, it just means that something went wrong, somewhere, and this part was the one that couldn't take it. The most common type of component to fail...

I have an Acard thing that I've used both for spinning drives and CF cards in adaptors.

Very nice!

The problem is mainly convincing the Mac to speak ethernet across the SCSI bus and getting the STM32 to turn that into into something we can use. Depending on what actually goes over the SCSI bus, this can be quite trivial or require lots of reverse engineering. Networking on the STM32 side is...

This was very enjoyable. Also thank you for making it available via Vimeo so I could just download the file and play it locally.

Thanks for the info. I actually have a Mac Mini Core Duo with 10.6 collection dust, I'll try it on that.

The main programme I want to run (Reaktor 4) is PPC only, unfortunately, and I don't want another tower here, so the G5 iMac is my only option. 1.5x would be worth it though. Thanks for you reply.

I have a 1 GHz G4 iMac that I use for running a few music applications under Tiger. One of them is a bit heavy, and sometimes I think about getting a G5 iMac to replace it just for performance, although I much prefer the look of the G4. Does anybody know in some sort of numbers how big the...

Slight derail: Is it possible to make a passive ADB splitter? Like, take three female connecters with the datalines wired together to attach two peripherals to the same host? Is that basically what the extra connector in ADB keyboards are?

Welp - you snooze, you looze! http://alexhixon.com/jamport/index.html

I've heard (but not personally confirmed) that with early-gen New Worlds (and Old Worlds I'd assume) you have to stay below 127GB for the Mac to want to boot. I'd assume this also applies to anything on the other side of an adaptor.

The USB modem from the iMac G4 shows up in my backup Gigabit Ethernet tower under OS X, so there is a USB connection of sorts on that header as far back as that. It's a seventy pin connector, and handful of them are for serial, another two for USB...

The Lombard sees and talks to it fine, but it gets in the way of the keyboard so you can't actually reassemble it.. It'd definitely be possible to make one that fits, though, if anybody really wants a serial port in a Lombard or (I'd expect) Pismo. Does anybody have any idea what the type/part...

Hey. Been working on something else for a bit when two of the GeeThree Stealth G4+ ports showed up for sale locally. Snagged 'em, and put one in my Sawtooth that runs 9.2.2. This works of course. Unfortunately I don't actually have a proper cable, must of lost them in the Great Disaster of '09...

Hm, usually for me breaking in to Macs involves starting in single-user mode and resetting the root password. This is much cooler.

Pretty cool stuff! Thanks for sharing it. (Love your timing too -- after ages of not being able to use my beige Macs for lack of an ADB mouse I finally got one on sunday..)

Tough call... I'm thinking about acquiring a Quicksilver or two to complement my Sawteeth, if nothing else then because they look different :)

I'm not sure if the boards are even the same size and have mounting holes in the same place. The power supplies are different and I'm not sure one will physically fit in the case of the other. You will likely fry the motherboard if you attempt to use the wrong PSU. Also the connecter for the...

Thanks for that, that confirms my suspicions. I don't have enough Mac towers to check compatibility, but I'll probably try to make one for my Sawtooth. I wonder if anybody else would be interested. One thing that throws me off, though, is why Apple used a 70-pin connector for a serial port and...