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Hi all. :) The Wikipedia article about "Power-on self-test" talks a little bit about the Macintosh POST. It says this about Macs after 1998: "In the event of an error, but not a fatal hardware error, they display the same screen as seen when holding ⌘ Command+⌥ Option+O+F at startup but with...

Hi all! The other day I finally sat down to spend some time with my blueberry iMac. It seems to be running wonderfully now, but I'd like to know what I should look for when it has a hardware failure. I suppose I'm looking for something like an updated version of Dead Mac Scrolls - something to...

Here's my list. It makes me and my inner child very happy that some of these have been mentioned already. :D These are in no particular order. :) All of them are super special to me. 1. Specter Challenger 2. Midnight Rescue 3. Gizmos and Gadgets 4. Riven 5. Spin Doctor 6. Kid Pix 2 7...

Cool, I hadn't thought about the ST and Amiga that way. It makes a lot more sense than what I thought before... I can't even explain that.  :lol:

That all makes sense. :) When I was a kid the public library here had an old text mode computer of some sort in the children's section, and it was notorious for crashing with random gibberish like the picture when it was turned on. I remember being very amused by it... :p

I'm pretty religious about virus scanning everything I download. There was a time when I got something nasty from being careless and had to reformat my entire drive (losing everything, since my backups were infected too) to get rid of it. I'm using a Windows machine as my main computer at the...

I'm seriously considering it, though I can't decide what all I want to do once I have the Mac taken apart. It seemed to be in pretty good condition when it died (other than the power issue that killed it) so I don't know if I should do any maintenance/etc. or not.

I don't know if I'm using the wrong search words or just don't know what I'm looking for, but I'm curious about what happens when the Apple I, II, III and Lisa have a hardware problem that would cause a Sad Mac in later computers. I'm a very visual person so pics would be great, but they seem to...

:O That site has pirated software? Dang, good to know!

That's one of the ones I looked at. The pictures were pretty helpful, though it seems like a lot of work. :p

I didn't recognize it there, but there were SO many other games from my childhood! Was a nice trip down memory lane. :)

I had a feeling that's what would happen. If the power button were stuck in the on position it would make more sense for the computer to have problems shutting down. A couple days ago I did a quick Google search for instructions on how to take apart one of these Macs. It looks doable, though...

That would definitely be interesting to try! I would do it with my working iMac, but the power cord is at an extremely awkward angle so I wouldn't be able to reach it and the power button. If it ever gets moved somewhere more convenient, though...

Borrowed a keyboard from a good friend today... and nothing. It's still just sitting there looking pretty (though it does a good job at that :p ).

Yeah, they definitely are cute. :) I have a blueberry iMac in the basement that runs OS 9.something - I used that one for my Bugdom addiction as a kid. Maybe it's still installed, will have to check sometime. Bet I've forgotten all of the cheats though. ;) I talked to the person who first...

And people around here call me crazy for keeping the four vintage computers I have! That's the nice thing about the internet, you can talk to people across the world, not just in your backyard. :p There was a time when the Salvation Army here had the occasional vintage Mac (that's where my...

Hi everyone! When I was a toddler I was addicted to a certain game, and I can't find it anywhere. It ran on either System 7.5.1 or Mac OS 8.6, and it was really stupid (looking back on it as an adult, anyways). The vivid memory I have of it is a buffalo in the center of the screen, and there...

It's the type of thing I'd like to learn how to do, maybe not with a board as important to me as this one (may send the ones I have to someone once I get more money, still thinking on it).

Is there a guide or something to do that safely? I'm pretty clumsy so I'm afraid of breaking something.

OK. :) Little glitches and stuff like that are what make computers most interesting, in my opinion. Thanks again!