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On the interface card and special software bit, it really depends. If you're interfacing to TTL logic, then a parallel port and debug will do the job (and if you don't like debug, one of the variants of BASIC that used to ship with PCs would probably work). If you want to do A->D then the...

Sure, but how many people take SUVs off road? And I mean really take them off road, and not drive them into the ditch when they lose control.

Uh, you can do that sort of interfacing on a PC or a Mac. It just happens to be a little harder. (And, depending upon what you're doing, a lot harder.) But, on the whole, I agree: it is easier to experiment with and fully understand an 8-bit micro. And yeah, a good part of that probably has...

I think I played that one almost a decade ago. }:) It was a nice port from what I recall.

Actually, I live in a cold climate that probably receives more bitter weather and more snow than most parts of the midwest. As for transporting computers on a bike, I have two comments on that: a) Some of us are beyond the point where we feel the urge to "liberate" basements full of obsolete...

Personally, I would have traded a car for a bicycle. Much cheaper to operate, much healthier to user, and much friendlier to the environment.

I'm not even sure that 7.0 will work on a Colour Classic. But as a general rule of thumb, the way to make a system specific disk if you are using a generic boot disk (or a boot disk for another system) is to add a system enabler to the system folder of the boot disk. Of course you may have to...

barana makes the point quite well: even though barana is speaking English, I can barely understand what is being said. I would imagine that something quite similar is happening here: even though a RFC defines what PPP should look like, there are often extensions or bugs. If noone tested it...

Luddite is correct, they are much more of a hobbiest system. They are great to program on because they include both BASIC and the mini-assembler, and the limited resources don't offer the compulsion to start grandios projects. The Apple II, like many early computers, offers direct access to...

A friend of mine had a VAIO a few years back and we found a really simple way to avoid the restore CDs adding all of that crap while still getting the drivers installed. We just installed Linux on it. The stuff that they install is awful. And I'm not talking about awful in a nice way. She...

Supposedly, floppy diskettes are susceptible to mold. If you are in a humid climate, that may damage the diskettes. I would imagine that this renders the diskette useless. I haven't seen this is diskettes, but I have seen it in tapes: sometimes the binder that holds the magnetic media onto...

If I recall correctly, the stripes are also a symptom of bad RAM. I don't know how you would deal with this on a Classic though. (If it has a RAM card, pull it out then see if it boots. If it's onboard RAM, I don't have a clue.) I too am a fan of CDSunrise, but it doesn't support ISO9660 CDs...

Do you need help with C, Macintosh programming, or maybe CPR?

What I'm suggesting is mostly to verify that your setup works, and if not it will help you sort out individual problems. Afer all, trying to sort out what could be a hardware problem (e.g. the CD-ROM may not work properly), and a technology problem (e.g. the CD-ROM may not be able to read CD-R...

The basic problem with MPW, at least the version from Apple's site, is that it requires 7.5 (or maybe 7.1 with some extensions). This makes it somewhat more difficult to test applications for System 6 because you essentially have to use it as a cross compiler. As such, something like THINK C...

The simple answer: no. The deeply nuanced answer: NO! The concept of abandonware has absolutely no legal basis. It is basically an idea that a bunch of people came up with to legitimise software piracy for software that is no longer published since (a) the original developers and publishers...

Try disconnecting the power and removing the battery (test the battery too). I've had problems with my old Mini starting up, and following those steps seemed to solve the problem. (1st generation Intel Mac Mini in my case.)

Wow, the postmen in some areas have strange traditions.

Than an 800 kB disk formatted as 400 kB, no. In terms of the media, they should be identical. Than a 1.44 MB disk formatted as 400 kB, probably. In terms of the media, they are different.

Well, whatever you do, don't crawl through the window. Every time I've done that, the game went from a nice walk in the park to a subterrainian nightmare. ;)