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Haha :) Well, it's been going quite well up until now. I hope with some help here, I can make this one work properly too :) Thanks for sharing the story :)

Has anyone here successfully run the Reminder app from Dave Mark's and Cartwright Reed's "Macintosh C Programming Primer, Volume 1, Second edition"? When checking the syntax, Think C complains that "Pointer types do not match" in the two lines below.       GetDItem( dialog, iLaunchCheckBox...

Well, putting context into consideration, that makes perfect sense I guess  :) But no, an old clothes iron, although I'm sure a soldering iron would work just as fine :) The closeups in combination with the lighting make the modification look a bit more messy than it does in real life, by...

Talking about classic mac development; is there any thread here or in some other place where new software is announced or published? If not, perhaps that could be something to think about. Maybe a separate page of some kind. I've come across different types of newly written software while...

Thank you very much for your input! Ah yes, using the window's coordinates makes more sense than tracking the mouse position, of course. I was wondering if maybe there was some toolbox function suitable for this purpose. If not, portRect and portBits is what I feel most comfortable with at this...

Hi everyone A while back I had the idea to begin learning to program, and what better way to do so than with C and the Macintosh Toolbox  :)   It's mainly a hobby at this point, and I just see it as a nice bonus to learn some general programming concepts in the process. I've recently moved on...

As anyone who owns one of the original PowerBooks knows, the I/O port door with its latch/tab and power button behind it isn't the smartest of designs. Since I got my PowerBook 170 back in 2001 I've been alternating between using it without the door (not that pretty), with a door with the tab...

I found this page a long time ago, and it's apparently still online: https://winnilcd.en.made-in-china.com/product/vMbxgcerABhi/China-LCD-Panel-for-Injection-Industrial-Machine-Hlr1014-101125-Hld1014-03-0010-.html Aside from the somewhat peculiar specifications, it looks perfectly identical to...

Success, at last! A couple of weeks ago I decided to go ahead and re-solder all the solder points on both sides the protruding part of the motherboard to see if that would solve the issues I've had. After reassembling the computer, the operation seemed to be successful and everything was back...

Very nice! I saw what I guess is your video on YouTube a while ago. I'm curious about what the "Why the brown box" says. I've never seen that one before.

Thank you for your input! I've been so focused on problems with the pins from the power connector and the surrounding vias and traces that I haven't considered problems with the solder joints elsewhere. I will look into that. This past weekend, I had the idea to take voltage measurements on...

I feel I have to intervene a bit here :) Like PB145B said, there are no electrolytic capacitors on the PB170's motherboard. And the power source is a new switched power supply (inside the original case), so the problem is not there. I've also tried different power supplies with the same...

Does anyone here have any information about the layout of the PowerBook 170/140 motherboard? Since a couple of months back, I've had problems with my PowerBook 170, somehow related to the AC connector (I've been using the computer more or less daily since I got it back in 2001, averaging about...

I just found this, which might explain the issue you’re having: A variant of the AIFF-C file format (dubbed AIFF-C/sowt) was introduced by Apple after the company started to use Intel processors in its personal computers. The file header and its numerical fields still use big-endian byte order...

Did you open PC Exchange? (In the Control Panels folder). If you do, it will let you add a file extension, pick one of your installed apps and choose one of the its supported file types in a list.

I wrote this reply before I saw LaPorta's post, but didn't get a chance to post it before the forums went offline earlier this week. Same idea as in LaPorta's post but expressed a little differently: I suspect that what's happening is that the files loses/don't get any type/creator codes when...

On a side note, another reason for building a second battery was that I wanted one that looked less homemade in order to – hopefully – allow me to take the computer with me while flying. It was with some great worries that I approached the security control at Copenhagen airport about a month...

Hello! Just thought I'd mention that I recently built a second battery for my PowerBook. Since I'm slow-charging my first battery at 0.1C for 15 hours in order to maximize its lifetime and performance, I soon felt a need for a second one. This time I used one of the original cases. After an...

Thanks!   I love any application of frosted glass or plastic myself, so that was a natural choice :) If I would start selling these, I'd have to improve on the build quality and the time spent :) But I hope my report might be of use.   Regarding the LED upgrade, for now I can tell that it...

Just thought I'd join in and add that I made a first, and successful attempt at building a new battery for my PowerBook 170 at the beginning of this year. I don't have access to any 3D printer so I made the case using saved pieces of translucent plastic that melted together using an iron with a...