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SLIRP gives you an IP connection, you "can" surf the net. Somewhere on Github there is software to connect classic macs to WIFI using an ESP8266 microcontroller and this is a thing I want to do in the future. Using a serial cable was much quicker though, so this is what I chose for now. There...

4MB and SCSI2SD are great - I have the same and you cannot do much more with a Classic. The only suggestion I have is, connect it to the internet, because why not ;-) I use a serial connection to a Linux box that runs slirp and it is dead slow with 9600 bps. Still you can connect to IRC servers...

I had a wobbly Classic screen (but on the top, not the bottom) that was caused by a too low voltage on the 5V rail. I replaced the trimmer on the Analog Board to fix it. Your issue does sound different, but it would not hurt to check the voltage after a cold start. This can be done from the...

you can measure the voltages from the external foppy port. I dont remember the exact pin but, but this can be found online.

I replaced it with a CNY17-3 (without the "G") in my Mac Classic and it works without problems. The Analog Boards should be the same, so I can recommend this.

You should also check the live voltages at the 12 and 5 V lines. This can be done frome the Floppy port without opening the case. I had wobbly screen problems with a Mac Classic that were caused by a low 5V supply. If you find this to be the case, you still have to dectect the source of the...

After some more testing I can report that the 64 MB mini reliably drives my EIZO 1920x1200 via DVI (the 32 MB mini does not). But this works only in Tiger or Leopard. In OS9 only smaller resolutions are supported. 1920x1200 shows ugly artifacts but it is possible to find the Monitors Control...

As written above, it was rather cheap and I wanted to have a spare anyway. So I bought the "Silent Upgrade" Mac mini and it is here now. Time for some quick testing. The CPU is 20% faster than my 1.25 GHz Model, no surprise there. The OpenGL performance is exactly the same with benchmarks that...

Hi, thanks! I'm not terribly interested in Benchmarks. I also have a 1.5 12" PowerBook for comparison, but this comes with a Geforxe FX 5200go (IIRC). Im more interested in real-world experiences regarding gaming and screen sizes. I won't do heavy work with this machine anymore. The only...

Hi! I found mentioned late 2005 G4 Mac mini with 1.5 GHz and 64 MB graphics. The seller does not ask too much so I will just get it in any case. Right now my "goto" PPC Mac is a 1.25 Ghz Mac mini model, running OS 9.2, Tiger and Leopard. It is great and having a (faster) spare will be a good...

With any OS X Disk Utility or with the diskutil commandline tool. I have not done it in more than 10 years, but it should still work

.cdr would of course hint to Corel Draw :) But no, it is a ready-to-burn image created by the Disk Utility from OSX. ISO would have been a better choice..

Since m.2 is the current standard, the SSDs tend to be cheaper than mSATA ones. IDE to m.2 adapters in a 2.5" HD form factor go for about 15-20 Euros at Amazon. The thing is, it is becoming hard to get SSDs below 128 GB. If you want something smaller, the SDcard option is still worth consideration

Look at the Wikipedia entry In short, it is the current standard connector for Flash disks in computers and replaces the former (bigger) mSATA conector. There is a photo showing both side by side at the linked Wikipedia site. What makes it a bit more complicated, is that there are m.2...

Everything written here is true, sadly. I just want to specify it a bit more. iCab 2.9.9 is the most modern browser for 68k Macs. But as you discovered, it won't go to any modern websites. And even if it could display them (there are some sensible webdesigners left), it is not able to work with...

Agreed. I forgot to mention that only packed files can be transferred via ftp or http. The Resource Forks are lost otherwise!

If I have an TCP connection (Ethernet or Serial Modem), I always fire up a Python ftp or http server from my Linux box that serves the current directory. Then I use Fetch 3.0.3 or a browser on the Classic Mac for downloading. Fetch is much more lightweight and works well even on System 6 and...

Could you try an external Apple CDROM, maybe it is a driver issue? The Apple drives (Disk and CD) are passed through to the PC Card via Apple's System Extensions. Maybe it only works with original Apple drives. It could also be, that only one CDROM is provided for the PC side? You could...

This is probably true. At least if it tryes to negotiate compatible cyphers. On old systems ihat would take some time for sure.

I had time to check in the meantime and was able to disable SSL on iCab 2.6.x (last 68k version) as well as Netscape 4.x. On IE 4.x i did not find a setting regarding SSL though. But if you connect to any modern and incompatible server with old SSL enabled, the connection will just fail. It is...