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That would be sweet. I asked ClassicHasClass about it, but according to him Classilla would require a lot of hacking to work even just on 68k 8.1...

Yep, Netscape's quite usable once you turn off Javascript. I should dig up a copy of iCab and see how that compares...it's been forever since I tried it.

It's kind of a shame to pass on something like a bundled video upgrade over the cost of a recapping (which is pretty cheap...)

The BIOS doesn't do a serious memory test, it basically just checks for the presence of RAM at succeeding addresses to figure out how much is in the system. You'd want to run a full-fledged memory-test utility to rule out the possibility of RAM failure. Also, the hard disk's being good and the...

Oh, I've got a few different projects hanging around the house... Got a couple PowerBook 100 series machines I've had hanging around for a while. One of them works, the others don't and I haven't tried to figure out why yet. I should get to those... Got a 386 box that works, but is having a...

Oy, this argument again...must every thread about using vintage technology be co-opted for a sermon on how Everybody Who Doesn't Upgrade Is Stupid And Horrible? Cripes, this one wasn't even about using it as a daily driver. It definitely seems to be kind of an "if you have to ask, you'll never...

It baffles me that anyone would have to ask this question on a forum dedicated to vintage computing.

Be "that guy" all you want, man - but remember that "that guy" is every bit as much of a walking anachronism as a DOS user, now :p These days their niche in the tech world has been filled by soul-patched hipsters wearing horn-rimmed glasses "ironically" and arguing about which Linux distro is...

Huh. Well, if it's getting unmanageable, I'd first try disabling everything you can manage without in CONFIG.SYS/AUTOEXEC.BAT and see if that makes it stabler; if that fails to help, you might just want to reinstall Windows.

Did you change the hardware configuration? Windows pre-95 is really finicky about hardware; you pretty much have to uninstall anything you're replacing before you remove it and install the new piece.

Ever is a pretty stark qualifier; try some of the dreaded "chiclet keyboards" on, say, the TRS-80 CoCo or the IBM PCjr, or worse yet, the vile little membrane keyboards of the cheapest-of-the-cheapest "home computers" like the Magnavox Odyssey² or the Timex-Sinclair 1000, and the AppleDesign...

What we really need is a 68k build of Classilla...

Yeah...I actually had a switchable adapter, and I swear I still have it, but it naturally went missing the minute I picked up the Performa... :-/

Yes, so I gather. I'd just like to be able to switch it into modes I know my monitor supports even if the Mac doesn't, but for some reason the drop-down box only has "recommended modes" in it and not "all modes."

Interesting information, but I'm betting it's just a serial cable with both 9- and 25-pin connectors on one end. They're pretty common.

Ah, a true classic...

Only a 68020? I thought Photoshop 4 was the last 68k version...

For the record, the answer is "not that much, really." I did have to turn Javascript off, but it was on account of Netscape 3 barfing out JS "syntax errors" at me (presumably on account of modern language extensions? I dunno.) Performance-wise, it was fine and is finer - though redraw is a bit...

Additionally, while I'm not sure how much Javascript there is on this forum (I'm sure I'll find out, once I get my Performa 631CD online,) modern JS tends to be a huge boat-anchor for older computers when using a browser that supports Javascript but doesn't have a whitelist.

I have a spare ROM, if you don't find one closer.