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As it says, I've got a couple 68k Powerbooks (a 170 and a 180) which don't want to power on. The 180 I know worked when I got it, but evidently it reached its shelf life and now it doesn't; the 170 I'm not sure of, as I just got it from the recycle center, but it's otherwise in good shape. The...

There's a variety of different Powerbook AC adapters that all use that modified RCA plug, so don't make the assumption that it'll work just because it fits - check the voltage/amperage! The Pismo (or at least mine) runs on 24v, 1.875a. Anyway, congratulations! The Pismo is a very nice machine...

Yeah, these are great machines. Mine's a perfect no-distractions laptop for my writing, but to be honest if I were more of an OSX fan I could probably use it as a daily driver and only ever have trouble with streaming video.

I'm trying to strategize a setup for my slowly-increasing collection of MIDI gear, and one of the things I'd like is for it to be portable. To that end, I'd like to use my Pismo, since it's pretty rugged and has dual batteries. Mostly I can get by with just running MIDI in to MIDI out, since the...

That's a modern, specifized definition of the term "VRAM," though. Dual-ported memory for video didn't become standard until much, much later on; heck, even getting dual-ported palette memory is a nice feature on, say, ISA VGA cards.

Yeah, the 99xx VDPs after the 9918 are all-round pretty decent. The only irritating thing about them on the MSX is the whole access via dedicated I/O ports, but in a homebrew system with more than 64KB address space, it would be pretty doable to simply map VRAM right into main memory; then you'd...

Yeah, that's something I'm beginning to grasp. Incredibly frustrating. And you're right, the Raspberry Pi foundation is better than most, I just wish they could take it the rest of the way...

Linux is more rotund than robust, if you get my drift. And I completely sympathize on the complexities of what are ostensibly hobbyist systems - I'm exceedingly frustrated by how long the Raspberry Pi foundation is taking to get the rest of the hardware documentation out (I know, I know, it...

An FPGA could certainly work, if you know how to create hardware from programmable logic or are inclined to learn. A second CPU could also work, but is kind of a waste of resources. If you really want to roll your own video card, then I'd say you're more than likely going to have to adjust your...

Bus bandwidth would only come into it if the video generator was pulling its framebuffer from system memory over the expansion bus, which I've never, ever seen. A Nubus video card would almost certainly have its own memory, and onboard video wouldn't pull it over the Nubus. And MacOS certainly...

There's always YouTube and BitTorrent ;) Keep circulating the tapes!

Ah, but is it Trace Beaulieu Crow, or Bill Corbett Crow?

Oh, laugh if you want, but our time will come, my friend. Our time will come...

Hm, I'd never seen this thread before. Development on classic systems (Amiga and DOS, primarily, but Mac as well) is something I've wanted to devote more time to for a while now, I've just been caught up in other stuff... Is there a good getting-started guide for C/C++ programming on Classic...

Why exactly is that, anyway? Is it a firmware issue, or a lack of driver support in OS9?

You Radius nuts is just crazy, man. ::)

Leaving it unplugged (and I left it sit for like an hour) didn't seem to address the issue either.

The firmware's up to date. I tried unplugging the PRAM battery, leaving it sit, plugging it back in, and then doing the NVRAM reset from Open Firmware; no dice.

Since I got my Pismo working again, I've wanted to start putting it to more use, especially in a travel context (thanks to the two battery bays - why don't more laptops have this option?) But I've discovered something aggravating: with OS 9.2.x installed, it won't come back from sleep mode. It...

I didn't know that was a thing, hmm. I might just try that.