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  1. John_A

    Using a AI service to assist with classic mac programming

    I have created a workspace in NotebookLM and uploaded all 33 IM reference books in pdf format as the only source. Doesnt seem that its possile to share a link. Any ideas on a question? I will upload the unfiltered answer here. (Edit: wrote this while adestopon asked the copilot.)
  2. John_A

    Using a AI service to assist with classic mac programming

    Exactly this. The revised IM collection consists of 33 large volumes. Mac Garden had them on a CD image at one point, might still be there. But using a AI "librarian" to do the heavy lifting seems better.
  3. John_A

    Using a AI service to assist with classic mac programming

    Don´t know if this have been up for discussion. Would be interesting to load the whole Inside Macintosh series of books into something like Googles NotebookLM (or if there is something better around). Then ask questions to find the best solutions on various programming related topics. Anyone...
  4. John_A

    Reverse Engineering the Macintosh LC III Logicboard

    I’m late to the party and you may have covered this already. But where do you get the components to populate these new mother boards? New? Nos? Salvaged parts? A combination?
  5. John_A

    1995 Canon Inkjet Printer BJC-70

    Hmm, seems that I might be wrong about mac drivers for BJC-80 and 85.The only drivers I found was to an attachment, Canon is-12, wich replaces the printhead and turn the printer into a scanner.. A bit strange that there are drivers for the accessories but not the printer itself..
  6. John_A

    1995 Canon Inkjet Printer BJC-70

    Found this in a basement storage.. Parallel printer port, drivers for dos & win95. Found fairly inexpensive cables online, parallel ->usb that works with MacOs 9.x -> osx 10.5. The BJC-80 & 85 should work with MacOS classic.  Whats your experience of connecting vintage...
  7. John_A

    Connecting a Stylewriter to usb PB G3 Lombard

    Thanks! Did a bit of research and found that there are a few different versions, some with “x” in the end of the product name. I suppose those are guaranteed to work with OSX? I need one for  MacOS 9/usb, but I guess they are compatible?
  8. John_A

    Connecting a Stylewriter to usb PB G3 Lombard

    Trying this topic again..  :)
  9. John_A

    Pismo Firewire and miniDV transfer

    Update 2: So, I tried today to compare some older videos, compressed with h.264 and recompressing the original files with h.265 and push the bitstream to really low levels. Honestly, I cant se much of a difference at 720x576 comparing the results. Original file: DV video  28895Kbit/s  total...
  10. John_A

    Pismo Firewire and miniDV transfer

    An update: It works! Actually better than I thought it would. The major issue is of course getting the files off the PB, i only have a USB HDD and copying large files are extremely slow. So, I went down to our storage and dug through the piles of electronics, found a HP nx9240 17" with a...
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    Pismo Firewire and miniDV transfer

    Yes, at the time it was a luxury to connect your camcorder to a computer.. What make me hesitate is the hard disk requirement.. At a closer investigation 13gb / hour is needed. Thats 200Mb / minute. So, compression is a must, but thats not a viable option on an old G3, although it would be...
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    Pismo Firewire and miniDV transfer

    Yes, you are correct. I thought at a quick glance that DVC was a compression method of DV, but DVC is as you pointed out, a slightly improved format with a wider track pitch when recorded on tape. It's quite a technological djungle actually, I found at least 5 different variations on the DVC...
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    Pismo Firewire and miniDV transfer

    I guess I need to get the cables and try then. According to the dv-specs it's 720x576 at 24fps (PAL).  25Mbit/s  with the dvc compression, plus the audio.  As I recall, the PB Lombard had a mpeg-2 card besides the graphics card to decode the dvd stream, while the Pismo has that function built...
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    Pismo Firewire and miniDV transfer

    I got my hands on a Sony miniDV tape viewer/tranfer station recently with a FW output. I guess the PB Pism FireWire implementation is one of the earlier ones. It seems FW400 came in different flavours with transfer speeds ranging from 98 to 393 Mbit/s. The main bottleneck is probably the HDD...
  15. John_A

    Macintosh Toolbox programming questions

    Would be fun to raise a ticket at Apples support site and report this as a software bug  :lol: Interesting to see if there is anyone left with a sense of humour at Apple or if all those guys are retired by now.. Anyway, keep reporting! It's a very interesting and fun read  8-)
  16. John_A

    Multiplayer games over localtalk?

    Spectre supreme? Oxyd? 
  17. John_A

    Appledesign Powered speakers II

    As an upcoming project I have been planning for an updated, 3d printed version of the Appledesign Powered speakers 2. I have the enclosure specs, but it would be nice with a pdf with the drawings and measurements, if there ever was such a thing. Can only find the pdf for the taller, first version? 
  18. John_A

    Macintosh Toolbox programming questions

    Don't know if you have this technical note. https://www.fenestrated.net/mirrors/Apple Technotes (As of 2002)/os/os_06.html
  19. John_A

    Macintosh Toolbox programming questions

    Well, I would probably dig through the Apple Developer magazines from that time. You might find something in there. https://vintageapple.org/develop/
  20. John_A

    Macintosh Toolbox programming questions

    Out of curiosity: What kind of values does the control strip module return? Are they of the same type, within a certain range but random, or is it just a complete mess? The only other control strip module that uses a slider is probably the volume control? I wonder if there are any source code...
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