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This is how the screen looks like now.

I have a Plus with a strange display issue. I checked the typical soldering issues but no luck. There is a bright and blurry glowy area in the very bottom of the screen. I looks like the whole image has fallen down and out of focus. My wife told me the computer smelt bad as well. Any ideas...

Alright, I checked the cable (non-branded) and the TX/RX are not swapped.

Ok, thanks for the advice. I tried the cable with my Beige G3 as well but it didn't work either. I'll check the cable with a multimeter next.

I was trying to network my two SE/30 somehow. I have a serial (?) cable that I plugged in both computers' printer ports. But after selecting AppleTalk to use that port there is nothing indicating network. I also tried Bolo but it doesn't see the hosting computer with serial or AppleTalk options...

Alright, this SE/30 is now a happy one. I bought another SE/30 with a battery explosion damage. The logic board is toast but the power supply and the analog boards are fine. Also the screen seems to be better one and the front case is much better. So I replaced the rusted bottom frame and logic...

Some update. The disk drive reads fine after the mac has booted up from SCSI2SD and after some cleanup it even ejects. With horrible squeaky sound. I checked the ejection motor gears and they seem to be fine. Maybe some more thorough cleanup required. The hamster wheel cooling fan needs a...

Tested now with an external SCSI2SD and SE/30 boots up fine. It seems to have 8MB RAM (8x1MB). Next task will be to check the disk drive issues. I have already contacted owner of a broken SE/30 (CRT neck) so at least I have some hope of making this nicer looking. Regarding the fan it looks like...

I rescued/bought a Plus with 4MB RAM and a rather beaten up SE/30. Both with keyboards and mice. And as a bonus there was an external SCSI2SD and Imagewriter II :). Mac Plus seems to be pretty mint, boots up and the disk drive works fine. The SE/30 has some damage all around the case and the...

By the way, what would be the proper way to redraw those buttons in case of updateEvt and when the application window is shown again. Without any redraw there is a white clipping. Edit: Never mind, I didn't realize there is DrawControls

Another 500Mhz Pismo built from pile of spares with 192MB RAM and 10GB HD. Similar condition outside but keyboard is very worn. I have couple broken keyboards, I wonder if it is worth of the effort try to replace keycaps. The scissor mechanism looks somewhat fragile. I could possibly build...

Excellent news. After a countryside weekend I had a new attempt with Pismo. First I had a better look with memory chips and found out I actually had 512MB + 128 MB combo available. Then I wanted to see whether the heatsink makes any difference. Apparently 500MHz CPU doesn't want even to...

Some results of the Pismo sorting session: 5 CPUs but only 2 are ok. All of them boot but all 500MHz models do not have sound and seem to be unstable. The faulty 400Mhz has distorted sound and crashes. I guess there isn't anything I could do with them? 3 nice working screens with good...

There seems to be both 400MHz and 500MHz CPUs but without memory. Two working HDs, couple good looking screens and cases and keyboards. But no batteries or Airport cards at all.

Alright, I got some parts. Something like 5 G3 Pismos in various levels of destruction. Some should boot but have broken screens etc. The guy I fetched them from said I should be able to get at least one working Pismo out of those. Let's see... Oh, and I got also two IIcx more (logic board and...

Alright, I have my copyBits animation stuff working with buttons and menus controlling it. I ended up creating three offscreens, two are for the static sources and one is for the staging area before copying everything to the screen. Might be a little bit excessive but no need to load pictures...

Thanks guys, the example looks pretty much what I'm looking for. 

One more question. I want to have buttons straight on the window next to the picture without any dialog. These buttons would have direct effect on the picture without need of hitting any ok button. Is it possible to use the standard buttons without dialog? Or should I go more low level and draw...

It seems display sleep or some other energy saver causes this machine to became really slow on screen redraws, for example while typing or just refreshing windows. After restart everything back to normal. I have scanned the HD with Disinfectant 3.7.1.  The computer has ATI Rage Pro with 6MB...

Hehe, this went pretty fast from a fun little hello world window to the dark misery. Things I suffered lately: Trying to find good, simple and working example of offscreen and copybits for Think Pascal. Eventually...