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Did you mean to say "MacsBug Installed"? MacsBug for 128K and 512K macs are around - I got my copies from the Macintosh 68000 Development System disks (MDS). I even have some old, pre-release, typewritten documentation for it (which comes in handy since the commands are quite different from...

It's the Code Fragment Manager - provides system support for writing "plug-in" type code.

I have heard of many attempts but no successes. Although it is often said that the Colour Classic is really just an LC II in a compact box, there are in fact many differences - e.g. the Spice IC and 1MB ROM. That being said, if you can manage to boot it by mucking about with a System 6.0.8L...

Well, programming just about any computer can be rewarding, and, although certainly not always, is usually fun. :) In fact, if you put DOS and graphics aside, programming an Apple 1 is not so different from programming an Apple II. For BASIC, the limitations of the Apple 1 version may be...

You could program it! That's what I do, and it's actually a lot of fun and very rewarding. If I was going through Ohio, I'd be very keen to meet Vince. Unfortunately I'm probably just as likely to be passing through Kathmandu...

Depends what slot you have it in. Say you have it in slot 4, then try using IN #4 and then loop over INPUT X,Y,B and PRINT X, Y, B or something like that and see if you get the desired values. Edit: I just had a try with an emulator, but couldn't get it to work. Might have more luck...

I did wonder, but as the recommendation in Larry Pina's book was to lubricate with WD-40, I left it at that. How would something like Dry Glide go?

I use acetone. For a difficult one you may need to actually remove the eject mechanism entirely and soak it. Then I lubricate with WD-40. The first time I did it I had problems because I didn't get to everywhere that was gummed up, so my main advice is clean lots, then some more, then some...

I built one - I even wrote half of the ROM. (That's my brush with fame - sharing ROM space with the Woz in a Replica-1 :) ) Vince Briel is the designer, and the best place for info are his forums at http://www.brielcomputers.com/phpBB2/index.php AppleFritter has some discussion, but much...

Sure. There's no denying they are fantastic books to have.

I would also love the MacTech CD, but seeing as the material is online I have never bothered looking into ordering it. The old MacTech and Develop articles are great stuff, and often the only place to find the info I'm after these days. It certainly seems bizarre that the CD (and so presumably...

Does the software include any System 6 drivers for Rasterops video cards? Specifically the PaintBoard Li?

I thought System Software 2 (System 4 and Finder 5.5) was the best you could manage on a 512K with 64K ROM. I will have a try on mine tonight.

You'll have a very hard time developing on the 512K. Would need to use a very old version of the dev environments and you'd not have the use of a debugger (LightSpeed C 3 and THINK Pascal 2 both need at least System 4.2). The MacPlus will be much better - but I don't know how you got 8mb in...

One of the batteries (the PRAM battery) is of no consequence for power on, but the second battery kickstarts the PSU and must be working. However there are easier workarounds for testing than soldering a new one in. I ran my mac II with two 1.5V AA batteries in series for a while in place of...

A IIfx PSU is the same, but I'd be surprised if its the power supply from the symptoms you describe.

If you already know C, get THINK C. If you already know Pascal, get THINK Pascal. If you don't know either, the Mac is quite a difficult environment to learn on. I'd recommend THINK Pascal in that case and writing simple apps that use it's console window and drawing window rather than Mac...

The focus has to stay on 68k. If PPC doesn't swamp that focus then ok (but I fear it will). I am sure letting OS X in will result in everything else being swamped.

I used stuffit expander 3 to decode it.

Which one? This one is the most obviously labelled and it is fine (I just checked it.) http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/download/SysVII-800k-boot-disks/800kMac-701-miniF/800kMac-701-miniF.bin But you would be much better off with a System 6 boot disk. They are available from Apple - heaps of...