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Oh no! That's unfortunate. Mine hasn't seemed to give any problems, but with the length of cable involved, it's not beyond the bounds of possibility that some cards simply don't like it. Sorry about that!

Just got mine today! I can confirm that it works great with these cheap hubs that I have lying around everywhere, and also works with a Logitech Unifying receiver that acts as both a keyboard and mouse. The default mouse sensitivity seems to be a lot higher than on the ADB-USB Wombat, but...

I haven't had much exposure to CodeWarrior beyond reading and modifying some code from a CW project, but I can confirm that Retro68 is pretty good. I've been using it for the software components of my ethernet card project. As you mention, cross-development is not without its inconveniences...

Let’s see how many 68k machines I can precariously stack on this flimsy folding table…

That sounds about right, to be honest. The classic Mac OS does not load MacTCP until an application calls for it, so it’s normal for it not to respond to ping until you’ve opened some TCP/IP application to “wake up” MacTCP. As far as extensions go, that’s normal - most Ethernet drivers (at...

In my experience, A/UX definitely can be picky about video cards - it does some clever tricks running video card drivers in a restricted Toolbox environment inside the kernel. In theory, well-behaved cards and drivers will work fine, but compatibility is far from guaranteed. Both of the cards I...

Yes, definitely! Open the Monitors control panel, and you can drag the two displays around to match the layout on your desk. I think you have to click each display at least once to make them both active. You can drag the tiny menu bar to choose which display has the menu bar on it, and if you...

Glad to hear it! One thing to be aware of with it, that I don't think I directly mentioned - it can't tell whether or not a monitor is connected, and the SE/30 seems to default to using it as the main display and the internal display as the secondary. So if you've got the card installed, you've...

Oops! That is absolutely not correct!!! Must have made a typo. Composite sync is 3, blue ground is 13. Here's a revised pinout table. ColorBoard 264 Signal DA-15 Mac video DE-15 VGA video 1 Red 2 1 2 Red ground 1 6 3 Monitor sense 1 7 - ** 4 Composite sync 3 13 * 5 Green 5 2 6...

That's some good detective work! Sorry I never got around to digging into my network setup to investigate, but just to confirm, I tried turning IGMP snooping on on my network, and indeed, AppleTalk immediately stopped working. This makes sense - IGMP is the protocol used to manage IPv4...

It'd be a tight fit, but I think it probably would. I had the same thought, but I haven't tried it just because on the Compacts it would make it a pain to take the rear-case 'bucket' off. On other machines where the lock slot is in the same half of the case as the drive, that would be a great idea.

https://a.co/d/eaOEf7V I use these 60cm ones in my SE and SE/30; they’re a bit unnecessarily long, but they’re thin enough that I can sneak them out around the expansion opening even with a breakout board in place. Normally I secure the card holder to the back of the case with a Velcro dot...

Design for the next (and hopefully final) SEthernet/30 prototype coming together nicely.

I use Retro68 too and I ran into similar issues on my PowerMac G4 running 10.4.11, but did eventualy get it working. If I remember right, I needed a newer version of gcc than Apple shipped (that bit was described in the README, but it's easy to miss), and then had to change a couple of things in...

Yeah, it's undeniably a bit of a pipedream, but would be cool nonetheless. I doubt I'd ever get around to implementing a TLS library or an application for it myself, but I guess where I'm at is, if someone wants to try it out, I'll gladly add support to the driver (I might do it anyway if I get...

The discussion of offload of SSL operations has got me thinking... it would be fairly machine-specific, but the ethernet chip I'm using for my SE and SE/30 ethernet card project can do modular exponentiation (i.e. the computationally-expensive bit of RSA), MD5 and SHA1 in hardware (it is...

Ah, sorry for misunderstanding! I just fixed the links anyway, it was a copy/paste mistake. The connector that goes to the circuit board is an insulation-displacement connector, it's meant to be crimped onto a ribbon cable rather than soldered to (like an internal SCSI or floppy disk cable)...

If you're not comfortable soldering, you could cobble together a cable using jumper wires like these (the socket ends fit perfectly onto the pins on the video card), and a screw-terminal VGA connector like this (or for Mac-style video, use this). The picture quality likely won't be ideal, and...

Yeah, when I plugged my IIfx back in after 10 or so years in storage, one of the tantalums on the 12V rail let out some proper fireworks, left a big scorch mark up the back of the case. All fixed now, but definitely not one of my more enjoyable retrocomputing moments. Yeah, I'm generally not...