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My personal opinion, Mac collectors are a different breed than Amiga collectors. I think the percentage of Mac collectors who would prefer to have a "newer better alternative" is low. I myself have a bunch of Macs that have been meticulously restored to practically new condition, inside and...

It should NOT be accelerating with QuickDraw acceleration turned off. You can just use a benchmark software like Speedometer, MacBench, Norton System Info, etc. The key, like others have said, is to set your color depth to 24 bit color. Then turn QuickDraw acceleration off, run the benchmark...

Depending on the CRT, they are usually secured either with a weak glue, or some rubber stoppers. If it's just glue like the SE CRTs, you can just grab the deflection coil firmly, push forward (toward the screen) and twist. Make sure you don't put any sideways pressure on the neck since it's...

Do you have Connectix Compact Virtual installed? You need that to utilise the extra RAM onboard any SE accelerator.

I would recap it first before trying anything else. Those caps look ripe. Whenever I recap, I check the surrounding traces and vias and repair as needed.

I have a few SE accelerators with on-board RAM, and they are all very fast. Since the RAM is on the accelerator itself, it’s not limited by the SE bus speeds, so it’s actually faster than vanilla Macs with similar specs. If I remember correctly, my ImagePro 33 clocked like 2.8 times faster than...

I never found any documentation, but I do have it running in a SuperDrive SE, so it’s basically a faster SE/30. The RAM is pressure fit and there are plastic tabs that slide into the holes. I thought that if I try to push the tabs in, they might break. Best way I found of removing the ram is...

Here’s how you ACTUALLY fix a cube CD-ROM with a slipping eject mechanism: The ejection roller consists of a long metal rod and a rubber surround (that’s actually two rubber tubes that meet in the middle). The rubber is just press fit on the rod. What happens with these drives is that over...

Did you go through the full Compact Virtual installation? I’m pretty sure that’s key (and you get to choose from a list of accelerators). I remember that sometimes i had better luck reinstalling with a less obvious accelerator option. You might try playing around with it. The extension icon...

Did you check the PSU voltages?

As weird as it may sound, sometimes a simple pram reset works to get these new processors working. Did you try that?

Risk was one of my favorite games during that era. I still play it quite often. Mine also crashes in all my Macs, except my B/W compacts (SE, SE/30, Classic, Classic II), and only when running System 7.1 or earlier. They all use BlueSCSI drives. I’m pretty sure I have the black and white...

Yep, I just wanted to mention it as an alternative way of adding memory capacity (if that is the goal for someone reading this). Mine has the PMMU as well as the SuperDrive (SWIM/ROM) upgrade. But I stuck a 040 in there to make a bit more snappy. I can always return it to stock by swapping...

FYI, another option is to find the Daystar adapter and use the PowerCache or the Turbo040 card. This will provide the MMU upgrade as well (plus a speed boost). Although, those adapters are fairly rare.

Looks really nice! It’s so hard to appreciate pictures of nice restorations because of the white balance shenanigans. I’m sure yours looks close to original, but then someone takes a picture of a completely yellow/brown one and the picture looks just as good. It’s a shocking difference...

Here you go. I’ve used these and they work great. https://www.tindie.com/products/garrettswrkshp/gw4194a-4x4mb-pal-simm-ram-for-mac-ii-and-iix/ Edit: Whoops I realized it’s out of stock. Maybe he will make some more soon? You can ask.

Hey, sorry to hear about your troubles. Is there any sign of life? The original VRM has a green LED that lights up if the PSU is plugged in. Does the Artmix one light up? If not, can you try the original VRM? Is the VRM board touching anything, like the pillar? If the PSU is confirmed good...

So I got the Sonnet G3 card (same clock speed) to see how it compares and, while the card doesn’t reboot like the Interware card, it pauses for a pretty long time before it starts loading extensions. I assume that pause is where the “magic” happens. So it’s pretty much a wash, although the...

I think I researched it briefly back in the day and I couldn’t find an easy way to preserve ADC. But I wasn’t too worried about it since I was upgrading to a DVI graphics card anyway. You can always use the DVI to ADC power brick. I assume most people go this route when converting to ATX (and...

I don’t know if you have ever listened to a working stock MDD PSU, but they are insanely loud. That’s the main reason I prefer an ATX conversion for the MDD.