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  1. VMSZealot

    MacSD as MIDI device

    Yeah, that's the config I'm using at the moment - but with the USB and mpu_401 configs removed. Still no dice. Internally, the 475 doesn't have stereo, but I wonder if I could just use the mono output to the internal speaker? Or would the power be too high? When I get a moment, I'll try MacSD...
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    MacSD as MIDI device

    Yeah. I'm thinking I should try it without the BlueSCSI - but the BlueSCSI, with its better CD Support, is more useful to me at the moment. When I get a moment.
  3. VMSZealot

    MacSD as MIDI device

    MacOS 7.6, and the supplied version of OMS (Can’t remember which version that is!)
  4. VMSZealot

    MacSD as MIDI device

    It comes with the drivers, and without the special driver it isn't detected at all (which is kinda what you'd expect). All the software I'm using is software that comes with MacSD. And I thought I had it configured right - but OMS just crashes. And yes, I want to use the onboard synth - but...
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    MacSD as MIDI device

    I got my MacSD! And I‘ve managed to fit it to my LC475, inside the case, with a BlueSCSI (which I prefer for its CD selection method - I know the MacSD can read CDs, it just doesn’t do it quite as elegantly from my perspective.) But MIDI! That’s the real party trick. I want to use the MacSD for...
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    Macintosh Personal Color, a Fantasy 1986, 68000 Mac with a 4bpp Color Mode (Emulator)

    Yeah, I know - it's how ScuzzyGraph worked. So, IIRC, CricketDraw supported it. It can't be the only software that did though. I wonder if any games, either deliberately or accidentally, had support? Weirdly, I don't think that CricketDraw displayed colour on a Mac II or newer - so how did...
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    Macintosh Personal Color, a Fantasy 1986, 68000 Mac with a 4bpp Color Mode (Emulator)

    It's interesting that Scuzzygraph enabled colour (3bit, I think) on the 68000 Macs. I wonder if there's a way to hack this internally? I've also seen kits for resurrecting compact Macs into a desktop case, and driving a VGA monitor - how awesome would these be if they enabled 3bit colour! And...
  8. VMSZealot

    Connecting to Raspbian Window Server with MacX

    Ahh. Top tips. Thank you both.
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    Connecting to Raspbian Window Server with MacX

    I installed MacX, using the muscle memory from twenty years ago when I used to connect to VMS, and tried to open Evolution (running on my Raspberry Pi) on my Mac. I got an randr error - `Xlib: extension “RANDR” missing on display “:1.0”` Any thoughts at the real Genius Bar (68kmla!)
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    More pico-mac stuff

    Would it be possible for an emulator to access some kind of hardware hat so that it could use a Mac floppy disk drive?
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    G5 Death? Another one bites the dust?

    My 1.8GHz Dual G5 (the late model, with a memory ceiling of 4GB) quietly died this afternoon. No bad smells. No bangs. No drama. It just turned off, mid way through doing a CPU intensive render. Why use the G5 instead of something more modern? Well why not? In any event. It died. I thought...
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    The Click of Death

    I have a few Zip drives. A couple of USB drives (still working), an IDE drive in my beige G3 (still working), and a SCSI Zip drive - the most used because it connects to my 68k Macs, which failed with the dreaded click of death last year. Honestly, I'm surprised it didn't fail sooner -...
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    PDS Pi

    As I understand it, PiStorm replaces the 68000 on the board - making it only of use to Macs with a socketed DIP 68000. Surely it would be more useful/practicable to use the PDS slot?
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    PDS Pi

    For no good reason at all other than "because it's there", I was pondering the AST Mac 86 PDS card for the Mac SE, and it got me wondering whether it would be feasible to implement on a Raspberry Pi card, slotted into the PDS card of a Mac SE. Presumably, once a PDS to Pi had been developed...
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    MacSD and BlueSCSI - friends forever?

    I was pondering the possibility of installing a MacSD and BlueSCSI in the same Mac at the same time. The BlueSCSI support for CD ROM drives seems to be the best in the business, but at the same time the MacSD has Midi emulation. It seems to me that if they could happily co-exist on the same...
  16. VMSZealot

    Laserwriter 8500 dirty pages - how to fix?

    Ahh damn. So the printer is fine, but the cartridge isn't. I found a video discussing refurb of an HP cartridge. When the weather gets better and I can work outside I'll see if I can apply the techniques to my cartridge.
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    Laserwriter 8500 dirty pages - how to fix?

    I have a Laserwriter 8500 which produces very dirty output. Once printed, the pages don't smudge when rubbed with my finger - so I don't think there's a fault with the fuser, and turning the contrast dial doesn't make that much difference. It's just that too much toner is deposited in the...
  18. VMSZealot

    Modern Claris Works

    I don't disagree. On the other hand though, it is a pity that there are modern recreations of all manner of games, modern recreations of pixel paint packages, modern trackers - but integrated packages don't get a look in.
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    Modern Claris Works

    Emulators aren't really noob friendly - but yes, that's what I'd do.
  20. VMSZealot

    Modern Claris Works

    Yeah - that's what I thought. What a pity. Guess he's gonna need to keep that Pismo a while longer if he insists on using old tools!
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