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    Does anyone have a 667MHz or 800MHz Powerbook G4?

    I don't know if telnet can be used before probe-all? probe-all is when the fcode of the graphics cards are loaded. Do an nvram script to see what's available before probe-all? But where would the output go? Maybe it's buffered and it will appear when the console is installed and opens the...
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    Mac SE Clock Drift

    Is there a relation between the amount of time the machine is off, and the amount of time that the clock is behind by? Is the amount of time that the clock is behind by at least less than the amount of time the machine was off? Wouldn't a bad crystal also affect the time while the computer is...
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    Gray NDRV solution!

    With the resource fork intact, the tbxi dump command will include in the dump a "SysEnabler" file which may include an optional PEF in some Mac OS ROM versions.
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    Gray NDRV solution!

    I updated my fork with your changes. See my last commit notes.
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    Apple prototype ROM flasher utility

    Emulation and info regarding "Flasher (TNT 0.6)" https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/apple-network-server-macos-based-roms-found.4756/post-41630
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    My Mad B&W G3 Setup!

    Read the chip first in your programmer and compare with a ROM dump from Open Firmware. This will verify the address and data lines are correct. I just finished adding emulation of flashable ROM chips (AMD Am28F020 or Intel 28F020) to my fork of DingusPPC (code not committed yet). These are...
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    Can a Macintosh use non-contiguous RAM?

    Not so interesting. The CPU can only know a few virtual -> physical translations at one time and DingusPPC can only output those. It's the OS that keeps track of all the translations. An exception handler is used when the CPU tries to access a virtual memory address that it doesn't know about...
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    Gray NDRV solution!

    You can try finding Apple's NDRV sample code "GDX 950717". Search for it on an older Apple Developer CD. Dev.CD/Development Kits/Hardware/PCI Driver Development Kit /• Samples/Driver Samples/Video samples/GDX 950717 It's missing stuff that exists in more modern NDRV for Mac OS X (EDID/DDC/?)...
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    Gray NDRV solution!

    Gray screen is used for display color depth transitions so that you don't get weird colors during the transition. The CLUT/gamma table is turned gray so that all depths show the same gray color.
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    Can a Macintosh use non-contiguous RAM?

    I think a Power Mac 6100 with 64+64+8 MB of RAM has discontiguous physical RAM addresses (in DingusPPC at least). It has a MMU though. I haven't checked if the MMU gets used even if virtual memory is disabled. Should write a debugger routine that dumps the virtual -> physical mappings. The...
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    Schrockwell's S3/30 Reloaded build

    We can see that the silkscreen indicates the position of pin 1 (diagonal outside corner) in the images at: https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/obsoletes-se-30-reloaded-build.46570/ I guess the presence of the socket obfuscates that? But no, the image of the socket in the first post in...
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    Gray NDRV solution!

    The property will have an incorrect address or length which could cause an exception. 0 > .properties AAPL,gray-value DEFAULT CATCH!, code=FFF00300 ok
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    Gray NDRV solution!

    Like I said before, " AAPL,gray-value" property FFFFFFFF encode-int is very wrong. It should be: FFFFFFFF encode-int " AAPL,gray-value" property
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    Unable to upgrade Blue & White G3 to 10.4.11 - help?

    My MacOSXUpdCombo10.4.11PPC.dmg is 180.8 MiB (189.6 MB) and can update all versions of 10.4 to 10.4.11, according to https://web.archive.org/web/20080111152932/http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306297 Actually, there's still a download for it at...
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    My Mad B&W G3 Setup!

    Classic development from Apple consisted of MPW and ResEdit. Source code version control was done using MPW Projector. MPW contained C, Pascal, Assembly headers and UNIX-like commands. The commands included compilers and linkers, disassemblers, etc. Rez, DeRez, GetFileInfo, SetFile still exist...
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    My Mad B&W G3 Setup!

    Get a B&W G3 compatible modem port to serial port adapter (g3 stealth serial port or griffin port or circuittalk) https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/introducing-and-interest-check-circuittalk-localtalk-for-powermac-g4.40182/ Then you can do MIDI like older beige Macs - externally clocked.
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    Does anyone have a 667MHz or 800MHz Powerbook G4?

    This is going to be difficult to debug without a built-in serial port. I modified the Forth code to include bytes 0x60 to 0x7F from the PC ROM. These bytes include the subsystem vendor id and device id (0082:0515). I don't know what the other bytes are for. I also added a property "start" that...
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    Gray NDRV solution!

    Open Firmware does not use semi-colon to separate commands. You have to encode the property data before you finally create the property. Like, you need to place numbers on the stack before you can use an arithmetic operator: 1 2 + . result:3 ffffffff should work. -1 is the same value. This...
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    Warning - floppy drive head mechanism glue is deteriorating

    I think I remember placing a penny on top of the read/write head of a Mac Plus or Mac Classic floppy drive so that it would read floppies, back when Canada had pennies.
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    Gray NDRV solution!

    What's the valid form of this invalid OF?
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