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I think System 7.1 was current when the original Newton was released, but I don't know the exact requirements of the Connection Kit. It'd certainly be the most appropriate, but might be hard to find at a sane price... edit - haha, sorry, didn't see you'd already dismissed the idea!

Hey! I have a G3 Lombard with a rather dim display, dimmer than I'm assuming they came from the factory. I'm wondering if I can replace the backlight or panel? I also just tripped over a guide to replace the 12" Powerbook's LCD with a higher resolution one (1400x1050) - I don't know if that's...

Hey, just tripped over this post. I'm wondering if you ever got your setup running. I've got one and it's pretty decent when it runs. I don't think it matters what SCSI ID the disk is, but you need to format it as a regular Mac drive, then it will show up on the desktop as well if you need to...

Hotline is my recommendation for an original Mac file downloading experience! I actually just got my PowerMac 7100 on Hotline again last night, after having similar issues as you. There are a few Hotline servers still serving Mac files for download. Client here...

All the same reasons you use an open source compiler to generate machine code for a proprietary CPU: Out of principle, because it's more future proof, and frequently also because they're just better software. I don't know about the Lattice tools, I've only used the open source ones, but the...

One perspective: I grew up with consumer Macs, and had fairly slow ones and hand-me-downs from 1989 until I got my an iBook when I was 18 in 2002. I always hated PDFs, they were big, slow to redraw, and the viewer used a lot of memory - sometimes so much that I couldn't keep the application and...

Huh, interesting. So even a brand-new CF card is actually just a physical adapter away from the original PC AT bus from 1980-whatever? That's cool.

Sidenote: PCMCIA is 16-bit, CardBus is a 32-bit slot, but unlike the older format it multiplexes address and data pins, so there's a little more to it than that. But I think CompactFlash is always 16 bit, it's just that CardBus slots are backwards compatible. I don't think CF cards are any...

I'm quite sure there was no discernible difference between ADB and PS/2 when I was testing my StarMax tower. I'd kind of assume that, for compatibility, whatever is handling PS/2 just turns it into the same kind of data that normally comes in over ADB, and that that's why there's no driver needed.

Ah! The SCSI2SD v5.1 has an option to enable/disable termination. Unchecked it, and now it works. Wonder if that option basically means the SCSI2SD hogs the entire bus... Edit - now I see - it's because both the ACARD bridge and SCSI2SD have built-in terminators, and they were both enabled...

I've tried both with and without termination. With an active terminator on the enclosure, I either get the blinking question mark or sad Mac and an error (which I don't remember). So the error in question is only with no termination. I tried a bunch of things earlier, as far as I remember the...

Very cool project!

Is replacing F245s with LS245s a good idea? I thought F parts were only used where the lower propagation delay was actually needed. I've also heard that sometimes mixing F and HC/LS.parts is done specifically to make one signal travel faster than another, say an enable signal that needs to be...

Right. I could find some references to it, but nothing that matched it specifically to SCSI issues. It's definitely flashing like it's being redrawn over and over. The drives are on separate SCSI IDs, but it just occurred to me that SCSI2SD can emulate multiple SCSI drives. I wonder if it's...

Here is a weird one: I have a SCSI2SD 5.1 that I've been running my Quadra 700 off for a while. This works great. Before that, I had also run it from an ACARD IDE->SCSI bridge with CF adapter. It still works great. I've moved the ACARD into an external SCSI enclosure that used to have a...

What do you mean more precisely? The schematic? I think an ADB mouse is a (relatively) smart device with a microcontroller og sorts inside.

Eh, I can hardly open a cupboard here without a microcontroller board of some kind falling out, I'd love to see that code. Don't you need a transceiver to speak RS422 to the Mac, though? I was actually thinking about this today, since I have some high quality faders that I want to make a MIDI...

I just put a Noctua in my Quadra 700 power supply and it made a world of difference, noise-wise. The air that's coming out is quite cool, but I have noticed that the CPU heatsink feels, how to describe it, not uncomfortable hot, but fairly warm if I take the cover off right after shutting down...

Even if you just get binary read-outs it's a great help. I've got a 2ch/16 bit Agilent MSO (an old one), and in some cases it's been a fantastic help, but TBH 16 bit just doesn't cut it for 68k systems. I've got at least one reversing project that's stranded on lack of logic analyzer channels...

Nice tool! I've read that some of those big logic analysers can understand the processor bus cycles and even do disassembly of captures. Does yours do anything like that?