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I would suggest at least trying one of these in the future; they cost little more than a CF-IDE adapter, use much cheaper media, and I’ve had excellent luck with them. They do use the same conversion chipsets as CF-SD adapters, which apparently you didn’t have great luck with, but they use...

That linked driver site is deeply sketchy. Man. Anyway, not Windows 10 but I can attest having success printing fine from DOS programs after building a cable to go from a PC 9-pin serial port to an Imagewriter II. The C.Itoh 8510 doesn't have *great* driver support but it was common enough to...

I'm going to second Cory here and hazard a guess that a machine like this should perform about as well as a similarly configured PowerBook 1400, or the earlier 5300. They all share an architecture which essentially boils down to "PPC-upgraded 68040". (Actually what's really depressing is it's...

Okay, so, this is not the first time this kind of stuff has been posted here with absolutely no explanation, so I've deleted the files. This is not some kind of malware mirror site, and if it's not malware the OP owes a clear explanation as to how this is relevant to the focus of this forum and...

The Greaseweazle might be a better bet, it supposedly works with "standard" SCP flux images which gives you several options for decoding 800k data. The "Blue Pill" ARM board it uses is very cheap and widely available. (You can buy a few plus a programmer off Amazon for $15-ish.)

FWIW, I just went ahead and pitched this into the PPC powerbook/ibook forum.

One thing to be a little wary of is that those green phosphor tubes are a little more susceptible to burn-in than the white ones. An Apple II is less likely to have something permanently on the screen like, say, the Mac menu bar, so... just throwing that out there. But, yes, if the yokes...

Mod Hat: It's possible there could be something of use to *somebody* on the MLA since some of these tools could be useful for generic bare-metal 68000 development, but it does seem like it's a bit of a stretch. It would probably be preferable if the OP would stash these somewhere else, maybe...

In case anyone is confused, apparently rmac and rln are cross-assembly tools for developing 68000 and other binaries, mostly targeted at Atari machines: http://rmac.is-slick.com/about/about/

Mod note: I went ahead and moved this to "Compact Mac"; the auto-redirect link in the Mac II forum will expire in 30 days.

If we want to be super-pedantic according to the spec CompactFlash cards should also support several alternate addressing modes, one of which is access via an 8-bit subset of the data pins. This is to make the format easier to use in some embedded applications. (And it's also used by some...

Letter size is fine. Legal size is a problem.

BasiliskII's SCSI passthrough worked well for me the last time I tried it on Linux, but that was 20 years ago so I'm hesitant to promise anything. You *might* actually be a better off with Sheepshaver, the PowerPC emulator; I *think* it also supports SCSI passthrough, and from the last time I...

“25hz” on a conventional phosphor CRT would blink like a strobe light, it wouldn’t be remotely usable. Ask anyone who had an old Commodore Amiga how much fun the interlaced 400 line mode was; the lines flickering were visible to most humans at 30hz and could give you a roaring headache, but this...

Yes, anyone who says "25hz" is on crack. They're probably confusing it with the (roughly) 25khz horizontal scan rate of the 512x384 mode. I'm actually somewhat skeptical that this is usually a root cause of their issue because they're obviously going to be trying to use a generic monitor with a...

@olePigeon  I know it's probably pointless to volunteer this until you can sort out the mechanical issues, but if you actually get it running do you want to upgrade it to an Applewriter Plus? Last time I went to a library book dump I found, mysteriously mixed in with the computer books, a NIB...

I have a real soft spot for the "baby" of the Canon line, the LX engine, myself. (As used in the HP IIp/IIIp, Apple's Personal Laserwriters, etc.) My first laser printer was an oddball little Postscript Clone printer that was sold under various OEM names that used that engine, and despite the...

Then you should be good good to go. I probably should have mentioned that myself since I have first-hand experience that my 512k-no-e can boot from a IIgs drive connected externally.

Yes, that particular drive works because Apple did some "magic" the tach signal that sidesteps the bug in the 64k ROM. The internal 800k drive mechanisms (or the "original" Mac-styled 800k drive) are the ones with the problem.

The IWM isn't a problem, but the ROM is. To make a long story short trying to use an 800k drive with the original 64k Mac ROMs results in a divide-by-zero error because a bug in said ROMs gets triggered if there isn't a constant slight variance in the tachometer readings, which the 800k drive...