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Okay, so inspired by this, I did a little digging, and…. Am I right in thinking that I would need a (paid) developer account to install either of the locally built emulators on an iPad for anything longer than 7 days? I’ve got Xcode, and therefore have a developer account associated with an...

Is there any reason to prefer the minivmac route over the basilisk? I didn’t know this was possible, but did years ago have a minivmac installation on an iPod Touch v1. That was actually pretty epic, so managing to heave it onto an iPad ought to be awesome indeed. — No jailbreaking needed?

Ordinarily I think you would need to drag the menu bar to the other monitor in the relevant (Monitors?) Control Panel, making other changes as required there as well. I don‘t think there’s a key combination for this. However, if you can see enough of the PB’s screen to open and then drag the...

In the past I transplanted a 640x480 5300c screen onto a 190cs with great success. I rather liked it because it ran on a 68LC040, sported an active matrix display once altered, was equipped with a whopping 40MB (48?) of RAM, and took an easily replaced IDE drive. Alongside all that, it had the...

I’m assuming this is an LC PDS card. A 68882 is the co-processor in question. It will make little difference in a 68030-based Mac, except in certain specialized programs for things like 3D design or in similarly heavy mathematical programs like spreadsheets. The most dramatic differences will...

That was a long, long time ago! But Trag is yer man for knowledgeable input on this one. My 650 is currently in storage, but I do seem to recall that those 64mb SIMMs didn’t work in it — they do work famously, however, in a Q605/ mystic Color Classic, which is nice. The 650 does nicely loaded...

Further to my last contribution, search/ dig around on the forum for posts on the subject by Trag.

https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/help-memory-expansion-for-quadra-650.42231/#post-458694 Searching is a wonderful thing….

Maxima will do a fabulous job of managing a full-blown RAM disk on a Quadra with plenty of RAM. It works well with RAM compression, will back up to disk automatically on shutdown, and start up from said archive on booting. It’s a great utility. Spin down your mechanical drive in between. A Q650...

Try the utility Maxima for your RAM disk.

Your post made me go and look up the Wikipedia entry for Wirth’s Law (my usual port of call when this general question comes up; it’s a sort of devotional experience for me, inducing calm amid the sense of finding that the All has just been explained). Anyway, according to Wikipedia, the trend...

Just so you know, an AudioVision 14 in working condition is worth a fair sum of money — more than you might imagine if you’ve kept it in the loft for 20 years. Don’t toss it out on a whim.

Or just buy a battery….

Too bad. Have you tried any of the other ‘pram’ files in the Gamba links, then?

There is a Control Panel that might work: Pram Auto-Restore. I would have thought that network settings should be covered, but have never tried it myself. This Gamba archive has a list of associated tidbits: https://vintageapple.org/gamba2/tidbits.html , but the d/l seems to be broken. Scroll...

I really like this approach to collecting: one machine (or very few) maxed out and in use with period peripherals is an elegant alternative to 50 or 60 machines crammed on shelving and probably spilling over onto the floor. The latter approach has caused me a fair bit of trouble over the years...

A close-up pic of the black connector would be useful. Is it an 040 PDS? I have a vague recollection that there was a card (PPC accelerator, maybe?) for the IIfx that used both the PDS and a Nubus slot, but I don’t recall that combo being available for any other model. Mind you, I just went...

Certainly some late 80s/ early 90s cards need the monitor settings stored in pram, to which end you are meant to hold down a key on booting to force the machine to cycle through the options until everything is right. I can’t remember whether the 8.24GC requires that or not, but it is worth...

I have a spur with an air vent (a hose end with a plug shoved in — I used a piece of fibreglass rod) installed on one of the lines of my Quad (single pump) at the highest point to allow air to escape on a flush/refill. The spur is otherwise plugged, obviously, for normal operation. The idea was...

Is there a pad lifted at C5?