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Hi! I have two of these on their way, also for LC III and 475. I'll let you know if they work when they arrive, but they were recommended by someone who has quite a collection of old Macs and says he uses them on LCs and they work quite well. Regards, Miguel Arroz

Hi! I ended up ordering a proper one from a seller in the EU, after a friend finding it on eBay. The link I sent was just a random one (sorry, didn’t want to put that seller on the hot seat!). I had it on a shelf for two decades or so, and I thought it was meant to plug vintage Macs to VGA...

Hi! I have one of these things here. Until today I thought it was the right adapter to connect a DB-15 Mac to a VGA display, but it seems it's built for the exact opposite: connect a VGA computer to an Apple DB-15 display. My question is: if I buy two gender changers (one for DB-15, and one...

And I got it. It seems to work! HD and fan are dead, speaker is a bit messed up but the logic board and PSU appear to be fine (all the voltages have acceptable values when load is present). Haven't tested the FDD yet. I just can't see the actual video out, since I thought I had the right adapter...

Hi! Yeah, that sounds like a bad chip. Let us know if you can find a "new" one. If not, there's the DosFox replacement: https://github.com/DosFox1/Sony-SND-THT-Replacement I might be interested as well since mine has a lot of background noise. However I still did not recap, so maybe that will...

Well, I ended up buying it. We'll see!

Hi, I'm eyeing a 475 being sold online. The owner says he sold the monitor already, and the Mac is broken, as it showed a bomb. I asked (with screenshots) if it was the system error bomb or a sad mac, but he says it shows a "little round bomb and an X below". In all my years of using Macs...

Hi, Can you post the video all the way to the moment you get the question mark? If the random bits stay there for a while, then the diagonal pattern, and then later the question mark, and taking into account sound also doesn't work, my guess is you have a bad SND chip. For some reason (I'm...

Also, if you have a scope, check how long does it take for the 5V to stabilize at the positive end of the 5V cap (C6 I think) when you power on the board, and compare it to another board that works fine. If you do this with the original analog board and CRT, obviously be careful with the high...

Hi! Still regarding the random garbage at startup, for how long do you see it? It should be display only for a second or two at most (it’s displaying whatever is in RAM chips, which is unpredictable, before they are reset by the CPU). Did you recap the board? Based on both symptoms I wonder if...

Hi! The Plus (and many others like the PowerBook 145) always boot with video garbage on the screen for a second or two. You usually can’t see it because the CRT takes time to warm up, but on a PowerBook it’s visible since the LCD fires up immediately. I noticed that on the Plus as well while...

Hi! You can (probably) use MacDVI, a project I published a few days ago that uses a Pico 2 for sampling and HDMI generation, if you adapt the code for the SE/30: https://codeberg.org/arroz/MacDVI Most of the code should be the same, but there may be some small differences in timing and...

Hi everyone! Just announcing that a few days ago I published MacDVI, the source and documentation for a small project I've worked on on my free time as part of moving my Mac Plus to an LCD instead of the CRT: https://codeberg.org/arroz/MacDVI This is a DIY project, that anyone can build with a...