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I tried a fresh install of 7.0.1 on the LC (was using a 7.1.1 previously and that installation had MacTCP etc installed previously so I thought that might have conflicted with something), but it fails the same way on 7.0.1 with row of icons on boot. I wonder if the drivers are meant for System 6?

Thanks ole. I switched gear and on my Mac LC I can run the installer from the floppy image so the image seems to be fine! The installer does its thing but after restart (as soon as the "@FlashTalk INIT" is in the Extensions) I get this on boot (endless string of FlashBox icons with an X) and...

Hello. I was able to purchase a pair of the FlashBox LocalTalk boxes, two floppies and two Mac serial port cables. Before seeing these, I had no idea that Sun had something to do with LocalTalk or all things. http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/sun/TOPS/TOPS_Product_Guide_1990.pdf...

^ This. I go with spinning drives as long as I have any that work; I like the stepper sounds (not the spinning itself) and in most cases speed is not really relevant. For testing and using pre-made images a modern xxxSCSI stuff is great. Now that I have ZuluSCSI boards that have the initiator...

Would be great to have the image conversion built-in (y) For macOS: I came across GraphicConverter (https://www.lemkesoft.de/en/products/graphicconverter/) that can convert QTK files into other picture formats (also batch convert). It's shareware and has a timed nag screen at the start but it...

Interesting; apparently re-conditioning wipers is at least in short-scale possible, as mentioned here (see the quoted block): https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/laserwriters.39467/#post-426488 I kinda like the idea that the old ink cartridges have so much ink that they rather need...

That video makes it look so clean job, I find it hard to believe... 😅 I had a look and there are some suppliers that sell wiper blades as well: https://shop.delacamp.com/en/wiper-blade-for-use-in-ricoh-ipsio-nx-500/item-1-30951-2111.html Would be handy to buy new ones instead of ripping apart...

I've been working a on slightly older NeXT laser printer (based on the Canon SX engine, like HP Laserjet II -series). I've had two NOS ink cartridges and both have issues (with the rubber wiper I presume), one leaks ink dust everywhere and the other works, but still has one or two repeating...

I already tested it and it works great! (y) Also thanks for adding the schematic for the serial cable on the Git Readme. I build my cable with help from the earlier links you had there. You might want to add a note of solder-side or pin-side on the pinout just to make sure (for one I always...

Bumping this thread with a new 📸 And something new, I just learnt about this yesterday: JQuickTake - Modern Software for the Apple QuickTake Camera (Reddit), code and software at https://github.com/Crazylegstoo/JQuickTake. It's a very neat new utility to transfer QuickTake 100/150 photos over...

There is this picture in one of the service manuals, it doesn't show the actual tabs but at least lists them (three on top, three on bottom).

Quite a bit of mechanical stresses on the board; a hit mark on the oscillator next to the broken chip, one of the RAM chips is wonky (top-right in second photo) and at least two pins slightly bent on the chip marked RNDC (top-left). Shipping damage?

Going to test CorumIII on my PowerCenter now, installing now. I tried to take a screenshot of the installation window, but for some reason the graphic on top gets messed every time: Also for some reason ZIP archive created on BeOS won't open on my Mac, every zip-util complains the file...

Neat! I don't think I've ever seen a license agreement seal on a floppy disk shutter before! Surely that would cause issues by either the user breaking the shutter while removing the sticker, or by sticking the disk into a drive with the sticker still attached...

I have two of the Homebrews (and soon a thrid) and I like it :) In case somebody finds this useful; I created a small 3D-printable frame to give the Homebrew PCB some protection. I've been using mine at the end of a long SCSI-cable as an external device and it's been flapping around in the...

Ah, SheepShaver's default windowed refresh rate was 7.5Hz, that too 😅 On the software I linked, there is a Napster client, too :LOL: BeShare appears to have been a file sharing tool of some kind, too? I am baffled by the Baxter's UI: it wants me to add a nick on the left column, but unlike...

BaxY is an IRC client called Baxter, looks nice but I can't figure out how to add a Nick to a server (won't connect before that). If I select a preset server, there are invisible nicks in the list and it at least attempts to connect. Becasso, wget, BeBreakout, Doom (!) and Tetris do work...

Wow, thanks (for the links and the new uploads)! (y) While on archive.org, I noticed this: https://archive.org/details/beos-collection. I had a look at the Games and Soft directories and there are subdirs for PPC on both (but also others among the other files, judging from the filenames)...

Have you tried with different keymaps? I changed mine from whatever the default was to Finnish (to match my keyboard) and I almost feel like the ctrl + command keys were swapped (I had troubles finding how to copy&paste), perhaps it's different depeding on the keymap? On-board VRAM versus the...

Aha: it's ctrl + shift + 3 to take a full-screen screenshot, it saves to the home directory! 📸 The thread is moving towards a general BeOS-PPC tips, but I am fine with that! 😄