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Sorry it's taken me a while to get round to posting this but about a week ago a friend of mine was trashing an old PC and I went round to his place and took all the bits that I wanted. Most interesting was an internal IDE Zip 250. I don't have the disks for this thing and it's not really a Mac...

I'm trying to find documentation for the internal registers of the FDHD. I've seen numerous references to there being internal registers in the FDHD, but the only details that I have been able to find regard the registers in the SWIM chip (or some other associated part), not those in the FDHD...

Never mind it's a long story about why I need this but does anyone know of any good screenreader software for Macintosh System 7.x?

Hi! I'm writing a program on my Mac, but this one seems to be a bit troublesome. It crashes randomly (I suspect due to memory leaks), but no matter how long I stare it my code for, I just can't find what's wrong with it. I literally spent hours going over this code and it all looks OK to me...

Hi! Remember this post? http://68kmla.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=210335#p210335 Remember what I said here? Well... Dad was up there last weekend, so I phoned him up and asked if he could bring that machine home with him. I managed to get it past Mom as well, since I said that it was only a...

Hi! As part of a project, I'm trying to find a way to work around the "clock not set" message when booting my Mac with no battery. My current solution is to write a small extension to set the clock to a more acceptable value (such as January 2013) before the box comes up. The extension seems...

Well, dad's work. One of his clients are giving it away because they're finished with it apparantly. Mom says it's a waste of space (but then she says that about every computer except the main one), and dad says it'll be good for "learning to use a Mac". I'm looking forward to trying to...

Just that. I've been bitten by the UNIX bug and now I want a good ol' terminal on my Mac. And preferally one which can run Mac applications as well.

Hi! We all know that our old Macs start up pretty quick, but still, I'm curious... Wouldn't it just need to write the contents of memory to disk, and then, at a later time, read it from disk and write it back into memory? Or would the system crash during the re-write process? Has anyone done...

Hi! As I'm sure you are aware, the Macintosh system will only send keyDown events for up to two keys. If one presses more than two keys, they will not receive any more events. Is there a way to somehow read more keys at a time, even an unlimited number? Thanks, onlyonemac

Hi! I'm failing to understand exactly how this works. Apparently the same logic board was used for the P475 as for the Q605, but the Q605 had a jumper set. What I'm not getting is that the P475 ran at 22 (or was it 25?) MHz while the Q605 ran at 33 MHz. Does changing the jumper cause the speed...

Hi! I've finally got round to having another go at my StyleWriter II. But there's a problem... Whenever I try to print, it says something like "The cartridge is missing or not inserted correctly" even after I've inserted and removed it a hundred times. So I tried reseating the ribbon cable...

Hi! I ran the installer for System 7.5.3 a few days ago to upgrade my new hard drive for the Mac. It took about ten minutes to do the whole job, but near the end an interesting status message flashed passed briefly. It was saying "Reading xyz", then "Writing xyz", then "Building xyz" in turn...

Hi! I've been trying to find a way to fix my Mac, espescially after TWO large parcels failed to arrive :( , when I remembered this old PC guy that Dad knew. Sure enough he had a SCSI hard disk to spare (it's around 500 MB-woohooo!) and a PCI card to connect it to a PC so I could get data...

Hi! I've been trying to decipher how the Mac interfaces with the Suprdrive floppy drive through the ISM part of the SWIM chip. I've almost got it, but I don't understand what the PH0 to PH3 lines are trying to do. In particular, when the drive is idle, they emit very brief pulses at a rate of...

Hi! I've just gotten hold of Microsoft Flight Simulator 4 for Macintosh, and I'm running it on the emulator. I'm using the mouse yoke option, where the plane is controlled by the mouse. The problem is that I can only move the mouse so far (i.e. to the edge of the screen), where it then becomes...

I have Basilisk II, but the sound doesn't work right. It can be up to ten seconds before a sound plays, and most programs complain about lack of sound hardware anyway. The configuration dialog says that reducing the buffer size will "reduce delay" but may "increase jerkiness". So I reduced...

Hi again! I've just installed system 7.5.3 on a Macintosh emulator. I've got it set up with 7.1 in one system folder and 7.5 in another (both on the same disk). I was planning on using System Picker or System Switcher to choose between the folders. It all works fine, but annoyingly enough both...

Hi! I have just found the pinout for the internal floppy drive connecter-the problem is, I don't know if it's the right one! Could someone please point me towards a Performa 475 internal floppy drive pinout? Also, from the one I have got, I don't understand the function of some (most) of the...

Hi! In my new program I need to make the Finder quit. How do I do that? I could use a high-level event (or is it an Apple Event?) to do it, but I don't know what codes to use. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks onlyonemac