Recent content by AvadonDragon

I was looking into this a while ago but didn't make it very far due to lack of information availability. Right before I gave up though I got a tip that it MIGHT be in the Macintosh Portable developer notes which I never looked into.

I THINK I used Silverlining but it has been a while.

I'm using those drives in my PowerMacs. Had a pile of them sitting around so I figured what the heck it's a cheap solution. Gotta love that fighter jet sound!

Just came across this impressive optical mouse recreation of the original. https://www.8bitstuff.com/product/3d-printed-apple-m0100-mouse-recreation/

It SHOULD work just fine. The older part could be lacking the bleeder resistor. I don't recall which models included it. Everyone should discharge before working on a CRT anyway. Given the scarcity and cost of flybacks these days using less than ideal parts will probably become the norm.

Wow! That is a badass workstation! Very impressed. Heck yeah! Nothing like having a good ol' particle accelerator firing at your face. I had to purge most of mine due to space limitations though. Until I get a 3D plasma voxel hologram with haptic feedback I'm feeling thoroughly let down by...

Linux has come a LONG way. Some distros are rock solid and user friendly now. I am grateful for the brutal education it gave me in the early years. Back then doing the simplest things was unbelievably hard. There have been some trade offs between ease of use and bloated inefficiency but not...

Microsoft forcing me to totally relearn how to use a computer every few years with their increasingly fractured user interface ‘improvements’ has been a great annoyance to me most of my life. I feel like they really peaked with Windows 7 and finally got everything just about perfect. It was...

Well I wasn't explicitly trying to set up a machine to do this but I did have one with a built in floppy controller that ran Windows 10 and could boot DOS from a floppy. It was a strange system. Early Core i3 if I remember correctly. I think I still have the motherboard somewhere because it...

I just want to say that this has been a dream of mine for many many years. I've always been frustrated that the coding skills to pull it off were beyond my reach. Thank you so much for making this a reality!

From my experience @3lectr1c is correct about the reliability of laptops vs desktops of that era. Here's my two cents on the matter. I believe if you want a single desktop machine then you'd probably be best served getting the newest machine that you possibly can that has a built in floppy...

Good suggestions. Yes I recapped the analogue board/Power Supply first to make the progress that I did. I already did the recap of the logic board as the next step but didn't reassemble and test the system afterwards. I stalled out on the project because I decided a massive reorganization was...

This is just wild speculation but perhaps the batteries are starting to get weak from age and that's what is causing it? Could test them with a multimeter and see if the voltage level still looks good.

This is so exciting! I've been waiting for this feature. I'm so glad you guys managed to get it working. Great work!

I wish computer science/engineering programs would use those old 8-bit systems as learning tools. They gave you such a good grasp of how the machines actually worked. Too many layers of abstraction between the user and the hardware are great for ease of use/programming purposes but very...