Recent content by JDW

Exactly. And that’s why I always envisioned Sluggo to be punching Windoze (proper spelling) in the face back then. And what Power Computing was doing back in those days was no joke. They were besting Apple on the performance front and showcasing how great the Mac could be.

Wow! Love it. Where do I begin? In the first part of the video, LeVitus said he was "hot for Mac clones." Indeed, a lot of us were back in the day, even though I think most of us knew in our gut it wasn't going to work out so well for Apple. We users back then could see the negative impact...

The G4 Cube I am testing on has the stock ATI Radeon Rage 128 Pro installed. So I guess 16MB of VRAM? The machine is at the office and I’m home for the weekend so I can’t check right now.

I just downloaded the new v3.1 under OS 10.4.11 on my G4 Cube (with 1.7GHz Sonnet CPU). Disk image mounted fine. But the MacFox v3.1 app launched and crashed right away... Again, I don't know how to convey this info to the developer, but if anyone here does, please pass the word along. Thanks.

Alas, it's not yet ready for Tiger. On a G4 Cube running a fresh install of 10.4 Tiger, the disk image won't even mount... When I update to 10.4.11, the disk image mounts and I can copy the app to my HDD, but when I launch it, it crashes. Reporting it here on TD because I don't know how to...

I actually found this thread looking for the UNMODIFIED "Apple CD/DVD Driver" Extension that appears in a clean install of OS 9.2.2, but ultimately I found it. Attached is a ZIP archive of it for those who need it.

I have a flyback from an SE/30 with exactly such a broken bar. I replaced that flyback from a NOS flyback I purchased way back around 2006. Sadly, nobody makes these anymore, and it's really sad because the flyback is the SINGLE MOST NEEDED COMPONENT of any on the SE and SE/30 Analog boards...

Your Analog board was professionally recapped at the start of this thread. After some discussion, you decided to change the transistor, BU406, and you said that made a meaningful difference at the time. But today, problems seem to remain, and the consistent thing on your analog board is the...

Please let me know when the Tiger (10.4.11) version is out. My 1.3GHz 7455 G4 Cube would love to use it!

This is absolutely outstanding. You see, every single time I use my M1 Max 16" MBP to add a new disk image to the SD card of my FloppyEMU, the card gets fragmented. I've spent hours and hours trying nearly everything to prevent the fragmentation, but nothing worked. I don't have this problem...

I don’t disagree with that, but the rollers behaved 100% the same before and after my IPA cleaning. Meaning, when using my finger on either roller, the arrow pointer moved just fine on screen; but when I put the ball in, the behavior was bad, as shown in the recent video I posted in this thread.

I’ve seen the removal of the trackball assembly from the case and therefore understand how to do that, but I’ve yet to find a single photo on the tear down of that trackball assembly, which is rather interesting. Have you ever disassembled the trackball assembly? Yes, and I mentioned my having...

@Kai Robinson Before I embark upon disassembling the Trackball Assembly (a more complex job than on a Mac Portable and the reason I started this thread), is because I have no experience doing this, and I have read extensively about broken standoffs caused by merely opening the machine in the...

I checked the ball with my precision Mitsutoyo calipers just now, Kai, and it's 30.03mm in diameter nominal, deviating only by +/-0.01mm as I rolled it around and around in the calipers. Roundness is excellent. Surface is extremely smooth, with no pitting or flaws that I can detect.

I recently acquired a PowerBook 180c and found it's trackball didn't produce any vertical arrow pointer movement, so I cleaned the ball, rollers, and the red-eye gizmos, but that didn't do any good. When I use my finger on each roller, the arrow pointer moves just fine horizontally and...