Recent content by JDW

Welcome to TinkerDifferent, @RaskAttack ! I was 13 when our family got its first computer for the home -- the 128K Mac in early 1984. That machine really changed my computing life. I can't help but think that what you're working on right now in your own digital world will share your future...

Again, my Rocket is the ASIC version that differs from yours. I also don’t have a huge amount of experience with Rockets in general, so I will need to defer to owners of the GAL Rocket like @max1zzz regarding the heat of chips you are seeing. The only thing I can offer are general job, shooting...

The slot in the SE/30 is PDS. “Cache slot” accelerators like the Daystar Turbo040 are absolutely NOT compatible with PDS, and you will fry chips on your accelerator if you plug it into any PDS slot. I know because I accidentally did that once to my Turbo040. The TS Adapter from ARTMIX Japan...

There is nothing too unique about the ROM-inator II Carbon (4MB) relative to the "Atom" (2MB) that came before it, or even the earlier versions that were offered in 2MB, 4MB and even 8MB sizes. Other companies make custom ROM SIMMs too, and I made this video showing all of them. They all...

Both of these cute little guys came out in 2025, but I only recently acquired them and decided to do a review. Each has its good and bad, not to mention a big price difference. Some of you probably already own one or both, so I'd love to read your thoughts. I've grown rather fond of both.

Not sure about flyback lifespan because the problems are many and I cannot put my finger on exactly when those problems start. For example, there are some that produce an ozone smell, which is a telltale sign of high voltage leaking out due to a broken seal (typically, the yellow glue toward...

Sure enough, he did right here… https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/warpse-25-mhz-68hc000-based-accelerator-for-mac-se.253/page-16#post-21903 Quote: All of our products are totally open-source, even for commercial use. We are trying to encourage further development of our work and obviously...

He was one of the top reasons I left to join Mr. Fahrenheit’s team who ultimately created this forum. That was early July 2021 when I stopped posting at the MLA and swore that I would never post publicly there again as long as he and the current leadership are in place, and so far, I have kept...

That’s going to be a subject of a different video, so no I’ve not started it yet.

@ufkel If you have the README file which mentions a v1.1, it stands to reason you must also have that v1.1 software shown in your screenshot. If so, please provide the download link. Thank you!

Wow. I've never seen that been done before. Bravo for trying something new. New mods are what make this hobby fun.

Remove the HQX encoding but keep it as a SIT file? i suppose that would work and the file wouldn't get mangled when transfered across the internet, but if you cannot even decompress a SIT file (which may be true if you cannot remove HQX encoding), then that would be a problem because the file...

Woz is smart, unlike the tech media who largely lambasts the Portable while so conveniently forgetting what Portables were like in the mid-to-late 80's and how much those portables sold for. Modern media mislabels it a "laptop" which is was not. And while it was much more competitive when...

Oh, yes. Here's my story, Scott... Back in July 2012, some folks were having problems getting registered on the MLA, so I sent a PM to a certain moderator (at the time) who I won’t name because he’s well known there, still high up in the ranks, and started there probably about when I did...

Just wanted to update this thread to say that I started using some of the apps proposed in this thread on a 128K Mac, starting out with testing on the 128K RAM edition of Mini vMac. @Mu0n , your app unfortunately seems to require more RAM so it didn't work with 128K, but the "Paint Flipper" app...