Recent content by jeffburg

@Garrett thanks for the reply. Here are some photos of 1 of the boards. I am kind of wondering how to find the correct capacitors to order. And yeah, since these boards don't work, I don't mind if they continue to be broken.

I googled it and that looks like a pretty sick retro laptop. That said, I think it's hard to beat the original Black hardware.... it beautiful inside and out... I wish I still had mine. And I never said a big congrats to @eric on getting his first black hardware set up and working! Big...

Hey folks. I am in no rush, but I have 2 iMac G4 logic boards that won't boot. I won't go into the details, but I can't see anything wrong with them physically. However, on one of them one of the capacitors just fell off and I noticed the telltale signs of some capacitor residue on the board at...

NeXTSTEP has a lot of great commercial software including Word Perfect and Adobe Illustrator for example. It also has OmniWeb which is a fantastic web browser, that was later used on Mac OS X until it was crushed when Apple introduced Safari. And as I said with the software development, the...

I agree with this sentiment, but NeXT machines are far more powerful than the Lisa and non-powerpc Macs and have all modern-ish connectivity. Meaning they are a far more useful machine. And because NeXTSTEP is the basis for modern OS X, it works in a way we expect with the same application and...

Thanks for hanging in there with me. I didn't remove the logic board from the bottom plate. I did when I first got the Mac for cleaning but haven't done it again since the problem started. I will try this weekend and see if there is anything noticeably wrong.

The only thing I can think of is it doesn't like the ram because it's DDR333 PC2700. It's what Other World Computing sent me when I ordered RAM for the machine. But technically the RAM it uses (according to the service manual) is PC2100 SDRAM DDR266. Not sure if that matters. That said, it...

Yeah, I tried both slots where the other slot was left empty. I have multiple ram sticks for each slot.

I have a 1GHz iMac G4 17" and I have been using it almost daily for the last 3 months or so. I mostly use it as a secondary video player while I use my main computer. However, recently it started booting up to 3 beeps. Normally this would mean its bad ram, but I tested 5 or 6 different ram...

I updated the tutorial to fix the main shortcoming before, which was a bug in FFMPEG when capturing from AVFoundation. Now I use a Linux VM to do the FFMPEG streaming. It is much better now because the Audio is full quality 192K AAC 44,100Hz. https://github.com/jeffreybergier/Retro-Stream-Tutorial

@joevt thanks for the pointers! As I said I have never done this. Good to know Hopper will not help me :)

Sorry, I don't have much experience with OS9. But in OS X, the keychain automatically unlocks when you log in IF the login keychain has the same password as your user account. To me it sounds like the password you think your keychain has is wrong, but it perhaps matches your login password. You...

That client and server works differently, so no. However if I get time, I want to try to reverse engineer the payloads that go back and forth so I can try to rebuild them. But as there are no copies of the server responses online (that I can find), it will be hard. I think I will need to...

An update here! It works!!! If you didn't know, Apple shut off the Software Update Servers for Mac OS X 10.0 through 10.3. Luckily the servers for 10.4 and above still work. But I am worried those may be shut off as part of the TLS Apocalypse. For that reason, this week I went through the...

An update here. I got 10.6 Server running and it turns out that the file these Software Update Server instances connect to on Apple's servers now returns a 404... so Software Update Server no longer works :-/ I guess I will have to try that reposado project I linked above :-/