Recent content by MacOfAllTrades

Got this one a few years back and while it works mostly well (doesn’t jam, communicates well with my macs, etc), the printing always has a fair amount of smudging. Pics tell the whole story but it’s almost like the ribbon kept riding the paper thus leaving a trail. From the pics you can see it...

Minor update - the replacement was a success! Back in biz with my computer. I ended up buying an STmicro one. Resoldering was pretty easy as expected. I noticed the big metal “|_|” shaped bracket easily desolders from the chip’s heat-sink wings, as expected.

Ehh I sucked it up and bought two off the bay for 17 bucks or so. i’ll have two in case my other machine’s goes sometime.

TLDR: I need a replacement TDA1170 chip — where do you all recommend getting one? I see some on eBay ($15-$20 if I include shipping…) and I see one on Amazon ($15 or so)… I’ll pay said prices if needed but wanted to ask here first. I see both the STMicro branded ones and an SGS brand on ebay...

Really awesome. Just awesome. Can you make it emulate additional ram as well? Really what I want is an emulation of some awesome 68040 upgrade or something so that it can make an SE into a better-than-se/30 machine. :p regardless, this is so cool. Software-defined processor.

I must say I have dreamed of extending it to be an extension. Maybe I just want to see it load as a little puzzle piece during startup. But anyway I’d love to add to it and the system extension would be a great idea - I do keep it in my startup folder as liliputian suggested but what I’d do...

Wowsers never thought of that. I hope to do away with ctrl click to add to favorites anyway.. but not sure what’s best for that. Any ideas??

Got the keyboard today — just taking it for a first spin. Must say - Wowie this sure is cool. I’m probably going to make this message extra long and unnecessarily so just because… it’s fun to type on this. I’m mainly comparing this against the ALPS orange -based M0115 and M0116 (my personal...

https://github.com/retrospectmike/MacDock/tree/main alpha 2.0 release. favorites that persist btw app launches via Preferences file!! Super psyched about this Will post a video soon for viewing pleasure — super pleased with the progress given my busy life! Needs fixes before calling it a...

Will post as soon as it comes in! Listing had poor pics :)

Well I can’t gloat - I hit the bullet and just paid auction prices for one. It’s been in my bucket list for a bit. Esp because my fav in is the similar m0116 Apple standard keyboard — I have gotten used to its key arrangement and now I can’t go back lol. My AEK 1 is just a big honker… I’ll...

Very cool!!! Nexts are like Lisas in my mind - I want one badly, but then I wonder if I’d use it after the first hour of having it. I’ve been looking up YouTube videos on next and nextstep and openstep because I’m befuddled by how on earth they got so much OS on a 68k machine. There isn’t...

Maybe a virus?

Super excited to share that the v2.0 is coming along! — Big thanks to all who supported past and present! A lot of replacing the old 1.x way of storing the dock items internally so that it can support the necessary dynamics of apps that are running, or not running (like Keep In Dock on modern...