Recent content by Volvo242GT

Yeah, for gaming, most of the time, you're going to want it at normal 1 MHz speed. A lot of games become somewhat unplayable on the fast 2.8 MHz setting. A couple aren't bad, like Rampage, etc. But something like Night Mission Pinball or the old DOS 3.3 Brick Out game will be nearly...

Ah, well, at least we know that it's not the processor, so there's that. If this machine is in better cosmetic condition, I'd be tempted to transfer your other IIgs' guts over to it, and swap all the goodies onto that board. Set aside the "new" board for a cabin fever project later this winter.

Didn't help that the battery leaked... Wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the issues were due to that. In any case, it probably would need a new board before I'd consider using it. Pulled the ethernet and SCSI cards, and am going to try a last resort job on resurrecting the drives. Have a...

I'm guessing it won't go into the self-test mode, by holding down the option and command keys while turning it on? If you can get it to do that, we might be able to see what's going on. I'm assuming that you don't get the usual *Dernk* startup chime when the power switch is flipped on?

Yep. Most of what I've talked about is here, in addition to the 'mla. All my photos are stored on my computer and on my flickr account, so they can be accessed if Cory changes his mind and decides to just pull the plug.

Every disk we had worked fine with the 1571. That said, never got into doing demoscene stuff. Nor did I make copies of copy protected software. A couple friends of ours who also had C64s did and would give us copies of their software to use, though. In my case, I pretty much stopped using...

If you change your mind... ;-)

Our first home computer was one as well. Got it in the summer of 1985 at the Bellevue, WA KMart. Never got a dedicated monitor for it. Always used it with one of our Zenith TVs. We did add a 1541 and an Okimate 10 printer in December of that year. Pretty much remained set up that way until...

Sure. Yeah, it's quite a bit better than the lavender/teal scheme of the real 48G series. Let me know if you'd like me to keep an eye peeled for a decent 48SX to add to your collection. BTW: seems that the HP 41 case fits the 48S/G series calculators perfectly. Got one on the way, which will...

@JDW, here are the two calculators together. More stuff conquested... Two Farallon EtherMac 10baseT AAUI dongles. One will be used with the LaserWriter IIg, and the other will be used with my Quadra 650, once that returns to my hands.

I did do just that. Not because the power supply on any of the other units was better (in fact, one was worse - cooling fan was dead), but printer is less putrid smelling. They were stored in a rather damp environment, so everything has at least a light moldy odor. So, I will be installing...

Scored a IIg controller board for the LaserWriter. Alas, seems like one of the capacitors (and maybe the TRIAC) in the AC power supply block took a dump. Got the dreaded BRLOD (Blinking Red LEDs Of Death) going on. Did notice that there was at least one missing screw on the outer plastics, so...

^Yep, imgur has been dodgy at best for a while, at least on my end. Photo galleries that people post from imgur have been blank pages for me for a few years. Flickr, with all its faults, still seems to be halfway decent. I probably would've let the one I had go without the IIvx for...

That's weird... I've noticed that they seem to be making random changes over the past 2-3 years that really didn't make much sense. One of them being the demise of the Help Forum. Another being the deletion of the old Photostream edit pages, without really coming up with an updated...

Cool, just checked it out. Also gave you a follow. I do have a 48GX that's bone stock and in need of some repair work, as mentioned in the comment I posted on the photo of your 48GX with the FRAM card installed. First HP I owned was a 32SII. Got it in 1991. Second was a 48S that I picked up...