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    BeOS Install

    Took it out and no difference. Sigh. Going to have to make an instrumented build of the awacs driver and see where it chokes.
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    Donation yesterday to Twin Cities Free Geek!

    Yowza. Break out the capacitors and soldering irons for those SE/30s, though. The Monitor /// makes me sad because mine was stolen out of my storage unit in a burglary. The actual Apple /// itself was probably too heavy for them to lift, fortunately.
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    Maxell responded to the battery leak issue on Twitter

    Aww. Very kind of you to say.
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    Hello from the UK!

    Welcome.
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    Maxell responded to the battery leak issue on Twitter

    A blown Maxell ruined my Apple Network Server prototype (unfortunately before I got it). https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2021/10/shiner-esb-apple-network-server.html
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    Just acquired an STE, any tips?

    STacy owner myself, though I haven't done much with it lately.
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    Disk Jockey 1999

    Excellent!
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    Disk Jockey, a disk image file maker for your retro stuff - Beta for version 3!

    I'd like to look at porting Disk Jockey Jr to PowerPC so that I can run it on my G5 (more convenient), and it should work assuming it's C and doesn't use any weirdo APIs, but https://diskjockey.onegeekarmy.eu/djjr gives me a 404?
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    BeOS Install

    Looks like it's the same file as the AWACS driver on my mute 6500, so more analysis is required. Currently I'm theorizing there is a difference between the 275 and 300MHz boards and the ones 250MHz and below.
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    Grail Item Acquired - Twentieth Anniversary Mac

    Very nice! I have a similar TAM (G3, CS2 NIC, 9.2.2, repaired buzz-free base). A periodic goal of mine is a "fast booter" (or a really thinned boot floppy) so I can play CDs in it without having to wait for the full MacOS to come up.
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    PPC NetPositive+ for PowerPC BeOS

    Oh, I ran into that when developing inetb. When threads terminated abnormally (like, I forcibly killed them) it made a mess in net_server, which inevitably needed to be restarted (but at least it could be restarted). I had to figure out a way to gracefully tell threads to go away even when they...
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    BeOS Install

    Thanks much. I'll compare this with my system. I'm wondering if I should just pull the cache and see what it does with that.
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    PPC NetPositive+ for PowerPC BeOS

    Well, the rockiness here is the TLS bolt-on -- it really strains the BeOS' stack allocations and its multithreaded nature means things can stomp on it. Stripping out the crashtastic JavaScript and a few other changes improved the core browser's stability markedly.
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    PPC NetPositive+ for PowerPC BeOS

    Who says you can't do TLS on BeOS ... in NetPositive itself? It's a little rocky, but it works! Downloads in the article. It builds with Metrowerks cc/BeOS CodeWarrior, but not sure which was the more appropriate prefix ...
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    BeOS Install

    Actually, @wottle, another request. Can you send me what you have in /boot/beos/system/add-ons/kernel/drivers/bin/awacs ? I would like to compare that file with the one on this system just to make sure they're identical. How much L2 do you have?
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    BeOS Install

    That's very frustrating (for me). Your screenshot says you have a 250MHz system with 64MB of RAM. Any L2? I have a 6500/275 with 128MB of RAM and 1MB of cache, so I need to narrow some of these issues down. Maybe there's a logic board difference. There isn't a Gopher client on BeOS ... yet ;)...
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    BeOS Install

    Do you have sound on your TAM? My 6500 doesn't with BeOS, and I'm trying to see if it's unique to it or all Gazelle boards. (I do have a TAM also, but it runs 9.2.2, and I don't feel like putting 8.6 on it just to try this out. The BeOS launcher doesn't work with OS 9.) I've collected BeOS...
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    Breaking the 36MB RAM limit on the LCIII

    Didn't happen to have anything on the 6500, did you? I'm puzzling through why the BeOS AWACS driver works on the 6400 but not the 6500/TAM.
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    Mac IIci Success Story

    Not sure why. This occurred even with a recapped card. But this IIci is running 24/7, so it's possible they have a finite lifetime most collectors will never run into. Meanwhile, it's far more reliable, even though it's noticeably slower, just to run it without cache.
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    Mac IIci Success Story

    By far the part that failed the most in my very long running (as in decades) Mac IIci running NetBSD was the cache card. It would chew through one every couple of years and crash, recapped or not. I now run it without one.