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  1. JDW

    CiderPress II released

    Changing topics... I'd like to add that I've not read the CiderPress II documentation yet to know if it offers a convenient means of converting JPG and PNG and GIF graphics to Apple II formats, but one app that is MAC NATIVE which I've used to do that in the past is BuckShot...
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    CiderPress II released

    Yes, I have Rosetta 2 on my M1 Max 16" MBP, but WINE isn't compatible, or at least it wasn't in the past. I've not tested CiderPress II on my Apple Silicon Mac yet. I've only tested on my Intel iMac so far. So you can get WINE to work on your M1 MBP?
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    CiderPress II released

    Just downloaded "CP2Mac106.zip" (1.2GB wow!) from that Github page, and tested it on my Intel iMac running Monterey. Sadly, the README says this: This is a Windows GUI application wrapped into a Wine emulation bundle for macOS. The emulation isn't perfect, but it's pretty good. That means...
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    VCF SoCal 2025, February 15th & 16th, 2025

    Thanks for your kind words. She's both excited and frightened because, like all college seniors, you're applying like mad but don't yet have a full time position lined up. And with CA state being as outrageously priced as it is, that's a key consideration. She does want to remain in the US...
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    Disk Jockey, a disk image file maker for your retro stuff - Beta for version 3!

    Even if it did work (and yes, I've watched his otherwise excellent video 4 or 5 times since its release), it's a LOT more time and effort than just attaching a FloppyEMU to your IIe Card's Y-Cable and accessing Total Replay (any version) as a SmartPort0 drive. Drive Setup 7.3.5 shows this (and...
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    Disk Jockey, a disk image file maker for your retro stuff - Beta for version 3!

    @OneGeekArmy I downloaded Disk Jockey 3.4.5 today to see if it would allow me to get Total Replay v5.2 to work with my BlueSCSIv2. METHOD #1 (ends in failure) I download the TR5.2 *.hdv file and copy it straight to my SD card, then rename it so I can give it a SCSI ID: HD6-TotalReplayv5.2.hdv...
  7. JDW

    Apple Lisa Mouse A9M0050 - Replacement Shell

    Really? Wow. I sent JLCPCB an order in transparent resin recently and showcased the speaker mounts in my recent video about the Mockingboard 4c (at 32:56). As shown there, I also had them printed in semi-transparent resin and then in White nylon.
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    Apple Lisa Mouse A9M0050 - Replacement Shell

    Quite unfortunate about the Apple logo. Javier Rivera gets around that by printing them himself, although the mouse he offers uses a modern optical mechanism rather than vintage… https://www.8bitstuff.com/product/3d-printed-apple-lisa-mouse-recreation/
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    Vintage Mac Boot Key Combos

    Boot Key Combos Bypass startup drive and boot from external (or CD).... CMD-OPT-SHIFT-DELETE Boot from CD (Most late model Apples) ................. C Boot from a specific SCSI ID #.(#=SCSI ID number)...... CMD-OPT-SHIFT-DELETE-# Zap PRAM ...
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    Micromat DriveTech — Now on Macintosh Garden!

    After a bit of asking around, and with subsequent upload assistance from @fogWraith and GuiBer (on the Garden), I'm pleased to announce we now have functional copies of the floppy drive diagnostic utility, DriveTech on Macintosh Garden: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/drivetech Functionality...
  11. JDW

    "Brand New" USB Translucent Zip Drive Error

    Iomega was pretty inept to have only put the front two LEDs into the documentation:
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    "Brand New" USB Translucent Zip Drive Error

    While a sealed-in-box defect isn't entirely outside the realm of the impossible, I would speculate that is unlikely. And I doubt bad caps are the culprit either. The most likely explanation is that the previous owners (in the plural, no doubt) threw the thing around quite a bit. That thing...
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    "Brand New" USB Translucent Zip Drive Error

    @phipli I have the same exact USB model Zip drive, except mine is functional and doesn't have that oddball LED flash in back... I plugged the stock AC adapter into mine and the USB cable into my iMac and left it for 3 hours, not inserting a disk once. I then aimed my UTi260B thermal camera...
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    PowerBook G3 Wallstreet/PDQ flaky power input jack

    I just wanted to reconfirm because in your opening post you mentioned having applied solder to the connector, but now you feel you cannot rule out the fact that the solder you applied wasn't perfect. In other words, it could be soldering of that connector, or it could be a "questionable"...
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    PowerBook G3 Wallstreet/PDQ flaky power input jack

    @mac27 So if it wasn't bad soldering of the power connector on your previous DC power board, then it must have been a fried component on it. Very interesting.
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    Tantalum vs Electrolytic. Can I just always use tantalum?

    Exactly. So even if you were to connect some really fabulous audiophile-grade speakers to the headphone jack on your Mac, the audio the Mac produces is still limited by that sampling rate. That's why I don't think it would matter if you replaced all the caps in the audio circuit with tantalums...
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    Tantalum vs Electrolytic. Can I just always use tantalum?

    @BeigeBoxSC The previous two posts offer excellent advice about voltage doubling for "SOLID" tantalum capacitors. Polymer Tantalum offers lower ESR, a benign failure mode (doesn't fail shorted), but at a significantly higher price. These days, I use OS-CON wherever possible because they cost...
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    Macintosh PortraitDisplay Recap and Geometry Adjustments

    I just watched your video. Very interesting. I’ll tag @David Cook since you linked to his 68kMLA post. Some video cards like Radius required their driver to be loaded as an extension in order for the card to work as intended. Other cards didn’t have such INITs. So I am wondering if there is...
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    Interware Booster Clone 30-SE50F Accelerator

    Please forgive me for the multiple confirmations below, but people know me here as a MAN OF DETAILS. I like to confirm the important things when relevant. After having spent countless hours through the years with various benchmarks, I can attest to the fact that System Software version does...
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    Interware Booster Clone 30-SE50F Accelerator

    I just added Speedometer 4.01 with more useful Machine Records to the Garden page just now. I am using that 4.01 version to run my Benchmarks. That way I can compare my results to yours in a meaningful way. Below are my Norton System Info 3.2.1 benchmarks, setup in the same way as yours (in...