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Not to mention all the data loss at the-other-forum-which-shall-not-be-named through the years. The goal with TinkerDifferent set out to change that, with people who run this great forum being part of the vintage computer community, rather than just one person who may pass away or lose interest...

@JdM74 put a lot of work into his two spreadsheets. His incredible attention to detail and excellent content layout will no doubt make it far easier than ever before for anyone trying to do the SE Reloaded and IIci Reloaded builds. And I think that's important because the easier we can make...

Yes, that button is terribly unfortunate. As much as I love to rave about the G4 Cube, that awesome looking power button tech wasn't fully fleshed out before the machine was released. Fabulous concept. Less than stellar execution. Very interesting. Hmmm... I too used an mSATA SSD in an IDE...

I disconnected the button atop my Cube many years ago due to unstable behavior (e.g., fluorescent overhead lights even triggering wake, sudden shutdowns, etc.). With that button disconnected, I opted to use the button on my matching 15" LCD instead. It's really a tragedy that the CubeOwner was...

I have not used one, but I wish to share my past experience with VRMs. I used to be very active in the CubeOwner forums, but that site has been down for years, and sadly, Internet Archive doesn't let me browse my old posts. I did go through some emails today, from 2004 to 2007, showing I had...

I've lived in Japan 30 years. There have been times when a U.S. based seller refused to ship to me in Japan, and in cases when I could not get a family member to accept the package and re-ship to me, I turned to AM Forward, in Oregon (where there is no sales tax, although upon entry into Japan...

Sorry for my delayed reply. It was a 3-day holiday weekend here in Japan, and my Portable was left at the office. I moved the Brightness CP outside the System Folder (System 7.1) to make sure it would not load, and then I rebooted. Interestingly, the backlight came on very quickly during the...

Wow! Thank you very much. I sincerely appreciate your time on putting that together for me. Truly! Since I am completely inexperienced with this, I see it will take me some time to sift through. And it's also clear I would have been utterly lost without your guidance. That's not to say I...

@SuperSVGA I uploaded the v1.3.1 "Portable" Control Panel to Macintosh Garden, where it is found as DL#6. Without you, this wouldn't have been possible. So thank you again. I do wish to ask if you have ever used Ghidra or otherwise decompiled 68K Mac software? I can get it to launch on my...

I did not setup any shortcut keys. I merely assumed based on prior dialog that the arrow keys might work to adjust brightness, and when they did not, I then tried various key combinations in vain, such as CMD-ArrowUp, CMD-Arrow-Down, OPT-Arrow-Up, CTRL-ArrowUp, Shift-CMD-ArrowUp, etc. Nothing...

Lunch Break Test Results: Booted my 5126 Portable from a System 6.0.7 1.44MB floppy disk image on my FloppyEMU, which had the version 1.0 Brightness CDEV and version 1.3 "Portable" CDEV installed. Brightness does not appear when you click Control Panel in the Apple menu. Only Portable...

First, I should mention something for everyone reading this. It's just FYI... Some people don't like to be pinged or tagged, but I am different. I want to be tagged. :) Otherwise, I won't notice something important at all, or not in a timely manner. Being tagged is a huge help to my aging...

I spent my lunch break on it today, and I made this video for you:

@nottomhanks Thank you for tagging me. I might have missed this thread if you handn't. (y) If anyone else wishes to tag me to alert me to something, please go ahead. I appreciate things like that. Earlier in this thread, a question was put forth about how to adjust CONTRAST on the 5126. I...

Big news! The amazing dual 8 MB ROM SIMM from Garrett’s Workshop LLC is now on sale as described in their post on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/AmWWqMELVnFomYSR/? Congratulations, Garrett and Zane! I’m really quite excited about this because it’s been long in coming. I’ve...

Because of the System 7.5 requirement, I assume you are no longer able to boot into System 7.1 even when you switch over to the 68040 CPU?

@nottomhanks I am able to boot my PowerMac 9600 into System 7.5.5 even though it has a Buffalo 400MHz G4 (7400) CPU card installed in place of the stock 300MHz 603e CPU card from Apple. So unless your PPC card requires 7.6.x and higher, you should be able to boot into 7.5.5, disable 32-bit...

I myself don't have one of those PPC cards, but I'm curious if they have an 040 mode. What I do know is the IIe Card requires 24-bit addressing. Normally, you would be using 32-bit addressing to access all of your RAM. That limitation also means that you cannot use System 7.6 or newer as...

Holy cow! That’s amazing. Thanks for sharing.

Although Radius was a well-respected Macintosh products developer back in the day, it certainly looks like a case of "what NOT to do" when it comes to accelerator board design. Look at the size of that cap... Holy Cow!