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@muse I was guessing that was the case, but if the use of the FLAT round plastic piece is going to make it better for big, fat-fingered hands, why don't they all ship that way? Is the DOME shaped plastic that's installed by default on there purely for aesthetics? Or does it enhance the...

Do you have the same joystick shown in my photos? I've read THE MANUAL for the ArcardR joystick I received, but I am not seeing any mention about what in the world this round piece of plastic is for, although the hole suggests it goes on the stick itself? I'm also curious as to why a...

No tariffs or tax on that joystick box, although Japan Customs will probably tax me the standard 10% sales tax on the C64 Ultimate because the declared value will likely be more than ¥10,000. I say “likely” because it’s coming from the Netherlands and not straight out of China. Chinese companies...

And so it begins! No C64 Ultimate yet, but my joystick order arrived today from the Netherlands. Amusingly, there was only a single piece of cellophane tape holding the lid down! Not sure what to do with all these spare parts! Guess I need to use the QR code and read the manual

@Mac84 Toward the end of your video, you said some friends failed to get the CDs to work in IBM RS/6000 machines, but were they PCI based? ChatGPT tells me this: CHRP’s platform topology calls for a PCI host bridge. IBM’s CHRP machines were designed around PCI I/O rather than older proprietary...

Very interesting. What would be really nice is if Smith Micro would release modern Stuffit Deluxe source code, especially since they no longer sell the product. Makes zero sense to just keep the stuffit site up without offering the source code too. I purchased the very last version of Stuffit...

;) Electro Magnetic Shielding was required for FCC certification, but if you turn a blind eye to all that, as Paolo said, there are no issues.

I found the text documents on this mirror of http://manuals.info.apple.com. I wasn't originally clear what they were because they start off abruptly and have no cover. I don't have the original Owner's Guides to compare. But after doing a keyword search for "backlight" I saw one was for the...

You determined smoke was coming from C2 and not from any other component. Therefore, C2, and everything directly connected to C2 must be examined, including solder joints and PCB traces. The purpose of an Ammeter is to measure current, and not all Ammeters can measure high current. I have a...

Apple's Confidential Price list for Developers, released on Oct. 21, 1991 to coincide with the demise of the Macintosh Portable and release of the first PowerBooks. Contains Apple II and Mac retail and discounted pricing. Click the blue "Download" button right above.

@colinlm I honestly do not know, so I will tag @Kay K.M.Mods in hopes he has tried the BMOW Daisy Chainer. But it seems it is no longer available for purchase, unfortunately.

I watched the video and the summary of the brittleness explanation was that the use of a brominated flame retardant combined with off-gassing caused micro-fissures which led to the case falling apart. Honestly, I wish we had no flame retardants at all for the sake of not having to de-yellow so...

While not a "native" app for Apple Silicon, but the following version of Stuffit Deluxe works just fine on my M1 Max 16" MacBook Pro running macOS Sequoia (too many bugs in Tahoe for me to consider updating the OS yet): https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/stuffit-deluxe-1605-final-version

@Chardonneret Why is only the bottom left corner of the display area not rounded?

Well, that's a ceramic. Using a polypropylene film cap will result in better stability over the operating temperature range. No DC bias effect on film caps either, unlike ceramics. Honestly, I just bought myself a 1000V pack of film caps (various values) on Amazon Japan in the past. There...

I discuss CL26 in my video below starting at 49:00... So while it's actually 1nF~3.9nF, not 4.7nF, you can use 1000V or higher film caps, preferably polypropylene. This person claims to have tried values ranging from 1nF up to 5nF but found it wasn't a solution for him.

I don't have an Apple Portrait Display sadly, but any NuBus card capable of 640x870 at ~75 Hz refresh should do it, assuming you have the means to connect it to the display. For example, the following NuBus cards have or seem to have 640x870 support: SuperMac Spectrum/8 Series III Sonata Pro...

PowerBook 100 & 170 owners, could you please measure the displayable PIXEL AREA of your LCD from the bottom left to the top right? (Not the visible LCD area, but the displayed pixel area.) To accomplish that, launch Photoshop 1, full the screen with black and make it full screen. Feel free...

Folks, our awesome forum member @techknight has posted a new video showing the required DIODE MOD for using a BlueSCSI externally on a Macintosh Portable 5126 here:

QUESTION for owners of both a 5120 & 5126: Do you find the 5120's display to be brighter and easier to see in good lighting compared to the 5126 with backlight OFF? (I only have a 5126 and therefore have no way to compare the two models.)