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@fehervaria Very odd I missed seeing your thread (started back in 2021) until today! Wow! So the interface shown in your opening post allows you to use ADC displays on modern computers via HDMI? Or does your adapter allow the vintage computer (like a G4 Cube) to connect to modern HDMI...

I have not. I have only reviewed the BabyFace PSU. I believe that TT Design version came out AFTER the BabyFace was released. Not sure who "borrowed" whose idea, but they both use the same "modular" voltage conversion units. And in my testing, I can tell you that you will get loss through...

So... We should the following? 1. Connect one end of a normal Mac serial cable to the vintage Mac. 2. Connect the other end to a serial-to-USB adapter, then connect the USB plug into the modern Mac. 3. Launch Basilisk II (System 7.1? 7.5.5?), then launch TinyTransfer from within Basilisk II...

And here are the MacBench 3.0 results, showing that CPU/FPU are essentially the same for your board and mine, but your board still shows a bit higher on the Graphics... Even so, if you consider how much lower the Graphics scores are with the 25MHz LC520 board, I don't think it can be said...

Hmmm... I just did the side-by-side with your Speedometer 4 benchmark results (shown at right below — I renamed your record), and my overclocked LC520 board at left. All numbers (except Disk) are clearly within "testing error" difference. So I guess this gives strong evidence that the BUS...

@kefkafloyd Thank you. I downloaded your file and opened the Speedometer folder and I see Records "3 & 4" but do you which specific version of each? As you can see below, I have my own 3.06 and 4.01 folders (top left). I believe the creator of Speedometer changed this testing methodology...

It's a 512K Mac with Kay Koba's Fat Mac Switcher and also his ROM-inator I. The short summaries of those 2 videos are: 1. Fat Mac Switcher: Allows selection of 512K or 128K RAM (while Mac is OFF). 2. ROM-inator I: Allows you to flash the stock 128K ROMs, 64K ROMs, or customized ROMs. I...

Wait... You were in bed preparing for slumber when you suddenly remembered your password was Golden Slumbers? :-) That's pretty amazing. But it also shows you put priority on a good nights' sleep. And with all that programming prowess you have, David, I can see why a solid 8-hours is...

Yes, I have the ROM-inator (128K ROMs) in my Fat Mac Switcher equipped Mac512, but how is EasyShare used?

Wonderful! Extracted from tape backup no less! Thank you for your preservation efforts, David!

@dougg3 , @Fizzbinn , and you other LC550 owners... Sorry for the trouble, but could you please post your LC550 board benchmarks in the following apps? Norton System Info 3.5.3 Norton System Info 3.2.1 Speedometer 4.0 Speedometer 3.0.6 MacBench 3.0 (all tests) It could be that no single one...

@Scorpio_ny Both look fantastic. Well done!

@Kai Robinson If I buy the LCD kit for my Color Classic, will you watch it in its entirety? :geek: Regardless, I am strangely compelled to open my low-on-cash wallet for this kit, even though I know I will likely get hate from the purists who demand CRT tubes in every vintage machine out there...

I don't know if I have "OCD" but I do get "hot and bothered" (he he) by specs of dust behind glass, and I experienced that a lot when doing my iMac graphics card bake videos.

You mentioned System 6 being associated with speed, which it absolutely is, but the 512K machines are made to use even older versions of System Software. System 3.2 & Finder 5.1 work rather well for the period-correct application software you would likely use on such machines. They are also...

that’s basically what a stock Color Classic is. And that’s why it’s so painfully slow.

Thanks for adding the photo. So it seems the LCD offers a bit more brightness than the CRT set to its upper brightness level. That’s good to hear.

Yes, I’ve been pondering that lower weight benefit quite a lot actually. It worries me to pick it up only by the top handle, so I’m always very careful to put my left hand under the machine when moving it around. On top of that, the LCD makes the pixels perfect — not a 640x480 “native...

Very interesting! That article says he heated a 6mm thick acrylic sheet with a hot air gun and then laid it over the glass CRT (apparently to reshape the sheet into the form factor of the CRT) and later he trimmed off the excess.

Well, that's one way to "get color" inside a Mac Plus or Mac SE case! :-) I do think your use of the CRT glass is novel. You put a bad CRT to good use, which otherwise would have just be disposed of! But you probably needed something other than a Dremel to cleanly cut the glass like that...