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Great to hear that. And so... What is the technical reason I am not having the same great experience, being hit with reCAPCHA? Because I am located in Japan? As mention in my earlier post here, on the search results page, rather than see any search results, it tells me that there is "unusual...

It's been around since 2002 while Tinker Different was founded in the summer of 2021. A lot of forum veterans (whatever that forum may be) tend to remain on their preferred forum regardless of new forums popping up. So that would go a long way to explain more traffic over there (despite the...

@ClassicHasClass & @Jazzzny When either of you use the latest version on a G4 and when you type MacintoshGarden into the search field, do you get reCAPCHA, and if so, does it hang for you like it does for me on my G4 Cube running 10.4.11 Tiger?

While I'd love to see folks use our vastly more reliable forum instead, I do understand why people like the other forum while also liking ours. It might be good to tell your friends and associates to become member of TinkerDifferent so that when the inevitable happens to that other forum, you...

This guy shows the benefits of realism when it comes to reproductions… Suffice it to say, nobody would want a rainbow X logo on that. We want the genuine Apple logo and authentic decals. It makes the reproduction much more special.

When you use the search field like I did (see my previous post) do you have the same reCAPCHA problem?

Based on what Apple legal did to 1-bit Rainbow (Pico Mac Nano), I would guess they did something. Because reproducing a Mac WELL involves accuracy and that goes down to the logos. Do I personally want a rainbow X on a small Mac reproduction or the original rainbow Apple logo? ANSWER: the...

Knowing they are a Chinese company, it's probably unlikely they had that reasoning, but it's something I might have done if I were in their shoes. :-) Apple is pretty aggressive about silly things. Remember the guy in the UK who created the tiny Macintosh 128K? Apple Legal told him he could...

I confirmed just now that the 7450/7447 build of 26.2.2 works on a G4 Cube with Sonnet 1.7GHz 7447A running OS X Tiger 10.4.11. Great! But the main problem I have is that if you use the Start Page and type Wikipedia into the Search field and hit return, you are given an "unusual traffic"...

I think it’s quite obvious they simply said to themselves, “with our original stickers, we were just a sitting duck for Apple lawyers to come and get us.“ So they changed the sticker to that sitting duck and the rest of history. Such thinking isn’t without historical president. Remember the...

LOL. I read it as MAC LOCK, not MA CLOCK. Funny. Yes, I've seen that gizmo before. Never knew about a sticker though. But it raises the question why the sticker is an X. In any case, the gap in the colors could easily be explained as a Chinese manufacturer saying something like, "See. We...

I'm afraid we need to start from the beginning... What is Maclock? And why do they have a sticker?

@lilmul123 To begin, your entire Analog Board needs to be recapped. You made no mention about that, so I need to make mention of it. Not likely to cause a switching between 60 and 67Hz, but still a very important thing that must be done to avoid unexplainable problems. Next, your photos show...

I confirmed today that the ATI Rage 128 Pro used in the G4 Cube has 16MB of VRAM.

Actually, you can. I know people who have safely used modern AC Adapters with their Portable but those Adapters match the Apple Adapter in terms of output being 7.5V @1.5A. Voltage and Current output must be the same, and such Adapters do exist. Tolerances of those modern Adapters (as reported...

@Fizzbinn Thank you for the links. No scary warning that I could find (yet) about AC Adapters rated for more Amps than the stock Adapters, but the search is still on for that. I see in some of the documents you linked that NiCd batteries were mentioned. I've seen people replacing those with...

The rabbit hole opens and now the heat is on the find that elusive tech note!

Actually, you need to go back to the Macintosh Portable to understand. It's not Ohm's Law. The Mac Portable's power system was really a crazy design because if you used another AC Adapter with the same voltage but higher current (even only 1A higher current output), that would fry motherboard...

I just now edited that link in my previous post, thanks. There are others like the following too: https://www.amazon.com/SRGTHE-Compatible-POWERPAX-PTD-07530V-Switching/dp/B0F93TM771/ I didn’t pick any of the voltage adjustable ones because most of those seem to require that you use an...

This thread is 4 years old, but it seems like no one has tested any AC Adapter rated above 3A out of fear that even the higher end models like the 180c lack the appropriate circuitry to handle more than 3A of current. But if a modern Adapter works well, it makes more sense to use them than the...