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  1. Kai Robinson

    Anyone else a huge fan of the Alien franchise?

    Absolutely agree with this - I worked with two of the guys from Feral who ported it to mac and I live about 15 miles away from Creative Assembly in Horsham. The design brief was "don't add anything that couldn't have been made as a physical prop in 1979“. The fact that the whole team were...
  2. Kai Robinson

    Anyone else a huge fan of the Alien franchise?

    Wow, I had no idea this even existed...!
  3. Kai Robinson

    Anyone else a huge fan of the Alien franchise?

    Yep - for the Star Trek side of things, i've been watching 'Target Audience' and 'Jen Murray' - Target Audience has good breakdowns of the episodes especially.
  4. Kai Robinson

    Anyone else a huge fan of the Alien franchise?

    It's a good watch for sure - I enjoyed it. I quite enjoy watching reaction video's from people that haven't seen it - hard to believe that anyone out there thats an adult that hasn't seen it...but still, they all seem to react about the same especially at the dinner table scene... ;)
  5. Kai Robinson

    Anyone else a huge fan of the Alien franchise?

    Alien3 was just a mess due to studio interference, even David Fincher just walked off and disowned it. There were so many better scripts - one got made into a graphic novel (the William Gibson version). Alien Resurrection was just....'ehhhh'. The horror element was even less than that of...
  6. Kai Robinson

    Anyone else a huge fan of the Alien franchise?

    I grew up as a massive fan of the first two films (the others not so much), which was helped by the fact my mum had a very, very tiny hand in both of them as a seamstress working in the props/costuming department. While i went out of my way to try and enjoy Prometheus and Covenant, i really just...
  7. Kai Robinson

    A takky Mac…..

    I watched the video with my wife from start to finish - was blown away by the quality of the work all around - was wondering if the outer case pieces would work in a real Mac Plus chassis...
  8. Kai Robinson

    Macintosh Portable horror story

    @TheBasement had a fair bit of success baking the LCD from his Powerbook - check out the video here:
  9. Kai Robinson

    Macintosh Portable horror story

    I was meaning the Backlight card - browser took me to the first page.
  10. Kai Robinson

    Macintosh Portable horror story

    Yeah China still doesn't like Japan from what happened in 1934...China uses that period to justify a lot of their behaviour.
  11. Kai Robinson

    Macintosh Portable horror story

    That looks like it could be reverse engineered from the image alone...
  12. Kai Robinson

    [Solved] Mac iici boots to gray screen

    Then you may find the Apple original schematic helpful, too :)
  13. Kai Robinson

    [Solved] Mac iici boots to gray screen

    Hmm - have you got the IIci schematics to work with, first of all? :)
  14. Kai Robinson

    XServe without a rack?

    The famed IKEA Lack Rack!
  15. Kai Robinson

    Where to get ZIP VRAM for NuBus Radius DirectColor video card

    Most DRAM in the same packaging are the same type of DRAM - JEDEC defined pinouts at least. Very few, if any RAM manufacturers choose to ignore the JEDEC standards.
  16. Kai Robinson

    Advice for diagnosing scsi failure on Quadra 800?

    I have a brick of PowerPC 601's from IBM with apple part numbers on the label, probably the same issue - never used!
  17. Kai Robinson

    Where to get ZIP VRAM for NuBus Radius DirectColor video card

    Here are some - pricey though: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/264261264395 These are a bargain for 3 pieces: https://shop.tvsat.com.pl/en_GB/p/3pcs-TC524256Z-10-1MBit-CMOS-Multiport-DRAM-ZIP28-TOSHIBA/21158 Looks like almost all 1mbit ZIP28 RAM is 256k x 4-bit multi port DRAM. OKI MSM514262...
  18. Kai Robinson

    Logic Board - Macintosh SE Reloaded

    Hi Peter, I'm sorry I have no boards left, I gave up stocking them a while ago and deferred to Maceffects in the US as that's where 90% of the interest was for them (as you know not many macs in Europe by comparison). The latest version adds an extra pin header for an additional address line...
  19. Kai Robinson

    XServe without a rack?

    Correct any rack mount kit can run pretty much wherever you want. Right now I'm running a Dell R520 on its side, stuffed under the desk, penned in by two desktop pc cases and a mac pro 🤣
  20. Kai Robinson

    Sad SE/30 video error and no sound

    Pinouts for most ASIC's used in the SE/30 are here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NDIA5orTwraRmOUgzrKxWYXcf2AXdULkdwUm020HdXI/edit#gid=0