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  1. Patrick

    nubus who dis?

    some of us collect those cards. They are pretty crazy... The ports on it are a little weird. usually the ports are PC style ports (joystick ports, VGA, parallel ... ) sometimes they also have a breakout cable that goes with it. so i don't know whats going on with your particular card. they...
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    Adding a system/cooling fan to iMac G3 DV

    i would assume the heat would be less if you don't have spinning rust anymore. Thats at least one less thing producing heat.
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    Apple TechStep Replacement ROMs, cartridges, software, and more!

    I have often looked at ebay and almost got a techstep. but never made that leap. I would totally want one.. I have thought about making one myself. LIke a simple one, not even try to clone techstep. But some way to hook up your mac to a RePi or an Arduino one. even if all it did was look at the...
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    Mac classes equivalence with PC classes

    interesting thought experiment. i wonder if you can kinda line up when computers came out and assume if a computer came out the same year they were kinda equal? I think it can be hard though. because people designing computers back then was still experimenting and figuring things out. And so...
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    Too many categories

    only if there is that repository of knowledge..... If people come to the forum to post. and then get driven away and not post.... (which is what currently is happening. )
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    Too many categories

    I mostly just look at New posts This is actually really terrible and i think its a sign that the forum is setup bad. That is, because everybody just looks at New posts. because the number of topics is too large. .. why fight so hard to keep something that nobody is using anyways. besides, I...
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    Ultrasonic cleaner appears to have killed my Quadra 650 board....

    is the heatsink on the CPU something you added or was it standard on the higher end quadra's?
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    Ultrasonic cleaner appears to have killed my Quadra 650 board....

    is 4 minutes a side "too much time" ? (asking honestly)
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    Decent big box pc game loot found - RPGs focused

    Oh i've been collecting the SSI AD&D games. I grew up on the mac versions of the games. (mostly pool of radiance) They only ported some of their games to the mac. Anyways. i recently got the ones you have in that first image. i havn't tried it out yet.
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    WarpSE: 25 MHz 68HC000-based accelerator for Mac SE

    I have one! .... well the plus version. i posted a thread about it here https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/mac-plus-with-brainstorm-accelerator-doesnt-like-system-7.207/ tl;dr. I still havn't figured out why it doesn't like system 7. .. and i THINK its unstable in system 6 but works most of...
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    1987 Macintosh Plus (Platinum)

    lucky. i think a circuit board on the drive touched teh frame of the computer. so ... yeah.. ... i'm not proud of it. the computer rebooted and the drive stoped showing signs of life. i wish i kept the drive in the cage or something instead of just holding it in my hand.. <insert defeated...
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    1987 Macintosh Plus (Platinum)

    in my experience this also killed the drive.
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    Macintosh 128k w/ 4MB & SCSI expansion - flaky

    So is it also an accelerator ? (is that why it has its own 68000 cpu?)
  14. Patrick

    Welcome to eXoWin3x 2.0!

    qtorrent website looks like its commercial. .. i just got that energy from their website design. but its not. its free software / GPL. so far so good. i'm using it right now. thanks. also found this on exo site. (the wget got me idk why) edit: i should have started the download on my windows...
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    Welcome to eXoWin3x 2.0!

    its been a long time sense i've used bittorrent. whats the client people use nowadays? is μTorrent still the one to use?
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    Macintosh IIfx Restoration Thread

    p.s. <Knock-on-wood> i have yet to find a computer that is battery bombed. (i have found computers that are in various stages of decay / rust. but battery was always not exploded) maybe i don't collect enough to have a good sample size tho
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    Disk Jockey, a disk image file maker for your retro stuff - Beta for version 3!

    but that image won't work in scsi2sd. which does not support disk images. edit: what would prolly be most needed. is how to configure scsi2sd to have start and end of the disk images on the sd card. So like the simple case would be for disk jokey to report the start and end of each disk image...
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    Disk Jockey, a disk image file maker for your retro stuff - Beta for version 3!

    How about the MagicSD setup for SCSI2SD ? https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads%2Fmagicsd-for-scsi2sd-owners.38576%2F after reading it i thought about programing the steps described in the post. .... where its a trick to make it look like disk images when in a modern computer. (for...
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    How many 3.5" Floppy drives can you daisy chain?

    The Macintosh LC had an option where you had 2 internal floppy drives.. i'm guessing the LC does NOT have an external floppy port?