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I read on some old 68kmla thread the other day I THINK that the scsi termination “fuse” can go and not let you get proper termination or something… perhaps it takes 5v scsi power down with it. Try google searching that edit to add: Have you tried powering the blue scsi externaly via the usb...

I have a MacPlus. It has a BlueSCSI v1. It's worked great but I've noticed it's a few symptoms and I'm not sure the cause. I'm not assuming it's blueSCSI's 'fault' so don't get me wrong! I mainly use it just for keeping a diary in WriteNow. So 95% of my use is I just double click on the...

The latter. Melted and added a dab of new. No good?

I have a Mac Plus I redently got. It was in tired shape but working. I recapped the analog board and reflowed the solder joints for all (3?) of the connectors. Everything works great except on a cold start (eg mac been sitting for hours) the screen kinda flickers dim momentarily every few...

Could always buy a supercheap external bluescsi v1 :-/ that might be cheaper than the internal to external adapter.. Could you buy a mutli scsi internal ribbon cable? i bet you could use terminal to read raw data from the storage device in the correct way so that the raw data is an image for...

From my research into these, it is very common for the power jack to loosen. May have even been part of a recall. Anyway i read somewhere (likely an old 68kmla comment) where someone said they used to have to repair them a lot and the first thing theyd do post repair is to hot glue the jack to...

Dude this is really amazing. How did you go about learning enough to do this?

Was recapping the analog board on a new Plus that I got and I wanted to add the diode to have the scsi port power my blueSCSI. I didn’t have a diode on hand and didn’t want to put in a single-diode order from like digikey because shipping would eat me alive. So i started thinking where might...

you sure you using the right credentials as listed here? maybe screenshot your connection settings and are you sure you are hooked up to the internet on your device?

try /Garden/ Though it has worked for me before just leaving it as / It should automatically find the lowest directory.

Really awesome work @eric , @OneGeekArmy and all who supported. I had been using a little 'transfer' disk image that worked on both BasiliskII and mini vMac so that I could switch, and pass files between, emulation environments (i.e. for testing as a true 68000 machine vs Basilisk which I...

Argh! Double checked and you're right! I should re-enable my human brain's memory check at startup... Sure enough, the Mac Plus reports no color with Gestalt(gestaltQuickdrawFeatures, &result); The bit gestaltHasColor (bit 0) sure enough is a 0. No color. I hope you never get tired of...

Hm that is a bug, obviously. It should show its icon, for one, but there is a menu option to opt into showing it (default is no show at start). Geez i swear it wasn’t doing that on my test setups of my physical SE and mini vMac. Mo code mo bugs… :p edit: retried it on my SE with 7.0.1 and...

Nice. ((That extra blank spot on the right end has me worried… should never be a blank unless you were in the middle of launching or quitting a program when you took the photo?)) amazing that the code I was writing this morning is now executing on a 40 year old machine who-knows-how-far away...

Quick question @Crutch. Why does GetNewCWindow() crash the old rom machines? In addition to not calling devicemanager stuff the last thing I had to do was instead call GetNewWindow() if the machine was one of these old machines. Meanwhile my Se/30 was cool with calling GetNewCWindow() despite...

@lilliputian , try this branch! It should fix the issue with the older Macintoshes: I have it up as a pre-release on the releases page too On the plus side (no pun intended) this also includes the dynamic sizing stuff I've been talking about - all wrapped into the beta release. Give it a...

Well shoot -- I got past the usage of GetMainDevice (as @Crutch suggested - screenBits.bounds provides the monitor size). But Now I'm fighting icon plotting issues (they won't plot with the existing code on these older machines). So I'll have to dig some more to see what it isn't happy about...

@Crutch to the rescue again!! Thanks. i was just messing with it as I couldn’t resist. Why wouldn’t inside macintosh mention this (maybe it does just not above every function). But alright thanks!!!

Probably - in my case I use it to find the size of the screen (or resolution as we’d call it now) so I can center the Dock on the bottom of the screen. So no doubt I could just check some Gestalt ID stuff and see if it is an older mac (SE or below, if you will) and if so I’ll know the size...

Ok figured it out my cavalier inattention to checking stuff with GestaltID and such has finally caught up to me. i was calling a function named GetMainDevice that returns a handle to the screen that i can check dimensions etc. . I didnt know this but calling that on a 68000 causes a crash...