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I went down the rabbit hole of getting WPA2 connectivity on my Amiga 600. It's much slower (around 0.1x) than a wired NIC, but it's a weird sort of flex - modern wifi connectivity without compromising security, on a 33 year old computer. I found a couple of suitable Prism2 wifi cards for around...

The Auction I already have a Macintosh SE/30 that I was lucky enough to find at a reasonable price, and which had already been recapped. But I couldn't resist putting in a low bid on a scruffy looking, but apparently working, Macintosh SE recently. I was surprised to win it. Shipping I was...

Part One - Obtaining a Network Card The first challenge is finding a NIC without paying way over the odds. Most sellers have discovered they can scalp Amiga owners for £50 for a compatible PCMCIA NIC. I ruled out wireless network cards on the basis that none of the Amiga compatible ones will...

I restored an Amiga 600 recently and it was quite difficult to install the OS, since it seemed to pretty much assume a CD-ROM drive. I documented the steps to install from SD/CF card here: https://github.com/patters-match/AmigaSetup

I like the typing feel of my M0116 keyboard that I acquired with my SE/30. My own Mac back in the day was a Classic with the far cheaper feeling Apple Keyboard II (M0487). I remember that my dad's office Macs and a friend's Mac IIfx had the nicer mechanical keyboards, so I was aware of the...

I was lucky enough to get one of the official carry bags with my Macintosh SE/30 but it's got some sort of material rot problem where it's shedding black powder on anything I put inside. It has a tear at one of the seams and through this I can see that the main white foam padding layer is fine...

I'm certain I have seen official Macintosh internal SCSI cables with multiple slits in them to ease folding and cable routing, and even for improving airflow. In my own SE/30 I have to put two 45 degree folds in my SCSI cable and can only just do this. Would slitting the cable help in this...

I've noticed that on the Mac SE/30 the fireplace on the title screen of Beyond Dark Castle is not animated when idle. When the game starts the animation is fine. The idle fireplace animation is fine on the 68000 models of Macintosh. I noticed there was a slightly newer build of the game on...

I have noticed what I think is a bug in System 7.0.1. In file requestors, many folders are missing their icons (SimpleText in these screenshots, but Word also shows this). I vaguely remember this irritating me 30 years ago, but wanted to check if others have this issue. I have confirmed with...

I am surprised that I cannot seem to find French Word 5.1. The version that is on Macintosh Garden and some of the other sites, although listed as French, is in fact the French Canadian release (I have corrected the pages to make this clear). One bonus is that it does come with the UK English...

https://github.com/PiSCSI/piscsi/wiki/PowerView---SuperView The DaynaPort SCSI ethernet emulation via wifi is already incredible, but this has the potential to be even more amazing. Could this be the kind of thing to expect from a BlueSCSI v3? Compact Macs that can drive external colour LCD...

I still use an ancient PostScript SIMM equipped HP LaserJet 6MP. It is shared via a USB-to-IEE1284 dongle, from a Synology NAS which uses CUPS. I have a Macintosh SE/30 which now has a BlueSCSI v2 with wifi. Surely I could get the old Mac to print... It took a crazy amount of reading, tinkering...

How is it possible that the 68kmla forum is unable to send password reset emails and no one cares? There is an admin notice from November 2024 that just says they are aware of the issue. Madness. Is anyone here able to contact the admin?

I cannot for the life of me use the .sit files for this game on the site. In the end I had to use a .zip file from archive.org (version 1.0) which even then was very difficult indeed to extract on my SE/30. I needed to extract the zip on a modern system (maczip would corrupt the files) and then...