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    Compact Mac carry bag restoration

    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...
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    SCSI cable folds - to cut or not to cut

    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...
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    Beyond Dark Castle animated fireplace

    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...
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    System 7.0.1 missing icons in file requestors

    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...
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    French (not Canadian French) Word 5.1

    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...
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    SCSI graphics card, via Raspberry Pi HDMI

    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...
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    IP printing from vintage Macs - a guide

    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...
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    68kmla lockout

    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?
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    SimEarth files

    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...