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Hi folks. Programs to encode modern images into Apple II-savvy formats are not new. Digarok released a nifty utility to do so: Buckshot. I recently came to know about it in a YouTube video by @Javmast3r . The application lets you convert images into 4 modes: Low Resolution Double Low...

Hi fellow tinkerers. I got a packed Power Macintosh 9600/350 with maxed-out RAM, Sonnet accelerator, and many other PCI cards. The only problem is that it won't start!!! It powers up, the power button lights up, the LED in the processor's daughter card blinks, and I hear HD noises but it...

Hi Folks. I have 3 powermac G4. I was thinking about upgrading the MDD to a better graphics card. I know ppl usually use PC equivalents flashing them to become Mac compatible. I’ve been searching the net but I could not find a list of the cards that would work on the Mac. Does anyone know of...

Hi folks. I got an "as is" Powerbook 180. It was extreamly cheap for Brazilian standards: R$200 what translates today to US$41. I tried to power it on with a 7.5V center positive power supply. Nothing. I noticed a little of a burning plastic smell on the power supply connection. Next step was...

Hi folks. I got an SE/30 motherboard. I already had an SE case. I'm planning on putting it together with a Pico-PSU (+ -5V adapter board), blue-SCSI and an LCD display. I know the J12 connector on the motherboard receives power and outputs video signals. Questions: Do anyone know of a...

Hi folks. I Just watched a You Tube video by @gruz where he shows some of his big box vintage mac games. The life of a vintage mac user, and now collector, outside US/Europe/Japan has never been easy, as we had to rely on imports (sometimes illigal imports) to buy anything mac related. Big...

Hi folks. I got my old Classic and a newly aquired Classic II up for restauration. ✔ Both motherboards are working fine after recaping ✔ One analog board is working after recaping (the other one needs more work) ✔ Internal blue scsi on both ✔ succesfully printed (after almost giving up twice)...

Hi folks. I am still trying to bring a Mac Classic II back to life. Now I'm working on the analog board. I found a serious cap leakage "scar" on the poor thing. I cleaned it the maximum I could, with IPA and a lot of the green soldering mask around the affected area peeled off. I turned my...

I come here to ask the favors of the recapping deities... In my first attempt to make a recap of my ORIGINAL mac classic from back in the day, I destroyed some of the capacitors' pads while removing the old caps. I suppose I can bodge wire the caps to the points shown below... Two...

Hi Apple II folks. Are there open source/free Gerber files for Apple II cards? I’m particularly looking for mouse card, sound card and the RAMWORKS “overboard” (dunno if that’s the term in English, it’s the small board that plugs onto the RAMWORKS adding +512K). Thanks ☺

This weekend I’ve put together my first PCB: It's a ADC to DVI adapter. It works very well. I just didn't test the USB pass through 'cause I bought the wrong part (connector). I used an old IBook 24V charger to power it. The creator’s website: https://www.jasondoesitall.com/adc/ This was...

Hi folks. I grew up with an Apple //e clone that I used from 1985 to 1994! Unfortunatelly I got rid of it back then. As I am getting old and nostalgia is hitting hard, I decided to rebuild my childhood system. I got the very same clone and I am now adding everything I had on my old one. I got...

Brazilian biomedical resercher/professor. I was introduced to computers in 1984 (aged 13) when I got a //e clone for Xmas. I've been a mac user since then. As a hoarder that I am I kept almost every Mac I owned since then. Now, with the retrocomputing scene getting cool I decided to revive my...