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Hello, I've been asking and searching for YEARS, and the hunt continues for someone who can repair my unique NeXT MegaPixel 17" Color Display. This is the very late-released, hard to find Trinitron version & it is essentially a rebadged Sony GDM-1632 / 1634. The service manual exists online &...

I had an orphan LCII motherboard sent my way recently that was more than happy to be alive after some trace repairs and a recap. I also happened to have a spare PSU from a customer that had no home. But I didn't have a case! what to do? simple answer, order the Creality Falcon 2 laser...

Hello all, As someone who repairs a lot of systems, the CUDA / EGRET microcontroller chip is one of those pieces that is getting harder and harder to replace. It would be amazing if these chips could be replaced by a modern solution so we can save more 68k / PowerPC Macs! I was doing some...

Hi, I have been working on restoring a Macintosh Iici for some time, and I've hit kind of a roadblock. After swapping battery-bombed motherboard with a recapped one, I have been able to install successfully an E-Machines Futura II NuBus video card, an Asante Ethernet card, a cache card, a...

Hey all, hoping someone can give me a bit of a steer on a problem I am trying to solve with an SE/30 I picked up last week. The logic board itself thankfully had a non-leaking original battery installed which I was relieved about - but the capacitors had done some pretty serious leaking, and...

One of the lesser-known compact Mac cooling fans is called Mac N' Frost. I found the Mac N' Frost interesting compared to the more mainstream Fanny Mac and the Kensington fans for the 128k, 512k, and Plus. Introducing the Mac N' Frost! Designed by Roy Hicks and marketed by RH Electronics in...

I was browsing the Call-A.P.P.L.E. website and came across this "Black & Bleu Version 10 with License" article about a program that comprehensively lists errors and Sad Mac codes with information and details. So, I headed over to the Macintosh Garden. I was intrigued. So, I downloaded the Black...

I obtained the new BlueSCSI v2 DB25 external SD drive from @Androda, so I could use it to install various operating systems, software, and other files on different Macs with the DB25 SCSI port. I placed the following images on it: Mac Apps Mac Games Legacy Recovery The Apple Legacy Recovery...

One of my favorite games is Arkanoid. :) I understand that Arkanoid 1.0 is 24-bit and runs under System 6, not System 7. I know a patch can be done to make it run under System 7, maybe with caveats. Then, I noticed some people have Arkanoid 1.10 that would run under System 7. Is that 32-bit...

Hello! I've been working on my Mac Plus for a month and I got this issue out of nowhere. (The diagonal lines are from the camera) As you can see, the display is very compressed vertically, strange display resolution. I tried adjusting the height potentiometer, but it's maxed out, if i turn it...

Hello! A few weeks ago I posted here and i was able to fix all the problems I got (link here). Last week I went and started playing around the floppy drive (i had it appart while fixing the computer itself). Tried inserting a floppy with the 6.8.1 and it just didn't read and couldn't even eject...

Hello there! A few days ago I got a Mac Plus for like 40€, but it's not working (I knew that when buying it). I've been looking in this and other forums, videos, manuals, and I can't really find the issue. This is what my Mac Plus is doing: Normally, i press turn on button, and theres no chime...

Starting with this post, I found that Snooper 2 has some interesting motherboard photos, worthy of extraction. If you follow that discussion, you will see that it concluded with the finding that we cannot extract them from the PICT resource of the Snooper app. The only reasonable method of...

Since I set up CQ II BBS almost 2 years ago now, several new Mac BBS's have popped up (or I just recently discovered them!). Let me know if I've missed any. NAME ADDRESS SOFTWARE Applefritter BBS bbs.applefritter.com NovaTerm Captain's Quarters II cqbbs.ddns.net:6800 Mystic BBS...

The first book in a series of four manuals for the Apple TechStep is a User's Guide. Apple TechStep User's Guide Apple TechStep Troubleshooting Guide Apple TechStep CPU Tests, Vol. 2 Troubleshooting Guide Apple TechStep CPU Tests, Vol. 3 Troubleshooting Guide NOTE: @retr01 is working with...

Check my Mac Minus thread to see what the heck this is about, but I finally published the main components of the V2 case: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5532530

The Apple IIe Card lets you run Apple IIe programs on a Macintosh LC or another Mac with compatible PDS. Once you've set a few options in the card's Options Panel, turning the Macintosh into an Apple Ile is as simple as double-clicking an icon on the Macintosh desktop. While in the Apple IIe...

I picked up an iBook G4 12" in great condition at 1.07 GHz, and the RAM maxed out to 1.25 GB. Yay! :D :cool: Now, I will get the 30 GB IDE ATA/100 HDD swapped out to the 128 GB SSD. This is what I am thinking...

I was browsing through buyee.jp, and this caught my eye: https://buyee.jp/item/yahoo/auction/w1053871353?conversionType=service_page_search It is another dual PDS adapter for the SE/30, not by Artmix nor Bolle. Pricing hovers around $93 USD. @Kay K.M.Mods, can you look that up and let us know...

Overview In this thread, we will discuss and document extended mode in the 1-bit video on a second display to the 128k, 512k, Plus, SE, SE30, Classic, and Classic II. The goal is to develop a driver, INIT, and CDEV working with related hardware. It would be good that this would be open-source...