Something about playing the classics without emulation or wrappers just hits different. #MARCHintosh
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We have Wi-Fi! Supposedly this thing can also work with AppleTalk (and I think I got it into that mode) but I haven't started looking into that yet. #MARCHintosh
Eh heh heh heh... I am *totally* crashing the #MARCHintosh party by making this post... using Internet Explorer 5, on Windows 3.11, with "dialup" over Trumpet Winsock!
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I've had to down tools on the LC II because I needed to head to work.
But here's what I've got so far.
PSU now works.
Took a lot of effort to get a picture out of it but it now **chimes** to a grey screen.
I once got a floppy disk question mark icon out of it, but it was garbled.
If I attach an internal BlueSCSI, the access light blinks as if there's activity.
Sometimes performing a PRAM reset works - it reboots with a chime. Sometimes it doesn't and ignores me.
Once or twice I've had it power on with a black screen and no chime.
I get a grey screen with a chime with no RAM, and with just the extra VRAM installed. So that's not an issue.
The motherboard has been fully recapped by the person I bought it off of a year ago with tantalums. I have recapped the PSU today.
I don't get it. There just seems to be no rhyme or reason as to why it won't start up correctly. No obvious hints to say "it's definitely x" or "could be xyz".
I'm stumped. And ngl, kinda losing my patience lol
#MARCHintosh
But here's what I've got so far.
PSU now works.
Took a lot of effort to get a picture out of it but it now **chimes** to a grey screen.
I once got a floppy disk question mark icon out of it, but it was garbled.
If I attach an internal BlueSCSI, the access light blinks as if there's activity.
Sometimes performing a PRAM reset works - it reboots with a chime. Sometimes it doesn't and ignores me.
Once or twice I've had it power on with a black screen and no chime.
I get a grey screen with a chime with no RAM, and with just the extra VRAM installed. So that's not an issue.
The motherboard has been fully recapped by the person I bought it off of a year ago with tantalums. I have recapped the PSU today.
I don't get it. There just seems to be no rhyme or reason as to why it won't start up correctly. No obvious hints to say "it's definitely x" or "could be xyz".
I'm stumped. And ngl, kinda losing my patience lol
#MARCHintosh
So, LC II update.
Good news: power supply has been recapped and the system now turns on and chimes!
Bad news: Only with the extra RAM out and it won't display anything...
#MARCHintosh
EDIT: this is an old post - check my most recent update here https://social.andreva.cc/notice/AryxibbecuxlMUKqxc
Good news: power supply has been recapped and the system now turns on and chimes!
Bad news: Only with the extra RAM out and it won't display anything...
#MARCHintosh
EDIT: this is an old post - check my most recent update here https://social.andreva.cc/notice/AryxibbecuxlMUKqxc
social.andreva.cccleanycloth (@aidan@social.andreva.cc)I've had to down tools on the LC II because I needed to head to work. But here's what I've got so far. PSU now works. Took a lot of effort to get a picture out of it but it now **chimes** to a gr...
Lazypost: Is there a simple device I can get which will plug into my iBook G3's Ethernet port (or USB port or, uh, FireWire somehow) that will bridge to a modern Wi-Fi 6 network? #MARCHintosh
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this is the first time i actually use SC2's own pattern system, plus some custom timeline sequencing. unlike most of my tracks, this .scd file is fully self-contained and will be available on GlobalTalk later :) #GlobalTalk #MARCHintosh
4 out of 4 tracks for my OS9 EP are done 
(aside from minor tweaks and mastering) #MARCHintosh #SuperCollider #LiveCoding #Algorave #MacOS9 #RetroComputing
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The year is 1993, it was either a car or Macintosh PowerBook, so here’s me taking the metro with the latter.
(Haha, new #MARCHintosh acquisition! PowerBook 145B, with an intermittent display, TBD, but it was $50, very pristine and en canadien français).
My first 68k PowerBook!
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This was a fun quick procrasti-project. It's double-sided too (it's a blinking question mark after all)!
I don't have a multi-filament printer so I implemented a satisfying no-glue snapidy-snap system to print the distinct black and white parts (but there's also a file in there if your printer can do multi-colour!)
It can also be a luggage tag, or keychain, or just a fidget token (it's got a nice heft to it).
GIF
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New #MARCHintosh fashion!
For when you need to show the world you haven't booted yet.
Download & print: https://www.printables.com/model/1221697-macintosh-no-startup-disk-tag
I'm working on a talk on DRAM compression. Some of the earliest consumer products in this area were SoftRAM for Windows 95 (a fake which didn't compress at all!) and Connectix RAM Doubler for classic MacOS (which did actually work).
Did anyone ever try to reverse engineer RAM Doubler (and write about it) – or is there perhaps source code for RAM Doubler available somewhere?
#MARCHintosh is in full swing. LC II caps finally ordered, got an ImageWriter II to play with. Fun stuff :3
Thinking about #marchintosh and joining #globaltalk? My diagram shows you how it could work on your network while keeping your modern systems and data safe.
Once nice thing about running AIR on real Mac is there is nothing beneath it to subvert...
