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just wondering if anyone here has any 68k macs, i have a few but some are starting to die as they have surface mount capacitors that are dying, my favorite is my 1989 Macintosh SE/30 but it is in need of capacitors, i also love my 1991 PowerBook 170, it was one of the first PowerBooks.
I had an Amiga instead - it was a far better 68K based computer. ;)
These days, I emulate the 68K Mac on my PSP using Basilisk II. Got OS 8.1 on a memstick with some classic Mac games.
I recommend this site if you want any more:Quote:
Originally Posted by Chilly Willy
http://macintoshgarden.org/
I have a Mac Classic, which has the same type of 68000 used in the late model 1's and most model 2's.. Mostly the same speed too, except full 8MHz..
I have several PowerBook 145's. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Devon
yeah i have a mac classic also but its dying too, screens messing up and the sound quit working so i suspect bad caps.Quote:
Originally Posted by evildragon
How are you doing keyboard input? A while back I was looking a mini keyboard for my hacked PSP and was surprised that I couldn't find any. It would make the PSP the ultimate little machine :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Chilly Willy
Shit, I wish there was a way to emulate OS 9.2 on my Intel Mac. I have a few programs that REQUIRE it. The game I made requires it as well. Someone did give me an OS 9 emulator once but I had a bitch of a time getting it working and it was very weird and I could not drag and drop files to and from it. It just existed in its own little world. Lame.
So was the ST. ;) (that added the 640x400 70 Hz monochrome mode too, to really compete with the ST) I think both had MAC emulators too. (I'd imagine the Amiga would have used interlace to approximate the Mac's resolution)Quote:
Originally Posted by Chilly Willy
Amiga was a good bit more expensive, but had far more features, a powerful multitasking OS, and was still a good bit cheaper than the Mac. ;)
*raises hand*
Up until about a year ago I was into classic 68k Mac collecting. I started out just wanting to make back-ups of all the old floppies and applications we used to have back in the day, so I could run them in an emulator. But once the word was out that I was busy with old Macs, they started popping up around me everywhere and a collection soon became inevitable.
In about two years time, I managed to collect a Macintosh ED (512ke for education), a Macintosh Classic, a Macintosh IIci, a Macintosh SE/30 and a Macintosh Plus. My father still had his old Macintosh LC II lying around, so you can count that one too. I got most of them able to connect to the internet, either directly or through a connection with another Mac, and with a couple of ancient browsers you can actually get Google to work.
Here's three of my machines sitting together in my old room:
http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/9757/macsz.th.jpg http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/5...cgoogle.th.jpg
The Mac SE/30 on the right has died by now, the IIci in the middle works but has some problems starting up, while the Classic on the left still works perfectly. I should try to replace the capacitors of these machines, but I'm saving that for when I get the Mac fever again.
Same.. Everytime the HD or floppy reads, the CRT wiggles.Quote:
Originally Posted by Devon
It's caps..
wow thouse are some impressive pics, i would personally like a 512ke or ed like your discribing thouse are real cool computers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Devil N
lol, it's actually the electromagnets involved in both messing with the CRT.Quote:
Originally Posted by evildragon
No, cause they never did that when new. ;) I have another Mac Classic in storage that has working sound, and CRT does NOT do the wiggles.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dant
When the floppy runs, it's not just a wiggle, the picture shrinks a little too.. Clearly a cap not doing it's job anymore in the power supply.
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Yes, that's a common problem with the power supply. My SE/30 has it too. I'm not exactly sure if it's caused by a capacitor, but I do know it has to do with the high voltage circuitry not being able to deliver enough juice to power both the CRT and the floppy drive at the same time.
I think I had a Mac Classic when I was in Kindergarten. I remember playing around with a map program and some of AOL. However, my family later replaced it with a Gateway. :(
Oh how I miss Sad Macs.
If you have a PSP1000, you can use many different IR keyboards via the IR port. I have both a Targa and a Palm IR keyboard. I helped work on pikey (a plugin that allows the keyboard to generate inputs for any of the controls), and wrote some of the keyboard drivers.Quote:
Originally Posted by tomaitheous
If you don't have a 1000, you have to use the on-screen keyboard. I use the danzeff OSK as I like that better than the other used in dosbox.
Since OSK isn't good for games, I allow you to switch input maps on the fly, so you can map the PSP inputs to any Mac key or mouse input. That's really handy for games. If you read the guide I made for BII-PSP, you'll see how it works. You'll find the latest version and the guide on my google page here:
http://groups.google.com/group/chill...-the-psp?hl=en
@roundwars: Thanks - I'm quite familiar with that site. ;)
I still have a few Macs, but they're a little newer than the 68K line. I've got a Performa 5200CD, and two iMac G3s - one of which is a DV+ model.
I was hoping for a snap type mini keyboard. Do they sell any 'holders' for these IR keyboards?
Depends on what you mean. The Palm and Targa had a spot to place the unit while using the keyboard (the Palm was better). Nothing clamped onto anything either way. You unfolded the keyboard, set it on a flat surface, place the phone/pda/psp onto the keyboard, lined up the IR arm, and started typing.Quote:
Originally Posted by tomaitheous
There's nothing like the PS3 or XBox 360 snap-on keypads, if that is what you meant. These are real keyboards meant for typing, not using your thumbs to laboriously enter tweets. ;) :D
This is what I'm talking about. :cool:
Yes, yes! Something like that would be perfect. With something like that, I could recompile some compilers and do some console/PC coding with it (nothing too fancy. Hopefully I can find a command line shell or something similar for the system too). And yeah, I have the original 1000 model.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chilly Willy
Yeah, that ED is the oldest and most 'classic' Mac of the bunch, but sadly that also means it's the most useless. Despite the fact that my machine is decked out with third-party SCSI and memory upgrade boards (which essentially makes it the same as a stock Mac Plus), there's just not much you can run on a 1 MB machine. Also, the fact that it only has an 800k floppy drive (incompatible with PC floppy drives) means that transferring software and files is a pain.Quote:
Originally Posted by Devon
The Mac Classic has the same basic specs as the original Macintosh, but its 4 MB RAM, 1.44M SuperDrive, built-in hard drive and more up-to-date connectors make it a much more useful machine.
http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs29/f/20...weredragon.jpg
Took this photo years ago. I interrupted the CPU on boot to purposely show the Sad Mac icon.
800k is awesome, thats one of the reasons i want one so i wouldn't have to be stuck with a original 400k drive in a 512k or 128 model.Quote:
Originally Posted by Devil N
True, but 1.44M is even better, because you can stick them in a normal PC floppy drive and read and write the HFS file system with a special program. 800k floppies are physically incompatible. Also, you can still buy 1.44M floppies in stores. Good luck trying to find new 800k floppies, and I wouldn't recommend reformatting 1.44M floppies to 800k either.Quote:
Originally Posted by Devon