/r/VintageApple
A place to discuss and share anything related to vintage Apple computers and products.
A place to discuss and share anything related to vintage Apple computers and products.
Please feel free to add photos of your personal collection, interesting articles about vintage Apple products, discussion on classic Apple computers, Newtons, Macintosh, Lisa, etc.
Please only post Pre-Intel products.
Note for older Macs on System 6-7 setting your date to 2020+? There is a bug in the Control Panel that this SetDate app can help you with.
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I have a few issues with OS 9.2.2, on a G3 desktop.
1. I tried to install my late 90s HP laserjet. So far it receives data from OS9 but it just prints nonsense garbage. I have tried both Laserwriter 8 and adobe PS driver, with the HP supplied description files. What am I doing wrong? The HP app only works with USB and AppleTalk so it is of no use, as far as I can tell. I used the Desktop Printer Utility.
Kind of funny how it just works on Windows 11 without any additional drivers, but has problems with a period correct system.
2. The mac has a 2-port PCI USB card that worked fine with the OS9 that was on the computer when I first received it. I had to reinstall the OS due to other issues and now USB isn't working anymore. I have all the extensions that are supposed to be installed. The card and connected USB devices shows up in system profiler. But nothing happens.
I even tried another card (5 port USB 2.0, NEC) and it's doing the exact same thing.
3. I cannot figure out how to set the monitor refresh rate. I use a Dell 2007FP which is a 60Hz panel like most older LCDs. But the mac wants to output weird 67, 74, 76hz (etc) signals which isn't ideal or in some resolutions doesn't work at all. I want all the available resolutions at 60 hz, how do I set that..?
I was recommended to try SwitchRes but no matter what I do in there I cannot get a mode in anything what is already available in the monitor control panel.
Reworked a MacProxy Plus extension to accept Google's Gemini AI (for the poor people like me who won't get an OpenAI API key). Need to fix those non recognised characters, but otherwise good to go!
Hi all, just finished recapping my Mac classic ii. Got the display to show but am getting some corrupted video. Any ideas where to look first?
One good clean later, it's alive! I now have a fully functional Color Classic II
It's making some annoying high pitched sound, but I'll be dealing with that later 🤷♂️
I've been trying to install programs on my vintage macs (a Mac SE/30 running 7.5.5, and a Performa 630CD running 7.6), and nothing works, some files aren't even recognized by the OS and don't appear. What is the correct file type for classic mac applications and/or how do i get them to appear?
Mine is bone stock, 1mb ram with System 6.0.8.
I've heard that there's both a CP/M and Apple II emulator but now that I have a classic Mac to run it on, I can't find either of them anywhere.
Also wondering if there's any other emulators. I feel like it should be powerful enough to emulate a ZX Spectrum, VIC-20, or Commodore PET.
As a follow up to my previous post, I am looking for some 10.4 Tiger CD's, not DVDs. If anyone has some they would be willing to sell or point me to some online listings. I would appreciate that. I can only find DVD's on eBay.
Back with the same mac classic I had posted about before. Was able to get it to a point where the mac bongs, but gets no further than some tightly packed diagonal lines. No blinking question mark. The interrupt switch leads to a sad mac, as expected. From prior desperation (before I got this far) I have already replaced the CPU, RAM, and VLSI chips, so those are all known to be good. Additionally read up on someone having a similar issue so I tried replacing the ADB chip, and reflowing a bunch of possible issue joints on the analog board, yet still no change. What could be the issue?
Bongs, then boots to this screen.
Interrupt key gives the usual sad mac indicating that ram is OK
So I recently got a revision C tangerine tray loading imac g3 and it was working a few hours ago until I restarted it and now it gives me the happy mac logo and a ? like its looking for the os. Im not sure if its a hard drive failure or if the os just corrupted somehow.(its running the first version of Os 9)
As the title says, I am trying update my iMac G4 from Early 2002 to OS 10.4, I am using an external USB DVD drive because the internal drive is a CD drive. When I insert the DVD it is normal, however, when I click "Restart to begin setup", the computer restarts but it doesn't boot into the setup, instead, it goes into Mac OS. How do I get it to boot from the USB DVD drive?
I did a great job on that post didn't I?
When I try to setup quicktime with internet it gives me the error -66559 your internet connection appears to be online. When I try without it obviously just doesn’t work. Anyway to trick it to get past this screen? Im using sorbet leopard but it didn’t work for tiger either.
And we were having such a great run!
Was in distraction free writing zen today after I got out my Mac Plus with a BlueSCSI.
I was using BBEdit Lite 3 to write in LaTeX, but irritatingly discovered that the “soft wrap” option just puts in line breaks when the text exceeds the window width. (Problematic for figures, etc.)
Does anyone know the first version of BBEdit that properly wraps the text without adding line breaks?
I got a used (but functional) PowerMac G4 MDD on Ebay a few weeks ago (I've previously posted about my SSD upgrade) and, upon bypassing the password (it wasn't given a full system restore, so I had to clean the filesystem myself), discovered it's actually a dual 867MHz system w/ 32MB GeForce 4MX even though it was listed as a Dual 1GHz system (implied to be 64MB Radeon Pro 9000 system). This means I also have a slower system bus (133MHz instead of 167MHz) and slower RAM (PC2100 DDR instead of PC2700 like the dual 1GHz and dual 1.25GHz models). The seller doesn't accept returns and I've already installed (and formatted) an SSD (500GB, ~465GB usable, partitioned into 4x106GB or so) as a rear slave drive (I haven't been able to set up bootable partitions on the SSD yet, so it still boots from its old 60GB Deskstar). Needless to say, the system needs some significant upgrades in order to be used for retrocomputing purposes (early 2000s OS X retrogaming + blazing fast Classic when booted into Classic). I chose an MDD G4 precisely because it's the most powerful Classic-bootable Mac (if I wanted Classic mode w/o Classic booting, I may well have gotten a G5) and because I wanted something that matches the design of the Cinema HD display (I have one, but the stand broke while I was testing the PowerMac and now I have a replacement stand coming...because I need to machine the existing stand to epoxy it back into working order).
I have two options. They are:
I can get a 64MB Radeon 9600 Pro Mac Edition (with ADC!) for a reasonable price, and it will offer superior graphics performance to a Radeon 9000 Pro. However, it will only work in OS X and won't offer graphics acceleration in Classic at all (no OS 9 drivers for the 9600 AFAIK, only the 9000). Moreover, the system will be bottlenecked by its Dual 867 brains (and given the realities of software in its time period, about all the dual setup does is use one CPU for the OS and the other for a running program most of the time) and impacted DDR and FDB speed. Worse still, the FSB and RAM speed will bottleneck any CPU upgrade (and a Sonnet card will be expensive). So I don't necessarily think harvesting a daughter card will be a viable option.
Moreover, if I go the Radeon 9600 route, I will probably need to install an additional PCI graphics card solely for use in Classic (because there's only one AGP slot and because many Classic games require hardware rendering). In addition, given I have an iMac DV SE (G3 400) that's due for a disk replacement (I already have a 120GB SSD for it), how important is it for my G4 to have GPU that works in OS 9? And if I go with the 9600 Pro option, has anyone created a third-party 9600 Pro driver for Mac OS Classic?
I have Japanese version but I would like to find an English version to complete my collection. Anyone have one that they are willing to sell?
Searching for potentially forever lost old Mac program: Rezycle 1.5.5
This is a long shot but I'm trying to track down a Mac Resource Fork editor called Rezycle, specifically version 1.5.5. The original website still exists: https://evolutioninteractive.com/rezycle/rezycle.html, but hasn't been updated in ages, and the Mac App Store link doesn't work anymore.
I've checked everywhere I know and this apparently doesn't exist anymore on the web. Does anyone still have this thing lying around?