Ok I posted earlier how I have a classic 2 that I thought was dead until I realized, I didn't put RAM in it. I did a dumb, I know 🤣 Now I put the RAM in and confirmed in actually does work, now I need to fix the rest of the computer. The problem:

It bows fuses in instant power is applied. Ideas on what it likely could be are appreciated. I may have asked this once before but I can't find my post anymore to see what replies I had, so if you remember answering me before, I'm sorry I lost the post. Any help is appreciated!

I tried to order some CD-Rs from verbatim of Amazon, and they didn't read on any of my machines lol. Any good brands, or stores? Looking for CD-Rs and DVD-Rs specifically. Tysm!

I had a thought about using an old G4 PowerBook or iBook running Tiger as a distraction-free method of GameBoy romhacking dev and some light blogging. However, I didn't actually want to deal with building all the tools on it. Running a few python scripts and a GameBoy assembler/emulator? Sure. Building the Python interpreter, rgbds, and everything else? Hell no.

After a week of digging around after work, I was able to get GCC 14.2 building binaries for OS X 10.4.11 PPC (and created a Dockerfile here).

I've been now spending my spare time actually getting things actually building, testing it against qemu emulating 10.4.11 PPC (I'll go shift over to real hardware eventually...). As of right now, I've got Git 2.48, Python 3.12, OpenSSH, rgbds, and some other stuff. Most stuff builds out of the box with some configuration flags, so it's actually been quite nice.

I'm almost done with what I need for my own stuff, so I'll probably pause soon, but hopefully this stuff ends up being useful for someone who may want to cross-compile big things for Tiger PPC.

https://imgur.com/a/RYxi7Au

Story: Picked up a G3 DV Special Edition Granite from an e-waste recycler a few years ago and thought "Oh, this is easy. probably another power board issue, cracked solder joint, etc.

Someone clearly did not want this system to live :(

Casualties include:

• Logic board (Memory sockets, various ICs, etc)
• HDD ribbon cable divider plate
• PVA board (though it looks to be repairable, haven't pulled it a part further to see which traces are damaged.)
• Video port door (it was just gone)

Finally pulled it back out of storage and am procuring parts. Hopefully I can bring this beauty back to life!

I have an imac g3 M5521 which has a failed optical drive. I also have an optical drive from a Macbook Pro 2010 as per photo. Would the optical drive work on the imac g3 with a sata to ide adaptor?

Follow-on to this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/VintageApple/s/KJwInbo9BV

Since my last post I’ve since followed through on much of the advice I received, including:

• Cleaned logic board, analog board, power supply
• Replaced electrolytics on logic board (I have the replacements caps for the analog and PSU but I’m lazy)
• CR2032 replacement for the PRAM battery
• BlueSCSI v2 (pre-made) to replace the old hard drive

And this is where I’m stuck. For starters, I started getting the ? floppy after re-capping the logic board, where previously it would boot up with the old electrolytics and hard drive. Replacing the old HDD with the BlueSCSI, I formatted the SD drive as exFAT and put a pre-made .hda file for OS 7.1 from the BlueSCSI website. Nothing - still ? floppy. Realized the BlueSCSI wasn’t lighting up (SE/30 doesn’t provide enough power through the SCSI?), so I powered it through the USB port and it did light up. But still ? floppy. Having a log file, I confirmed the BlueSCSI is recognizing the OS image as well as the computer itself. However, did not recognize a ROM image. I tried throwing a .rom image from BlueSCSI, but no change in behavior.

What do y’all think? Could it be a logic board issue stemming from sub-par soldering? Am I doing something wrong with the images?

Now I’m looking for a way to get OS 9 and OS X dual booted on it :3

I recently scored an Apple cinema display, with a bunch of the necessary adapters, dongles, a magic mouse, etc for a decent price.

The 30' cinema display works great, but shuts off when the USB cord gets plugged into a Mac. The Mac can still confirm that the screen is plugged in, but the screen goes blank. Is this a compatibility issue or a cable issue?

Mac os Tiger, 800mHz, 512mb RAM. Nothing running in the background. Why is it laggy?

No Ethernet card and didn’t want to buy one just to transfer a few files. CD drive doesn’t seem to read CDRWs either and the floppy drive needs some TLC.

Only had an 8-pin to DB25 printer cable to hand so DuPont jumper wires and pppd to the rescue!

Seems to handle 56700 fine. 115200 won’t work at all.

I had a Mac classic II I got for cheap not long ago. It didn't boot. It has a dead short on the analog board that blows fuses. I recapped the motherboard and put it into my classic one to see if it boots. It didn't. So I set the whole project aside for a while. Last night I saw the board sitting on a shelf across the room. And I saw it, omg I'm so dumb lol. There was no RAM installed. Of course it wouldn't boot 🤣

Anyone else have stories like this so I don't feel so dopey?

Hi all. I am really interested in making jungle music, similar to how people do on Amigas.

I have various Macintoshes, Plus, SE etc.

Does anyone know of any software that is similar to OctaMed for the Amigas - a tracker that I can control external MIDI devices (AKAI S2000). (I will buy a MacMan MIDI Interface). Just want to know if any software like this exists.

Thanks!!

Also, anyone know what manuals and disks you’re supposed to get with these? I think I’m missing one manual, and I’ve seen another listing that includes a HyperCard disk but I’m not sure if that was just cause it was bundled in with a computer or if they normally come like that.

I picked up a iMac G4 17” for cheap today! I’m curious if anyone has any recommendations for a modern screen that I can swap in?

Here are my requirements for the screen are:

1. It fits inside the casing of the old screen (front bezel doesn’t matter because I’m going to cut that up to fit whichever screen I retrofit)

2. A 3.5 audio jack out for external speakers.

3. HDMI.

I’m going to use it as a monitor for my M4 Mac Mini or a plug in play Apple TV monitor. I’m not going to install a juicycrumb conversion like most people do. I would like to just be able to place an Apple TV or M4 Mac mini in the base as a plug and play monitor with HDMI. I plan to fully disassemble the monitor arm to run the HDMI, 3.5, and power adapter through the neck. Worst case scenario, I have to custom have a cable running from the back of the screen for the 3.5 audio jack.

The cd tray of my imac g3 slides back and forth in the casing, is this normal? if not how do i fix?

I've heard the diskettes themselves could be useful to collectors even if there's no interest in the software... and I'm also not sure I really want to go through the bother of trying to sell each one individually. I'm just wondering what the interest might be in general and if you think there might be anyone out there in theory who would be interested in the whole lot with this many multiples. (There are also a few more copies of Mail List Manager not in the box).

Hello!
I just got another PowerBook G3 Wallstreet/PDQ, and I thought it had a 400Mhz G3 CPU ugrade, but it turns out it is still the original CPU even though System profiler in Mac OS 9.2.2 reports 400Mhz instead of 266Mhz. Also, the screen is extremely yellowed, and I have another screen that I could use, but I'm worried about the plastics -- do they break very easily?

Would it be possible to take the case of an eMac and stuff the internals of the Dell M782 inside? They seem to have the same screen size. Thanks in advance! https://crtdatabase.com/crts/dell/dell-m782

Hey everyone,

Not sure if this is the right place to post this but I recently acquired an Apple Lisa 2/5 and I'm having trouble getting it to boot. It doesn’t recognize floppy disks at all. I’ve tried multiple disks but nothing seems to work. I also attempted to use the Floppy Emu from BMOW, but it also doesn't recognize it. It gives 3 beeps when I select boot from drive.

I can confirm the drive itself is working as I have tested it on a confirmed working Macintosh and it boots completely fine. The floppy emu also works on my other vintage computers. I have attached a photo of the Lisa with the menu. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

So i recently bought this macintosh se just for fun and as a project. I got it working but when i put in a floppy it said it wasnt a mac disk(to be expected they went to an old ibm). but now when i hit eject it wont eject it and i have to manually eject. kinda strange bc the first few disks ejected fine. when i press eject it makes an odd motor sound but it wont pop out. please help. (also it wont let me attach the video so your going to have to imagine what its doing)