Re: Mystic Networking Problems

2004-05-30 Thread Darren
Chris Hood wrote: It doesn't seem to matter how I try to configure the CC (I'm figuring the problem is in the CC due to the fact that no lights come on on the hub when I connect it) nothings seems to work. I've got AppleTalk set to share through the Ethernet (although I do get an error saying an

Re: FPU for CC question

2004-05-23 Thread Darren
Stuart Bell wrote: Hi! A bit of help, please: Will the following eBay item really work with a CC? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=4133170645 Best list I can find, answers Tony's question from dec 22. ;)

Re: OT, looking for a Mac laptop list

2004-05-23 Thread Darren
Bugs Bunny wrote: Hello: I know this is OT, so I will be short! I have a powerbook 5300c that I recently bought for about $26.00 at a second hand store. I'm not sure what I'm going to end up doing with it, but I was wondering if anyone knows of a list, like this one, that deals with portable

Re: Apple Personal Modem

2004-05-22 Thread Darren
Peter Lowe wrote: (this is snipped from the digest version, condensed to one post. thank you for all your replies.) A nullmodem cable would be your best hope at 1mb. This list is your best hope at scoring a mem expansion card. ;) Netatalk will not work from a pc's serial port to the mac without

Re: Apple Personal Modem

2004-05-21 Thread Darren
John Niven wrote: Does Linux support AppleTalk? Windows NT and 2000 do but I never got it to work (didn't try hard though). Best get a SCSI to ethernet adapter like an Asanti EN/SC. Or get a better modem! I like the Global Village ones that match the Mac style. I had a GV 56K that I used with

Re: Apple Personal Modem

2004-05-21 Thread Darren
J.S. Garrison wrote: Ya know, yer not giving your little Classic enough credit. I can email and internet with 4MB of RAM on my Classic using a ny number of modems I have, a Global Village Platinum, A US Robotics Sportster 33.6, A Supra Express 33.6. You don't need to settle for a Personal Modem.

Re: Apple Personal Modem

2004-05-21 Thread Darren
Peter Lowe wrote: Hi! I'm still plugging away with my little Classic, and I just got a new toy for it. I dug up an old Apple Personal Modem (with the manual - score). My question to you guys is, what can I do with it from here? There are no ISPs in my area that will allow connects at 1200...is

Re: Apple Personal Modem

2004-05-21 Thread Darren
Antonio Rodríguez wrote: Peter Lowe ha escrito: There are no ISPs in my area that will allow connects at 1200...is it possible to 'network' via the modem to the modem on my Linux box? If you do have two phone lines or a home switchboard (not sure if this is the correct way to say it), you can

Re: Apple Personal Modem

2004-05-21 Thread Darren
J.S. Garrison wrote: Y'know, too, as my damaged brain hazily recalls, the ports on the Classic are nonetheless capable of 115k throughput. Izznat so? Ever seen anything near that speed via localtalk? I dont think the port itself is crippled, I think the throughput is to much for a 68000 to

Re: Apple Personal Modem

2004-05-21 Thread Darren
J.S. Garrison wrote: Thanks, Darren. Appreciated mightily As is your reply Cheers. -- Compact Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/. Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Compact Macs list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml -- AOL users

Re: Apple Personal Modem

2004-05-21 Thread Darren
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does Linux support AppleTalk? There is a netatalk package. I think it can be compiled as a kernel module or ran as a standalone service. But don't quote me on that. Works quiet well apart from a startup lag as appletalk is registered. The source is easy to compile as a

Re: Apple Personal Modem

2004-05-21 Thread Darren
Peter da Silva wrote: Peters comment is valid, BlackKnight(FAT) (full version) is possibly the best term program to use as is provides a few different protocols, that said, error checking would knock the speed around a bit unless turned off. I dont think BK runs on a 000. :( It would provide a

Re: Apple Personal Modem

2004-05-21 Thread Darren
Peter da Silva wrote: http://www.pure-mac.com/telnet.html Oooh, nice site! Thanks! Bit old. :) If nothing else you have a file name, description and a couple of starting links. Plenty to work with if the download link doesn't work. ;) -- Compact Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/.

Re: System 7.1 question #2 THIS THREAD IS NOW CLOSED.

2004-05-12 Thread Darren
Stuart Bell wrote: Dear List Members, While I agree with Jeff's sentiments, they only repeat what I said 12 hours earlier. Darren does not accept my lack of malice, and I can't do much about that. But I don't want him to feel persecuted by multiple criticism. Nor do I want another 'best way

Re: System 7.1 question #2

2004-05-10 Thread Darren
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 5/10/2004 7:40:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, thats the bit of advice that should have been taken on board last year. The answer was valid, and possibly useful as its the main place for info about mp3's on 68k, while

Re: System 7.1 question #2

2004-05-10 Thread Darren
Stuart Bell wrote: On 10 May 2004, at 12:40, Darren wrote: You seem to see malice where none exists which is quite offensive. I didn't see malice, just a posting that might possibly start a 'please be kind to people' or a 'don't just tell people to look at the FAQ' thread. Hi Stuart To remind

Re: System 7.1 question #2

2004-05-10 Thread Darren
J.S. Garrison wrote: nothing really. The only time I thought I'd get a reply. I love the febreeze/stinky thread. Nice to see your back, again. cheers -- Compact Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/. Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Compact Macs list info:

Re: System 7.1 question #2

2004-05-10 Thread Darren
Stuart Bell wrote: On 10 May 2004, at 04:40, Darren wrote: Does anyone know of a program that will play MP3's that will work with System 7.1? How about you read the FAQ's http://macfaq.org/index.shtml or try google. How about we remember the effect of such abrupt answers on this list a year

Re: DOS Emulation

2004-05-09 Thread Darren
Peter da Silva wrote: That would be bochs... Indeed. There are others, mostly dos, *bochs* is about the best I've tried on a non x86 machine. -- Compact Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/. Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Compact Macs list info:

Re: DOS Emulation

2004-05-09 Thread Darren
Jake Norcross wrote: I've downloaded Bochs, but it says I need to compile it. How do I do that? If you grabbed the source your going to have to compile it, its the best way if you have some idea what you are doing as the port is then optimized for your hardware, compared to a precompiled

Re: System 7.1 question #2

2004-05-09 Thread Darren
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of a program that will play MP3's that will work with System 7.1? How about you read the FAQ's http://macfaq.org/index.shtml or try google. -- Compact Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/. Support Low End Mac

Re: DOS Emulation

2004-05-09 Thread Darren
Jake Norcross wrote: OK, so the SE isn't going to work. What if I want Windows on my iBook, then? Depends, for example SoftPC3.1 runs fine under 9.1. Realpc/softwindows are quick but less complete than vpc. If your running 0S10 your options may be limited to only vpc. Early versions of VPC tend

Re: Mac Plus Questions!

2004-05-06 Thread Darren
roger pugh wrote: http://www.euronet.nl/users/mvdk/system_6_heaven.html is by far the best place to start for system 6 stuff http://www.jagshouse.com/everypage.html has lots of usefull stuff http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/ very usefull External floppy, priceless. :) -- Compact Macs is sponsored

Re: System 7.1 Resources...continued

2004-05-06 Thread Darren
Hal wrote: The 68030 CPU in the 550 MB can run up to MacOS 7.6.1. OS 8 requires a 68040 chip. No its doesn't, it will run on a 030 - read gambas site. For what its worth a 030 amiga will emulate a 040 under the mac OS meaning no hacks required for 8.1, it will also run 040 apps which a real

Re: DOS Emulation

2004-05-03 Thread Darren
Scott Holder wrote: Darren wrote: I have vpc 1, Realpc 1, Blue Lable 1.6se and a couple of others, none of which are likely to work on a 68000, possibly with the amiga being the exception, cross-dos. Windows 3.11 will run fine on a quadra, sharing the limited resources of a SE would be a large

Re: DOS Emulation

2004-05-01 Thread Darren
Jake Norcross wrote: Hello Compactors I am looking for the neccessary software to emulate DOS 6.22 on my SE. Is there any such thing? I also have the original program disks to Windows 3.11 (gasp!) and was wondering if that would work as well. Can such a thing run on an SE with a FDHD? I think

Re: Adding HD to SE/30 (Long)

2004-04-18 Thread Darren
http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/hd.html A year since pickle left and what, 6 months since Gamba last posted. The page contains tools and advice. Also the regedit hack for HDSC setup under sys 6 as well as the patched version. You might try http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=8647

Re: Hostility on the List?

2004-04-17 Thread Darren
Robert Little wrote: Craig, Darren, et al... Perhaps I'm wrong in this, but I'm detecting a hint of hostility with regards to the discussion that sprang up from the CC discussion. Nah, there's no agro here. As its a mac list there must be some wintel bashing. We are not all mac users, I for one

Re: Mystic

2004-04-14 Thread Darren
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Mystic made using a 580 instead of a 575. I am finding it impossible to connect an external hard drive to it. It will do a zip drive, but once a external hard drive is connected, it will not open. Well, it won't open fully. It will bong and start to open, but

Re: Mystic

2004-04-14 Thread Darren
Ken wrote: twice --- SCSI voodoo. Sounds like a problem with termination. As the 580 is IDE with a scsi port, its fairly obvious its scsi mis-configuration or not, if the screen is gray when it freezes termination may well be the problem. Can Baily chain the zip to the external, if so

Re: System 7.6.1 and AppleTalk

2004-04-08 Thread Darren
Antonio Rodríguez wrote: I have removed the former AppleTalk extension from the Control Panels folder. Then I have downloaded and installed AppleShare Workstation 3.6.5. Now, when I try to enable AppleTalk in the Chooser, I get an AppleTalk cannot be opened message, and it doesn't activate. I

Re: Networking and Linux on Macs

2004-04-06 Thread Darren
Ian J Taylor wrote: Hi All, I have two Classic SE Macs and a Performa 540, my questions are - 1) Can the two Classic's be networked for file sharing, if so how ? 2) Could you install a Linux Dist on the Performa Macintosh ? Hi Ian, not much traffic tonight. !) You know how to setup appletalk

Re: Short Link to Apple Site

2004-04-06 Thread Darren
Stephen Taylor wrote: Darren and everyone else Here's a short link to the Apple site that was mentioned in Digest #1949: http://tinyurl.com/2lz26 That's a whole lot shorter than the long apple link! grin In case you're wondering how I did it, just go visit tinyurl.com. Nifty, free little

Re: more localtalk info...

2004-04-06 Thread Darren
Rod Dickerson wrote: I guess I should have done this search first, but here is a localtalk driver. Apparently they are not the same. http://www.math.umn.edu/~bradford/ltpc.html Old driver for a localtalk pc card, might have to mod it with a hack saw to make it fit a mac, possibly a little work

Re: System 7.6.1, AppleTalk and OpenTransport

2004-04-06 Thread Darren
Antonio Rodríguez wrote: Hi! Finally I have received all the pieces needed to make my new PowerMac 6100/60 work, so I'm ready to create a small network between it and my Classic I/II. When it has the Classic II personality, it boots from an external drive with System 7.6.1. The problem is that

Re: Networking and Linux on Macs

2004-04-06 Thread Darren
Scott Holder wrote: mklinux is PPC only. He'll be wanting http://www.mac.linux-m68k.org/ Hmm, pretty sure someone around here had it running on a quad, never did get that version number. ;) I've been running Linux on various 68k Macs for awhile now, does quite well in CLI mode but X is a

Re: System 7.1 and CC

2004-04-05 Thread Darren
Eric Rasmussen wrote: On Apr 5, 2004, at 9:59 PM, Darren wrote: Its a required file located in the system folder once the install has finished. Yes, I did that, and it's all set up and working now. Note that I also had to put the enabler onto the system tools disk to format the drive before

Re: Connecting the old with the new

2004-04-03 Thread Darren
Tarus Balog wrote: Howdy. G'day. Can anyone report success running Basilisk for OSX and networking the old fashioned way, you know, chooser, psw, connected to a on topic mac? Basically, it works for other platforms and would possibly survive your regular updates for (os)X. Not a lot of help

Re: FTP Site

2004-04-03 Thread Darren
John-Robert La Porta wrote: Update- Thanks to everyone who has helped me test things out with the site so far! snip You can not post to the site directly (I did not want this because then someone could put anything in there), but I would gladly accept emails. Once again, thanks for the

Re: FTP Site

2004-04-03 Thread Darren
John-Robert La Porta wrote: Did you get the other email response I sent Darren? Yes John, I'm a painfully slow typist. Cheers. -- Compact Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/. Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists

Re: Early systems from Apple: my 2?

2004-03-23 Thread Darren
Stuart Bell wrote: On 23 Mar 2004, at 22:21, Byron Q. Desnoyers Winmill wrote: It is quite possible that Apple does not have functional or accessible copies of a lot of their software. But we do! S! ;-) It would be a very interesting software list if we somehow make a list of program

Re: Kensington fan question

2004-03-19 Thread Darren
J.S. Garrison wrote: on 3/19/04 12:58 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Second of all, what is the second button for on the Kensington fans? I have figured out that one is a power switch, but I cannot figure out what the purpose of the other button is. It doesn't seem to do

Re: Kensington fan question

2004-03-19 Thread Darren
Darren wrote: I'm guessing that your right. The Kingston (which I dont think I can use) atop my plus has a power cord and two female 110v outlets available on the back. Possibly to power the Plus and external hard drive or printer? The power outlets point down so its all very neat. Make

Re: System 7.5.3

2004-03-17 Thread Darren
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Paul, PEB See my website page...which gives a description of what I did about halfway down the page. It's a nice site, but it doesn't provide me with any clue how to decode the MacBinary .bin files once I get them onto a Mac filesystem. I'll

Re: 32-bit addressing switch ...

2004-03-17 Thread Darren
Byron Q. Desnoyers Winmill wrote: The setting for 32-bit addressing is stored in VRAM. I should know: my PRAM battery is dead and the setting is lost every time I yank the plug! I was hoping for something along the lines of the extension manager: press a key during the boot sequence and select

Re: splitting an archive

2004-03-08 Thread Darren
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do i split the archive? Or how do i make a split archive from the original that will fit two floppies? Then, if you've had no success with previous suggestions, there are MacSplitz, Splitsville, and Split Join. Execellent suggestions. Spiltz and Joinz works well

Re: 400k to 800k to 1.4MB

2004-03-05 Thread Darren
Eric Rasmussen wrote: I also need to figure out how to get MacWrite documents from my 400k disks to my G5. I guess I need an intermediary machine with an 800k drive that can read 400k disks, and then get the documents onto a high-density disk. This is all based on the assumption that the

Re: mp3 on se

2004-03-03 Thread Darren
Graham Cox wrote: On 4 Mar 2004, at 5:16 am, Katzy wrote: ps-- what's a mod?-- it seems like a music format... how do I make one? Others have answered your question about MP3, and I don't have anything I can add to that. But I can answer this for you! I hate cutting anything with reference to

Re: SV: SE and nic conf?

2004-03-01 Thread Darren
Alexander Kaaling wrote: Thanks for the replies, Kinda impressed that someone managed to decode my mixed up english in the email. Anyway, a follow up question, when I have a nic in the SE, do I need some special extensions to the system to get it to work? (7.1 mactcp) (Been around the MS world

Re: SE and nic conf?

2004-02-29 Thread Darren
Byron Q. Desnoyers Winmill wrote: On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 07:20:33PM +0100, Alexander Kaaling wrote: I cant figure out which settings to use in 7.1 got get the SE to accept an IP from the dhcp. I presume you are using MacTCP. AFAIK, it does not support DHCP so you will need to configure a static

Re: stripping system software?

2004-02-27 Thread Darren
Bryan Kattwinkel wrote: on 2/26/04 3:00 PM, Darren wrote: Grab a copy of PowerPCheck-FAT and have a look at the amount of un-needed code your (sic) loading for 8.1 ... The code for the other platform simply takes up space on the hard drive. Whenever there are 68k and ppc implementations

Re: System software?

2004-02-27 Thread Darren
Byron Q. Desnoyers Winmill wrote: Does anybody have information on how the emulator layer works? It would be interesting to know what is emulated and what is not. http://developer.apple.com/documentation/mac/PPCSoftware/PPCSoftware-13.html is a good place to start. There are a few more.

Re: System software?

2004-02-26 Thread Darren
Mark Benson wrote: On Feb 26, 2004, at 12:47 am, Darren wrote: OS8.1 is less than suited to many 68k machines. Apart from eye candy and compatibility for some programs you might wont what has it got for a 68k mac? Open Transport that works properly (well better than 7.x anyway) with Mac OS X

Re: System software?

2004-02-25 Thread Darren
Byron Q. Desnoyers Winmill wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 12:25:35PM +1100, Darren wrote: 7.1, update to 7.1.3. Okay, now for System 7.1 confusion: My understanding is that there is a System 7.1, System 7.1.2, and System 7.1.3. But I am also under the impression that System 7.1 Update 3 does

Re: System software?

2004-02-24 Thread Darren
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Still enjoying my once-again-working Mac Classic II, I was just pondering whether or not I should upgrade the System software. It arrived with System 7.1, and I have not upgraded it as yet. I was wondering what the most stable and effecient System software is for a

Re: Mac Classic II booting trouble

2004-02-22 Thread Darren
http://www.biwa.ne.jp/%7Eshamada/fullmac/repairEng.html Scroll down, ignore the SE/30 title and see if anything helps. http://www.biwa.ne.jp/%7Eshamada/fullmac/ also has some interesting .Eng files, again more related to the SE/30 Try it with only the 2mb on board ram, not likely the problem but

Re: basilisk II x11

2004-02-19 Thread Darren
Byron Q. Desnoyers Winmill wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 04:57:14AM -0500, John F. Scipione wrote: To make a long story short: if you don't know this stuff, you are better off not compiling the program. There are definitely more gentle ways to introduce yourself to unix development. Once you

Re: Basilisk II

2004-02-15 Thread Darren
Mark Benson wrote: On the subject of Basilisk II, can anyone get the OS X version (build 15) to work? I just tried it with an LC575 ROM image and it just sits at a black screen for eternity. I at least expected a flashing '?'. I've suffered similar symptoms on differing platforms. Without

Re: Basilisk II

2004-02-13 Thread Darren
Jeremy Morgan wrote: Hi all, it's been years since I've been on this list. I've found free time and am getting back into my hobby. Anyways... Does anyone know if Basilisk II will work with ROMs from either a Plus, SE, SE/30, PB 165c, or LC II? Most of what you have listed are better suited to

Re: Basilisk II

2004-02-13 Thread Darren
Byron Desnoyers Winmill wrote: On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 01:05:55PM +1100, Darren wrote: You might take a look at Squeak, a little like Hypercard kinda sorta which also runs on a few platforms maybe the SE30, maybe not. I think it will run on an SE/30, but you will need to find a small image file

Re: What is Disk201.dsk?

2004-02-04 Thread Darren
J.S. Garrison wrote: on 2/3/04 8:48 PM, James Norman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just spent the day resurrecting an original 128k Mac, replaced the analogue board and CRT with bits from a Mac Plus, dishwashered the motherboard, and carefully cleaned the 400k floppy drive. Only thing I

Re: Do recent Classic II's read 800K discs or run 68K software?

2004-02-04 Thread Darren
Josh Stacey wrote: I have pulled the motherboard out and cleaned it with cotton swab and some rubbing Alcohol. That didnt work I would put it in the dishwasher if it worked. It stopped draining on us so we dont use it.Dont have the money right now to get a new one. Classic II's fail by

Re: What is Disk201.dsk?

2004-02-04 Thread Darren
James Norman wrote: But this still doesn't answer my question - what do I use to open this disk image file so that I can get a System disk for the 128k Mac? If I were to discard Disk201.dsk I would be discarding the image file I should be working with. What Utility do I need to open

Re: Do recent Classic II's read 800K discs or run 68K software?

2004-02-04 Thread Darren
Josh Stacey wrote: Hi There, Thanks for the help here. I did take the board out and I did wash it by hand with a old toothbrush also. I even cleaned it with and without the rom chips in it and I have taken the ram out too and cleaned them also. The dishwasher that doesnt work anymore is a Lady

Opps-Re: Do recent Classic II's read 800K discs or run 68K software?

2004-02-04 Thread Darren
Doh! Sorry for posting off-list content. -- Compact Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/. Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Compact Macs list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL

Re: What is Disk201.dsk?

2004-02-04 Thread Darren
Antonio Rodríguez wrote: Darren ha escrito: Its a image file, it can be used with vmac and therefore the contents could be copied to a floppy and used from there. .dsk is also a appleII image format among others. With a size of 413 Kb, it is not an Apple II disk image file. Apple II's disk

Re: Do recent Classic II's read 800K discs or run 68K software?

2004-02-04 Thread Darren
Jennifer Worgan wrote: Dishwashing soap is alkaline, battery leakage used to be acidic until alkaline batteries came out. I can't speak about the capacitors, I don't believe I have heard of a resistor leaking anything other that electrons due to a crack in the resistor causing the resistor to

Re: Do recent Macs read 800K discs or run 68K software?

2004-02-04 Thread Darren
Marten van de Kraats wrote: Paul wrote: (I still have and sometimes use a Mac Plus, but I've a PC user for the past decade. I'm thinking of going back to Apple, however...) Good for you. The Dark Lord is contemplating an assault on both Google and iTunes. We need all the help we can get.

Re: MacPuke Init

2004-01-30 Thread Darren
Sean Brown wrote: I know this is a little juvenile, but i have been looking all over for teh macPuke init, the one that makes a puking sound when you eject a disk. I found one, and it makes the sound, but it wont eject the disk. Also, any other silly inits too.

Re: CRT removal

2004-01-23 Thread Darren
Musgrove, Jimmy W. wrote: How do others remove that suction cup connection at the tube? My SE 30 must be welded on, and I surely don't want to break the glass for trying. If I had one that didn't work, I'd bust it up just so I could see how the connection is made. I believe its a hook type

Re: ZTerm modem port

2004-01-23 Thread Darren
Sean Brown wrote: The modem port is what i want to use, for one it just makes more sence to me, and two i had seen that the printer port might be limited to 300baud though it is talking to the sun at 9600 fine so far. The problem is that ZTerm reports that the modem port is busy (ERROR: -98

Re: ZTerm modem port

2004-01-22 Thread Darren
Sean Brown wrote: Ok i got around to makeing a cable, and it talks to the sun through the Printer Port, but ZTerm still says cannot open port when i tell it to use the modem port on my SE. So what could possibly be using the port, i dont have AppleShare and MacTCP unloaded, and AppleTalk is set

Re: Reaching A Limit

2004-01-20 Thread Darren
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is Gamba not responding to his emails? Let me look and see if I can find any info from when I did my order, just a few months ago. If all else fails, I have an extra, my hold out, that I will send for shipping cost only. snip Could you please cut the rubbish from the

Re: Reaching A Limit

2004-01-20 Thread Darren
Carmen F.J. Beuhler, Lawyer wrote: Boy is my face ever red No offence honest, it just gets a little large. I'm sure I make more mistakes than yourself and I've been reminded of that fact more often. We do have a few dedicated compact users that shouldn't be forgotten. :) Does your email client

Re: SE/30 arrived with SimasiMac symptoms

2004-01-19 Thread Darren
http://macfaq.org/index.shtml it takes a bit of reading and some of the links are dead but it might help. it answers your question and provides the same links as the list once upon a time.. now we have a happy community constantly reharshing the same 6 questions. a big improvement,

Re: early mac, 128k macintosh where to get software?

2004-01-10 Thread Darren
pace wrote: Thanks Darrin! I will see what I can do with all that great info! I had tried apples site all over, along with several other website... I just don't see why Apple won't offer it. I actually already had the back off, that was a peice of cake. The troubles I am having is that when I

Re: early mac, 128k macintosh where to get software?

2004-01-10 Thread Darren
The error code you have listed doesn't appear in my database on this pc or my main mac. There are a few error code resources on the web and you may find this one a little easier to get your head around http://www.appleerrorcodes.com/ try the sad mac codes link which you may find explains the

Re: early mac, 128k macintosh where to get software?

2004-01-09 Thread Darren
pace wrote: Hello, new to this list was hoping someone here might be able to help point me in a direction to where I might be able to get some OS software for a little old Mac. (the 128k Macintosh Model M0001) I think my 3 1/2 floppy 400k is bad... I wanted another OS diskette to try out... If

Re: Mac 20th anniversary posters.

2004-01-08 Thread Darren
Marcin Wichary wrote: The Macintosh 20th anniversary posters are officially finished. :) You can view them all at www.aci.com.pl/mwichary/mac20th. If you're interested in the original print-quality PDF files, just let me know. Huge thanks to everyone who helped me do this! You really

Re: Mac 20th anniversary posters.

2004-01-08 Thread Darren
Jacob Rose wrote: On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Darren wrote: I wonder would what happens when you turn the pc version of acrobat loose to download the page. :) Works fine in Linux... Most things do. ;) The file is a little less than 6mb and has lost nothing or little in the tranfer. Starting to fuzz

Re: Older Apps

2004-01-08 Thread Darren
Jacob Rose wrote: I recommend Basilisk II, which is a free 68000-series Mac emulator: http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bauec002/B2Main.html Low End Mac seems to have a review of it, I just noticed: http://lowendmac.com/mac2win/02/0501.html Note that you will have to download the ROMs from your old Mac

Re: Plus memory

2004-01-07 Thread Darren
Eddie wrote: According to the service manual R8 is the one to cut for memory upgrades. Eddie I think therefore I Mac se Thank you for taking the time to answer my question Eddie. You must be new here. :) I'll rip the back off and take the system saver apart and see what there is to see. I

Plus memory

2004-01-06 Thread Darren
Hi I picked up a Plus in very good condition which came with a rodime 20 plus external hdd and a kingston system saver. Two questions: I can expand the ram to 4mb given the simm's and cutting a resistor lead? Can I find some good info on which resistor please? The system saver (hehe) is

Re: Dish Washer Advice

2004-01-06 Thread Darren
Michael Sherry wrote: A very dirty SE case of mine is going to get a good clean, I thought I would start with a dishwasher (my sister-in-laws). Any good tips for settings ? Detergents etc ! Any risk of melting it ? Thanks Mike Hi Mike Its a subject goes round every 6 weeks so on top of

Re: Mac not booting

2004-01-04 Thread Darren
Jeremy D. Pavleck wrote: Hi gang, Picked up a Mac SE FDHD, went through the instructions on creating a Mac bootdisk on Windows, put the disk in the SE. Power it on, it accesses the disk for a few seconds, spits it out, and gives me the I need an OS icon - any ideas? In my experience, the

Re: Mac and AOL issues

2004-01-04 Thread Darren
Karl Miller wrote: Hello! I have a Q700 that I am trying to get on AOL (easiest...but not my preferred ISP), and I called AOL, but they no longer have AOL versions 3 or 4 on floppy. I have 2.1, but I tried connecting before and it didn't work for some reason. I am hoping someone out there can

Re: compact with Laptop HDD?

2003-12-22 Thread Darren
John F. Scipione wrote: Even if it is possible to get the drive to work, it would take a lot of effort, and probably would be a hack in the end. I don't think that the SE/30 can recognize more that a 2GB partition anyway, so you would have to make 4 partitions which is hardly useful. Plus,

Re: Reaching A Limit

2003-12-21 Thread Darren
Stuart Bell wrote: We ought to talk cricket, and keep our American friends totally bemused! ;-) Rugby anyone? We all kicked our american friends tail in that one. Doesn't seem fair to talk about cricket, well for me anyway. ;) A couple of macs from ][e to G4, yawn. Darren (oz) -- Compact

Re: Going crazy trying to install 7.5

2003-11-13 Thread Darren
Gary Kitchen wrote: Hi gang. I need a few more MB of brain cells before I can understand why I can't accomplish the simple task of placing 7.5 on my Performa's hard disk. Read on and let the fun begin. Feel free to sprinkle advice whenever appropriate! Take a deep breath, here goes: Suggestions

Re: Macintosh Classic II computer

2003-11-04 Thread Darren
Josh Stacey wrote: If a compastor is leaking it needs to be found and replaced. Which I dont think one of those would be hard to find just the leaking one hard to find. But who knows. Once I get the cover off of it I will first unplug the floppy and the harddrive (If it has a harddrive) and see

Re: Original Macintosh photographs/scans?

2003-10-30 Thread Darren
Hi Marcin. While these are not what you asked for maybe you will find some use for them. http://archaic-apples.shauny.de/files/mac/images/ Another site you might like is http://www.mirrors.ausmac.net/AusMac/auslist.cgi?location=Quicktime-Movies. Slowly getting through you gui gallery. :) The

Re: How DO I Do This?! AARGHH!@#*

2003-10-26 Thread Darren
Gary Kitchen wrote: I am trying to figure out how to make a boot disk for my Performa 575, but I am running into multiple roadblocks. Here are the main issues I am facing: The internal (infernal?!) SCSI 2x speed CD-Rom drive has died I don't have Stuffit on the Mac, so I can't unstuff anything I

Re: SE/30 fanless?

2003-10-26 Thread Darren
Antonio Rodríguez wrote: Hi, Hal. I think the SE/30's processor generates enough heat to make it neccessary to have a fan. One solution that perhaps will fit you is to use a speed control for the SE/30's built-in fan, like those used nowadays in PC boxes (the heat and the noise generated by the

Re: The 575 is Alive!!! a reply to the nanny

2003-10-17 Thread Darren
Stuart Bell wrote: Every response is noted. But how do you get parts you want/need from list members, short of asking on the list? The idea is that after the initial request/offer, everything else would be off list. Which is the idea. Encourage people to ask on list If one was in need of

Re: Looking for an SE/30

2003-09-27 Thread Darren
Joey Morin wrote: yeah, it's an old drive alright, but when you're in a pinch... i use these techniques to recover data from dead ide and scsi drives all the time. it goes without saying that you should put critical data on any old drive, let alone one that has needed any kind of repair,

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2003-09-20 Thread Darren
Sounds like the title of one of those junk porn emails. Anywho is anyone else having trouble accessing Gambas site? cheers -- Compact Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/. Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Compact Macs list info:

Re: M0001P

2003-09-16 Thread Darren
Michael Railton wrote: Hi, I have spotted a mac with the model number M0001P and am wondering if anybody can confirm if this is a 128k Mac. Personally, no but I have no idea. http://www.mandrake.demon.co.uk/Apple/part_nos.txt Full credit to the site owner. :) Yours isn't hard to find. --

Re: M0001P

2003-09-16 Thread Darren
Darren wrote: Personally, no but I have no idea. http://www.mandrake.demon.co.uk/Apple/part_nos.txt Full credit to the site owner. :) Yours isn't hard to find. No, I don't know where the P is. Opps :( How's your French? http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jerome.vernet/specs/Applemac128.html -- Compact

Re: HEEELLLPPP!!!!!!

2003-09-15 Thread Darren
Jake Norcross wrote: Do you mean that the whole drive won't mount or the new partition won't mount? What did you use to partition it? The whole thing won't mount, and I partitioned it with Disk Tools from like system 7.0.1-- I think it's something by Norton. How big is the drive. Can you see it

Re: CC upgrade

2003-09-11 Thread Darren
Robert JA Basilio Jr. wrote: Hi All: According to lowendmac.com, the quickest and easiest way to upgrade the Color Classic would be to get the motherboard of an LC 550. Pardon this stupid question but would the mobo of an LC 575 or 580 do? After all, from the looks of it, they have the same

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