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Development / Programmers who know old code
June 03, 2011, 04:16 |
Guess I'll do a system 7 install to see what happens. The ebay guy I bought this 6290 from had loaded os9 on it and also included practically everything earlier including system 7 disks and data cd full of stuff. The machine itself is in really great shape and I have it powering an old massive NEC 21' monitor. Other than that, the thing has been sitting idle for 8 months while I tried to figure out the b&w solution. Do you uppose I can just pop out the 6gb internal ide hard drive and slap in another ide to do a test system 7 install? I have quite a few empty ide drives around although they're massively larger than 6gb. I don't know if system 7 will care. |
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Development / Programmers who know old code
June 01, 2011, 04:01 |
Where does one find programmers who still understand or can modify old program code on non-copyrighted ancient Mac abandondware from the system 6-7 days? I have a floppy with an old, small program that was basically a gui for an external old/obsolete/longgone/history sound interface. Designed for system 6 and 7. Runs great on my Mac Plus or oldest b&w Performa. Gives a "use 2-color" error on anything newer, such as performa 6290 and then refuses to continue startup. I've been all through the 6290 options and there's no way to set late 90s Macs like the 6290 to only act as 2-color or whatever. Believe me, I've tried everywhere and everything. It would be cool to have this gui program come up in color on the 6290. But I'll settle for b&w. For now though, it just won't load at all on the powerpc Performa. The kicker is that I also have a smaller "demo" version of the program from those days and that loads up fine on the Performa 6290, albeit, it's b&w. So, I figure, maybe the coding is simple to modify to get around that error. Sorry if I'm showing the ignorance in what is involved in decompiling old code.. but there you go. Like I say, all this was is basically a gui for editing the external hardware settings at the Mac screen itself. I contacted the company that used to make this 1980s hardware and gui software to ask if they still had people around from those days to modify or give me tips on what to do. In this age of going to Mars, they just laughed and said "good luck.. we don't even remember how we did that program... have fun.. if you get it working, don't bother letting us know.. toodaloo". Any tips on where the old gurus are now who like to fiddle around with sofware like this? Otherwise, I'm stuck keeping the Mac Plus living if I want to keep using this ancient hardware. |
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Hardware / 6290 msg-switch mtr to 2 colors/2 grays
February 03, 2011, 00:06 |
Maybe I'll also experiment with loading an earlier version of the system into this Performa and test that too. I have to find an external scsi cd burner first to use with Toast 4 to save what I have. |
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Hardware / 6290 msg-switch mtr to 2 colors/2 grays
February 02, 2011, 23:52 |
MiniVMac looks like a pretty fun project. I'll try that |
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Hardware / 6290 msg-switch mtr to 2 colors/2 grays
February 02, 2011, 04:05 |
Thanks for the reply. Of course, the program was discontinued in the 90s so it's history. It's manual shows it also was okay for LC Macs, so I know they had some sort or provision for color. It may be that the program was only around during the 68030 days and the powerpc etc is the culprit. Dunno. I'm just not up on all the incredibly picky aspects of the older hardware and software that was out . |
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Hardware / 6290 msg-switch mtr to 2 colors/2 grays
February 02, 2011, 02:25 |
Okay, have my new $40 ebay 6290 Performa working great with my old NEC 21" multisync behemouth along with one of those dip-switch db15-to-vga adaptors. Connected both and the 6290 started up .. happy and in nice color. That was easier than I thought. But, I have an old program from the 90s that, while works great on old 68030 Mac Plus and Performa 100 system 7 machines that I used to use, when I try to install it on the newer performa 6290, I get this message- "switch monitor to 2 colors or 2 grays". And the program then stops, won't install. I've been all through the colorsync settings on the 6290 and see 16 grays as the lowest I can choose ... which doesn't work. Anyone heard of this message before on old programs or old Macs? Is it a function of the program originally being for 68030 hardware? Or is it picking up that I have the NEC connected etc? The stock video capability in the 6290 isn't what I'd call cutting edge, but I'm not sure where to start tracking down a possible solution. |
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Hardware / Video card and ethernet card for 6290
January 07, 2011, 02:27 |
Thanks for the tips on this project. I need to get a cd burner happening with this machine too. I just bought a mint copy of retail Toast 4 to use. Any suggestions for an internal scsi burner to replace the cd-rom drive with? Or should I look for some sort of external scsi enclosure and burner instead and just keep the cd rom drive inside where it is ? |
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Hardware / Video card and ethernet card for 6290
January 03, 2011, 00:43 |
Video card - I was looking at the suggested ebay nubus radeon card for the guy with the 6116. Will that also work with a 6290 I just bought? My 6290 has an unused pds slot .. little confused on if nubus is the same as pds. As I understand, a video card in the pds slot would then over-ride the soldered on video ram that is standard in this model. The video card page here at the website is a little vague on which described cards have what kind of connectivity. ethernet ... any tips on an ethernet card with rj45 that will work on the comm slot on the 6290? I figure I'll pull out the modem card that's in that slot now. thx |
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