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Software / Re: Public FTP servers with System 7 stuff
June 09, 2024, 14:35 |
May I suggest the Macintosh Garden web site even if it is not System 6-7 related only? But it offers a public FTP access too. The main drawback is it's not well organized in subfolders so listing the main folder could take very long time so it's better to type in the direct link string in Fetch to get your favorite files. |
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New Member Welcome / Re: Hiiii!!
May 07, 2024, 22:13 |
Quote from: alectrona2988 I'm having some stability issues.What kind of issues are you having exactly? I've got too the same but due to extension conflicts, also mixing different language components (my System 7 locale is in italian). You could try to enter in Extension Manager and select a complete base System 7.6.1 set. After rebooting and verified you don't have any of these issues, add another extension and reboot, then verify again and so on... It is a bit long procedure but you should identify which component make your System unstable. You could also order extensions list by package name (this helped me a lot). |
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New Member Welcome / Re: Hiiii!!
May 07, 2024, 08:30 |
Nice to meet you Kat, I own a 6400 too. It's a great machine for the System 7! |
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New Member Welcome / Re: Hello from Arezzo
May 02, 2024, 11:42 |
Quote from: lauland Do you know if the 630 motherboard works in the 6400 case?I'm not sure but I think it could. When I received the 6400 with the external case broken, at first I thought to put its logic board inside the 5260 case (so it'd turned back to be a PPC Mac) but the backplate is higher and I'd had to modify the 5260 external case so I gave up. So the 630 logic board inside the 6400 case should fits and the internal edge connector seems to be the same, but I never tried this configuration. |
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New Member Welcome / Re: Hello from Arezzo
April 30, 2024, 22:14 |
@cballero I'm not sure what exact model is my PB G3, I got two of them as spare parts and taken some pieces from each to make a fully functional one. So my PB is just a sort of Frankenstain :-) but it works. Unfortunately screen hinges doesn't keep the monitor up without a support :-( @lauland I've already known about the XO hidden feature of the Classic, very cool :-) isn't it?. I replaced the original HD SCSI with a SCSI2SD but I miss that typical sound. Since there was enough room in the SD card I made 2 partitions to dual boot Systems 6 and 7 but when my Classic boots with the latter, it seems to be a bit sluggish so I prefer System 6 in that model. @Neal_SE30 I got the suggestion from another user on Facebook some years ago. I didn't realized before that the meaning of "form factor"' and the fact that on some models their logic boards can be swapped each other. In this case the "compromised" 5260 has become a great 68k Macintosh that works finer (in my opinion). I forgot to mention my Macintosh LC III because it doesn't work anymore. I suspect an issue in the logic board so I keep it in on shelf hoping to find a solution and repair it in the future. Before this failure, the LC III had also a problem on the battery PRAM (solved later) and it was unable to keep RTC and all other settings and this was annoying to me. So after some research I developed a system extension that save the PRAM contents to disk when shutting down and restore them at system boot if the current RTC value is older then the value saved on disk. Similar to the Raspian OS on Raspberry PI. This was my first (and the only one at the moment :-) ) development on the Macintosh. Of course not all from my head but it has been very exiting to me making this. Developed in Think Pascal 68k but it works on PPC also. |
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New Member Welcome / Re: Hello from Arezzo
April 30, 2024, 15:46 |
Well, currently I'm owning these (classic) models: - Macintosh Classic with 4MB RAM, SCSI2SD disk, System 6.0.7 Ita + System 7.0.1 Ita - Performa 5260/120 with replaced logic board (from a 630, so it's a 68040), 40 MB RAM, System 7.6.1 Ita - PowerMac 6400 with damaged case but still working, 90 MB RAM, System 7.6.1 Ita - PowerMac G3 Beige with dual boot MacOS 8.1 + 9.2.2 - PowerBook G3 with MacOS 8.1 I've got them by auctions during these years (the 6400 is broken due to shipment issue :-( ). As a really Macintosh user I started with an eMac with Mac OS X Panther (but I hadn't it anymore). |
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New Member Welcome / Re: Hello from Arezzo
April 29, 2024, 09:26 |
Your Italian is perfectly clear to me, thank you. I hope you could take a stop to Arezzo next time. In love coding and I like to take a look to old source code to see how do some things were done in the past. I think there's always something new to learn today and I think also the Macintosh offered a good platform to developers with its API comparing to others in these years. |
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New Member Welcome / Hello from Arezzo
April 28, 2024, 19:59 |
Hi to all users here. This is Marco from Arezzo, Italy. I’m a Mac collector and retro enthusiast but also a professional software developer. I’m interested not only in hardware but also in programming the Macintosh platform. Found this site with lots of useful informations. Cheers! |
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