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New Member Welcome / I never did introduce myself.
March 11, 2008, 03:36 |
I just jumped in with some questions, so I'm going back to start from square one. I'm Mr. Ksoft. I'm 15 and am pretty darn good with computers, although mostly on the PC front since I haven't regularly used a Mac since I was 5 or 6 when it was replaced by a big, bad, $3000 PC. The first computer I used was a Mac Performa 600 running System 7.1, which I used educational software, KidPix, and played Lemmings and Crystal Quest on. Even now it's the only Mac I own. I'm experiencing a bit of a new spark of interest in System 7, ever since I went and retrieved the P-600 on my own to set it back up in its former "glory". That and 68K Mac emulation make me want to actually work with the fascinating little OS. So I'm probably going to hang around a little, ask a few questions, and rediscover System 7. |
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Off Topic Discussion / Every Mac you own working or not.
March 11, 2008, 03:28 |
Performa 600 (32mhz 68030, 20MB RAM, System 7.1P5, etc) - finally working great after a system cleanup and replacing the PRAM battery Gateway G6-450 (450mhz Pentium 2, 320MB RAM, System 7.5.5) - wait, how did this get here? This is my "other Mac". Ha ha, emulation. (It runs faster than the P600, that's for sure) Yeah, my collection of Macs is rather tiny, and one of the two isn't even a Mac. 
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Hardware / Performa 600
February 18, 2008, 21:32 |
Oh, don't worry, I wasn't dumb enough to totally delete the extensions. I have a Disabled Extensions folder. I'll go boot the Mac up a bit later and move those last extensions out, since I definitely do not have a modem or a use for one. |
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Hardware / Performa 600
February 18, 2008, 19:42 |
Okay, I've taken you guys' advice and done some changes. As it turned out, I'd forgetten about the disk cache. Since the PRAM battery had been long, long, LONG dead (for about 6 years, probably), the settings were definitely reset. The disk cache was sitting at 64K! I bumped it up to 768K for now. There is a slight increase in how fast icons appear in drive windows. Virtual memory is off (for the sake of having hard drive space) and 32-bit addressing is on. The Mac is already running at 256 colors. AppleTalk is off. The hard drive currently has 41.9 MB available on it, so roughly 25% free. I can probably free more if I get some old paint images and files off it. But as it is, it should have plenty of free space. I started digging through the extensions folder, and there was a LOT of crap in there that was totally useless, like Speech and drivers for the Mac's old printer which no longer works. I removed about 15 extensions, however there were some I did not remove because I wasn't sure whether they were important or not. They are "Claris Kermit Tool" "Serial Tool" "Text Tool" "TTY Tool" "TTYFont" "VT102 Tool" "VT102Font" All the "tool" ones have a different icon than other extensions and I THINK they're related to ClarisWorks (well the Claris Kermit one obviously is and has the same icon as the others)... but I don't know if removing them will cause a problem with it. As for the two font suitcases... I'm not even sure if they're supposed to be in the Extensions folder. They're FONTS. I'm also not sure whether the MIDI related extensions actually serve any use. It's not like I have any MIDI hardware, but I dunno if they also handle, for instance, MIDI playback. I'm not really seeing an absolutely big speed increase. Some things feel a little zippier, but not to the point where it makes a difference. |
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Hardware / Performa 600
February 18, 2008, 01:25 |
I feel kind of shamed that the only Mac I own is one of the worst made; a Performa 600. (You know, the slightly modified IIvi with 32mhz 68030 on a 16mhz bus) I recently dug it out of the closet after remembering that it existed and after a battery replacement it once again boots in its sluggish System 7.1 glory. Anyway, it is PAINFULLY slow, even for a computer of its time. Even browsing folders in Finder causes long waits and in folders I can watch each file slowly appear in the window. There isn't much turned on extension-wise (pretty much all there is are some printer utilites and After Dark) and the computer was upgraded to 20 MB of RAM back in the day (from 5) so it SHOULD theoretically run better. Only 2 MB of that RAM are in use when it's idle. Running actual programs is worse-- there's performance issues in classic games as simple as Crystal Quest which is so old it is known as one of the first Mac games to support color. ClarisWorks takes forever to start up and sometimes I type faster than the letters appear on screen. This certainly isn't how I remember it was back when I was a kid and using the Performa regularly, and I want some slight speed back. That brings me to my questions. They might be dumb, they might not. I dunno. I haven't really touched a Mac since this P600 went in the attic when I was 7 or 8, so I'm uneducated. Sue me. 1. Is there any kind of software that might help my performance woes? 2. It's currently running System 7.1P5. Would I be likely to have a better experience running 7.5 or 7.6, or would that just bog it down more? 3. If I were to theoretically change over to a higher version of System 7, would it totally wipe my stuff I've got on there now? I've got no networking hardware for it, only a floppy drive, so having to back up the stuff would be a royal pain. Plus, many of my favorite old software disks (ClarisWorks, After Dark, and others) no longer seem to work when I tested them in emulation a while ago and I don't want to lose those un-reinstallable programs. 4. Would 7.5/7.6 have enough space to operate on a 160 MB hard drive? And one bonus question somewhat unrelated: My old Apple ADB Mouse that came with it isn't working too well, causing difficulty moving the mouse in some directions. How would you recommend cleaning it out so the ball rolls smoothly again? Thanks for your help. I really like System 7, it's just really hard to use on such a badly made Mac. |
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