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Hardware / Re: AcBel PSU / Quicksilver
« Last post by ssp3 on Today at 11:22:28 PM »
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Hardware / Re: AcBel PSU / Quicksilver
« Last post by indibil on Today at 10:52:48 PM »
Hello.

I have a QS 800MHz that when you press the button, it starts and stops. I have dismantled the power supply and bridged the green cable with the black one, and when I connected it the same thing happened. The source is AcBel 614-0157 QS PSU like the one @Jacques shows.

So I followed the tutorial.

None are swollen. C10 gives a correct value. C13, C16 and C29 of 2000uF give me a value of 3300uF and about 3-4ohm of resistance. When it seems strange, I replaced them.

The power supply was very clean.

After replacing them the problem persists, exactly the same. The fan control daughter board has few capacitors. Today I will try to check and replace some more, but I am afraid that my power supply has another problem.
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This is an amazing resource!! Thank you lolxD!
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Software / Re: smh, the future of web browsing sucks
« Last post by IoIxD on Today at 07:03:27 PM »
i still cant beleive we now live in a world where the browser software developers are so f**kin lazy that they can only compile browser support for os'es from 2019 or above..  (the last 5 years)

Google Chrome and Firefox* support Windows 10, which was released in 2015. I can't find information on if they require a specific update to it, but I can find that Chrome also supports Windows Server 2016. Chrome also runs on a Pentium 4.

Both minimally support Mac from 2019 and Linux from 2018, yes. The former correlates with Apple dropping 32-bit support, which correlates with them not really caring about backwards compatibility, so I wouldn't be 100% angry at the browser devs. I think the Linux kernel devs also hold that same attitude, and in that case Antix Linux or Artix Linux exists and allows you to run a modern kernel on older machines.

There's lots of reasons to hate the modern web, but I disagree with this being one of them.

*at this point those might as well be the only browsers left. I really hope Ladybird is good...

EDIT: Ok I just realized that FreeBSD support goes back to 12.0, which is probably what you meant. FreeBSD is not the only OS though, and thus my point still stands.
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Development & Programming / I made Modern API Documentation for Mac OS 9.
« Last post by IoIxD on Today at 05:09:53 PM »
I started becoming interested in Mac programming recently and was quite disappointed in the lack of good documentation for the C/C++ functions. Outside of literal scans of books, the only thing I could find was the Apple website which was only avaliable via Wayback Machine and had a horrible interface (a search bar that no longer worked)

So I took matters into my own hands.

This is generated via the header files from the copy of Universal Interfaces that I got with CodeWarrior 8. It's actually so new that it's intended for Carbon developers, but the functions that were removed in Carbon are still documented here.

Unfrotunately, "documented" is very literal here. It turns out Apple was horrible at documentation; many functions are not described and most struct fields are not either. I could probably find more information if I sat down and fully combed through the books, and if I do, I'm probably going to add it to this site. But in the mean time, this is better then what I found before.

I also invite anybody who has the time/knowledge to submit a pull request to the GitHub repo for the docs.
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Software / Re: smh, the future of web browsing sucks
« Last post by Greystash on Today at 03:03:19 PM »
It is a grim outlook :(
I've never bothered with proxying because modern web development has completely left behind the older browsers, they will never support CSS2 or the modern Javascript engines. You'd be lucky to find any relatively popular site that doesn't use any JavaScript.

I started a web directory years ago for websites that are still accessible to older browsers, which has a good list of old and new websites.

I also made a CMS website builder service where you can build websites that are compatible with older browsers and serve them over HTTP, but I've been the only customer so far with mac-classic.com and manticore.nz  ;D I always thought a community of people serving new websites built to an older spec would be a fun idea. However, I don't think there's a huge market for these sorts of things now and people seem to be content with using their newer browsers, but maybe things will change!
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Mac OS 9 on Unsupported Hardware / Re: Mac Mini G4 + display oddities
« Last post by ssp3 on Today at 02:35:44 PM »
Still talking to myself..

To complement what I wrote about similar combination and OS9  >  http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?topic=7048.msg54411#msg54411

Dell 22" U2212HM + 1.25 GHz Mini

Native display resolution - 1920 x 1080 @60Hz (16:9)

DVI to DVI cable.

Mini is running "naked". No DVD drive, no Mezanine, Bluetooth or AirPort boards.
Boot drive - 128GB 2.5" "stripped" Samsung SSD on a cheap JMicron adapter. (My standard setup).

OSX 10.5.8 Leopard

Boot into OpenFirmware
First attachment. One can barely see command line prompt.

Boot into Leopard
Second attachment. Same problem.

Boot into Leopard, VGA cable + adapter
Third attachment. Note the odd aspect ratio. It becomes normal when OSX drivers kick in.

It looks to me that first generation Minis have problems communicating to Full HD 1920 x 1080 displays when connected over DVI in OSX too.
At least to those manufactured by Dell. VGA adapters are OK.

This might be the real reason why Apple silently upgraded G4 Minis and their ROMs - upcoming OS and modern display compatibility!
What's the point of having digital (DVI) connection on your product, if it doesn't work with Full HD displays that are gaining popularity?  ;)

Of course, to be 100% sure, more user reports are needed !
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Software / Re: smh, the future of retro web browsing sucks
« Last post by chrisNova777 on Today at 06:03:45 AM »
really surprised to get no responses to this post.... but then again i received the same "blaring silence" when i was speaking about using *NAS BSD to serve files to macos9/X ppc machines via Netatalk/AFP .. a topic i thought would blow up + catch fire with many of the "enthusiasts" here, so SMH... *shrug*

i would think theres alot more retro enthusiasts that would be interested in finding a solution to using old computers on the modern web now that the moron web programmers of 2020 have "taken the internet away" by forcing the whole entire web to be encrypted..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MjZdKtv9ak

heres a video where a guys got an old win9x machine browsing the net by introducing a raspberry pi as a proxy server

surely theres other "solutions"
 
would like to have a CONVERSATION on this topic with some other INTELLIGENT HUMAN BEINGS if there are ANY LEFT OUT THERE
https://www.reddit.com/r/VintageApple/comments/wzbz0j/the_power_of_webone_http_proxy_fills_you_with/
https://www.reddit.com/r/VintageApple/comments/wzbz0j/the_power_of_webone_http_proxy_fills_you_with/

i know there must be other solutions lurking in the shadows... lets shine the light on how to bring back our vintage pcs + macs to the WORLD WIDE WEB that was BUILT BY THEM

http://68k.news/ is another "manifested idea" by creating basic retro-compatible webpage linking to "inaccessible modern content"

really the TLS/SSL cypher bullshit is really the COPORATIONS takin control of our "free internet" (err what we used to call it back in the early 2000s anyway) things will just get more controlled + big brother'ed as long as people just let the stupid corporations dictate the way things should be on the WWW. its a fucking shame really.
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Software / Re: Hellcats Over the pacific - on Mac OS 9.2.2
« Last post by bamdad on Today at 02:26:16 AM »
Hoping to help bamdad, I have posted two files that maybe of his interest :

https://www.mediafire.com/file/3gv482z8zqyn7d3/Apple+ROMs+Matrix.pdf.zip
a PDF document with many infos about all Mac ROMs

https://www.mediafire.com/file/7q2qr22s94vyu97/New_World_ROMs.zip/file
an archive of New World Mac ROMs

A full set of Mac ROMs is available here :

https://archive.org/details/Macintosh_ROMs_Collection_1990s


thank you, however these are not in the format that is readily usable in the system folder, rather .rom files that can be added to e.g. sheepshaver. i'll have to look into a method of converting them so i can test them on my mini.


i'll have a look through the documentation though, thank you.
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