Thanks Zefrenchtoon!
Very helpful link for those with a Yikes machine (or mobo) wishing to add ADB to those Yosemite-based Yikes motherboards. Fortunately, I’ve no Yikes machine here or I’d likely be huffing solder fumes again to install that ADB port on a machine that Apple only offered an ADB option for, when the Yikes was released.
Apple removed the ADB port on the Yikes and then offered to sell it back as an option?
Ahh Apple, cut production costs and also create another revenue stream with $$$ optional “ADB upgrade”. Think Different… indeed. I skipped the Yikes here and got a Sawtooth. (But that doesn’t help mopar300m.)
Admittedly, I’ve often considered the
Griffin 2001-ADB iMate /Universal ADB to USB adapter because I do miss using the old beige Apple Extended II Keyboards with the G4’s. (BUT have you seen the prices on those lately?) And sure, there are other ADB to USB D-I-Y options to make your own adapters.
Again however, for those
with a Yikes - Kero’s MacMods provides a way to use those old ADB devices (including joysticks) with ye olde Yikes. Great link Z! And a very warm welcome Kay Koba of Kero's Mac Mods.
Still, originating here with mopar300m weighing a change from a failing B&W Rev.2 mobo (scarce) to a possible Yikes mobo (less scarce?) - I’ve still yet to see any great advantage in such a substitution. Especially as mopar300m already has a 600 MHz/1 MB XLR8 Machspeed G4 upgrade in his G3 B&W.
https://lowendmac.com/macdan/03/0305dk.htmlNow I wonder if it might possibly be easier / more advantageous for Yikes owners to simply
downgrade their mobos to a B&W Rev.2 mobo with a CPU upgrade and / or overclock the G3?
And yes, Yikes owners would need to drill that hole for the B&W Yosemite ADB port too.