Hi folks,
After getting a nubus ethernet card and a radius 24bit accelerator I thought
I'd dig out my olde IIfx......trouble is it's refusing to power up even with
different keyboards/known good PRAM batteries. It worked when I got it a
couple of years ago; I even treated it to knew batteries, so anyone know of
any instant fixes for dead machines?
I'm going to steal the PSU from my other Mac II and see if it makes a
difference....I know they're the same apart from the IIfx one has a variable
speed fan.
Cheers,
--
Adrian/Witchy
Owner & Webmaster, Binary Dinosaurs
www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - possibly the UK's biggest online computer museum
www.snakebiteandblack.co.uk - ex-monthly gothic shenanigans :o(
Looks to me that the guy has a high volume of scrap go through his place, or
he has access to a scrapper. A lot of his sales are chips that he sells
through the vintage listing. Looks like he completes less than 10 percent of his
sales. Mostly due to high prices.
I am surprised at the price of Gold Scrap though. He first started off trying
to sell 10 pounds of fingers. After a couple of times he dropped it to 2
pounds at a time. Sold one for $99. He seems to think scrap is worth $49 a pound.
Most scrappers have found that they should list it under Gold Bullion not
antiques. I sold off about 4 pounds of old pentium processors and, surprisingly,
got nearly $36 a pound, which I thought was higher than the scrap value????????
Paxton,
Astoria
Hi.
I am trying to install IRIX 3.3 on a PI 4D35. I have distribution tapes
and a 4D35 support tape as distcp(1M) images on disk. I created tapes
>from this images with distcp(1M) on IRIX 4.0.5. I can boot the
standalone tools from the 4D35 support tape. But I can't install
anything. I get allways:
Reading product descriptor from <where ever>:
Can't read product descriptor.
<where ever> is the tape device or the disk directory. When I had
problems with the tapes I mounted the IRIX 4.0.5 disk by hand and
pointed the install system to it with the "from" command. Same result:
"Can't read product descriptor."
Whats wrong here?
--
tsch??,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/
> You can't even view the
>pictures in their native format unless you've loaded the camera software;
>they are PICTs, but the data segment of the PICT file is compressed
>in a non-standard way, meaning that even Linux tools that know what
>a PICT is can only describe the contents of the picture file from a
>structural standpoint. Makes automating certain operations impossible.
I'll try to remember to play with my QT100 tomorrow, but I *think*
GraphicConverter can deal with the native format. I'm not sure if you
need the QT software installed (possibly, and then GC just uses the hooks
enabled via the QT extensions), but even if that is so, GC has some half
way decent automation abilities, so you may be able to use it to automate
your jobs.
If it can read them, you may be able to ask the author (Lemke Software)
how he did it and that may help with a Linux tool (unless he requires the
QT extensions, then you are just SOL for Linux)
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
>I've been playing ZeroGravity, this System 6 game I played to death on my
>best friend's dad's Mac Plus, on this dual G4, and other than the fact the
>sound doesn't work (not too surprising), the game plays 100%. In fact,
>even though I played it on an 8MHz 68000, on twin 1.25GHz G4s, the game
>is still at a playable speed (a nice bonus, but seemingly paradoxical).
I tried Iggy Iggopolis the other day, ran WAY to fast to be usable. You
can't even control Iggy, he just gets stuck in the corner... and the
games timer runs out in about 10 seconds. I'd planned to try vMac to
emulate a Mac Plus and see if it was better. I don't know if vMac tries
to duplicate the speed of a 68k mac, or if it will try to run as fast as
it can.
I'd guess since ZeroGravity plays at the same speed, that's proof of
decent programming. The author didn't depend on the slowness of the
processor to regulate the game speed.
Capt Magneto is also still mostly playable (no MacInTalk speech, but
other sounds are all fine). The only problem with it is trying to fight
enemies... the attack power counter goes so fast you can't even hope to
use skill to get a high value, its just click and hope for a good number.
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
>> On some Macs, there is a 'CUDA' switch (no idea what CUDA stands for...
>> anyone know?). Its a little tiny push buttin switch on the logic board.
>
>Actually, I don't think Cuda stands for anything -- I've only ever seen it
>written "Cuda" in Apple tech documentations (and all their other acronyms
>are usually capped, so I assume this isn't an acronym).
Humm... could very well be. I'll have to keep a better eye out for how
its written in Apple tech notes (I know I've never seen a definition for
it, but I can't say I've paid too much attention to it being CUDA, Cuda
or cuda)
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
I'm moving and will only have room for one small system
so I need to give away some things. I have a bunch of stuff
that I got from a company that used to make Q-Bus cards.
Here some of the stuff I is going:
Boards Q-Bus and some U-Bus
Manuals VAX, PDP. Some print sets
Cables (Cabkits, Serial, drive, network, etc)
Media (Mag & Mini tape, disks)
Software (lots of dec stuff including several Distros)
TK & SCSI Drives
Various cabinet parts, rails, hardware, etc
Hard drives (5.25 ESDI & ST506)
Some Apple & Atari stuff
Nothing larger than a BA23, most of the stuff is in
boxes. Looking at about 15-20 boxes.
*** This is local pickup only ***
Preference give to someone that will take it all at once :-)
Kirk
