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Hi all, I've had my late nan's indigo iMac G3 DV sat disassembled on my office floor for the past 4 years. Like many who have tried to service these old machines, I had the extremely brittle inner bezel crack into a million pieces during disassembly. I managed to catch MacEffects' Kickstarter...

Hello! I’ve had a BlueSCSI v1 fitted in my SE (on System 6.0.8) for a while now, and it’s been great. The other day, I was messing about with MacFlim to play full-screen video on that old machine. It’s surprisingly good! However, the playback kept pausing to buffer. So I thought I’d delve...

Hi all, I'm building a logic board capacitor list for the Gossamer motherboard (beige G3). Now, I usually work on older machines -- this is the first time I've considered replacing SMT caps from the late 1990s. Don't worry -- I've practiced on a junk board (the control board from my old...

Hi! Like a few others, I wanted to make an old mini into a great OS9 machine. Installation went smoothly, temporarily hooked up to my test VGA monitor. But I wanted the machine to be part of my main retro setup — a bunch of machines outputting via a KVM to my OSSC, which upscales and converts...

Hi! I picked up the filthiest G3 Desktop from eBay. Stripped it down and did a cleanup of the battery corrosion, replacing it with a CR2032 coin cell. With the logic board on the bench, connected to an ATX PSU (with the PSU Type jumper set appropriately) and with the speaker and Whisper PERCH...

Hi all, After my success with the SE, I thought I'd dig my nan's old iMac G3 DV out of the loft and see if I could get it working. From what I remember, it works fine apart from one thing: the bottom third of the screen 'rolls up' under the rest of the display, and occasionally the whole...

Hi! Now my Mac SE is up and running nicely with a fresh new install of System 6.0.8, I was wondering what’s needed to set it to British English? I’d like my sensible date ordering and Wastebasket back :) (Also, it occurred to me that current macOS uses “Bin”, which is fine… but Wastebasket’s...

My SE SuperDrive’s inching closer to being restored, but hopefully someone can help me track down an elusive issue… The machine will boot fine and appear to work well. I can copy files around, launch apps, play a bit of SimCity etc. But, it will go through patches of being very crashy and...

Hi! I've just built my BlueSCSI and connected it up to my SE. To my surprise, it won't power via the bus. I've got the jumpers on the two termination headers (it's the only drive) and I've checked my soldering job. All looks OK. With termination enabled (jumpers in-place), there's no sign...

Hello! Having wandered around various vintage communities, I've realised there's a wide range of opinions on what a 'proper' restoration is, with different attitudes prevailing in different communities. Bearing in mind that if you own it, you can do what you want -- in the grand scheme of...

Hello! Well, that’s amazing timing! I picked up my first Compact Mac (an SE) a couple of weeks ago, having obsessively watched JDW and Branchus’ YT videos. They were my first proper step into the retro Mac scene and then I see this forum’s been launched? Superb! I’m a Brit who grew up in the...