Recent content by Dmitriy Krotevich

I want to try OpenStep workspace environment for Solaris on my Ultra 10 with Solaris 7. Ive installed all necessary packages but still unable to execute starting script because it needs the screen resolution to be changed to 72x72 dots per inch. My current resolution is 90x90 dpi. I only know...

whoops.. it was so obvious. but I somehow was sure that the front panel is a part of the HDD itself! Yes - it's an IDE HDD and luckily I have another vintage laptop to install this HDD in. Thank you!

A friend of mine donated me a vintage laptop made by Ambra. It's a 486 25MHz machine with 4 megs of RAM, 80Mb 2.5in HDD and a 8.5in monochrome LCD display. Overall the laptop is in a great condition: keys and a trackball work fine, LCD-screen has no defects. The problem is that the laptop...

I wanted to try NFS on my Mac LC II so I installed a NFS client: it seems to work, at least it was able to detect my NFS-servers: The problem is what I simply don't get how do I access my NFS shares. If I double-click on any of these shares, another windows appears asking for username and...

Hi, everyone! I'm looking for a well documented C++ IDE for 68k Macintosh. What would you suggest for Mac LC II with 6mb RAM? Thanks!

Since the very beginning I'm having certain problems with video on my Compaq. Here's the Windows 95 loading screen: The second after, colors get back to normal so I didn't care much about it because, look, at least this thing is working and I was already pretty happy with that. Now it's time...

Today I got my Mac LC II recapped so now the sound out of a speaker is clean. It's time to play some games! Although I'm having hard time finding any good ones. Most of games i found, looked like this: this: or even this: Still the best games I have are "Thexder" and.. "Tetris"/ What...

whoa!! Reinstalling the System actually helped! Finnaly got this crap working. so, what now? I don't expect there to be any browsers for 68k Macs capable surfing modern web, but there must be something useful? FTP clients at least?

Are there any hardware diagnostic tools for macs to test the card with loopback?

Today an ethernet card for my Mac LC II has finally arrived. The card is Farallon EtherMac LC for processor direct slot. The card is now installed, connected to my D-link (dir 300) router, yet I'm having no luck trying to make it work. While the cable is connected the LED indicator on the...

Today I received the 8087 math co-processor. I installed it into the socket and it was recognised by the system: then i suddenly touched the chip and it appeared to be noticeably hot , so I turned the system off immediately. Is it normal for this kind of hardware to become hot only after...

hey, is it just me who cannot open any of the links?

After having some fun with Turbo Basic, i'm thinking about making a next step to something more powerful like, say, Turbo Pascal. The wikipedia article claims that Turbo Pascal 5.5 was released as a freewave so getting a copy shouldn't be a problem. But before installing, I would like to make...

I tried to run Turbo Pascal I downloaded from "macintosh garden", but the error occurred which caused the system to hang. After reseting the Mac I got this icon: Does that mean the system is broken? Is there any chance to repair it? If not, how do i correctly reinstall the system? My first...

I recently got Macintosh LC II and now I wonder if there's any older software able to read and write floppies in Mac format? The only Windows machine in my house is a 486 PC running Windows 95 so I'm looking for maybe older version of TransMac or similar stuff.