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Mac-heavy right now (that's what my bookmarks look like), but Commodore and IBM PC sections are coming.
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I've come to terms with the fact that now that I actually own a printer, despite the type I get called on to actually print normal, day-to-day things, so I put in the effort to turn my raspberry pi into a CUPS server to re-share share the ImageWriter to my modern machines so I can print out PDFs without manually converting them to PNGs and booting up the G4 every time
It's very weird to see an ImageWriter show up in iOS
Thanks to @paulrickards for the guide in your blog!
The iMac monitor conversion is complete!
I am not sure why deleting a page break in AppleWorks for the #IIgs can reliably reproduce this error message.
But, I can say that I do love that I am presented with a second option.
("OTHER button" sadly does nothing. It would be even more entertaining if it did something.)
@requiem Welcome! I'm not going to be able to offer you much more than moral support, but there are kind people around here in the #VintageApple community. If you haven't found them already, there are also good forums for us Apple II people:
Applefritter: https://www.applefritter.com/forum/84
TinkerDifferent: https://tinkerdifferent.com/forums/apple-i-ii-iii.29/
68kMLA: https://68kmla.org/bb/forums/apple-i-lisa.27/
AtariAge: https://forums.atariage.com/forum/158-apple-ii-computers/
There's some retrocomputing among these boxes...
I've tried to turn this iMac into a monitor, but it is not displaying anything :(
After making sure it's getting the (unusual) resolution it wants, and putting the old logic board in to confirm that the screen does still work, it looks like I may need to collect my own initialization data to send to the display. I've wanted to finally get familiar with I2C so maybe today is the day.
(The project https://github.com/qbancoffee/imac_g3_ivad_board_init )
(Carpet is the ideal surface for ESD safety)
I've made great progress so far today on #VirtusVR. I'm getting what seem to be coordinates, so I've cleaned up the C parser and started working on an OpenGL renderer...
On another note, apparently this software is part of a family of CAD programs and a 1988 FPS called "The Colony" for the early Mac: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Colony_(video_game)
I'm surprised nobody's taken a crack at this yet, but I guess I was bumping my head against it for a while. Thanks a bunch, ImHex! π
#VintageApple I guess.