Vintage Apple Basics - Part 2: Startup Solutions + Expert Mac Tips
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- Опубліковано 21 лип 2024
- Welcome to my Vintage Apple Basics series! 🍏 This series will help you on getting started with everything vintage Macintosh. This video focuses on the Mac's startup procedure and common solutions, important information about disks and cables, and much more!
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References and Links:
@BranchusCreations video on using SheepShaver to create bootable disk images:
• Using SheepShaver to c...
Apple Legacy Restore CD on the Macintosh Garden:
macintoshgarden.org/apps/appl...
The Dead Mac Scrolls book by Larry Pina (PDF):
archive.org/details/mac_The_D...
Mac Floppy Drive replacement gears from @MacEffects88
maceffects.com/products/3-pac...
Resources on Macintosh keyboard commands:
macos9lives.com/smforum/index...
devonhubner.org/Macintosh_Cla...
poynton.ca/notes/mac/Mac_star...
Sad Mac Error Codes:
tinkerdifferent.com/resources...
public.websites.umich.edu/~ar...
Cleaning and Servicing Macintosh Floppy Drives:
@adriansdigitalbasement's video about 800K floppy drives:
• Tutorial: Cleaning, lu...
@JDW-'s video about cleaning 1.4 MB floppy drives:
• Gear FIX & Molykote LU...
@ThisDoesNotCompute's video on repairing Macintosh IIsi power supplies:
• Fix this part before i...
Apple 3.5" Floppy Drive Owner's Guide
mirrors.apple2.org.za/ftp.app...
Information about the BlueSCSI disk emulator:
bluescsi.com/
My BlueSCSI v2 video: • BlueSCSI v2 - now with...
Chapters:
00:00 Welcome to Part 2!
01:07 How to identify your Mac
03:20 Connections & Cables
07:35 Power On & Startup
10:38 Soft Power
12:13 Clock / PRAM Batteries, remove them today!
13:52 Startup & Death Chimes
15:41 Startup Keyboard Commands
19:11 Happy Macs & Question Marks
20:20 System Enablers
23:03 Sad Mac
24:47 Screen Corners & Cursor
25:22 Hard Drive Problems & Solutions
26:56 Floppy Disks
28:46 Floppy Drive Repair & Servicing
29:50 Closing - Наука та технологія
As a long time Mac user (since 1988), I still found this overview quite useful. Thanks for the presentation.
"Time makes fools of us all" - and I have nothing BUT time!
I’m a long time Mac guy, a Mac II with Aldus Pagemaker, Multi Ad Creator, and Illustrator as my day-to-day environment. The last video was great, as this one is. Thanks for the trip down memory lane… life is SO much simpler today.
A very informative and comprehensive explanation Steve. I learned a few new things I didn't know. Thank you!
Same here. When growing up, I saw very few Apple systems in the wild. Other than Apples in schools, the few Apples I ran into were home systems owned by teachers.
After graduating from junior college, I got a job at ZDS in their repair depot. On the other side of the wall in the building we were in was the Heath Educational Store. Because of the education discounts and later demand from educators, the Apples/ Macs out sold the ZDS products. They eventually dropped Apple products due to conflict of interest. The storefront shut down soon afterwards.
That IIci takes me back to college. Nice!
Wow its been a couple years since the first video... i was starting to think you gave up on this series 😂
This is great, I love the format (and excellent evergreen content)!
.. also 15:23 NO 😂
I didn’t even see the text until I was editing the video 🤣
great video
Great Job Steve Thanks for the tips
Please can you review Power Mac G3 tower? I do have 333mhz 1mb cache version
I have a Macintosh Performa 550 . I got it for $20.00. it won't start up. Got it to make a noise but no startup. Been looking for diagrams online but nothing for this model. It was recap back in 2017 about all i know about it. What is a good site to find a wire diagram for it. Thanks and a great video keep them coming.
Jeez, leave some information for other folks to share! 😂 Truly, great video; so much great stuff in here!
Any chance you could add a blurb on fixing Y2K (or Y2k20) on
Yep, that is now on the list of topics to cover in the future. 👍 Thankfully these days there is more than one way to do it.
Please cover Laplink Mac
Hey there... you had given me a link to some folks who might be able to bring some life into my ancient IIcx. I lost the page. Can I impose upon you again to provide it one more time?
Sorry, and thanks.
It was likely www.TinkerDifferent.com - there's a lot of folks who hang out there that may be able to help, good luck!
@@Mac84 Grassy ass!
When's gonna be the next stream?
Hopefully in a few days!
‘Will it run Doom’
Answer; no
Used and loved these macs when I was a kid. But man they were slow!
The Performa 430 is one of the best looking computers ever made though.
Haha, they’ll run Doom - but you’ll probably want a Power Macintosh as anything slower will struggle to get a respectable frame rate without a thumbnail window size.
If you compare, lets say, a 40mhz 68040 mac, to a 40mhz 486, they both run Doom similarly, the major difference is that the dos pc is able to output the monitor to 320x200 resolution so the picture appears bigger, most older macs just can't change resolutions on stock displays so you're stuck with 640x480 and a small picture in the middle or a massive performance hit if you try to make it larger and stretch it closer to 640x480
@@thomasb.900 that’s really interesting. Explains a lot!
I was just thinking the other day, after watching a 100% playthrough of Prince of Persia. Why some Mac games looked so much better.
PoP, Wolfenstein etc. Looked and sounded so much better than on pc.
What was the reason?
@@Thomas1984. that i can't tell you, maybe some of these games were more optimized for the mac, all i know is people tend to trash talk the mac port of doom and i think it's not 100% fair because of the resolution thing i pointed out
Imagine if you apply for a new job and the this guy is the owner, you get to your cubicle and theirs this Apple Macintosh classic there, what is your first thought
I have found a member of my people
Boot it up (Cmd + Option + X + O)