When you submit the registration form, your account is immediately created and an email is instantaneously sent to your email inbox.  You have to click the activation link inside that email in order to be able to sign in on MR and/or to use the lost password retrieval form.  There is no delay: the email is sent immediately when you submit the registration form.  If you attempt to use any of those features before having clicked the...

Imac G3 Speaker Replacement Dissassembly Begin by flipping the unit upside down, as depicted in figure 1. Remove the plastic cover located at the rear of the unit, by using a flat head screwdriver, or similar prying utensil. Remove the 2 outermost long screws located under this cover, as well as the 2 short screw located at the front of the unit, closest to the monitor. This is detailed in figure 2 and 3 respectively. Continue, by lifting...

Dear Sir/Madam! I am from Hungary, I bought an old Apple Macintosh Powerbook 150 notebook. The notebook was dead, but I could fix it. It was a little 47uF capacitor short circuit in the power supply side.  I switched on the computer, and it runned german MAC OS 7.1.1. I wanted to reinstall the operating system on the computer. I found installer floppy images on winworldpc.com, and I wrote this to floppy disks. I have already formatted...

I had a fair bit of trouble when initially trying to get Mac OS X 10.4.2 onto my 14-inch G4 iBook. It would get through the first disc just fine, but when it came time to install items from the second disc, the installation would not see my partition no matter what I tried. I tried to unmount and remount it as read only, I tried multiple USBs, I tried to get it all onto one USB, but no matter what it wouldn't work. The method I have here is...

(NOTE: This article can work with other system versions, you just need to learn how the installer is different, and change around some of the steps for that version. You can also use a real mac, but the installation will be different, and it might be frustrating.) To install System 7.0.1 in Mini vMac, first you'll need Mini vMac, found here: https://www.gryphel.com/c/minivmac/ You can pick any variation, as long as you do not pick a...

Adaptec SCSI fix  Several users have reported issues with Adaptec SCSI cards after updating to Mac OS X 10.4, including an inability to recognize SCSI devices, problems starting up or shutting down with the card installed, and more. A workaround, successful for many users, involves removing the following files from the /System/Library/Extensions folder: Adaptec 290X-2930.kext Adaptec 29160x.kext Adaptec 39160x.kext but...

I'm a long time Mac user from Germany, mostly interested in programming. My favorite language is C. I want to draw your attention to a fine programming environment from Apple itself. It is called "Programmers Workshop" or short: MPW. This is a complete programming and command shell (a bit like a C-shell) with two permanent windows, one is the source code editor, the other is the command window for input and ouput. I've...

IMPORTANT: NEVER UNPACK OR MOVE FILES FROM CLASSIC MACOS OUTSIDE OF CLASSIC MACOS. Because non-MacOS operating systems and filesystems only have data forks, doing so will discard the resource forks and corrupt your files. (It's similar to how copying your Linux files to a FAT-formatted USB stick will throw away their permission bits, but more catastrophic.) While things like Netatalk are capable of storing resource forks on non-Macintosh...

This article was hosted on the excellent ResExcellence site. The text below is a verbatim copy of the same hosted on the wayback machine. https://web.archive.org/web/20040404121044/http://www.resexcellence.com/hack_html_99/12-21-98.shtml Several readers emailed to point out an excellenct article in c't Magazine [http://www.heise.de/ct/english/98/26/188/] that showed how to use ResEdit on Apple CD/DVD drivers to make them...

This article originally appeared on resexcellence.com Modify Apple's DVD Player to run with Macsbug After touting the advantages of Macsbug, it appears that Apple's DVD Player 2.0 won't launch if the debugger is installed. This simple modification to the player application allows the two to exist harmoniously. We will use ResEdit to modify the data fork of the application, so you will need to download and...

Okay ,  here you can add your suggestion what you would like to be changed/added on your My Account / Profile page.   'My Account'   Row background in the chat Multiple image, let say five as maximum,  uploaded from your computer (JPG, PNG or GIF). Which will be resized to 268x20 for use as a row background in the users list.  Which you can select with a radio button...

A place to leave suggestions for MR Chat effects. Known commands: --fireworks    --snow   --toasters --lightning    --bats     --fire --rain        --sparks Note effect commands can only be used by VIPs   Descriptions:  --fireworks    Launches fireworks at chat. --lightning     Lightning strikes...

.contentblock TD{ border:1px solid #CCC; padding:3px; font-size:13px; } .contentblock TH { white-space: nowrap; color: #999; } Listed below is a table of all the keyboard key combinations you can use on almost all PowerMacs (G3, G4, iMacs, iBooks, eMacs, etc...) originally listed at: http://davespicks.com/writing/programming/mackeys.html   You can also download the PDF file.     Table of contents On Boot After...

The following applies to Mac OS 7, 8 and 9.  One thing that only Mac users were accustomed to back in the 1990's was rebuilding the desktop.  This allowed to solve some benign problems on your Mac that could soon become so annoying that it could ruin your day.  Symptoms that would benefit from a desktop rebuild are: Files and applications icon replaced by a blank/white sheet Documents that cannot be opened anymore,...

Originally posted on resexcellence.com. The original article can be found here: https://web.archive.org/web/19990220021352/http://www.resexcellence.com:80/resedit.shtml     ResEdit Precautions Always work on a copy If you do nothing else, at least do this. Working on a copy ensures that no matter how bad you screw up, you have something to fall back on. Of course if you are hacking software you can reinstall it if...

  This howto article assumes you know how to unzip a .zip file and do basic Windows tasks like create folders.  I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium, but this howto should work fine on Win 8 and Win 10. Download the 2015-02-26 build of Basilisk II (BasiliskII--2015-02-26----68k-color-emulator-with-floppy-support.zip) from Macintosh Repository (MR). Create a new folder on your Windows hard drive called...

Sending files with serial modems   Introduction This is akind in principle to doing it with just a serial cable except that you need more stuff and different software to accomplish the same goal. So if you want something simpler to accomplish file transfer and that is more reliable, I'd recommand you do it with just a regular serial cable. This is specifically for people that want to recreate modem communications. This...

I always tend to run emulators on my machine. With that in mind, I do have hours of VMs in Virtual PC, VirtualBox, VMware, QEMU, and SheepShaver under my belt. But I've first used PPC Macs in high school, and now that I can emulate them, I would like to share some of my experiences here, as well as some pointers. Please take note that you are encouraged to give me a few pointers of your own: leave them in the comments! My Mac OS...

Instead of being continually frustrated with SheepShaver, although an amazing piece of emulation software, I decided to resurrect my old PowerMac 7300. The problems I had were that the CMOS battery was dead, and the hard drive was tiny, only 6GB. The battery was replaced with one from Amazon for about $8.00  I had a stack of older hard drives, luckily one that was IDE and 120GB in size. Under OS 9, the OS needs to be installed in the...