As mentioned, the Classic II I had was dead from leaky capacitors, so I was on a quest to make the 512K boot.
The 512K in particular was one of my very first computers, and there were a number of games I was itching to play again on that natively. Of course, the REALLY old Macs were the ones I wanted. A wide array of cables, adapters, and more.Īfter getting the 6400 75 and 180 going, I immediately played a few games I loved: simcity 2000 512K Blues.Not quite as good as an actual KVM switch, but it works great. I bought this just in case the SD card didn’t perform as well as I would have liked. IDE to SATA adapter and a $10 cheapo SSD.Can’t be used on the Macs, but for later use. The Macs that have SCSI are a bit more of a pain. Of course, dealing with old hard drives and floppy drives is a horrible experience, so there were a number of things to make it easier (where I could).
#MAC EMULATOR TURN OFF SOUND VMAC SERIAL#
An array of parts like serial mice (important for the 486 later), IDE DVD Drive, random PCI cards like a Realtek 8139.
#MAC EMULATOR TURN OFF SOUND VMAC MAC#
A Mac SE (the pictured Mac Classic was ruined due to leaky caps).In the end, the haul from the parents house resulted in:
It even has the old style BNC connections that I’ll never use: back of Trinitron The holy grail of the haul was a 17″ Trinitron Monitor. Some the CD/Floppy drives were dead in various manners. Some had dead PSUs, others had corroded logic boards from batteries/caps. Unfortunately, these Macs have had a long hard life, and I was lucky to put together a few working machines from the parts of all. So over the course of a few weeks, I brought home almost a dozen different machines. A stack of old computer stuff (mainly Macs), at my parent’s house. All I was able to find was a PS/2 keyboard and mouse, a 4×3 LCD, and a fancy old power “strip” to fit the retro theme. Unfortunately, I’m probably a few years too late for the kind of gear I’m looking for. It didn’t take too long for the nostalgia to kick in hard, and I rearranged my office, and made a trip to the local Goodwill. I found myself watching a ton of retro YouTubers like LGR and the 8-Bit Guy. Like so many other things, this all started on YouTube. There’s also something to be said about a computer where you can’t just flip away to a web browser, Discord, or other distractions. And if you try to upscale it, it just doesn’t look right. Especially on a modern 4K screen, you end up looking at a game/emulator/etc that is like 3 inches tall. Sure, you can emulate this stuff, but it’s just not the same. Old macs, 486s, and all the games from that time period constantly itched at the back of my head. It’s safe to say that I’ve gotten extremely nostalgic for some of the computers of my youth.
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