Old Football Games For The Mac Uses Mini

Old Football Games For The Mac Uses Mini

Mac uses Mini Din-8 RS-422 standard, but it can be easily connected to the DB9 serial port.

Unfortunately, they are not so common in Europe as in the US and the costs of the shipment are often higher than the computer itself.

Sometimes you may find something on the local auction portal, but usually it costs a lot.

However, the low cost was justified according to the description, the screen was dead, it also lacked of the mouse and the keyboard.

I hoped that itll be enough to turn the brightness knob, but it wasnt the case.

Internet forums and the amazing book about fixing classic Macs Macintosh Repair and Upgrade Secrets suggested that the black screen is often a symptom of the cold joints in J4 connector.

I get all of my engineering skills and touched the offending pins with the solderning iron.

It had broken display and Ive just fixed it with the soldering iron like a freaking MacGyver pic.twitter.com0FkbgleC8k Tomek Rkawek (Tomek1024) November 10, 2016.

The Mac Plus uses a different kind of mouse than PCs or even later Macs.

Some people were able to convert an old, ball mouse so its compatible with Mac Plus.

However, it seems that its much easier to use Amiga or Atari ST mouse - it have the same internals, the only difference is pinout.

Two DB9 male connectors and a bunch of cables did the trick.

One option is the Rescue My Classic Mac webpage offering a complete set of floppy disks, containing system, games and disk utilities.

In a few hours I was contacted by a few people offering their help.

Eventually, Ive got the system disk (and the Lemmings game) from Pawe - thanks.

All you need is a bunch of old 1MB SIMM modules (preferably with 8 or 9 chips).

Ive bought 4 such modules (1 per module), installed it in the Mac and cut the resistor leg.

Still, sometimes its good to type something and my Mac lacked of the keyboard.

It also has a strange connector - the same as for old phone sets.

Floppy disk drive is the default storage device and it isnt great at all unreliable, slow and offering little space.

External SCSI hard drives (even the old and small ones) are a bit pricey, but theres an interesting alternative: IOmega ZIP drive.

Its often used as the main storage for the classic Macs and 100 MB of the disk space it offers on a single floppy is more than enough.

Using his Powebook 150 I created the floppies containing System 6.0.8 and the driver.

Now I was able to install the system on ZIP.

It may help if you dont have any classic Mac equipped in the HD drive nearby.

Old Football Games For The Mac Plus