Archives

2024, Jan

• A Reluctant Quadra 840AV

2023, Oct

• retro-computing.com Mac OS Archives Fully Populated!

2023, Aug

• Networking an Apple IIGS with a Mac via EtherTalk and AFPBridge
• Introducing the retro-computing.com Blog and Software Archives
• System 6 Archive Added to Happy Macs Gopher Space

2023, Jul

• Networking An Apple IIGS and a Mac with LocalTalk

2023, Mar

• LocalTalk Networking of Two Macintoshes

2023, Feb

• Apple IIGS Classic Desk Accessories
• Fun With Floppies (the Apple IIGS Way)
• Putting an Apple IIGS on the Internet
• Adding an Iomega ZIP-100 to the Apple IIGS

2023, Jan

• More Progress: HappyMacs Gopher Site Back On the Air/
• The Next Frontier – The Apple IIGS

2022, Oct

• A Quadra 660AV Revived
• Breathing Life Into an Apparently Dead 840AV

2022, Aug

• Another Long Hiatus Comes to An End

2021, Jan

• HappyMacs Gopher Site: We Are Back

2020, Aug

• Cache is King, Revisited

2020, Jul

• Installing System 6.08 on a Macintosh IIfx

2020, Feb

• Recovery of an Overheating Power Mac G5 Quad

2020, Jan

• Networking Older Macs – Link Speed Auto-Negotiation

2019, Dec

• The Mighty Macintosh IIfx
• Return to Snow Leopard

2019, Feb

• Recommended Links Updated
• The SyQuest EZ-135 and System 6

2019, Jan

• Performance Results – SyQuest EZ-135 vs. Iomega Zip-100
• Installing EZ-135 Software and Hardware

2018, Dec

• Backing Up Your Mac With the SyQuest EZ-135

2018, Nov

• Adding External Mass Storage to Your System 6 Mac
• The Reports of My Demise Are Greatly Exaggerated
• A Casualty on the Front Lines

2018, Sep

• Reviving a Non-Responsive 7300/200

2018, July

• HappyMacs Gopher Site Back on the Air
• Happy Macs Lab Progress, Mac IIfx and Apple IIgs

2018, April

• Networking Your System 6 Mac

2018, February

• Happy Macs Lab, Gopher Server Are On The Move

2018, January

• Happymacs Gopher Site Current And Planned Outages

2017, December

• Getting Software Onto A System 6 Mac
• System 6 Software Links Added to Recommended Links Page

2017, November

• Getting Started with System 6
• Six on Six – Six Points of Interest for the Aspiring System 6 User

2017, October

• (Un)Happy Macs – A Mac IIsi and Gooey Caps

2017, September

• Macintosh System 6 – The Speed Demon of the Mac OS Family

2017, July

• Recovering From No Startup Chime, Power Mac G5 – The Saga Continues

2017, June

• Using TurboGopher to Access HappyMacs Archive
• HappyMacs Software Archive Is Open!

2017, May

• Failing Floppies – An Update
• The Mystery of the Failing Floppies

2017, January

• Macintosh Repository – A Great New Mac OS Archive

2016, December

• The Power Mac G3 All-In-One (Molar Mac)

2016, September

• Yellowing, Retr0bright and Sally Beauty Supply

2016, August

• Rarely Seen in the Wild, ColorSync 850AV Rides Again

2016, July

• Life Amidst the Boxes

2016, February

• Living Life the G5/Tiger Way

2016, January

• Pimp My Ride – Upgrading a Power Macintosh 7300 – Series Wrap Up

2015, December

• Pimp My Ride – Upgrading a Power Macintosh 7300/400 to an IDE Hard Drive

2015, November

• Pimp My Ride – Upgrading a Power Macintosh 7300/200 to a 400 MHz G3
• Pimp My Ride – Adding an ATI Radeon 7000 Mac Edition Video Card to a Power Macintosh 7300/200
• Pimp My Ride – Upgrading a Power Macintosh 7300/200

2015, October

• In Praise of Snow Leopard

2015, September

• The Performance Price of Macintosh PC Emulation
• Shoot Out: Virtual Windows on a PPC Mac vs. Windows on Native Hardware

2015, August

• Fun With Windows (on a PPC Mac!)

2015, July

• In Search of MacWrite
• BME – A Wonderful, Light Image Editor for Mac OS

2015, June

• Plug and Play vs. Plug and Pray – A Story of Mac OS 7.5 vs. Windows NT 3.51
• The Eyes Have It – Three Eyeball Programs for Mac OS 9.x

2015, May

• SheepShavers and Chubby Bunnies, The Weird and Wonderful World of Classic on Intel

2015, April

• A Great Mac OS Classic Image Viewer: BigPicture 4.2
• A Tale of Two G4s
• A New Battery for PowerBook G4

2015, March

• HappyMacs Gopherspace Progress
• The Amazing Multimedia (Vintage) Macintosh
• Digital Photography Workflow Addendum – Scanning
• Digital Photography Workflow on a Power Macintosh 7300/200
• Coming Soon – A HappyMacs Gopher Space (Vintage Mac Software Archive)

2015, February

• New Addition at HappyMacs – 1.67 GHz PowerBook G4
• A Quick Piece on QuickFans – Display CPU Temperature and Fan Speed in the Menu Bar
• Reviving a Unix Favorite – xv on a PowerMac G5
• OmniWeb – A Great “New” Web Browser for PowerPC Macs
• A Little More on Gopher
• i-logout.cz – A Mac Software Repository in Gopherspace (and Gopher for Firefox)
• Recovering from No Start Up Chime, PowerMac G5
• A Bad Apple Recovers (Briefly)
• Another Bad Apple in the Bunch – No Start Up Chime from Power Mac G5

2015, January

• Speed Up Mac OS Boot – Disable RAM Tests
• New Links on the “Recommended” Page
• A Refreshed Look for “Quadras, Cubes and G5s”
• Sorting Photos on iPhone, iPad and iPod – An Update
• Sorting Photos on iPhone, iPad and iPod
• Moving iTunes 12.x Library to iTunes 2.0.4, Part 2: Converting AAC to MP3

2014, December

• Change the TenFourFox Icon to the Classic Firefox Icon
• Move Current iTunes Library to Mac OS 9 / iTunes 2.x and 1st Generation iPod
• Impressions of a First Generation iPod

2014, November

• iPhone 4s – The PowerMac G5 Quad of its Class

2014, October

• Video on a Power Macintosh 7300/200

2014, September

• Clash of the 200 MHz Titans – 200 MHz PPC 604e vs. 200 MHz Pentium Pro

2014, August

• You Need WriteNow, Right Now!
• When Drag Won’t Drop – What To Do When Drag and Drop Stops Working

2014, July

• Network Your Classic Macintosh with Windows, Part 6 – The Grand Slam
• Network Your Classic Macintosh with …Linux, Part 5 – Using sshfs
• Network Your Classic Macintosh with Windows, Part 4 – Using Web Sharing
• Networking Your Classic Macintosh with Windows, Part 3 – Using NetPresenz and Fetch

2014, June

• Network Your Classic Macintosh with Windows, Part 2: Using DoubleTalk
• Network Your Classic Mac with Windows – Part 1: Using Dave

2014, June

• DragonOne – A GREAT Software Resource for Vintage Macs
• The Highest Version of Photoshop for the Last Version of Mac OS Classic
• Getting After Dark to Run on Mac OS 9
• Silence is Golden – Lowering the Volume on a 7300/200

2014, May

• Restoring the “A” to a Quadra 840AV
• Booting a Linux CD on Your Old World PowerPC Mac
• Adventures with Linux on a Power Macintosh 7300/200
• Two “New” Vintage Mac Software Repositories
• Rare Macs: Centris 660AV, Power Macintosh 7300/200

2014, April

• Nine Useful Things to Do with Your Vintage Mac

2014, February

• Bulk Changing of Type and Creator Codes – Revisited
• New Addition: Multiscan 720 17″ Display

2013, December

• A G5 Christmas Desktop
• The Christmas Spirit Comes to your (Tiger/Leopard) Mac Desktop
• Six Great Image Viewers for Mac OS Classic

2013, November

• Everything Old is New Again – Mavericks on an Older MacBook Pro
• Sharing Files Between Mac OS 8.1 and Mac OS X

2013, October

• Vintage Mac Fans Take Note – 3 Quadra 840AVs for Sale Right Now on eBay
• Fun with Windows 3.1 Revisited
• Fun with Windows 3.1 (on a 68K Mac!)
• Graphical Load Meter for Mac OS

2013, September

• Change Type/Creator Codes for a Folder Full of Files
• Christmas Comes Early to HappyMacs – Donated Power Mac G4 Sawtooth!
• Adventures with Nu Technology – New Nubus Audio Card
• Expand Your G4 Cube’s Hard Drive
• A Mac OS Classic Software Gold Mine

2013, August

• Multi Mac Backup? Go for Their G-Spot!
• Sounds Like Trouble … And More Trouble
• The Last Photoshop for 68K Macs
• The Soul of An Old Machine – Quadra 840AV Lives and Breathes
• The Need for Speed – Restoring a Quadra 840AV
• Still Driving a PowerMac? Ten Four Good Buddy!

2013, July

• A Flash in the Pan? Flash 11.5 on PPC
• A Bad Apple in the Bunch – G5 Replaces Failed Intel iMac
• Will File Sharing EVER Start? File Sharing on a G4 Cube
• The Last Version of Photoshop for the Last Version of the PowerMac
• Mac OS Standard is Not So Standard

2013, June

• Cache is King – Enable Yours
• Introducing “Quadras, Cubes and G5s”