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can't read a lick of Japanese, but I can admire this fellow's amazing photo set of cramming a Mac mini
into the case of a Mac SE/30. He even got the 9" black and white display to hook up to the Mac mini and cut a slot
for the optical drive. Wow!Want to drag a file to another folder and copy it instead of moving it? Press the Option key when you drag that file and it'll be duplicated rather than moved entirely.
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b. nystedt said 11:42PM on 2-01-2006
BOLO= Best. Game. Ever. Well, at least for much of the 90s. My school had a whole lab of Macs Appletalked together with bolo on the ones that would run it (There was one LC that didn't have enough RAM if I recall correctly). Many a recess in the 7th grade was spent shouting and frantically hitting the spacebar.
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Logan said 12:19AM on 2-02-2006
The Google translation reads alright, not great:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://www.kaede.sakura.ne.jp/~kidou/mac/macmini01.html&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://www.kaede.sakura.ne.jp/~kidou/mac/macmini01.html%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den
Anyways, I think it's a pretty cool modification. I especially like the rod that is used to turn the CRT on and off. Fun stuff.
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Spencer said 12:52AM on 2-02-2006
I use my SE/30 for networked armor ally games. Aah, what a great game, I think it'll play on anything as good as a mac plus.
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Christopher said 1:13AM on 2-02-2006
Funny! ;-)
I definitely remember the SE/30. I remember using it w/ System 6, ResEdit, and the Font/DA Mover! ;-)
Chris
http://amateureconblog.blogspot.com/
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iFelix said 2:34AM on 2-02-2006
Hmm
"how I miss driving my little tanks around maps created to mimic my University's campus"
Did you really hate your lecturers that much?
;-)
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Stridey said 3:47AM on 2-02-2006
I'm impressed that the screen a resolution that high...
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Chris Stephens said 5:53AM on 2-02-2006
Back in the early nineties I used to work for a telco in Sydney and we had two tower blocks - one in the city and one in North Sydney (over the Harbour Bridge).
We were a 100% Macintosh company (Yay!) and every so often (but not often enough!) we used to play Bolo over the network between the two buildings and the battle would rage into the night! We were all so gripped we barely found time to relieve ourselves. I remember vividly sitting at my desk with my trusty PowerBook 170 and very full bladder desperately holding them off from destroying my bases. What a blast. And hours of shooting up pillboxes for practice..!
Those were definitely great days. Thank you, Stuart Cheshire!
:)
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Montecore the Tiger said 6:47AM on 2-02-2006
I get the feeling that you guys just love pictures of Macs crammed into anything ;)
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DrWho said 10:20AM on 2-02-2006
#8 - i think we do.
Dark Castle was my favorite. Never finished it but got oh so close on numerous occasions.
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Arlo said 10:40AM on 2-02-2006
Here's another using an LCD and a very interesting solution to the power-button issue:
http://plaza.rakuten.co.jp/anagotendon/6007
Sure, it's less stealthy, but using the LCD leaves a lot more room. I'm sure someone (me, when I get the cash together) could cram a larger hard drive in the case and get a pretty decent server running.
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mrklaw said 12:37PM on 2-02-2006
I wish there was a Bolo for Mac OS X. I would still play. Rendezvous support would be even better!
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GuruMatmat said 2:55PM on 2-02-2006
Just use google !
http://www.nicholaspyers.com/articles/20020621-xbolo/
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Sam said 8:51PM on 2-02-2006
I used to like Balance of Power 2. I found it online recently and it even runs under Classic. A lot of the old games are available somewhere online. (I also liked Ancient Art of War and AAoW At Sea.)
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