mcdermd the Applefool

MinerAl · 2015-06-09 10:22:47

Mac minis make great MAME brains.

macdrone · 2015-06-09 18:22:19

intel mac minis?

bbraun · 2015-06-09 19:28:40

I use a raspberry pi in mine. It works ok for games up through the early/mid 90s, and then it starts to stutter. The nice thing about the rpi is I'm using actual arcade controls, which are just switches, and connected to the GPIO pins on the rpi. I'm probably going to upgrade to an rpi2 soon and see if that helps, although to really take advantage of the newer games, I'll need more buttons.

ClassicHasClass · 2015-06-09 20:23:53

macdrone wrote:

intel mac minis?

The G4 can run older versions just fine. One of these days(tm) I'm going to transplant a later MAME core into the old MacMAME shell, which was awesome and cool and rockin'.

mcdermd · 2015-06-09 21:39:25

MAME has it's place but that place is not in a classic arcade cabinet.

mcdermd · 2015-08-29 01:46:11

I finally snagged some Apple gear for the first time in a long time. Grabbed a Apple Hi Res Display and an open boxed iSight for $5.50. W007!

bbraun · 2015-08-29 01:57:57

Nice! Any idea what you'll do with the iSight? I had mine setup for a while with SecuritySpy (which is actually pretty cool stuff on its own). Then I started using it to do some stop motion videos with the kiddo using Smoovie. But it has sat unused most of its life. As a side note, I got mine when they gave them out to WWDC attendees after they came out. 2002 maybe?

ClassicHasClass · 2015-08-29 17:10:48

I love the FW iSight, not least of which BECAUSE IT HAS A PHYSICAL PRIVACY IRIS.

mcdermd · 2015-09-24 19:55:57

I got a dual 1.42 GHz PowerMac G4 from a friend for free! 1 GB RAM, R9k and no HDD but it works.

TheWhiteFalcon · 2015-09-24 20:01:09

Nice. That's the fastest MDD right?

Eudimorphodon · 2015-09-24 20:14:30

The one and only OS X only model, right?

mcdermd · 2015-09-24 20:57:51

All of the FW800 models were OS X only so yeah, dual 1.42 was one of the three original OS X only PowerMacs.

markyb · 2015-09-24 21:07:56

man, those are sweet. I had one for a while in mint condition, had to sell when I lost my job 5 years ago. Kept the Sawtooth and it just doesn't compare, lol.

Now you just gotta get some silenx fans and an SSD

cc333 · 2015-09-25 02:50:02

I have the Dual 1.25 GHz model, and it's okay, but I'd definitely be happier if it were just a little bit faster, especially since I'm using it as my primary desktop machine (I'm not even considering unpacking the Mac Pro until we get at least ten inches of rain here!)

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ClassicHasClass · 2015-09-25 15:49:58

I have a 1.8GHz 7447A in my dual 1.25 MDD.

cc333 · 2015-09-25 16:16:00

How did you manage that?!

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mcdermd · 2015-09-25 21:10:36

Like this: http://www.sonnettech.com/publicfiles/p … asheet.pdf

ClassicHasClass · 2015-09-26 17:24:15

Exactly. The main drawback is being a 744x it has no L3 cache, so on some tasks it's not appreciably faster (but it's never slower).

Classilla builds, which admittedly are rather diskbound, perform about the same. But Classilla itself flies and Virtual PC runs like a bat out of hell.

mcdermd · 2015-10-09 05:09:45

An odd duck I don't have made it's way to me as a hand-me-down - LC 475. A few have been through my hands over the years but for some reason never stayed. Now if I happen across a Q605, the LC pizza stack should be complete.

mcdermd · 2016-02-15 02:36:43

Seems like it's been about forever since I found any notable Mac stuff. Found this today for $3 at the St Vincent DePaul thrift. It came with the box and is even the DB-9 version for 512k/Plus.

jt · 2016-02-16 14:08:01

Sweet, looks almost too pretty to use. Has it been?

mcdermd · 2016-03-02 03:14:12

This is finished! My first pin - Gottlieb's "Dragon" from 1978. One of their first solid state machines (they were late to the solid state tech party). Lots of electronic board work, tons of cleaning, polishing, refinishing:

Before:

Now:

ClassicHasClass · 2016-03-02 06:14:40

Sexy!

And the girl is hot, too!

Cosmo · 2016-03-02 12:40:33

That flipper is just stunning work! Looks like new.

ClassicHasClass · 2016-03-03 01:46:48

ISTR that most SS Gottliebs are 6502-based?

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