Apple’s DVD Studio Pro software was something I dreamed of having back in the day. While iDVD was great, I ran into bugs and issues when using certain menus or templates. Years later I finally had DVD Studio Pro set up on my 2011 27-inch iMac, I used it for many home movie projects and…
Believe it or not, the best way I’ve found to backup Macintosh formatted CDs is using a Windows application. ImgBurn, a freeware application, does a great job of archiving disc images without messing up any bootable partitions, etc. While this is primarily an issue for bootable discs, it’s also a concern when trying to archive…
Hello everyone! Back in 2021 I started down this rabbit hole of creating something really cool to put in my MacEffects SE clear case. I wanted to do something unique, and at the end of it all, I think I accomplished just that. Please check out this video for more details on the project. This…
Macintosh abandonware websites often provide downloads in disk image formats like .dc42, .img, .image, or .dsk, etc. Sadly if these files aren’t wrapped in a compressed archive to preserve their resource fork, they can be troublesome to open or appear corrupt to your vintage Mac. In this post I’ll explain why this happens and show…
My good friend Ken (of the Computer Clan YouTube channel) invited me over to take a look at something very special. A prototype of the first Apple iMac G3 model from 1998. He featured this unique clear-case iMac in a recent video… but there was just one issue… it didn’t work! So I was summoned…
I was recently sent in three Macintosh SE/30 logic boards by my clients for recapping. I was able to recap and repair them, but after the repair I noticed a trend. Two of these logic boards had SCSI termination problems. The Macintosh would boot from a SCSI2SD hard drive adapter, but only if external power…
I’m documenting this here because I’ll forget about it next time it happens… My friend Jay from The House of Moth helped me with this one. Collin Mistr’s (DosDude1) macOS High Sierra patcher has a bug when run in Mojave. It appears like everything starts to copy to the USB drive, but then you get…
In December of 2020 the topic of the “PowerPC Challenge” came up again on Mac Yak. If you are not familiar with the PowerPC Challenge, it is a yearly event that the Mac Yak podcast folks created to challenge themselves, and others, to use PowerPC-based Macs for an entire week. The idea is to rely…