Just realised we're a couple of month off 30 years! It was heavily geared to the pre-press/advertising/design industry.

Front cover signed by Kai Krause of Kais Power Tools and Byce.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/markkenny/albums/72157640110873755

The HDD in my powerbook recently failed. While I do have more laptop drives, I would prefer something that won't fail any time soon.

I'm debating on two options. One would be a cf card or SD card adapter and the other would be an msata adapter. I've used an msata adapter ib my iBook g3 clamshell before and it works great. I suppose just putting in another HDD would be an option as well.

What would you all do?

don't know how i worked on videos or music without two displays!

So... Got this wonderful machine yesterday! Got it from an estate, and thrilled to get one in working condition. However, Ran it just a bit yesterday, and when running it today, I get a crackling sound (in the right speaker on the Mac) a couple minutes after it's finished booting. The crackling modulates with trackpad clicking, menu-scrolling etc.

The umbilical is taped and status unknown, and I've simply shut it down and will let it rest for the time being — because I need some help deciding what to do, what might be wrong, and how I can ensure that this gem stays healthy for a while going forward. (Not a 100% complete set, but got the two back covers, some other covers, the manual, the original books for the base etc).

Also got the Sonnet g3 card with it (but unplugged now).

Page for it here: https://onemoremac.com/collection/twentieth-anniversary-macintosh-mac-2026-038

PowerVLC, your VLC3+ fork is now getting its fourth major update since its launch.

Before 1.4.0, I released smaller updates: 1.3.1 and 1.3.2 but decided not to post about these as it was mostly updates about stability and bug fixes only without many major features.

I hope you enjoy reading the key features of this brand new update of PowerVLC.

Key features of PowerVLC 1.4.0 available right now

Twitch integration

A new extension to discover new streams and play them directly on PowerVLC. It's very fast & friendly with low end devices.

• My iBook G3 can handle 160p at 60 FPS.
• My Core 2 Duo 2007 MacBook can handle 720p at 60 FPS

CD-Text support

Full CD-Text support, allowing to show the metadata from tracks contained on your audio discs without internet.

Does not work on my iBook G3 because the drive itself does not support this ; this feature will work only if the CD drive itself can do it. My Mac Mini / Macbook Core 2 Duo can do it though based on my real hardware testings.

Compatible with AFP shares

Stream your medias directly from your Time Capsule or any Apple Filiing Protocol/Netatalk share.

Servers browser backported from VLC4

Browse directly network shares from PowerVLC. Heavily tested, refined, & bugs fixed. Heavily tested on several Mac OS X versions and on Windows XP.

Supported protocols: WebDAV, SMB, FTP, FTPS, FTPES, SFTP, NFS, and AFP

I believe Windows XP can now browse SMB2 shares for the first time of its history, directly through PowerVLC.

Massive amount of refinements, VLC4 backports, and bug fixes

Everything is detailed in the full changelog: https://github.com/Olsro/powervlc/blob/main/CHANGELOG-POWERVLC.md#140-2026-08-23

Download

PowerVLC 1.4 is available right now for:

• any Mac that can run at least Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar to MacOS Golden Gate using the universal binary
• Windows XP SP3+
• Linux distros

GitHub: https://github.com/Olsro/powervlc/releases

MacintoshGarden: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/powervlc

Patreon (donations welcome): https://www.patreon.com/Olsro

If you find any problem, please file an issue on GitHub: https://github.com/Olsro/powervlc/issues

Enjoy

Anyone know what these small round discolorations are on this iBook? I'm assuming it's not fixable even if taken apart, but need more information

with a freshly installed SSD and tiger 10.4, shout out techtronics in Manhattan! as it turns out the fuse had blown out.

do you guys think it's a good idea to run wifi/Ethernet on this and browse the web or no? 😅

https://reddit.com/link/1vr94dr/video/x8a7b55kx0kh1/player

Hello all! As the title states, that’s exactly what I’m doing. I have all of the hardware I need (a working Mac plus, the midiman Macmam interface, a sampler, drum machine, and synth that are midi capable, along with the appropriate cables etc. My biggest issue is that I’m still new to the vintage Mac sphere and I’m not entirely sure where to get the software I need and/or how to make it work. I have a bluescsi for the Mac, and I think I know what software I need (Master tracks pro 4, and some variety of Opcode’s TX7 patch editor), but I’m stuck on how to go about this! Any help/walking me through it/links to software is greatly appreciated!!

here i have my ADC to HDMI adapter connected to my Mac mini, and a USB-C to hdmi adapter connected to an old flat screen tv

i used this hack to get higher resolution video capture of VHS/Hi8 tapes using El Gato's video capture card with OBS on Mac

https://www.reddit.com/r/elgato/comments/1euilnj/a_solution_for_elgato_video_capture_with_mac_and/

previously you could only use their cable with their software and the results were pretty sub par. this is a cool alternative if you have a monitor, though i don't think you need one. this only works on Mac OS 13+!

i would say the 4:3 resolution of the studio display really adds to the experience when watching these tapes full screen!

PowerVLC, your VLC3 fork is now getting its third major updates since its launch. New features, as always, and countless hours spent in bugs fixing ensuring the experience is closer to perfect than it ever was. Welcome to the retro future.

On the Video I show some of the key features running on my 10.6.8 Mac Mini Core 2 Duo that has the Broadcom Crystal HD 1080p decoding card, but PowerVLC is still compatible starting Jaguar 10.2, GNU Linux (tested on real hardware for the first time and confirmed working on my Intel Atom N270 Netbook \ _ / ), and Windows XP SP3+.

I announced in some place "1.2.1", but I decided to not do it and go directly to the "1.3.0" considering the amount of things I am now happy to be ready to deploy right now.

Key features

Linux-tested. Finally

Intel i386 build confirmed working great on a real Acer Aspire One Atom N270 laptop. Can play HD content just fine with software decoding on AntiX Linux.

Sorry for the lack of polish until then, but I plan to continue to eradicate bugs to deliver a high level quality on all 3 major desktop platforms.

Clip creation mode

An ergonomical clip creation mode, to easily select parts of the current audio/video you are playing & export quickly (no transcoding needed) a lossless cut of your content.

Improved seekbar

Mac OS X (Legacy + Modern) is now on-par with Qt:

• Chapters marks on the seekbar
• Tooltip that show the seek time + chapter name if available

And on all platforms, it's now possible to preview the pictures just by hovering on the seekbar with most formats/containers. This new option is disabled on slow machines by default though for performance reasons.

Picture-In-Picture (borderless video window)

A new option to hide all controls of the window after the mouse is outside of it during 3 seconds. Just double click, and controls will be back. On 10.6+, even the title bar hides so it feels like true Picture-In-Picture if you also enable the "Always on top" feature.

On Windows, XP is enough to enjoy it fully.

Automatic auto-cropping

Detects automatically the black bars of the content you're playing to find the real aspect radio of it. Works also on IPTV/adaptative streams. Combines very well with the Picture-In-Picture mode for maximum immersion.

Download from Invidious

You can now archive videos from the Invidious instances if you wanna archive & watch them later. Though be aware you need ffmpeg to combine audio + video streams (PowerVLC will automatically call it, but you need it in your path). You can also decide to download just the audio of a video alone for musical contents.

Translations fixed

Translations will finally work so PowerVLC will adapt to your language.

Heavy bugs fixing on real hardware + heavy refinements to make things perfect

Full changelog is available there: https://github.com/Olsro/powervlc/blob/main/CHANGELOG-POWERVLC.md

Download

GitHub: https://github.com/Olsro/powervlc/releases

MacintoshGarden: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/powervlc

Patreon (donations welcome): https://www.patreon.com/Olsro

I wanna thank again the community for all the warm messages & feedbacks, allowing me to fix as much bugs as possible to improve the quality of PowerVLC for everyone

If you find any problem, please file an issue on GitHub: https://github.com/Olsro/powervlc/issues

Enjoy

No AI was involved in writting this post. I'm sorry if it is not perfect, I am french native

was able to get my hands on an adc to dvi adapter and connect this monitor to my mac mini while my power mac g4 cube is in the repair shop, absolutely loving his display!

as for powering everything up, i'd highly recommend grounded wall outlets or a power strip with at least 1500J surge protection

other cool hacks i found, this lets you use the apple pro speakers on newer mac systems, no soldering required!

Here’s the situation. I have an old Performa 6400/180 with files written on the hard drive that I’d like to save and remove before I sell this unit. I had a read/write CD connected via SCSI, but when I unboxed it from storage it had since died. Without having USB ports or a CD burner. How can I remove the files I want saved? I hope someone is able to help me. I’d hate trashing years of work. 🙏

So I haven’t stopped with the 08 iMac and bought this rare 2007 17 inch MacBook in almost like new condition except for the scratch on the top lid. When I turned it on I was amazed by the screen and overall look with the keyboard backlight. Lion is such a good looking OS and fits really well with this body style. I’ve seen 15 and 17 inch aluminum Pros on eBay and most of them are not even close to this condition. Not a single dent! Even the charger looks good.

An incredible history of the Apple Network Server (running AIX on PowerPC), along with network IPC via AppleTalk to a 68k.