Transforming a Apple II external floppy drive into a Mac version

Looking for information, I found a hack coming from the 80s : turning a UnidDisk 3.5 (for Apple II, incompatible with Macintosh) into a driver for Mac.

Posté le 20/01/2017 par

A Mac at the movies : Independence Day

Since the sequel is released out today, let’s have a little post on the original movie of 1996, which showed a prototype on screen.

Posté le 20/07/2016 par

Les meilleures promotions du jour

Sur cette page, je vous mets les promotions du jour. Ce sont celles que je poste de temps en temps sur Twitter, et les liens sont sponsorisés, ce qui me permet d’acheter certains accessoires pour le site. Je mets des liens vers des promotions intéressantes, idéalement des produits que j’ai essayés ou que je connais bien, avec évidemment une orientation vers les nouvelles technologies.

Posté le 20/07/2016 par

A video game on a tape

Last week I explained that video games on vinyl records existed. But what about games on tape ?

Posté le 08/06/2016 par

Apple Pippin : mouse and keyboard

Funny little tests with Pippin: what happens when you plug a mouse and keyboard?

Posté le 04/06/2016 par

Camouflage, a video game on a vinyl record

Seeking information for my work, I came across a special thing: a video game on a vinyl record.

Posté le 03/06/2016 par

Force a display to RGB under Mac OS X

You may have already noticed that (Mac) OS X tends to recognize external screens as TVs, especially when they are plugged in HDMI. This is not a real problem, but the image is damaged on some screens, cause they are using YCbCr instead of RGB, more effective. Fortunately, there is a solution.

Posté le 13/04/2015 par

Flashing a MacBook Pro EFI manually

You may remember that I own a prototype 2011 MacBook Pro in my collection. The machine uses a beta version of a ROM and I thought this ROM would prevent from starting a recent OS (beyond Snow Leopard). So I looked for a way to flash the ROM with a newer version.

Posté le 30/03/2015 par

This Power Mac G5 is (almost) a Xbox 360

I talked about it several times, the first development kit for the Xbox 360 was a Power Mac G5, and Microsoft has even used some during a E3, hidden from the view of the players. And I managed to find one of these Power Mac G5.

Posté le 25/01/2015 par

A nVidia Maxwell card with Thunderbolt on a Mac running Yosemite

If you read the reviews, you saw that it is possible to use the latest generation of nVidia cards with a Mac running under Yosemite. The operation is pretty close to what I presented, but Yosemite and the latest nVidia cards require some adjustments.

Posté le 04/12/2014 par

Atari, Spectre GCR and Macintosh

Did you know that not-so-long ago, it was possible to turn an Atari ST into a Macintosh? With the help of a fellow fan of Atari (Brume on the Atari-Forum), we restarted a Spectre GCR.

Posté le 26/09/2014 par