7.5.3
In a message dated 12/29/2 7:21:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are there serious improvements in 7.5.5 compared to 7.5.3? Yes! 7.5.5 is much more stable and a little faster than 7.5.3 on my LC 580. As for real life test. It's worth the upgrade. -- Quadlist is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Quadlist info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/quadlist.shtml The FAQ:http://macfaq.org/ -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/quadlist%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: A/UX Boot Problems
Rob wrote: So I was finally able to get A/UX 3.01 installed on my Q700. It seemed to install fine and when the machine is booted, it enters the A/UX launcher. But when trying to boot, it comes up with an error message: Open on 'newunix' failed. I tried changing the limited settings in the launcher, but nothing seems to make a difference. I can list the directory contents and cat several text files, but nothing else. I can't find too much related to this error message on the net. Still battling to get it on mine without the cd drive which might be a problem. ;) Anyway have you looked at http://www.floodgap.com/retrotech/os/aux/ Under the subheading: Installation, third paragraph. If you've already tried this, sorry. Good luck -- Quadlist is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Quadlist info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/quadlist.shtml The FAQ:http://macfaq.org/ -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/quadlist%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: boot disk
Dan Palka wrote: Search for a program called SystemPicker. Its a control panel that you can use to bless a system folder, no matter where it is. Thanks for the tip Dan. Works well enough. -- Quadlist is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Quadlist info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/quadlist.shtml The FAQ:http://macfaq.org/ -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/quadlist%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Using an *40 AV to edit VHS video
Hi I bought a used Quadra 840AV with lots of installed software from someone clearing out his basement. Unfortunately I've never worked with a Mac before. It didn't come with any books of any sorts and I'm wondering if any of you have any experience using this Mac for editing, if there's any info on line, what programs I should be using and a few hints. I plan to use a vcr to play the video tapes. The Mac has 2 RCA type jacks, I believe they are, at the back where I could hook it up. Does this make sense? BTW. This machine had almost half an inch of dust inside the power supply and much of the mb. I'll have to find out eventually who owned this originally to see if it was toxic. Anyway, I'm impressed this thing is still purring right along after a good cleanout. A quick aside: What is Macromedia Flash, what is it used for? I see it mentioned every so often. Jean-Marc -- Quadlist is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Quadlist info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/quadlist.shtml The FAQ:http://macfaq.org/ -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/quadlist%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: A/UX Boot Problems
Thanks for the reply. I've installed it three times, once as is written on this web page. Once as a default easy install and once as the way that I would do it. None of them will boot. It seems as though the directory structure is fine, so I'll have to keep working on it. Now that I have something that seems to install, perhaps I will drag one of the other machines out and try it on there. Maybe I'm missing a system enabler? Although, I've read that as long as the installer works OK, then I shouldn't need anything else. If the full system would come up, then I would have the full suite of Unix tools to help get this fixed. But the way it sits, it is very limited. Rob - Original Message - From: Sque [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Quadlist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 8:22 AM Subject: Re: A/UX Boot Problems Still battling to get it on mine without the cd drive which might be a problem. ;) Anyway have you looked at http://www.floodgap.com/retrotech/os/aux/ Under the subheading: Installation, third paragraph. If you've already tried this, sorry. -- Quadlist is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Quadlist info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/quadlist.shtml The FAQ:http://macfaq.org/ -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/quadlist%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
System 7.1.1 slowness?
Dan Palka writes: System 7.1.1 proved to be not just slower, but significantly slower in several key areas, the biggest being disk access. Speedometer reported that disk access records were 143% in favor of 7.5.5. How could this be true? Two words: Disk Cache. As Apple evolved the Mac OS, they added a disk cache with System 7.0 and make incremental improvement right up through Mac OS 9.2.x. In fact, the more efficient cache in 8.0 and above is one reason I like using OS 8 on Quadras. The other difference is probably much more significant. IIRC, and it's a long time since I've used a default 7.1 setup, the Mac OS only allocates a small (32K?) cache by default, whereas 7.5.x tends to set a larger one (64 or 96?). A bigger disk cache will make a world of difference when running a hard drive benchmark. I suggest you check the cache setting in the memory control panel, make sure it's the same, and rerun your tests. I suspect you'll find 7.5.5 a little faster, but probably not enough so to make any real world difference. Also, you'll probably find best results at 128k or 256k. -- Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc. http://cobwebpublishing.com http://lowendmac.com http://digital-views.com http://digigraphica.com http://lowendpc.com http://reformed.net The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently. -- Nietzsche -- Quadlist is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Quadlist info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/quadlist.shtml The FAQ:http://macfaq.org/ -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/quadlist%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Re(2): 7.1.1 Slowness Revealed! See the light!
I haven't seen anybody mention it, but what about the benefit of SCSI manager 4.3? A Quadra 800 will definitely benefit from it, and the performance boost MIGHT be as great as 50%. Try removing the SCSI Manager extension and see if the performance drops down to 7.1.1 levels. Also, don't forget that different areas of the same hard drive have different performance characteristics. The first partition will perform better than the second. I would also suggest using MacBench to test your systems. The benchmarking provided by speedometer is quit poor in comparison. Additionally, it is vital that you defragment your drive immediately before doing any sort of hard disk benchmarking, fragmentation can kill you performance. I do my benchmarking with a blank formated drive, with a single partition only a large as it needs to be (in the 200 Meg range)... And definitely not the system drive. Just my 2ยข Derek -- Quadlist is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Quadlist info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/quadlist.shtml The FAQ:http://macfaq.org/ -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/quadlist%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: A/UX Boot Problems
The documentation is wonderful. :) if you could find some. Half way through a network install of Debian on what was my Q800 now C650. Have you taken the long walk through http://www.faqs.org/faqs/aux-faq/part1/ maybe you'll find something in the 4 pages, probably seen that one too. Good luck. Rob wrote: Thanks for the reply. I've installed it three times, once as is written on this web page. Once as a default easy install and once as the way that I would do it. None of them will boot. It seems as though the directory structure is fine, so I'll have to keep working on it. Now that I have something that seems to install, perhaps I will drag one of the other machines out and try it on there. Maybe I'm missing a system enabler? Although, I've read that as long as the installer works OK, then I shouldn't need anything else. If the full system would come up, then I would have the full suite of Unix tools to help get this fixed. But the way it sits, it is very limited. Rob -- Quadlist is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Quadlist info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/quadlist.shtml The FAQ:http://macfaq.org/ -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/quadlist%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: System 7.1.1 slowness?
It seems people on this list don't have faith in me. Yes of course I already thought of that. They were both set exactly the same. on 12/30/02 10:26 AM, Dan Knight at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Palka writes: System 7.1.1 proved to be not just slower, but significantly slower in several key areas, the biggest being disk access. Speedometer reported that disk access records were 143% in favor of 7.5.5. How could this be true? Two words: Disk Cache. As Apple evolved the Mac OS, they added a disk cache with System 7.0 and make incremental improvement right up through Mac OS 9.2.x. In fact, the more efficient cache in 8.0 and above is one reason I like using OS 8 on Quadras. The other difference is probably much more significant. IIRC, and it's a long time since I've used a default 7.1 setup, the Mac OS only allocates a small (32K?) cache by default, whereas 7.5.x tends to set a larger one (64 or 96?). A bigger disk cache will make a world of difference when running a hard drive benchmark. I suggest you check the cache setting in the memory control panel, make sure it's the same, and rerun your tests. I suspect you'll find 7.5.5 a little faster, but probably not enough so to make any real world difference. Also, you'll probably find best results at 128k or 256k. -- Quadlist is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Quadlist info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/quadlist.shtml The FAQ:http://macfaq.org/ -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/quadlist%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: 7.5.3
Are there serious improvements in 7.5.5 compared to 7.5.3? Yes! 7.5.5 is much more stable and a little faster than 7.5.3 on my LC 580. As for real life test. It's worth the upgrade. As a contrary point I would like to say my C650 crashed a lot more with 7.5.5 than with 7.5.3, though maybe that was just me ;-) k. Kyle Kinsey +- | eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Phone (Mobile): 07909 67 1986 | Web: www.thewibblereport.co.uk |ICQ: 20955065 | -- Quadlist is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Quadlist info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/quadlist.shtml The FAQ:http://macfaq.org/ -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/quadlist%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: 7.5.3
Kyle Kinsey wrote: Are there serious improvements in 7.5.5 compared to 7.5.3? though maybe that was just me ;-) k. Kyle Kinsey That's a good possibility Kyle... 8-) Really, in order to get 7.5.5 stable, one must slim it down to what THEIR computer needs to run the software that THEY want to runs. There is a lot of overhead in 7.5.5 for the 0x0 machines. It takes a bit of time and patience, but once you have 7.5.5 slimed down for your machine for what you do, it is extremely stable. -- Fred [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.imagine2020.com/737724502 -- Quadlist is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Quadlist info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/quadlist.shtml The FAQ:http://macfaq.org/ -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/quadlist%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Using an *40 AV to edit VHS video
At 08:10 AM 12/30/2002, AylmerQuebec typed thusly: A quick aside: What is Macromedia Flash, what is it used for? I see it mentioned every so often Many websites with animation (either full animated sites, or things like rollovers) use Flash. It's reasonably compact, but you do need a plugin for your browser to display it properly. -- Quadlist is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Quadlist info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/quadlist.shtml The FAQ:http://macfaq.org/ -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/quadlist%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
