]> http://www.applefritter.com/taxonomy/term/101/0 For Mac Colour Classic Users - and especially those upgrading their CCs. Please read the FAQ. Moderator: StuartBell en http://www.applefritter.com/node/7501 Another thread raises the issue of CC pages missing in action. Let's start to address the question, by assembling a list of the important pages: 1. The original 'Takky' site with the Power Colour Classic upgrade. 2. The gazebing room Mystic clocking page. 3. The Colour Classic FAQ. 4. (if I may suggest!) My Power Colour Classic pages. More suggestions, please, for 'essential we don't lose' Colour Classic pages? Stuart Thu, 28 Apr 2005 13:27:29 -0700 http://www.applefritter.com/node/1868  [center]This is a forum for the interchange of comment, help and advice for users of the Apple Macintosh Colo(u)r Classic, CCII, Performa 250 and Performa 275 computers. In particular, it is intended to offer support for those upgrading their CCs.     Most Colo(u)r Classic questions have already been answered!     Please carefully read    http://www.colourclassicfaq.com/ and links therefrom before asking your questions! [b] FORUMFAQ: [/b]    Q What's the purpose of the CC Forum? A See the Forum header.       Q. Who may post to the Forum? A Anyone, as long as have signed on with Applefritter.       Q What's on-topic? A Anything relevant to CCs and their upgrading. (Arguments about whether putting a PC in a CC case is an upgrade have already been well rehearsed.)        Q. Are advertisements allowed? A. As long as they are relevant to the forum, FSs and links to auctions are OK. They will not be archived, so please don't add any useful information to such threads. Since this is a global forum, it is expected that sellers will be willing to ship anything smaller than a full CC or CRT or CC case globally, subject to the usual protection for the seller, and the buyer paying fair shipping costs.       Q What is not allowed? A. Trolling, flaming; questions irrelevant to CCs; personal criticism; politics; religion. etc etc.   [/center] Tue, 15 Mar 2005 00:09:43 -0800 http://www.applefritter.com/node/23518 Hey all, I recently picked up a Colour Classic in great condition at a lot auction for $5. My intention is to let my little boy play around with it and learn a little too. However, it didn't have the mouse and there is nowhere near where I'm at that I could find one. Anyone looking to get rid of one? The only problem is I'm up in Canada so I know the shipping will probably add-up to more than I paid for the CC, but I'll figure it out. Thanks, ~Jon Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:37:07 -0700 http://www.applefritter.com/node/23512 I've got two Color Classics that I got a couple years ago. Both work fine, except that neither one has sound. Thing is, one had sound when I tested it before bringing it home, but it punked out on me when I started it at home. It's not a control panel thing, the speakers are connected in both. Volume's maxxed out, but still I get nada. Does this sound familiar? Anyone have any thoughts on what the cause - and therefore the solution - might be? I've got a pdf of the basic CC repair manual - gives me nothing. Thanks Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:31:55 -0700 http://www.applefritter.com/node/23175 I have a Macintosh Color Classic II. I recently heard that they a very rare and worth some money. However; I have searched the internet from top to bottom and have not been able to find an actual value. Can anyone tell me what it's worth or what website I can go to to find its value? Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:49:32 -0700 http://www.applefritter.com/node/23148 Hi, I used to play around with color classics a while back, having done the mystic and takky modifications, and decided to start up a G4 color classic project. My problem is, the web site that used to have the wiring diagrams seems to no longer exist. Does anybody have a mirror to the wiring pinout information from the analog board harness? (for video, soft power, etc) Thanks in advance, Matt Kiehl Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:33:35 -0700 http://www.applefritter.com/node/23081 Hi, I've been building a good Mystic Colour Classic out of two flaky ones ... - One in perfect physical nick but seemingly had the Mystic mod attempted, and failed. Chimes and boots but no video - Another CC sprayed black with successful Mystic mod *but* sound chip removed! Has yellow tint on screen. So, I desoldered the sound chip off the better one and got the "good" Mystic AB working, in the good condition case, sound and VGA video working. Now it's all going a treat but it the yellow tint still remains. Adjusting the green or red pots on the AB (for drive and background respectively) elicits a change in hue but adjusting blue drive does nothing - no perceptible change. I've resoldered the PCB at the back of the yoke to no avail - which leaves me with the AB - could there be a cold solder joint somewhere, where should I look/start? Thanks JB Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:49:21 -0700 http://www.applefritter.com/node/22714 Hi, I have a Color Classic with the original motherboard and 10MB RAM and 2GB HD that runs system 7.6.1. The system performance is slow but working. The main problem is in web browsing. I have Ethernet card installed and use iCab 2.99 and Netscape 4 and the browsing is virtually impossible - it takes forever to download even simple websites like this website. I have the CSS option disabled but it doesn't help. My questions are: 1. Should I expect better performance with system 7.55? 7.1? 7.0? 2. What if I increase the virtual memory size? 3. Is it related to my high-demanding browsers and I should try something else? 4. Will a motherboard replacement to LC575 or Sonnet Presto Plus be a real improvement (if I will upgrade this machine, I'd rather not modify the internal electronics)? Thanks, Tal Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:19:51 -0800 http://www.applefritter.com/node/22583 Hi all, I recently replaced my Color Classic Hard drive that died with another original 80 mb drive from a spare parts cc I had picked up some time ago. The drive is filled with stuff I have no use for so I decided to simply run Apple HD Setup and reformat the drive and do a clean install of 7.1. When I try and format the drive it fails...I get this message...cannot unmount drive due to an open file. Tried an install from the 7.1 disk and again the install fails. Can anyone suggest how I can resolve this problem and do a clean install? Help would be very appreciated! Jim Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:44:16 -0800 http://www.applefritter.com/node/22536 Years ago I built a Power CC. 6500 motherboard, quiet IDE Seagate hard drive, 400 MHz G3 upgrade, VGA mod, PCI riser and NIC, floppy slot Bondoed over and case painted green, TV card, and a extra power supply to support all that (not all installed in the picture). Sometime late in the TV card install the sound stopped working unfortunately. As with many of my projects, building it was more fun than using it, so I have not done anything other than move it from place to place in 4 years. I no longer have a place to store it and would be happy to send it to someone if they cover packing and shipping at the UPS store. Anyone interested? http://www.richtman.net/IMG_1243.jpg http://www.richtman.net/IMG_1244.jpg Keith Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:16:05 -0800 http://www.applefritter.com/node/22381 Hi folks, today I tried to put in this magic LED. With partial success. I'm running a 5500/225 board and a 2 GB samsung hd. I figured out that ATA pin 39 is the LED driver and 40 is GND. So I cut both open and attached a cable to a round 3mm low-current LED (IF=3mA, a 20 mA type is lit only very dim.) I placed it in the microphone hole above the display. It works, but it seems to indicate write access only. Further, after running HDT benchtest the LED was constantly on so I suspect the signal status works like a flip-flop and waits for a pulse to change it's state. Unfortunately I don't have an oscilloscope to check the signals. Any ideas which other lines in the ATA cable I can try? You might say: Your bloody harddrive is so noisy, why in the world would you need a LED? Are you deaf? The answer is: I'm not. But I prepare to replace the hd by a CF card and make room for a DVD drive. regards Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:42:31 -0800 http://www.applefritter.com/node/22359 Hi folks, I managed to get the original German BeOS5Pro CDs on ebay and thought I'd give it a try over xmas. But! The CD is not working on a Mac. No HFS fily system, all ressource forks are corrupted :(. The file readme 'Installing_the_BeOS' is empty, _OS_Chooser and BEOS_Launcher are corrupted. There's no longer support for this product from 2000. Could anyone point me to a location where I can download the installer files? I've done extensive search on the net but BeOS5 on a Mac is rather exotic. Thank you all! Tue, 01 Jan 2008 11:25:03 -0800 http://www.applefritter.com/node/22348 Hello guys, I recently did a video upgrade soldier to my Macintosh Color Classic. It seemed to go very well except for one thing. My monitor is now goes from big on bottom and top and narrow in the middle (hourglass like). I am not sure if I am describing it correctly. The system 7.5.3 says that it is in the 640x480 at 67 Hz, which is what is suppose to be. I tried to adjust this problem, however, the PB will not move enough to fix it. Has anyone over the years done this upgrade to the Macintosh Color Classic. Let me know if you had this problem or if you were able to fix it. I tried every little pin hole on the back to adjust, but nothing has made a big difference. Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:05:12 -0800 http://www.applefritter.com/node/22269 I'm thinning out my mac collection and have decided to offer one of my two CC's. I rescued this one from a thrift shop a few years ago and set it up as a Mystic using Res Edit because I did not upgrade the video. It does have a few flaws, to wit: - a few grey clouds near the middle of the screen, and a green area in the upper right - so whoever takes this CC should be someone who can play with the yoke and fix this. - floppy drive crapped out - needs a new one. - case has some yellowing (not too bad). - sorry, you can't have my Mystic motherboard because I have an actual P575 that needs it. Well now that I read over the list it doesn't sound so great - but really, aside from these few flaws it's a nice little machine with some good vintage software on the hard drive (including drivers for Powercard 601 if that's your thing). OS 7.5.5 installed. This could be your Mystic or you could do further upgrades. I wanted to offer it here before proceeding to other venues like LEM Swap Group or heaven forbid ebay. I will send it to a good home just for the cost of shipping by your favorite method. If interested, contact me at bhossfield@bellsouth.net Bruce - in Orlando Thu, 13 Dec 2007 06:32:02 -0800 http://www.applefritter.com/node/22239 i rescued a color classic from the trash today on my block. i powered it up, and to my dismay, it has a failed analog board. the convergence is off horizontally. (pretty badly actually). vertically the convergence looks perfect. the adjustment on the back of the neck board has NO effect on the picture. the neck ring adjustments are still glued in place and havent moved, i tried to adjust the rings, and it wont pull the colors in far enough to converge them without distoring the vertical convergence. so i returned them back to stock positions to restore vertical convergence. horizontal convergence needs major correction. only thing i can figure is the analog board uses a dynamic convergence correction circuit which has failed? anyone have a schematic of this monitor? since it IS a 1993 machine, its probably wasted electrolytics. Sun, 09 Dec 2007 18:02:56 -0800