Links and Info — Apple Macintosh
Most links here are more specifically related to Apple Macintosh issues.
We've left a lot of older stuff in the list, since Macs tend to get used a log time and info can take a bit of finding
Northlight also provides Apple Mac support and consultancy services in Leicester and the UK East Midlands -- see our Apple Mac Services section for more info.
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There is a usability and design feature which has info relevant to any platform.
A <404?> next to any link means we think it may be dead but it will be kept in the list for a while.
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For the latest in Apple Hardware and Software...
General links
Leopard (osx 10.5) issues
Macs and Windows
Intel Macs
OS X Printing
There is more, general printing information on the Photo links page
OS X info
Some specific Mac Applications
- http://andrewescobar.com/archive/2006/05/13/frontrow122/
Installing Front Row on any new Mac
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93208
Troubleshooting video conferencing with iChatAV - firewall settings.
When using the built-in Mac OS X firewall, you only need to open these ports: 5060, 5190, 5297, 5298
A "simple" firewall only allows you to open or close ports, without any additional criteria. If you have one of these, then you should open these ports: 5060, 5190, 5298, 5353, 5678, 16384-16403
If that does not work, try opening all ports in this range: 1024-65535
- http://www.sustworks.com/site/downloads.html
Sustainable Softworks - Network software
- http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html
VueScan - Scanner Software. Very good value, and available for PCs as well. There is more, general scanning information on the our Photography Links page.
- http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_hill/brickhouse.html
Front end for the OS X built-in firewall
- http://opendarwin.org/projects/darwinports/en/x11.php
Darwin ports of X11 apps for the Mac, making use of Apples new X11 http://www.apple.com/macosx/x11/ Site includes the image editor Gimp
- http://www.gimp.org/
Home of The GNU Image Manipulation Program -- Software and resources A book covering almost everything you'll want to know about the GIMP is at http://gimp-savvy.com/BOOK/
- http://oroborosx.sourceforge.net/
Oroborus for Mac OS X (X11) (link kept for old systems, since X is now directly available)
Collections of Mac software
Fink - Home
Open Source Unix software for your Mac
Mac admin
The older Macintosh
see also the hardware/drivers section below
Mac news
Emulation and other systems
Hardware drivers/cards/manuals
Video
Drivers
Hardware
Other Info
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Using a cheap PC Geforce MX2 / Radeon 7000 card on your Mac
OS X 10.3 and non Apple video cards - problems with Panther?
- one of our modified MX2 cards works fine in 10.2, but not in 10.3 It would seem that Apple have dropped support in OS X 10.3 for some older 'non Apple' cards. A possible fix is at http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031101233045375 - unfortunately not for our card...
However 10.3.2 restored it to life and all is well again!
Flashing a new BIOS for the card is relatively simple -IF- the chip on the card is reprogrammable (by the flash software) We've successfully done this for a couple of cards (MX2), but make sure you get one that can be flashed! Check the type of chip first before you buy a card. A list of supported EEPROMs (from the PC Flasher s/w) is:
SST 29EE512 64Kx8 5.0V, 128B page,
SST 29LE/VE512 64Kx8 2.9,2.7V, 128B page,
SST 29EE010 128Kx8 5.0V, 128B page,
SST 29LE/VE010 128Kx8 2.9,2.7V, 128B page,
SST 39VF512 64Kx8 2.7-3.6V, 1B page,
SST 39VF010 128Kx8 2.7-3.6V, 1B page,
SST 39SF010 128Kx8 5.0V, 1B page,
Atmel 29C512 64Kx8 5.0V, 128B page,
Atmel 29C010A 128Kx8 5.0V, 128B page,
Atmel 29LV512 64Kx8 3.0V, 128B page,
Atmel 29LV/BV010A 128Kx8 3.0V, 128B page,
Atmel 49F512 64Kx8 5.0,3.0,2.7V, 1B page,
Atmel 49F001 128Kx8 5.0V, 1B page,
Atmel 49F001T 128Kx8 5.0V, 1B page,
Atmel 49F010 128Kx8 5.0V, 1B page,
Atmel 49(H)BV/LV01 128Kx8 2.7-3.6V, 1B page,
AMD 29LV010 128Kx8 2.7vV, 1B page,
AMD 29LV001T 128Kx8 2.7vV, 1B page,
AMD 29LV001B 128Kx8 2.7vV, 1B page,
MX 29F001T 128Kx8 5.0V, 1B page,
MX 29F001B 128Kx8 5.0V, 1B page,
ST M29W512B 64Kx8 2.7-3.6V, 1B page,
WBond W29EE512 64Kx8 5.0V, 128B page,
The important bit is the type number (eg 29EE512) This info may be hidden under a sticky label on the chip. The chips are often about 1cm square and may have several other codes on them.
The following info was posted by Jeff Walther on the unsupported OSX forum
"The flash RAM is actually a Serial EEPROM chip. It is the little eight pin chip near the upper left-hand corner of the card. The small ones are marked 25P05. The big-enough ones are marked 25P10. In each case the number may be preceded with an 'M' and/or followed by an 'AV'.
To complicated matters, some of the early cards from Sapphire shipped with a chip marked 25P05 which was actually one of the 25P10 chips. Go figure.
Also, I've seen cards shipped with an Atmel chip (the 25Pxx are STMicro chips). The Atmel chip had sufficient capacity, but the Mac flasher does not know what to do with the Atmel chip.
If you are a little bit skilled at soldering, you can replace the 25P05 chip with a 25P10 chip. They're available from DigiKey for a couple of bucks plus shipping and surcharge for orders under $25. I think Mouser may also have them.
If you have the Mac based flasher that ATI released to fix cards with corrupted EEPROMs (October release of 2.08 ?, I think) it will flash a card with a blank 25P10 installed. So one can just solder in the new/blank 25P10, and then flash the card on a Mac."
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A/UX — the original Apple UNIX
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