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1. Benchmark Checks Individual Checks ww Compare the speed of your computer with a Kdacintosh Quadra 950 ad Math Integer e 5 73 times faster Complex Functions 12 65 times faster OOO Floating Point Without FFU Not Applicable with FPL 3 12 times faster ard Drive Fead write 0 88 seconds Run All Checks CPU Speed nae Memory ooo 9 97 times faster Processor 3 27 times faster M deo 1 01 times faster Monitor Level Hard Drive to test PPC Quadra wr bod Benchmark Checks Autom ated Diagnostics page 6 system Overview E Machine Machine ID Finder System Processor Active Enabler OoenDoc Apple System Profiler Power Macintosh 950 116 wi va US PowerPl G0 1 na None at 66 MHZ Personal Diagnostics testing reveals a radical improvement The Quadra 950 reads out as a Quadra 950 when in 68040 mode on Page 4 Which is to be expected and it compares favourably with the benchmark Quadra 950 kept on file In PPC mode on Page 5 the per formance of This Macintosh is again com pared to the performance of the Quadra 950 on record but the performance now shows a marked improvement in every field The over all score of This Mac rises from 86 as a 68040 Quadra 950 to 1 842 as a PPC Quadra 950 The source of these figures is on the charts on Page 6 where Apple Personal Diagnosti
2. A Monthly Publication of Macintosh Users East AdalsE Na 7 Upgrading an Older Macintosh lomeViewer amp Making Music on a Macintosh Apple Power Macintosh Upgrade Card and DayStar 80 MHz PowerPro 601 Supercharge your Quadra with a PowerPC upgrade card POWER MAC UPDATE Low End Macs Get Speed Boost Apple ind hry tar cars clinch s speeds m LE Irelortiu Didi Now make your Quadra faster than a Power Macintosh 8100 Contents Executive Contacts Page 2 Upgrading Old Macs Pages 3 amp 4 My Old Mac Upgrade Pages 4 to 9 TomeViewer Pages 10 amp 11 The Easiest Upgrades Pages 12 amp 13 Music on Len s Mac Pages 15 to 21 November Meeting Page 22 e com AAA eeecec0e60600600000d06060060000600600000000000000000000000000000009 0 Executive Contact List Please feel free to contact any of the following individuals if you have comments or questions relating to Macintosh Users East or Macintosh computing in general Position Name President Bruce Cameron Past President Hugh Amos Vice President Mark Fenton Treasurer Membership Chairman Doug Kettle Resource Librarian Michael Shaw BBS Administrator Jim Foster MaUsE BBS The Source Courtice Special Events Chris Greaves Executive at Large John Field Mary McCarthy Greeter Blithe Spirit MaUsE Message Line Phone Hm 905 983 9205 Orono Email bcameron lis2000 net Bus 905 683 4760 Ajax Hm 905
3. just in case you have an accident but if your Hard Drive goes then all your extra copies go with it Ihe traditional back up methods of the past have all had their problems Tape and optical drives and even the ubiquitous SyQuest biscuit drives work just fine until they suddenly either stop working or the manufac turer goes out of business or moves on to a different product line with an incompatible format leaving you in the lurch I think we ve all had that sinking feeling at one time or another from sticking in a back up disk or spool of some sort and getting told that the disk is unreadable and should be initialised If these costly removable drives were cheap there would still be a problem They are great for allowing you to make big files portable but not ideal for long term storage The Back ack Solution This month we have people coming from BackJack for Macintosh to do a presenta tion at the November 24th Meeting and to demonstrate their program for Macintosh that will address all of the problems associ ated with traditional back up methods and offer us a fool proof elegant and affordable alternative If your files are irreplaceable you should make the effort and get out to this month s meeting for the BackJack pre sentation the Swap amp Sell and the MaUsE Executive elections for the 2000 term Bring a friend or two if you can My Musical Mac by Len Clement It seems that only a few years ago musicians
4. 683 4320 Hm 905 430 8234 Email fenton idirect com Hm 905 683 3214 Ajax Hm 905 576 2097 Oshawa Email mikeshaw idirect com Hm 905 432 0921 Courtice Email jfoster435 home com 905 404 6603 33 600bps 905 404 9874 14 400bps 705 887 2508 Fenelon Falls Email cgreaves peterboro net Hm 905 885 8718 905 433 0777 Double Click Double Click Editor Michael Shaw Printing amp Distribution Doug Kettle page 2 Hm 905 576 2097 Oshawa Email mikeshaw idirect com FAX 905 576 5527 Hm 905 683 3214 Ajax From the Editor This month we look a two very diverse topics but ones that deserve to have had our our attention before From Len Clement MaUsE Club member Mac user and musician we have a piece on music on the Mac From me we have the usual filler In this case its a piece of fluff on the topic of upgrading the older Macs with a specific look at my recent experience upgrad ing my faithful antique Quadra 950 with Apple s Power Macintosh Upgrade Card Maybe next month I ll be able to say how I made out chipping the clock in the old IIfx if my bid for a MicroMac Speedy accelerator works out The Double Click is produced on a wickedly fast Macintosh IIfx computer by and for mem bers of the Macintosh Users East a group of young and old Macintosh computer users with old and young Macintosh computers If you find the contents of the Double Click boring or uninteresting that s great Make a su
5. Flags Extended Finder Flags Filename Monitors amp Sound Alias Flags Invalid Type APPL O Invisible L Custom Badge Creator alav ki Bundle Routing Info Created Fri Jan 17 1997 12 00 00 E Name Locked Modified Fri Jan 17 1997 12 00 00 O Stationery TEESIUNE te E Custom Icon etsy uci at de Full Compress Saved 7 Inited bres DE ZEE Data n 0 ns l ALES ES n A Rsrc 165 515 65 878 61 E No Inits Diu ES Monitors amp Sound 165 515 65 878 61 Shared pou ER I Page 11 POWER MAC UPGRADES PowerPC Card Resurrects Mac lic DavStar s Turbo 601 transplant for lci offers Power Mac 6100 speeds Mac Ilci Upgrades The ever popular Macintosh II family has such a wide range of members from the original 16 Mhz Mac II through the IIx Isi IIcx IIvx Ici to the 40 Mhz Mac IIfx that this Double Click is produced on Over the years there have been numerous offerings for Mac Ils from PDS Cache cards 68030 68040 and PPC PDS and Nubus processor accelerators video and com munications cards and even complete mother board swaps to keep these models current amp productive All Mac IIs have Nubus card slots and this line of Macs unlike the Performas was designed to be customised and upgraded by the owner into whatever configuration suit ed the end user The Mac IIcx and IIfx models for example shipped with NO VIDEO capa bility and owners had to purchase and install a video card before they coul
6. ce Drum kit Rythm 1 Rythm 2 Strings 1 Strings 2 Bass Synth Miota Miota Track 9 Track 10 Track 11 E A n n A A A A ASIA C E m ud oun oun um n oun It Works Your Mac now controls the sounds in your Synth and the music is sent to the audio outs on the back of your Synth keyboard which in turn can be cabled to your home stereo The Arrangement Window The Arrangement Window as seen above is the very heart of the program It s not only a complete musical overview but also the cen ter of your interaction Your recordings appear as objects laid out against a time ruler The power of Cubase is music creation by simply clicking and dragging allowing you to fully concentrate on the music itself The ease of use is something that must be experi enced first hand to be believed zz mEX c e i Left Locat L2 IIT A Snap Bar Ear Za Guantize 16 Guantize 16 16 zi E Part Color E 17 The Control Bar The Control Bar below works the way a standard tape recorder does It also yields access to some neat extra features that only work in the digital world like seamless loop recording and time stretching and compres sion Fast amp Easy Realtime Editors Cubase means non stop music Even the editing process is an integral part of the work flow Choose the editor you want List Piano Roll Drum or Score Edit even a real time Graphic Tempo Editor is availabl
7. EN Seagate SCSI drive was about 1900 00 U S back in 1993 Now these old drives can be picked up either used or new for next to noth ing compared to a few years ago My IIfx came to me with a 40 Meg hard drive which I replaced with a 540 Meg SCSI 2 Quantum drive from eBay for 45 00 American The same drive was over a thousand dollars American when first available to the public in the MacUser advertisements If your old Mac still has its original drive you should consid er doing it and yourself a favour by checking out the new and used SCSI hard drives that can boost your access speed and allow you to run the new bigger programs BackUp to go Ahead Sooner or later but definitely when you least expect it and can least afford it your Hard Drive is going to crash and take all your files with it Thats why it is so neces sary to back up your programs data files and documents But do we all do it Regularly Ever Or do we just slide along without an effective applied back up policy in place or even worse with with a policy consisting of consistent procrastination No matter what kind of backing up you intend to do we all know that there is a big difference between intention and perfor mance Also the problem with many files these days is that they are just too big to fit onto floppies and anyway many new Macs don t even have a floppy drive Having more than one copy of a docu ment on your Hard Drive is always a good idea
8. Harris Newer Technology MicroMac Brainstorm Daystar Dove Mobius Sonnet Apple Peripheral and Konnect have come and generally gone leaving behind an excellent array of plug in Macintosh upgrade cards for various older but still usable models like the compact SE and SE 30 the early Performas the Centris Quadra line and the Mac Ilci IIcx amp IIsi If you have access to the internet and an interest in Macintosh hardware you can proba bly find an inexpensive upgrade for sale some where that can extend the life and usefulness of your old Mac at a fraction of the original retail price Some of these Upgrade cards like the Radius Rocket 68040 Nubus Card are like hav ing another computer complete with 33 Mhz 68040 processor and SIMM slots enough to hold over 100 megs of RAM stuck inside your Macintosh Others are Cache cards that affect and improve the way the Mac handles informa tion stored in dynamic memory Other types of accelerators can affect the video performance or the actual speed at which the processor clock oscillates Accelerators can plug into the Processor Direct Slot or into one of the Nubus slots or into one of the PCI slots in your Mac depending upon which Mac model you have and which part of the process is being speed ed up When the first Power Macintosh processors became available there was a real concern among Mac users who had tied up many thousands of dollars in 680X0 technolo gy that was suddenly be
9. I desired This has effectively happened I no longer get the message that new programs will not install because I do not have a PPC processor My processor speed seems to have perked up con siderably See the charts below and on the next and previous previous page in which Apple Power hacintosh Card At startup the Power Macintosh Upgrade Card 15 d on 3 off Apple Personal Diagnostics Benchmark Checks Overall Check F Start Check Performance Comparison Macintosh Plus 1 PowerBook 1456 3 Macintosh het 3 Macintosh Quadra 950 of Power Macintosh 5100 1717 400 This Macinta 1642 10 2 99 at 4 39 11 PM 10 2 99 at 3 45 11 PM 1827 400 page 5 aun Performance History 200 Add the current Performance Comparison benchmark result to history chart 1600 Automated Diagnostics 1600 2000 Sa Apple Personal Diagnostics Benchmark Checks Individual Checks w Compare the speed af your computer with a Macintosh Quadra 950 hl hath Integer 1 07 times slower Complex Functions 1 04 times faster 10060 Floating Paint without FPL 1 03 times slower with FFU 1002 1 07 times slower Hard Drive Read write 0 57 seconds Run All Checks Diagnostic CPU Speed Tests IHRE Memory anml 1 03 times faster 1 07 times faster Monitor Level Benchmark Hard Drive to test 68040 Quadra w Autom er d Diagnostics ss Apple Personal Diagnostics
10. Macs The MaUsE Club still has several older Mac SE 30 and complete Macintosh IIci Systems for sale The SE 30 Systems come with 8 Megs of RAM and OS7 5 5 or System 7 1 installed your choice and the Macintosh IIci Macs come equipped with Apple colour monitor Apple Extended Kb ADB mouse 8 Megs of RAM and a 530 Meg Hard drive The price to the general public is 75 00 for the SE 30 and 200 00 for the Mac Ilci Systems Club members will get a 25 00 discount These systems will likely be set up and available for inspection at the November Mac meeting Donation Program Update On Monday Oct 4 Jim Lynd from O neill C V I in Oshawa picked up two more com plete colour Macintosh Ilcx systems to extend the Macintosh network which the MauUsE club has placed in his school The Macs are being used by students for word processing tasks in the English Department At 9 00 A M on Friday Oct 8 Mark Fenton Jim Foster his lovely wife Susan and my lovely wife Irma amp I rendez vou d at the YWCA on Simcoe Street South in Oshawa and installed a network of three colour Macintosh IIci systems and a LaserWriter II printer The YWCAdonation has been pend ing since early summer to give them time to prepare and wire up a Computer Room and furnish it with the necessary outlets tables and chairs TomeViewer I have received a request from one of the Club emu Members for an explana i TomeYiewer 5 tion of TomeViewer a lit lomevie
11. aps Lock 6 Y a ul a Energy Saver Energy Saver Ext ENET Compatibili Graphics Accelerg 10 Keyboard Guide 11 Mac 0S 7 6 1 all 12 MacOS 7 5 1 bas 13 Manual Eject Guide 14 Monitors amp Sound 15 Monitors amp Sound Guide 16 PowerBook 32400 1 PowerBook Zooamedvidea 18 Trackpad N N d tm hie oe SS Dac tH 1 C 0C cnm fe BW BE OA cH Enter name for expanded file Monitors amp Sound J APPL 155 515 pocao 416 036 prof 926 tihng 40 215 cdew 115 571 19 Files Totals 260 040 select the very file or resource you d like to extract and decompress as I have selected the Monitors Control Panel you will get this window above If you indicate in the dialog as I have here that you d like the file to appear on your Desktop then that is where it will appear decompressed and ready for you to put where you want or use as you need If you select Get Info from the File will get the window below See I told you it was simple With TomeViewer you can track down and pull out the bits and pieces that make up a full installation The example I have used here is the second tome or vol ume of the Macintosh System 7 6 Installation program but you can use TomeViewer to open any compressed or archived file menu with an item already high lighted you D E pie Monitors amp Sound Se Archive Installation Tome 2 Finder
12. coming obsolete In response to this some of the companies who made add on cards for Macintosh computers like Daystar and Apple offered PowerPC Upgrade cards that would allow the purchasers to install a new PPC 601 processor into their 68030 or 68040 Macs in an effort to modernise them and permit them to run the new accel erated PowerPC software versions at full speed Some of these PPC 601 cards had a fixed speed of 100 Mhz and some just doubled the speed of the processor installed My First Upgrade Card My favourite old Mac is the Quadra 950 probably the biggest big Mac ever made weighing in at about 37 pounds Its 68040 processor the very acme of Motorola and Macintosh 680X0 design runs at 33 Mhz That doesn t sound like much now that G3 and G4 Macs run at 300 350 400 450 and 500 Mhz but for its day back in 1992 the Quadra 950 with its two SCSI busses and with room inside for five hard drives a PDS and five Nubus cards was an impressive machine Not cheap either In fact hideously expensive Power Macintosh Card At startup the Power Macintosh Upgrade Card is 3 On an off If uou change your Startup option you must turn off the computer for the change to take effect Apple Personal Diagnostics Benchmark Checks Overall Check ha Performance Comparison Macintosh Plus 1 PowerBook 1458 a Macintosh het 3 Macintosh runs 930 of Powe te SI 1717 This Macintosh DE 10 2 2292 at 16 47 28 15 Star
13. cs bench mark tests show a marked improvement in Complex Functions A lot of the improvements can t be noticed yet and won t show up until I run other types of software The range of soft ware I can run on the Quadra has indeed been extended I retain the option of returning to 68040 mode at the push of a button if I find that any of my older programs run faster or more civilly in true 68k mode than in emula tion and I can also re install or upgrade my favourite programs in PPC mode to take advantage of the latest improved features and improved processor speed The latest 68k ver sion of Netscape for one runs vastly better on the 68040 side than the latest PPC version does Page in PPC mode so it definitely stays mPower feels about two or three times faster now that I have the PPC version installed on the PPC par tition The Apple Power Macintosh Upgrade Card originally sold back in the middle of the decade a scant 4 years ago for about seven hundred American dollars and was Apple s only authorised upgrade path for bringing Centris Macs and Quadras up to PPC status I paid 80 00 American for mine which includ ed 10 00 for shipping and handling from Wyoming Needless to say at that price I can afford to be delighted with the purchase and the performance boost achieved So far there has been no discernable difference in stability My hard drive was already partitioned before I got the Upgrade Card On one partition I st
14. d even connect a monitor to it If you are fortunate enough to own one of e We know Mac iMac iBook PowerBook Power Mac G4 RAM Ethernet AirPort video USB Firewire SCSI devices adapters cables e CD R CD RW Zip Jaz Orb DAT Travan scanners printers speakers software Great prices too Authorized Value Added Reseller these dated work horses like the Mac IIci you can now take advantage of the sudden abun dance of new and re surfacing used upgrade cards designed specifically for the Mac II fam Mm ily You wont get G3 performance out of a Mac Ilci but with the help of the right add ons you can easily and relatively cheaply turn your second Mac into a very capable and effective PowerPC desktop publisher or internet brows er and email server to either send off to college with one of your kids or to keep at home so you can carry on while your main Mac is ren dering or downloading As usual the places to start looking for new upgrades are the com mercial ads in the latest Mac magazines and for pre enjoyed upgrade cards try www ebay com Microlmage Plus Inc 1676 Heathside Crescent Pickering Ontario LIV 5V6 Tel 905 831 0699 Fax 905 831 7585 miplus home com Page 12 NOW 1 MB SIMMS FOR ONLY The Easiest Upgrades The most cost effective upgrade for older Macs as well as the new ones may be the sim plest The ad above came
15. e Your music is the master creative details won t get in the way of musical flow See illustration next page Page 20 KEY Bass 1 1 d 0 6 1 v REDI d a x as 16 zi cl Jr L LT F la acts EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENI EHEHBEEEEEEHEHENEEEENHb mar pee SESESEJEHEESEEHEOEEEIES a EE ECCE Cee eee ms EEE Ee G ee EIE EL ERES aE S L See eS aaa Eu pst In Conclusion With so many excellent musical tools avail able for the Mac there is no reason why a lack of talent should hold anyone back For a few hundred dollars You too can make your Mac an accomplice in musical may hem and if you need a lead singer for your band my neighbour has a cat available will work for mice As with any other professionally designed music program CuBase will not make music for you if you can t make music for yourself This is merely a wonderful tool for musi cians to help them lay down and edit musi cal elements To use this program successful ly the understood requirement is that you must know something about music and be able to play the instruments you connect to your MIDI interface Page 21 E ck PPP aaa DM RENT DU oee EUN ER Se ee ee a ESTEE ESSET EI mame E ERBEN Editors Note It isn t easy to write at a general level for a general audience on a highly technical topic but it can be done Lennie is an accom plished musician who uses his Mac to make intricate sophisticated music
16. e access to more Audio features I am running a Performa 6400 180 1 6GB with 88 megs Ram and that gets me 8 audio tracks and all MIDI Getting it All Together Connecting everything together was quit simple and the instructions were easy to follow See description of setup and picture of Hardware Interface I use on page 19 Page 18 Effects DE T Heavenly Hash deo PAGE 1 Time Width Lfa Fred 102 0 500000 1 076660 1 samples amount Hz LI VUE HUE LI mum LI rad a m us e qu E E et et ts oe cta ts oe cE YA Hike c haul B et sts be Oe ey oes YA us PAGE 1 PROG 23 Size Width Time 3S 5600 0 330000 2 ni llisec amoan t amount ponmem Spacey Delay G ts cba cts uti ta uti FAGE 2 PROG B Delay2 FeedBck2 Delz Bal 250 0000 a 7405 16 ms amount Inp Left Mb PROG Em SC ora 9 OC IPR Sot i aa M aae e S er x e ji vim n H i o Im PROG Em EE CS 8 eCa T cy PARA ee Setup The synthesiser is con nected to the MIDI interface with two MIDI cables readily available at about 10 each and the interface plugs into the printer port on back of the Mac Performa with stan dard printer cable The interface also has a printer port so that you can run a cable to your printer so you can print a copy of your master piece Opcode MIDI Interface pictured at left should cost only about 45 and it comes with one cable SSS Arrange untitled 1 Solo
17. from a 1993 MacWorld issue that offered Mac users the opportunity to buy 1 Meg 30 pin SIMMs for the incredibly low low price of 44 00 each and 16 Meg 30 pin SIMMs for 598 00 These older 1 Meg SIMMs can be had either used on www ebay com for anywhere from forty cents to a couple of dollars per Meg depend ing on SIMM type amp size or brand new from www memoryx com As of November 1st 1999 the price of a 16 Meg 30 pin SIMM on the memoryx site was 19 00 American At that rate I can put 64 Megs of RAM into my Quadra 950 now for less money than TWO Megs of RAM cost in 1993 While adding RAM won t make your Mac run any faster it will make you and the Mac more productive because you will be able to open more and bigger applications and documents You will get fewer out of memory messages and you will be able to increase the RAM you can assign to each application enabling your Mac to load more of it into memory Page 13 44 c Ihe other often overlooked bargain in upgrades is the internal SCSI Hard Drive The performance boost and increase in usefulness that you experience with a new faster SCSI hard drive must be experienced to be believed Too too many early Mac models were crippled by small slow 20 40 80 and 160 MB Hard drives and the cost of upgrading the drive was just as prohibitive as the Memory upgrades My Quadra 950 shipped with a 160 Meg Hard Drive when new and the cost of upgrading the drive to 1 6 GIG Elite WR
18. from scratch and who may be demonstrating his talents and those of his Mac soon at one of our reg ular meetings For the year 2000 the Double Click schedule is wide open and the con straints of 10 page publishing have been removed We welcome submissions from all MaUsE members on any Mac related topic We almost lost the Double Click but its back now and we could use some help keeping it alive Submit Mac relevant articles of any length in SimpleText with picture resources if any in PICT TIFF or JPEG format We have it on good authority that regular MaUaE readers like lots of pictures November 24th Macintosh Users Group Meeting Lots going on this Month This month s presenter will be from BackJack soft ware and will demonstrate their off site secure back up program for Macintosh The Meeting will be held starting at 7 30 P M on Wednesday November 24th at the Henry Street High School in Whitby Ontario If you have any old Mac stuff to sell or swap bring it along If there s something you want to buy come early amp look for bargains MaUsE Executive elections are this month as well so if you have been repressing your natural leadership abilities this is your chance to stand up and demand a more active role in the Club We could surely use a few new members each month so if you know anyone who might be interested please bring him or her along There will be some complete Extremely Low End Macintosh systems for sale at the meeting a
19. ggestion and I ll consider it or make a submission and I ll publish it As was announced in the previous issue the Double Click has been very likely etherised due to financial constraints and will be pub lished as a PDF document only This is the first issue that will quite probably not be mailed out to you via Canada Post and every effort has been made to ensure that it will present prop erly on your screen when opened with Acrobat Reader Let us know if you have any problems You will notice that it is a bit longer than previ ously and the font size has been increased to make it more legible on screen Also there may be a bit more colour Why not Coloured elec trons are no more expensive than the black amp white ones If this issue did show up in your mailbox amp you are holding this copy in your hands never mind The paper copy will be the abridged edition The full length issue is in the Source BBS MaUsE Mailing Address Macintosh Users East 419 King Street West Oshawa Centre P O P O Box 30530 Oshawa Ontario Upgrading the Macintosh Those of us who were fortunate enough to make it out to the September Mac meeting the first of the new MaUsE season witnessed an amazing display of the new QuickTime 4 technology demonstrated on what had previously been Bruce Cameron s loggy and laconic Macintosh PowerPC 7100 Through the addition of a Sonnet G3 accelerator card in its Processor Direct Slot Bruce s transf
20. ill have the original 68040 version of Mac OS 8 1 I ve renamed this partition 68040 Quadra On the other partition now named PPC Quadra I have installed System 8 1 for Any Supported Macintosh This was one of the options open to me on the System 8 1 Install CD With the PowerMac Upgrade Card Control Panel installed in both systems switching between 68k and PPC mode is as easy as clicking the Card on or off in the Control Panel of the active system selecting Apple Personal Diagnostics System Info Basic Info wr amp lJ Macintosh Quadra 950 LCS Machine ID 26 68040 at 2 MHz 040 Built in Memory Installed 192 Mb 196608 Kb Virtual Memory is off Total Memory 172 Mb 196409 Kb Processor Coprocessor System Version 8 1 US System Info Basic Info amp J power Macintosh 950 Machine ID 118 Processor PowerPC 601 at 66 MHz Coprocessor PowerPC 6017 Built in Memory Installed 192 Mb 196608 Kb Virtual Memory is off Total Memory 192 Mb 195608 Eb Floppy Drive D 1 Apple Personal Diagnostics Floppy Drive D i Floppy Drive Hardware Diagnostic 1 414 FOHD drive Tests Floppy Drive Keyboard Extended software T Hardware Diagnostic Tests 1 414 FOHD drive Keyboard Extended the other partition as the StartUp Disk shut ting down the Quadra 950 and then turning it back on after a minute or so Restarting won
21. impy Quadra 950 chime Marvellous I checked the System Profiler to see what I had See previous page Sure enough the Apple System Page 6 Profiler now identifies my Quadra as a Power Macintosh 950 running a Power PC 601 processor at 66 Mhz I am now in the process of gradually installing PPC versions of all my programs on the PPC partition and deleting the 68k versions as soon as I can determine that the new versions are stable 5o far the Upgrade has been an unalloyed success and more stuff is winding over to the PPC side If you want to give your Mac a boost or if you just want to know what new and old upgrades are available for your old Macintosh there are lots of places on the Internet you can check like www micro mac com and www sonnettech com for new stuff and www ebay com for used stuff You may be surprised at how dramatically you can improve your Mac s performance and abilities I will freely admit that I had some misgivings about this upgrade and almost didn t go through with it I was con cerned that I was possibly paying good money to transform an excellent top of the line 68040 Mac into a mediocre Power PC I must say now that my fears were ground less Improved performance and extended range of usable software without any loss of stability makes the Apple PPC Processor Upgrade Card a winner in my Mac I have no idea what I ll try next viceteradid for Rose Maci Page 9 And Speaking of Upgradable
22. nd whatever else you bring out Please label your stuff with your name amp price to simplify the process Hardware software cables scanners printers con nectors adapters books magazines mark either FREE or a price expected TOWN OF WHITBY Migs in Lecture Theatre Henry Street High Schoo Entrance at Rear Henry Street Brock Street Thickson Road Hwy 401
23. nndo suonaunj as41njngs ypg al 2 3 The Big Picture CuBase Control Windows Turn head or Mac sideways to view Page 16 ia T Ts i i Cubase VST is new Well nearly new anyway I picked it up at the Mac Show in Toronto two years ago for about 99 It has really changed the way I make music on my Mac Sure there have been computers that could record both MIDI Page 17 10000 Hz ON n uus E E m PD m dia E Pi o and Audio at the same time but most need expensive audio hardware Cubase VST Virtual Studio Technology is a first By com bining MIDI and Audio recording with a fully automated audio environment CuBase has created the portable Mac driven Virtual Studio Monitor magi ir uu T a ooo MIDI Mute HM 1 LJ EHT The CuBase Difference Imagine the recording studio all in one box The Cubase Virtual studio offers up to 32 tracks of CD quality digital audio 128 automated real time Equalizers a com plete and fully automated mixer with 4 effect sends and Pro Quality Effects What you need to get going You need any MIDI instrument You need a recommended MIDI interface You need a Mac with at least a 68030 processor and 8 MB Ram You need System 7 or higher IHT u ss EE WM EXE a I UTE Naturally the faster your Mac runs and the larger your drive space amp speed the bet ter CuBase will run and an added bonus is you ll hav
24. ormed 7100 was able to perform feats which would otherwise been impossible and at a fraction of the cost of a new G3 comput Cr Each of us unless we bought a new Macintosh just last week also has a Mac or two that could be upgraded Liv to some extent sometimes at a surprisingly low cost With the coming of the new super fast Macs some of the hardware add ons for older Macs that were until recently prohibitively expensive are now re appearing at very reasonable prices In October for example I saw a Radius Rocket 68040 Nubus Accelerator card with sixteen MEGs of RAM installed designed to boost the performance of any member of the Macintosh II family of Macs into the supersonic being knocked down on the eBay Macintosh hardware auction for a measly 66 00 U S My own bid of 60 00 was left in the Older dust I have an old back issue of MacWorld July 1991 pg 327 which features just that very same Radius Rocket 68040 Accelerator card with zero RAM installed for the princely sum of 2 670 00 U S With the sixteen MEGs upgrade the card would have retailed for about 4 000 00 American back then Sic transit gloria mundi to coin a phrase At the same time I saw a MicroMac Speedy oscillator for the Mac Ifx going on an eBay auction for 16 00 If my bid of 23 00 works out I will do a short piece on installing it and describe the benefits if any in a future issue Companies like Radius Applied Engineering
25. s happens you may get out the Installer CD and attempt to just install what you need When systems were smaller amp sim pler the bits would be in folders that you could open or search through to find what you wanted Now that many installers may be hundreds of Megs the installer files you want to find are often compressed and cannot be so easily separated out from the rest of the installer files This creates a bit of a problem Why should you have to run installer scripts and re install all of System 8 and the System 8 1 Update when all you want is the resources required to recognise a certain printer or replace a corrupted System File Unfortunately you can t find just what you need just by looking in many archived compressed installers Many of the x esi EISE en look like this Fortunately you ES can drag this 1 Tome icon over Hins tallation Tome 44 5 the TomeViewer icon to get the window below and when you find and Full Size 487 894 424 196 a2 370 64 81 401 559 5 105 210 354 89 106 14 025 56 064 10 389 6 900 6 900 50 092 165 515 316 036 928 40 215 116 671 Compressed Saved Version 206 724 182 351 52 430 31 551 179 391 2 194 63 217 2 560 040 Archive Installation Tome 2 version amp Quadra 950 PowerPC S Sowa ad Gl Downtoads k EF Dropstuff 59k PowerPC 19 Applevision CFM 68K Runti e Apple CD ROFPT 3 Apple Ethernet C3 4 Apple IRE File Exc o C
26. t Check agnostic Tests To Performance History 15 amp dd the current Performance Comparison benchmark result to history chart Benchmark To 130 Diagnostics Page 4 Last month I purchased for a pittance from an internet source a used Power Macintosh Upgrade Card that plugs right into the Processor Direct Slot of the Quadra 950 That s it on the front page of this issue of the Double Click just in case you were wondering what an Apple PDS Card looks like This card provides my old Mac or any other 68040 Macintosh com puter that has a PDS or Processor Direct Slot with an alternative processor a faster PowerPC processor as the name implies that can be turned on and off in a Control Panel The mechanics of switching are quite simple with the card installed I can select the option Power Macintosh Card OFF or Power Macintosh Card ON shut down the Quadra wait a minute or so and then restart to a completely differ ent StartUp chime and a different Desktop The information I received from the seller of the card was that with the Upgrade Card installed the proces sor speed would be doubled by the action of turning the card on and the performance improvement immediately notice able Modern software installers especially the ones on MacAddict CDs that had previously rudely scorned my 68040 Quadra 950 would now meekly install at the touch of a button the PowerPC versions of any Demo
27. t do it but a Shut Down and StartUp will The actual physical installation of PDS Upgrade Cards is simplicity itself The pro cedure is this I shut down the Quadra 950 and unplugged all the cables I opened up the Quadra by removing the side case and inserted the Upgrade Card into the PDS To ensure proper placement there is a white arrowhead on the socket and on the Card which must line up I chased out the D B s dust bunnies re assembled the side case and plugged in all the cables To assist the installation Apple has published a little PDF Service Manual that describes the technical characteristics of the Upgrade Card with full installation instructions for a wide range of software Quadra and Centris models with a trouble shooting guide In most cases the only model specific info given is a little picture of the specified CPU with a side case removed and an arrow indicating the position of the Processor Direct Slot I then started up the Quadra opened the Control Panels and selected the PPC Quadra partition as the StartUp Disk turned the Upgrade Card ON in the Processor Card Control Panel turned the volume up on the external speakers and shut the system down Turning up the vol ume is very important for psychological rea sons After an impatient minute or so I start ed up the Quadra as I normally do and was delighted to hear the loud sustained vibrant Power Macintosh StartUp chord from the speakers instead of the usual w
28. wer f x tle known decompres sion utility that I use when necessary to break open amp extract files from installer archives TomeViewer is not a hack and it is not Shareware It is an Apple Computer utility registered to Apple and can be downloaded from Apple software files somewhere I ve had it for so long I cant remember where I got it The purpose of TomeViewer is to allow you to access archives so you can extract resources from them in a selective manner Sound complicated Well it isn t The rea son you may need to do this might be that you are experiencing problems with some small part of your System like the part that you accidentally deleted or a part that got corrupted either by a third party installer or when you shut down your Mac by knocking the plug out of the wall while ee Arrhive Installatiun Tome 2 Name Creator 19 Applevisian CFM 668F Runtime Enabler Apple CD ROM Apple Ethernet CS IT Apple IR File Exchange Caps Lock Energy Saver Energy Saver Extension ENET Compatibility Graphics Accelerator II 10 Keyboard Guide Additions 11 Mac OS 7 6 1 all 12 Mac 0S 7 6 1 base 13 Manual Eject Guide Additions 14 Monitors amp Sound 15 Monitors amp Sound Guide 16 PowerBook 34001 17 PowerBook Zoomed ideo 16 Trackpad 4 cO J Ch CH fe CH P3 19 Files Totals running a program or an update When thi
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