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macintosh classic small led customization.
Posted by: GetTaDaChopa on 2015-12-26 07:48:55
i had some spare led strip lying around was going to chuck it out but i thought it wouldnbe cool if the floppy hole was to be lit up by some led. result is below, i knkw it might be stupid but why not:
Posted by: CompuNurd on 2015-12-26 08:08:35
Now do the keyboard!
Posted by: Elfen on 2015-12-26 09:17:47
Oh No! What what have you done? Why? You removed the Classic II's internal Nuclear Reactor Shields! Why?!! it's gonna blow!!!

Really, it's great. Nice effect there!
Posted by: hydra8 on 2015-12-26 17:56:26
Neato. Where did you harvest power from?
Posted by: GetTaDaChopa on 2015-12-26 18:08:02
the led strip has a molex plug so just from the hdd. so far no problems that i could see in the operation. won a game of battle chess with no hiccups 😀

Posted by: tanaquil on 2015-12-27 07:51:35
Fun! What did you use to make/assign your custom folder icons? I've always been weak to those.
Posted by: eR1c on 2015-12-27 09:28:17
I think that looks great, and you can easily remove to go back to stock if you want.  Nice mod'!

Curious how you got the screen to light up (the second photo)? 
Posted by: GetTaDaChopa on 2015-12-27 09:39:12
changing the icons? just through COMMAND - i . copy paste the icon



although i dont know if that works on any othe os apart from system 7.1

the second photo is just the camera focusing on he dark so everuthing else was super bright.
Posted by: eR1c on 2015-12-29 09:38:42
the second photo is just the camera focusing on he dark so everuthing else was super bright.
-ahh, got it ...it looked as if both the floppy drive and the screen were lit by LED's...
Posted by: Elfen on 2015-12-29 10:14:54
changing the icons? just through COMMAND - i . copy paste the icon



although i dont know if that works on any othe os apart from system 7.1

the second photo is just the camera focusing on he dark so everuthing else was super bright.
Changing icons on System 7 to OS 9 is easy with cut/copy and paste in the file/folder information. You just have to make sure that the image is 64x64 pixels.
Posted by: CC_333 on 2015-12-29 10:46:35
You just have to make sure that the image is 64x64 pixels.
NO! Perhaps you're thinking of OS X, which indeed supports icons of that size (and more- up to 128x128 in versions up to Tiger, I think, with subsequent versions pushing that up to 256x256 and eventually 512x512). Systems 7 through 9, on the other hand, only support icon sizes up to 32x32 pixels (and maybe 48x48 under some special circumstances, I'm not sure).

And OS 8.5 and later support 32-bit icons, so you can have icons with fancy transparency and translucency effects (which is irrelevant to 68k's, of course, because they don't run 8.5).

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