Wednesday, April 29

• Techworks has entered the G3 upgrade market, as an OEM of Newer's MAXpowr G3 cards. Guess I have to update that upgrades page again.
  
  

Monday, April 27

• Okay, let's call this "reinventing PowerWatch week." I'm going to start doing some things that may be of interest to our readers.
  
  
• The first thing is talking about cool software. This week (so far, at least), I've got to mention MacMAME 0.31.1. This thing plays old arcade games, if you didn't know. That includes PacMan and family, Donkey Kong, all the shoot'em games, Star Wars (!!), and even Gauntlet and Spy Hunter. But this new version is even better! You can now play Arkanoid, Return of the Jedi, Final Fight, Strider, and my favorite- Marble Madness! (Oh, how I loved that game on my C-64 in the days of old). I can't say enough good things about MacMAME!

Friday, April 24

• My sincerest apologies for the lack of anything posted here in the last ten days! Midterms came early, and so has Senioritis. Don't forget that I still need a job, too! ; - )
  
  
• Our friend Nathan (former PCC sales guy) has some more PowerCC parts that they're trying to unload. Check it out, they even have drive mounting rails!
  
  
• The Miro DC20 card has (finally) been sold. Thanks for your interest!
  
  
• We're going to spice up the home page a little bit real soon. It's pretty obvious that there won't be any news about PowerCC, so I'll be reporting on software, hardware, and issues that I think are relevent. Plus more, I hope <grin>. Thanks for sticking with us!
  
  

Tuesday, April 14

• Since news is light these days, we can reflect a bit on the days of old: One year ago today, PowerCC introduced the PowerCenter Pro series. I had just reviewed the PCPro 210 the day before. Sigh... how things could've been.. you can revisit these classic PW days in our news archives.
  
  
• If anyone is interested in buying my Miro DC20 video editing card with a FULL version of Premiere 4.2, let me know. It hasn't been used much at all, and it produces near-professional output. I'm asking $600 OBO but this price is very negotiable.
  
  
• We also have a PowerMac 7200/75 48/500/CD system we'd like to sell. Make an offer.

Wednesday, April 5

• Late addition: Mike Breeden has a extensive review (on his excellent Accelerate your Mac! site) of the $499 PowerLogix PowerForce G3 220/110/512K card.
  
  
• Those of you with PowerCenter Pro and Powerbase computers (or anyone with a ATI Rage video card) should checkout Nanosaur. I can't play it with my TT128/3dfx setup, but it looks pretty neat from what I saw.
  
  
• Other World Computing has a wide variety of PCC Daughtercards for sale, including 604/150MHz cards for $39 (604e/180, 225, and 250 cards are also available for under $299). If you're a PowerCurve or PowerCenter user, now's your chance to move up a little bit for very little money.
  
  
• A reader reported finding those (hard-to-find) PCC 4MB video riser cards for $199 at MacConnection (800-800-0009).

Sunday, April 5

• The PowerTech databases are back online; It's a long story, but all you need to know is that they are not running 24h/day at this point (again), but they will again real soon.

Wednesday, April 1 (no jokes, I promise)

• Okay, the neglect of PowerWatch is over. Here's some news you can use (if you pardon the cliche):
  
  
• Have we crossed this road before? Sonnet Technologies' Crescendo accelerator cards offer Power 100/120 owners an upgrade (finally!) to a 200-233MHz PowerPC 604e. It's not G3 (that never panned out), but it certainly is faster. You can order direct at 800-786-6260. Please let me know how it works out if you get one.
  
  
• I've updated the Finding a Power Supply report with some more useful info. As always, if you have more to add, e-mail me.
  
  
• As for hard drive mounting rails, most people have said that standard PC rails (from any PC dealer) should do the trick. I'll keep my ears open for more info.
  
  
• The Power-List (mailing list) is now international: You can subscribe at http://www.coollist.com, and the address for submissions to the list is power-list@coollist.com.
  
  
• Daniel Bond passes on this note for those looking for parts from DecisionOne:
  • While trying to hunt down some parts for a PowerCenter, I used a variety of numbers from the D1 site (1-888-287-9202) and the D1 info page (800-708-6227). I got a lot of ringing, waits, phone trees, bad music, and gave out my personal information about 5 times.
    
    Finally, someone transferred me to a useful place, which you can call direct: 1-800-448-8986. Ask them to look up parts, they give you the part numbers and transfer you to the "parts depot" where they are shipped out. Their prices on many common things were higher than what you can hunt down online (internal zip drives > $165, etc) but they did have most everything a Power owner might need for home repair.
    
    
• I have converted the PowerTech databases from Filemaker's CDML language to Lasso's LDML language. What does this mean for you? Well, the databases will finally run without any troubles (it's been down for 4 days in a row).