Not What It Says On The Tin — #9

Post #9 by Temetka

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	OS 8
Post Date	Thu, 17 Jan 2008 - 05:06
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/not-what-it-says-on-the-tin.11423/

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Do Radeon cards even work with Mac OS versions prior to 8.6.1 or 9.1? I didn't think they did but I could be wrong...
As for an OS you'd possibly, at a stretch, be able to run OS X on it, although don't expect earth-shattering performance. I have a Rage 128 in my 8500 and a G3/266/1M, and it turns over respectable performance in 10.3 for such an old machine.

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I got a radeon 7000 in my 8500(400MB of ram) and it actually is able to play videos in OS X which my iBook cannot do sadly :'(

My 8500 has a 500MHz G4, 512MB of RAM, a Radeon 9600PRO (flashed) 128MB card, a Sonnet ATA/133 controller, generic USB card, 60GB 8MB 5400RPM IBM HD, and a SCSI DVD-ROM drive. It runs just fine in Jaguar, although I am soon to be running panther or tiger on it. I would like to try and get leopard up and running on it.

Such a sweet machine.

/me loves my 8500.