The main motivating force for me is tinkering about with old OSes like Rhapsody and the OS X Developer Previews. I've been trying unsuccessfully for a long time to find a 8600 locally as that would be ideal for running stuff from around this period (BeOS included). For a long time I had a big gap between my 5400 (too old) and iMac (too new) which the 8600 would have filled nicely. But now with this G3 it's mostly filled as it will run from OS X Server up. Just won't handle the Developer Releases of Rhapsody or BeOS.
Something else I've been wanting to try is Descent OpenGL with my AppleJack controllers (as it added InputSprocket support along with hardware acceleration). If I can configure it to control the ship with the trackball that would be all kinds of awesome. I can now do that too as there's an ADB port on the back of this G3.
I had planned to use the hard drive out of the external that came with it (as there was none internally yet again!) but it was dead as a dodo. I then realised the sorry state of my IDE drive crop so I ended up pulling the 60GB disk I had in my modded Xbox which will go in once I unlock it. I had a 5GB Quantum Fireball which I was tempted to put in as it's still working perfectly, but man it's noisy.
Something else I've been wanting to try is Descent OpenGL with my AppleJack controllers (as it added InputSprocket support along with hardware acceleration). If I can configure it to control the ship with the trackball that would be all kinds of awesome. I can now do that too as there's an ADB port on the back of this G3.
I had planned to use the hard drive out of the external that came with it (as there was none internally yet again!) but it was dead as a dodo. I then realised the sorry state of my IDE drive crop so I ended up pulling the 60GB disk I had in my modded Xbox which will go in once I unlock it. I had a 5GB Quantum Fireball which I was tempted to put in as it's still working perfectly, but man it's noisy.