what is it with beige motherboards dying? / the symptoms were a non-booting OS X install, OS 9 booting fine. Click to expand... you THINK you cleared it with Command-Option-P-R a…

A few points to add to the good advice others have contributed: - As folks have said, Tiger must be installed on the first partition, and the partition should be smaller than 7.45…

I did not look at them that closely but that is a definite possibility. Either way, it was a benefit since the two ram chips originally in the Lombard were not suitable for the un…

Wallstreet and Lombard both have 66MHz system busses and can use PC66 SO-DIMMs. If someone went the cheap route on the Wallstreet and only used bare-minimum spec PC66 SDRAM (yes, …

I reseated the CPU to no go. I took the RAM out and put it into my Lombard along with a new 20GB HD, instant boot. Works great. I installed the old Lombard RAM which apparently …

Do the old "disconnect the PRAM battery", and reseat the CPU card - it goes in with a "thunk" sound. JB

When i put the my duo 2300c into the original duo dock after it has been sitting for a few weeks it boots just fine and runs for about a minute then shuts down. Each time i start i…

I was given a Pismo stock except the HD was smaller. After aquiring a fully loaded Wallstreet 14" with hinges not doing so well. I gutted it intended on making a good pismo out o…

I'm back, but until I re-learn how to embed a URL or get around to copy/pasting my '''fritter return to the web announcement in the lounge, you folks are SOL on the full story.... …

Yay! He's back! Glad to hear from you, Trash! Peace, Drew Click to expand... Thanks for the welcome comrade! In just a few minutes my friend is helping me pick up 9' of 6" b…

Yay! He's back! Glad to hear from you, Trash! Peace, Drew

I'm back, but until I re-learn how to embed a URL or get around to copy/pasting my '''fritter return to the web announcement in the lounge, you folks are SOL on the full story. ht…

Indeed, here is one that is for sale throughout the US: Generation NEX. I've seen it at multiple local game shops. Click to expand... Beware the Gen NEX; I believe the company…

All of the patents on the original NES have expired, worldwide. It is now 100% legal to clone an NES. The *ROMs*, however, still fall under copyright. But making a piece of hard…

but for almost $50 you're getting ripped off. Click to expand... Agreed - except that part proceeds go towards the Playpower project, which is developing educational software a…

What I did when I had this problem is take the hard drive out, put it into a tiger capable mac, then install tiger on that first partition, before the user setup process, just tak…

I did the same install on a beige G3 some back and had a couple of problems. I had to format a partition not at but slightly under 8 gb and it had to be the first partition on the …

I oonce had a pirate NES clone, stuffed into an n64 controller case. It's million games were really just 100's of unedited copies of the same games.

I wonder if I should partition the whole 80gb drive into 7.5gb partitions and see what that does. Click to expand... You'd just end up with a whole lot of 7.5GB patitions, whic…

Just tried it. Screwed around with the drive configuration and got the same results as before. I wonder if I should partition the whole 80gb drive into 7.5gb partitions and see wha…

This thing is known in other circles as a "NOAC" device, which stands for Nintendo on a Chip. It's also known as an FC Computer, or FamiClone since it's a clone of the Nintendo Fam…

Just tried it. Screwed around with the drive configuration and got the same results as before. I wonder if I should partition the whole 80gb drive into 7.5gb partitions and see wha…

try making is something like 7.5GB. that's probably the problem.

I bought a similar system when I worked in China. The key selling point was indeed that it came with a bunch of pirated software - one cartridge was advertised as containing 50,000…

I'm buying one - will tell you all how it turns out.