I'm pretty sure that ROM support for those devices was removed after the Rev.A machines. Luckily you can drop a 333MHz CPU module into a Rev.A : - and a bare Rev.A board should no…

I am 99.99% certain these hacks will only work on a 233Mhz Rev A board. Click to expand... Make that 100% on the floppy drive. Maybe there are further hacks that can be done t…

Which reminds me..one of these days I've gotta find a Rev. A iMac somewhere...would be a neat machine to play around with, not to mention that if I keep it original and in good nic…

I am 99.99% certain these hacks will only work on a 233Mhz Rev A board.

From what I gather, 8.6 is the minimum that will run on this iMac, and you say it would need less than 8.6. Does that mean there's no way to get this to work?

^^digging around it looks like the floppy port will only run on systems below 8.6, if the iMac has had the firmware update applied for OS X then that too could be a factor.

Yep, booted into OS 9 and the drive didn't do much except spin and then stop. I also tried inserting a disk before booting and nothing much happened. You would think it would spi…

I assume you're using OS 9 or earlier to try and read the floppy, being as there's no support in OS X

After playing with the drive for a while, I was unable to get it to actually read a disk. It is getting power because it spins for a moment after a disk is inserted, but it seems …

J12: It was actually a common hack back in the day to mount a 20 pin boxed header here and connect a surplus Mac floppy drive to it - worked out cheaper than buying a USB FDD, if y…

I just mounted a connector onto the floppy drive port and tried it. The drive is getting power, it spins when you insert a disk.

I have noticed on an old 333 MHz iMac logic board that there are traces for what appear to be: J12 = Mac floppy drive J11 = CD analog audio J4 = Serial port (Used for IrDA in or…

It has to do with a bad install disc. Thankfully I use only backups so I don't scratch my originals. Click to expand... Thats a very good idea, I have a 9.0 disc here that I go…

That is awesome, click on something and you get an explosion before whatever you click on opens.

It has to do with a bad install disc. Thankfully I use only backups so I don't scratch my originals.

Now that is strange! Maybe a system extension that customizes the mouse pointer? Do share when you figure it out! Huxley

I've never seen it myself until now, but I've heard of it. The cursor turns into a little bomb icon. So weird. http://img222.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img0324pe1.jpg

If it was always free, if you're planning to run OS X, I still have iMovie 2.1.1.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMovie According to Wikipedia, all versions of iMovie up to 3.0 were free downloads.

However iMovie 2 is probably abandonware by now meaning that you wouldn't have to pay for it. Click to expand... Wishful thinking, but no, it is not abandonware. There are no l…

However iMovie 2 is probably abandonware by now meaning that you wouldn't have to pay for it. Click to expand... Wishful thinking, but no, it is not abandonware. There are no l…

However iMovie 2 is probably abandonware by now meaning that you wouldn't have to pay for it. Click to expand... Wishful thinking, but no, it is not abandonware. There are no l…

However iMovie 2 is probably abandonware by now meaning that you wouldn't have to pay for it. Click to expand... Wishful thinking, but no, it is not abandonware. There are no l…

There was no iLife when iMovie 2 was around and buying that would not help at _all_.iMove did ship with at least some Macs when it was new. It was on it's own disc in the collapsib…

There was no iLife when iMovie 2 was around and buying that would not help at _all_. iMove did ship with at least some Macs when it was new. It was on it's own disc in the collaps…