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Old School & New World. — #12

Well, i've found and documented some extensions that can supposedly push the Wings card right over its boundaries into 640x480 territory. The downside is that on a G3 processor it …
68kMLA PowerPC by ~Coxy Mon, 14 Dec 2009 - 03:54

iBook Graphite SE 466MHZ! — #4

Hey I would look at getting a biger hard drive for it look at a 120gb hdd and use apple talk part of the server for the older macs is you're 10.4 server disk just ppc? mine is g4,…
68kMLA PowerPC by Mycatisbigfoot Mon, 14 Dec 2009 - 03:50

Yikes! — #4

I got mine for free, running 10.4.11 server on it and my desk is creeping me out right know. ... oh its my keyboard, lol :lol: mine has a 128 gb hdd in it, planing on geting a …
68kMLA PowerPC by Mycatisbigfoot Mon, 14 Dec 2009 - 03:29

My First Big Conquest (Sort Of) — #3

Nice scores! Chances are the "two hard drives" are just one 40GB partitioned into 8GB + ~ 30GB to install OS X on the first 8GB partition. JB Click to expand... Yea, so people…
68kMLA PowerPC by Mycatisbigfoot Mon, 14 Dec 2009 - 03:22

3400c — #5

the yo-yo adaptor should work, I used it with my black power book g3 i found in a dumpster (computer) it worked but i have to plug a screen in to the power book tho
68kMLA PowerPC by Mycatisbigfoot Mon, 14 Dec 2009 - 02:12

SSD question — #1

I was looking this weekend at SSD laptop drives (for a G4 PB with an ATA-100 bus), and after gulping at the prices for even smallish drives, two thoughts struck me: 1. What do you…
68kMLA PowerPC by beachycove Mon, 14 Dec 2009 - 01:43

Winter Warm Up 2010 — #7

cant say for 68k but would doubt it - the version being used for the WWU is a universal binary so you are in if you have a PPC Mac thats good enough. check out the doom-retrochall…
68kMLA PowerPC by wgoodf Sun, 13 Dec 2009 - 23:05

Winter Warm Up 2010 — #6

Personally, never played it. Does anyone know if there's a port, that works for multiplayer, for 68k macs?
68kMLA PowerPC by Nathan Sun, 13 Dec 2009 - 22:27

Re-Install System 7 on LC III Hard Drive — #7

Well I burned it in x8 speed (the lowest Snow Leopard burning speed I can choose) and it doesn't work. Click to expand... Can you be more specific than "it doesn't work"? Does …
68kMLA 68k by Gil Sun, 13 Dec 2009 - 18:45

Old School & New World. — #11

Yep, that'd be right...odds are the chip is probably an 82C861, which is a USB 1.1 controller - exactly the same as the one used on the tray load iMac G3s.
68kMLA PowerPC by LCGuy Sun, 13 Dec 2009 - 09:58

Old School & New World. — #10

3 posts in a row now... but the Power Mac is running perfectly stable with a G4 running at 400mhz (66mhz bus with a multiplier of 6x). I've also stuck an ATI Rage 128 Pro PCI in th…
68kMLA PowerPC by iMac600 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 - 09:30

Old School & New World. — #9

Well, i've found and documented some extensions that can supposedly push the Wings card right over its boundaries into 640x480 territory. The downside is that on a G3 processor it …
68kMLA PowerPC by iMac600 Sat, 12 Dec 2009 - 17:37

Old School & New World. — #8

I'll look into the Wings card, but that's something I wish I knew before I dropped $40 on the system, otherwise I probably wouldn't have even thought about it. That said the SCSI t…
68kMLA PowerPC by iMac600 Sat, 12 Dec 2009 - 14:48

Old School & New World. — #7

Wings card / may actually make a decent VHS importing box. Click to expand... Isn't the Wings card restricted to QVGA (320x240)? On the other hand, save that as MPEG-1 and it …
68kMLA PowerPC by Bunsen Sat, 12 Dec 2009 - 08:24

Old School & New World. — #6

Last time I looked, (which was, uh, yesterday?) good ole IC-China on ebay had a couple of G4/500 ZIFs going cheep. Act fast And nicely scored there btw
68kMLA PowerPC by Bunsen Sat, 12 Dec 2009 - 08:20

Old School & New World. — #5

I have to say, that G3 is a really nice example of a high end Mac setup from the mid to late 1990's, especially with those external SCSI drives.
68kMLA PowerPC by LCGuy Sat, 12 Dec 2009 - 01:34

Re-Install System 7 on LC III Hard Drive — #5

It's a disk 'image'. It contains all of the neccisary HFS formatting. THe disk burning app reads byte 1, writes byte 1. reads byte 2, writes... etc
68kMLA 68k by macgeek417 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 - 16:51

Interface information for 400KB Floppy drive — #43

my original idea which i never started or attempted, but ill throw it out there for you if you want to do it this way: My idea was to make an external floppy emulator that plugs i…
68kMLA 68k by techknight Fri, 11 Dec 2009 - 03:12

Re-Install System 7 on LC III Hard Drive — #4

Just got hold of Apple Recovery CD, Booted it with the help of an external CD and voila !It was a dream. Now all I need are the Diagnostics for LC III so I can check if all is ok.…
68kMLA 68k by moksienciuk Thu, 10 Dec 2009 - 22:55

Old School & New World. — #3

That's the one... two pressure sensors on the base. This one is most certainly ADB, no converters or anything in between. I'm pretty keen to give the Wings card a whirl, especiall…
68kMLA PowerPC by iMac600 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 - 08:19
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