Not sure if anyone else has mentioned this directly, but the early Dual USB iBooks with Rage graphics did not suffer from the GPU problems that the later Radeon models did. In fact…

My 540C actually had its little "PowerBook 540C" badge replaced with "PowerPC" so I'm thinking it used to have an official Apple PPC upgrade. Unfortunately, it's just 68k still

I'm going to go ahead and say yes, it does belong here, even though the Beige G3 is an Old World-based machine, it still originally shipped with a G3 processor, and thus it goes he…

Use it to play Civilization! http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/games/demos_updates/civilizationiii.html Or use it for chatting, surfing non-flash sites, iTunes, DVD watching, …

Are you referring to the "oldworld rom" or openfirmware, whatever its called? Even though there is no AGP in these, I'd still put it in the G3 category because it is A) a G3 and …

I don't have access to an external HDD.. (well I do, but its over 128GB..) Click to expand... That wont matter if it is an external HDD - If it is a firewire HDD then it could …

Thanks, I was thinking the HDD. The machine acts virtually normal when booted off the 9.2.1 CD. I don't have access to an external HDD.. (well I do, but its over 128GB..) so I don'…

The machine has the basic 64MB RAM, which would be the chip soldered. Nothing has been added. Would buying a RAM stick help? Click to expand... Adding more RAM at this point is…

Well im not sure what the problem is, I think you should throw it in the garbage tonight.

Thanks for helping me with this, I'd like to get to the bottom. I've reinstalled the OS (9.2) several times, with no avail. Last time I completely reformatted it and preformed a c…

After a complete reformat and reinstall of OS 9.2.2, it still won't launch Stuffit Expander (type 3 error.. save work & restart) and it won't let me open some system files …

Anyone still have any ideas why this Mac won't open applications? After a complete reformat and reinstall of OS 9.2.2, it still won't launch Stuffit Expander (type 3 error.. save w…

I've been a member here for three and a half years and have been a subscriber to the LEM lists off-and-on since the Compact Macs list launched about 11 years ago. I attribute the p…

Some of it is just the kids, who are just going to be constitutionally different that the 20-, 30- and 40-somethings among us. You youngsters are going to find that things are that…

Take off every "Zig".

Now how would that work? The Voodoo 2 was a 3D-only chip. It didn't have a 2D engine, and used the same pass-through cable setup as the Voodoo 1. Did you route the onboard video…

Heh, I have a Voodoo 5500 if I ever get around to getting my old DOS game box back together. I have so many projects in the queue that I can't keep up.

Glide was much better at the time, but it was propitiatory so when 3dfx died off, so did glide course all that good stuff got mixed in to open GL and DX, it wasnt more than a few …

Glide kicks butt over OpenGL and whatever DirectX (I think they called it something else before it was Direct X) PC's were using back then. I've seen screenshots of the same game …

Hmm, yeah...I remember reading about these back in the day. There were actually only two cards ever made for the Mezzanine slot - the GameWizard, and an UltraSCSI card some company…

good question, I would be inclined to say yes as much as the other pci based powermacs least IMO, anything "oldworld" is just that

Subject: Negativity on the forums. you had issue with what I said... Click to expand... And while your post may have been 'the straw that broke the camels back' for me, …

This forum has turned into a social site "aka community" where people who don't even own or use the equipment we are supposed to talk about here come to talk about everything but o…

I fail to see how a civilized conversation can take place when everyone feels like there needs to be a big gigantic touchy feeley opinion post every week (or to prolong one for as …

(Lounge topic) Some of the choices made lately have driven users to just full out insult mode. I can attest to doing it myself.... It's just really that nothing get's done here. …