I may investigate this further in due course, as I know that VM will speed up a ppc under many circumstances. Only not yet.... The particular 8600 in question here had previously …

The 8600 has nearly 300MB or RAM installed, so I will leave it without VM and hope for the best for now, methinks. Click to expand... Some PPC apps will run more efficiently wi…

The mod will utilize the original color classic speaker once I find an amp of suitable size. Click to expand... Interesting, so you'll be using a low-powered external amp to dr…

This is a Sonnet card. No switches. However, CPU Director did the trick. Thank you. It took me a while to hunt down an older copy since the latest release refused to run. What…

Mac128, The previous post was a modded plus that had to be aborted due to monitor sizing issues. The mod will utilize the original color classic speaker once I find an amp of suit…

Adobe Acrobat 5, Photoshop 5, and Apple Color OneScanner software, among others, are on the machine, and this involves a goodly number of odd extensions required for their use. I h…

Uhh on my OS X I can go to 640x480 on my iMac G5's screen and its external screen. Leopard.

Your cd drive's entry in the of device tree has just been messed up. To zap the PRAM in this situation on a ppc mini, unplug it from the wall socket. Then, holding the power button…

Turning off Virtual Memory seems to have cured it, for now anyway. Many thanks. I also turned off the memory check in the Memory Control Panel, which cured another problem whereby …

Tragically, Gamba took his own life. Wally learned this sad news from Gamba's sister. She has been keeping his site going, as I understand it, although it is unclear for how much l…

Turning off Virtual Memory seems to have cured it, for now anyway. Many thanks. I also turned off the memory check in the Memory Control Panel, which cured another problem whereby …

I remember having a problem involving the hard drive not showing up on my PB 180c, too bad it had been sitting there for a good year without fixing itself

The whole mod took me about 50 hours, the machine will eventually support an auto inject/eject iphone dock on the top, I'm working on the mechanism now. The system was build to pu…

Replace the drive #1 Maxtor is not the best drive out there. #2 its probally a 40 or a 60 you would probally be better off with a new 120 or something like that i have owned macs …

Extensions Manager is your friend. Disable everything and then add it back in progressively. As a starting point, try turning off Virtual Memory (not just disabling the control pan…

O.M.G. No words to describe this.

I've shifted in to 640x480 on my Apple Multiple Scan 17" monitor with Mac mini and OS 10.5.6

Very nice modification. Shame that OS X won't support the resolution. Wonder if you can get a CRT tube that will got higher than 640x480 in the same dimensions.

Back in the day when Gamba was with us (RIP, Gamba.) Click to expand... Wait what happened to him?

Are there any DIP switches on the card that need adjusting, or have you tried adjusting the backside cache speed using CPU Director? JB

Just out of curiosity, regarding all this thread, didn't Apple have more than one manufacturer for the CRTs? I'm thinking something like that wouldn't be any different of a situat…

If you've got an SE there's about a 50/50 chance of having one or the other from my observations. The Samsungs are rare in Classics and Pluses/pre-Pluses. As I mentioned in my stic…

Check Scott's stickied thread on CRTs - the compacts used CRTs made by both Clinton Electronics and Samsung.

Just out of curiosity, regarding all this thread, didn't Apple have more than one manufacturer for the CRTs? I'm thinking something like that wouldn't be any different of a situat…

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