Power Mac G4 Cube to Color Classic — #5
Both are also quite rare (fewer than 150,000 Cubes ever made)...I'm not going to lie; not the biggest fan of FrankenMac-ing the rare ones at this point.
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Use PowerPC for a week? — #18
Well, it *is* a challenge after all.
Power Mac G4 Cube to Color Classic — #4
G4 Cube in Colour Classic? It's funny because both machines have a sort of cult following (in a good way). I'm even thinking of making a Mystic...
Use PowerPC for a week? — #17
when i use my 1.42 Ghz iBook G4 with maxed out RAM the machine does ok with youtube sometimes its a little strange though
Power Mac G4 Cube to Color Classic — #3
Unity, are you saying the chipset in the G4 Cube support 640 X 480?
Yes, LED backlit is so much better then normal LED displays...
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10" OLED Color Classic Mod? — #3
I have read that the flyback transformer in the Color Classic was slightly undersized to began with. And then, because of venting issues, it became slightly hotter then it would l…
Power Mac G4 Cube to Color Classic — #2
I hate LED displays too. But I prefer LED backlit displays...
Anyway. The chipset supports 640x480. Just not sure if the cube itself will. I suspect it would though.
Power Mac G4 Cube to Color Classic — #1
Hi folks...
Looking around on ebay, I saw a inexpensive smaller Mac called a Power Mac G4 Cube. It has no monitor. I would only be interested in a mod using this if I could some…
Use PowerPC for a week? — #16
A few months ago.
Use PowerPC for a week? — #15
I used my 1 GHz TiBook for awhile, but it got rather frustrating, because it kept kernel panicking if I did anything intensive (which brought up the temperatures, making me think i…
10" OLED Color Classic Mod? — #2
I don't own a CC and haven't done this modification, but I've looked at the horizontal sweep circuits of the B&W compacts in some detail.
I think the CRT shouldn't be your…
TAM — #112
thinking and googleing about it, im going to take out the board and cover the acid damaged area with 3to1 baking soda mixture to kill any remaining acid. let it soak into it for a…
Use PowerPC for a week? — #14
Well I paid US$70-80 for it, like 10 months ago!
Edit: When did you buy yours?
Use PowerPC for a week? — #13
Kinda high IMO. I paid $20 for my 500MHz unit, in mint condition. Just had a dead PRAM preventing boot.
TAM — #111
well it says Ati 3d Rage II techknight........but from now on its the 20th anniversary UE8 by the looks of things
TAM — #110
If thats the RAGE IC, thats why your video is scrambled.
those traces I pointed out, there are some opens.
You need to go over all of the traces that show "discoloration" wiht …
TAM — #109
techknight - good call. Will have a look at them tomorrow. Just a continuity test between 2 via's on a single trace - will do
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0.1uf - that's great to know - will install new on…
Use PowerPC for a week? — #12
What about http://www.gainsaver.com/catalog/Detail.aspx?&CCode=1015^Apple&CCode=3398^Mac+Laptops&ACode=G4&CCode=3407^PowerBooks&cICode=43669…
TAM — #108
have had no chime to date..........just strange sounds, clicks, noise, static...when floppy inserted noise matches the floppys activity
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power/green light comes on sometimes, ot…
TAM — #107
Hey falen:
Take a look at my photo. I circled areas that need tested for continuity checks. Especially the ones in the bottom corner coming from that IC.
Also the capacitor is …
Use PowerPC for a week? — #11
10.4 and 10.5 won't be amazing on it since that GPU doesn't support CoreImage and it's capped at 1GB ram, but it would probably be a fairly good challenge.
Use PowerPC for a week? — #10
Would a Titanium PowerBook G4 work? 867 MHz/1 GHz. Can boot every Mac OS from 9 to 10.5!
TAM — #106
With the battery pulled, I can get 2-10 seconds between the chime and the light coming on on my TAM.
TAM — #105
Question. You mentioned the light comes on.
Do you get a startup chime?
After pressing power, how long until it comes on?
I just noticed that my light comes on but not right awa…
TAM — #104
You dont have a 5500/6500 laying around do you?