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A good few years back, I bought a Powerlogix Pismo 900Mhz G3 upgrade CPU daughtercard. The seller was parting out a dead Pismo and offered DOA warranty if the p…
Anybody have the software for this card? Digital Voodoo went bust and www.archive.org didn't mirror their site. Seems like all the links for software were to th…
I just installed a 40 MHz oscillator in my PB1400, replacing the original 33.333 MHz one, as seen here: http://home.comcast.net/~gionpeters/hhhh/pb1400.htm The …
Does anyone know if sonnets firewire and USB cards are compatible with my pm7300. If they aren't can anyone recommend cards that work. I have already maxed out …
I have found something very interesting... An "all-internal" size, 16-bit PC Card, 802.11g card.* That's right, an 802.11g card that is physically-compatible an…
Today in the mail I got a package from a relative containing computer parts. 3 tiny hard drives, a router, a couple computer hardware magazines, CD-ROM drive, m…
Hi, Does anybody know of a video format which doesn't tax a G4 so hard? Obviously, a modern format is out, so how about older ones, like MOV or AVI? c
Say, hypothetically, that I'd stumbled upon a shrinkwrapped ATI Radeon Mac Edition in a local shop that'd been collecting dust for many, many years. Hypothetica…
Hi, is there a fractal image generator for mandelbrot's etc. that runs optimized on both 68k and PPC Macs? I'd like to do a tangible demo of the advances in com…
/edit/ Download the final release of this version below / TenFourFox 8 is out and has a significantly rewritten widget library since Mozilla saw fit to louse up…
Hi, I have been benchmarking my upgraded 9500 (G4/700) just to see how it did compare to other models (or basically to the original 9500). I used macbench 5.0 u…
First post. Woot! I thought I might share some knowledge and get some feedback on my process, but first the backstory. I have a Performa 640CD I acquired from a…
I just did a bit of a search and it appears the firmware patch to allow booting of Powermac G3's with an Encore G4 upgrade installed has now been made available…
I haven't posted in quite a while, but I thought that this recent conquest was worth posting. I have been thinking about converting my collection to a more New …
So, I walked into my local thrift store last Saturday, and I spotted it from 50 feet away - a 17" Apple Studio Display... one of the clear plastic LCD models wi…
Found a decent deal on a tibook 550 G4 I could not pass up. Needed a RAM upgrade and a HD (luckily they left the HD cable installed and all I needed was 4 screw…
I got a mint working A1138 Powerbook G4 with the higher resolution screen. The unit works fine with OSX 10.4.11 that's installed on it, but I want to wipe it. A…
Hi everyone, when i was a young boy at the 90s I reamember to beeing at a friends house and he has a Macintosh IIcx, we used to play some games on it. Everytime…
I have a few quadra 950s laying around and recently got a copy of softwindows. I know the quadra has a 040, and this software requires a ppc 601. I seem to reme…
Hey all! So I finally found a local lead on a machine I have always wanted... a G3 AIO I put an ad on my local Craigslist and received a reply from a guy who ha…
I'm pretty excited, I won a TAM on eBay that seems to be in great shape, except for one thing - the screen appears to be dead. http://www.ebay.com/itm/181936816…
I've just gotten a Power Macintosh 7300 but I can't get it to start up. When I press the start button the LED blinks once then nothing happens. Does anyone know…
Picked up a couple of XRAIDs. Couldn’t resist, they had 14 500gb ATA drives each. I bought them for the drives but I may try getting one going. I do have some F…
I acquired this in a lot of boards a few months ago. Any idea what it is? I've tried googling the part number but couldn't find anything.
Hi, I'm writing an operating system for PowerPC Macs in order to be able to reuse them with an OS adapted to the modern world as far as possible. It will be a d…
Hi, I have a problem with a PowerBook G4 17" 1.67Ghz A1107. Was working fine apart some graphic problems sometime when opening the screen after sleep, would sho…
Hi everyone. Been reading this forum for years. So I have a old, lovable G4 12" Powerbook that I think has a dead HD. Ok, no issue right? A 2008 iMac I found in…
Hi there. Was wondering if anyone has heard of Macintosh speakers going bad. I have a G3 desktop Macintosh with the oblong speaker in that beige casing. Anyways…
Hi all, I won an MDD dual 1.25GHz for about USD20 in an auction. I am surprised how loud it is. Aside from replacing the HD, does anybody here have any suggesti…
Hi all, I had avoided the Second-Coming Macs in an effort to keep my collection in check. My only criterion was that it had to have ADB - hence the B&W …
Does anybody have any information or experience to share with regards the use of genuine Apple OEM 604 daughtercards from x500/x600 series machines (and others …
I recently (well, last year ) acquired a bag full of old SIMMs, DIMMs and the like... I am slowly going thru them and trying to identify them based on number of…
Do you guys buy new Kapton tape pieces when reworking G4 Ibook/Powerbooks? Apples seems to love using that stuff to keep cables plugged in.
Some of you have been following my trials towards a beige holy grail machine for classic gaming. While hemming and hawing over $50 used 9200s and two in box uno…
Won an Ibook G3-500 first model (64MB RAM, 10GB HD). The interesting thing about it was that it seemed to be 100% stock with IE5 preview edition installed on OS…
My fam SE (not pictured) Quadra 605 Power Macintosh G3 (Desktop) Power Macintosh G3 (Minitower) Power Mac G4 (AGP Graphics) iMac (Summer 2001) Power Mac G4 (Qui…
Has anyone used these people? I'd like to get a new battery for my Pismo, but at the moment it's looking rather grim. I tried emailing batteryrefill.com but I'v…
I think it's indigo, but not completely sure. Can someone verify this for me please? My cat loves my vintage Macs too. Back when we used our bondi iMac on a dai…
Need help finding the driver/hack to enable a powermac 8600 to capture video at higher fps: think it was 30fps at I believe it was 640x480? I remember a german …
I had been wishing for a Blue & White G3 for awhile because it's one of the coolest Mac to me. Not to mention the great compatibility to different hardw…
Sorry it's taken me a while to get round to posting this but about a week ago a friend of mine was trashing an old PC and I went round to his place and took all…
What do you like using the best an iBook G4 or Powerbook G4? Reasons why?
Completed my G4 laptop collection with a working 1.2Ghz G4 iBook 12". Cheap ebay find where the cable to the HD had popped off the motherboard (easy fix if you …
Anybody have a link to what LCD panels will work in 12" Powerbooks and Ibooks? I recently snagged a 12" G4 800mhz Ibook that was sold as dead, but just needs a …
This site is a lot of fun. Great advice and smart people here. Here's a couple of questions that ought to be interesting. 1. What was the fastest G3 system ever…
The place where I work has been using old Macs on the shop floor for time clock software for years. We just upgraded our MIS system and the old Macs have been r…
Just picked this baby up, she is beautiful! I had the 400mhz SE when it was released, so this thing is awesome!!!! G3 600mhz 1gb Ram 80gb HDD Airport Card I thi…
Source Mac OS 9 Lives
http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/digital-performer-171not sure this even runs on os9?might require system 7!
I know that there was a few failed tries of booting Mac Os 9 on Mac Mini G4 with the iMic "Universal ROM" . I don't have any of this Macs nowadays, but I have a…