I have attempted to install Apple DVD Player 2.4 on this machine but the installer replies:
"Apple DVD Player 2.4 cannot be installed onto this machine."
It makes me wonder if I have mis-identified the hardware I'm dealing with. According to the "How to differentiate between iMacs" document:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1362
A tangerine CRT with a 400MHz G3 is the iMacDV, but the black letters on the front of the machine say "iMac" not "iMacDV" as I have seen on others.
I wonder what would happen if I cracked open the installer and by-passed the system detection stuff. Or perhaps if I booted the drive from this machine in another which runs DVD Player and installed from there...
I don't understand why a software only implementation should stop working when decode hardware becomes available.
"Apple DVD Player 2.4 cannot be installed onto this machine."
It makes me wonder if I have mis-identified the hardware I'm dealing with. According to the "How to differentiate between iMacs" document:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1362
A tangerine CRT with a 400MHz G3 is the iMacDV, but the black letters on the front of the machine say "iMac" not "iMacDV" as I have seen on others.
I wonder what would happen if I cracked open the installer and by-passed the system detection stuff. Or perhaps if I booted the drive from this machine in another which runs DVD Player and installed from there...
I don't understand why a software only implementation should stop working when decode hardware becomes available.