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  1. doggoli

    I Remade Some Old Apple Posters!

    I wanted to hang a vintage Apple poster in my room and i didn't wanna pay for the originals. So i came to the idea to simply print them out and stick them around my room, but all of the images of the posters online were either crappy ebay pictures or VERY low res...I got to work and recreated 8...
  2. doggoli

    Does anyone have the front row 1.3.0 dmg

    I have been trying to get front row to work on my ibook that is not ir capable and i need that exact dmg.....
  3. V3tR4X

    Leopard

    Welcome, i just bought ibook g4, unfortunally it does not read my dvd with leo on it. i Just thought, will i be able to run leopard installer from hdd that i want it to put on
  4. wolfiefrick

    Mac OS X Installation Trouble

    Hello, I'm a bit new here, so if there's already a solution to this problem that I'm not aware of, please let me know! So, I am a bit of a retro Mac nerd. I own a bunch of G3 and G4 Macs, and I recently picked up my first snow iBook G3. It runs Mac OS 9.2.2 beautifully and installs it without...
  5. amagichnich

    iBook G4 screws stuck

    As my iBook has a problem with the DVD drive I thought I finally open it up and look what the problem is. The drive is recognized by OS X but when I try inserting a disc nothing happens. Really nothing, not even a noise. Because everybody is complaining about opening an iBook I tried to aviod...
  6. D

    Universal iBook:

    Hi, I use iBook for a while to store .pdf files retrieved from Safari easily. I've just migrated my old iCloud account to iCloud Drive. iBook asked me if I want to use the cloud. Bing able to access those files from any device and merging libraries sounded like a good idea. But, now I see...
  7. AmazingHenry

    The G3 Challenge

    UPDATE: Trying to get the software installed now. Unfortunately, I seem to have terrible luck when it comes to things like this, so I'm getting error messages. But I figured it out before, so there must be a way! So, I have decided that, starting Tuesday, I am going to try and use my G3...
    • AmazingHenry
    • Thread
    • ibook ibook clamshell ibook g3 ibook g3 clamshell is it obsolete powerpc ppc
    • Replies: 84
    • Forum: PowerPC Macs
  8. PowerMac G5

    iBook G4 Stuck on Loading Bar

    Recently purchased an iBook G4, everything was working, however was really bugged by how dirty the keyboard was. So I took apart the iBook, took out the keyboard, airport card and ram. Cleaned the keyboard well, put everything back together and turned it on. It chimed, the grey apple screen came...
  9. mattcb

    Factory reset Leopard iBook G4

    I bought an iBook G4 from my neighbor. It is running Leopard, and I would like to factory reset it. How can I do this? If I need a disc then how can I make one?
  10. E

    youtube on powerpc?

    As we all know because of flash youtube runs poorly on any powermac. So i was wondering what solutions you guys have!
  11. PatrickRolfsen

    i5/i7 Clamshell project

    Hi all, I just picked up a couple graphite G3 clamshells, one of which being just for parts that doesn't run. I also have a spare i7 MBA 11'' I wouldn't mind stuffing into the spare casing. Looks like theres a guy who's done this and charging around $3k on ebay for an example. Anyone know of...
  12. sotosoul

    Mac OS 9 sleep of death issue on iBook G3 Clamshell

    Hello people! I own an iBook Clamshell from 1999 with dual boot Mac OS X 10.3 Panther and OS 9.2.2. Here's the issue: the iBook does not recover from sleep when in OS 9.2.2, but it does from OS X (although it takes some ~20 sec for the mouse to start moving...) So, is this related to the sleep...
    • sotosoul
    • Thread
    • clamshell ibook os 9 sleep wake problem
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: PowerPC Macs
  13. P

    iBook G3 Corrupted OS X

    I have an iBook G3 with firewire and that is about all I can tell you. When I bought it off of ebay it came running Mac OS 9.2. Stupid me decided that I should take a copy of Mac OS X off of an iMac G3 and copy that to the HDD of the iBook. I then attempted to boot off of the OS X folder I put...
    • Panpooper
    • Thread
    • crash ibook kernal panic not booting os 9 os x ppc
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: PowerPC Macs
  14. D

    Prohibitory sign on iBook G4

    Starting a new thread because I didn't want to double post on an old thread. So here's what I'm trying to do: Install OS X 10.4 or 10.5 on an SSD in my iBook G4, with a broken DVD drive. What I have: A PC with TransMac, Images for 10.5 and 10.4.3, a FireWire 400 cable, an iBook G3/500 with...
    • DarkerJ
    • Thread
    • ibook install leopard powerpc tiger
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: PowerPC Macs
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