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Mac family: PowerBook 2005, MacBook Pro 2007, MacBook Air 2008, MacBook 2006, Macbook Pro 2006.
Best I can remember.
14" iBook G3 is up and running. It felt so good to play Dark Forces and Marathon on here! Upgrading the HDD to SSD turns out to be more difficult than originally envisioned. I lack the T8 screwdriver necessary to open the bottom.
Does anyone have experience with connecting an older computer to a newer monitor? I've got the apple VGA adaptor, but neither of my HDMI-VGA adapters work in conjunction with it. I have yet to successfully connect either my iBook or old ThinkPad to my TV with one of these VGI/HDMI converter cables, despite buying two. Do I need to buy an old VGA monitor? The Mac recognizes the Apple cable is plugged in, but there's never any signal detected on the other side by my TV (Samsung Q80T).
Does anyone have experience with connecting an older computer to a newer monitor? I've got the apple VGA adaptor, but neither of my HDMI-VGA adapters work in conjunction with it. I have yet to successfully connect either my iBook or old ThinkPad to my TV with one of these VGI/HDMI converter cables, despite buying two. Do I need to buy an old VGA monitor? The Mac recognizes the Apple cable is plugged in, but there's never any signal detected on the other side by my TV (Samsung Q80T).
Those adapters go from HDMI to VGA only. What you need is the other way round. You need something like this:
VGA to HDMI Adapter with USB Audio & Power – Portable VGA to HDMI Converter – 1080p
Convert a VGA signal from a laptop or desktop to HDMI (USB-Powered)
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I had no idea they weren't bi-directional! Wow, learn something new everyday. I just ordered this: https://www.amazon.com/Monitor-Conn...=1&keywords=VGA+to+HDMI&qid=1615413194&sr=8-5Those adapters go from HDMI to VGA only. What you need is the other way round. You need something like this:
VGA to HDMI Adapter with USB Audio & Power – Portable VGA to HDMI Converter – 1080p
Convert a VGA signal from a laptop or desktop to HDMI (USB-Powered)
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Specs say 1920x1080 at 60 Hz max (unsurprisingly). I kinda want to get one of those myself and try to squeeze a higher rez out of them. As VGA itself is definitely capable of more than that.
As VGA itself is definitely capable of more than that.I've done this with a 900mhz iBook 14". Got wireless keyboard and mouse working as well! It's the OS9 gaming dream. Recommendations for games to play are welcome -- I've already got the first EV, Dark Forces, Doom, Quake, Quake 2, Carmageddon 1 & 2, elite force, and of course prince of persia 2.
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@Eason85 - Kudos for showing PoP 2 So I take it that VGA to HDMI thingy is working fine?
So I take it that VGA to HDMI thingy is working fine?
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Yup! It has a 3.5mm - 3.5mm cable + USB cable that go along with it, and it works to pass audio along to the TV which goes to optical out. Never though it would be so easy!@Eason85 - Kudos for showing PoP 2
Just got my old PowerMac G4 Gigabit running. Dual 1.2 GHz PowerLogix CPU upgrade, Radeon 9000 AGP, and 1 Gb of RAM.
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PowerMac G4 Digital Audio w/Sonnet 1.33GHz upgrade, nVidia GeForce 2 MX, 1.5GB RAM, 2x120GB Maxtor HDD in RAID 0, DVD-R SuperDrive, (currently unused) SATA card, 5-port USB card, Mac OS X Leopard
PowerMac G4 Gigabit Ethernet w/733MHz Quicksilver CPU at 750MHz, ATI Radeon, some RAM and HDD (bought for $20 w/ broken PSU and the Sonnet CPU)
iMac G4 17" 800MHz overclocked to 900MHz, 1GB RAM, 120GB Maxtor HDD, DVD-R SuperDrive, Mac OS X Leopard
PowerMac G4 Gigabit Ethernet w/733MHz Quicksilver CPU at 750MHz, ATI Radeon, some RAM and HDD (bought for $20 w/ broken PSU and the Sonnet CPU)
iMac G4 17" 800MHz overclocked to 900MHz, 1GB RAM, 120GB Maxtor HDD, DVD-R SuperDrive, Mac OS X Leopard
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I've been trying out my new DD after cloning the SSD from the previous (now backup) 12" powerbook:
It's upgraded about as far as it can go, but one last thing I'd like to do is change out the LCD backlight with an LED conversion.
There is also the idea of increasing the onboard RAM, but I don't know if this can be done by simply changing out the 4 RAM chips. I have a feeling it would be more complicated.
It's upgraded about as far as it can go, but one last thing I'd like to do is change out the LCD backlight with an LED conversion.
There is also the idea of increasing the onboard RAM, but I don't know if this can be done by simply changing out the 4 RAM chips. I have a feeling it would be more complicated.
I had one of those 12inch ibooks.
Dont make the same mistake I did... treated it like a book ie I popped it in a book case upright on its edge along with some books.
Then after it had been sitting like that for a while, went to use it to find somehow the keys had gone out of alignment.
Eg if I pressed the G key Id get F - it was like some of them had shifted over the connection somehow.
so -simple prevention - always sit it flat..as it was designed for I guess.
It has a motorola/freescale MPC7448 soldered in. I've wanted to do this for years, and dosdude1 finally un-crippled the apple firmware. There is more info in this thread:
"fastest" flash, and using a pencil to overclock.
Thanks for looking at the ROM. Based on your reply I went ahead and put in a 7448. It sort of works. It will bong and boot to OF, it will boot the linux image, but it will not boot OSX. How do I edit the NVRAMRC now? I have a powerlogix firmware CD, but when I boot that it doesn't recognize...
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867MHz Dual Processor G4
1.75 GB SDRAM
60 GB stock HDD + 120GB IDE-SATA SSD
(4) USB 2.0 ports via PCI
WiFi via USB adapter
Bluetooth 4.0 via USB adapter
External DVD-RW/CD-RW drive (not pictured)
Apple Pro Speakers
20" Cinema Display (with ADC-DVI adapter included free!)
Originally had a stock 32MB nVidia GeForce4 MX, then replaced with a 64MB ATI Radeon 9000 Pro from eBay - but then picked up a free 256MB ATI Radeon 9600 Pro Mac/PC edition in Brooklyn from a friendly fellow member of a Vintage Apple Facebook group.
All in all, only cost me $311 total since I found the tower on March 4th. It triple boots in Leopard, Tiger, and 9.2.2!
Really ? I have a Blu-ray player in the Quad and it plays Blu-ray movies with no issues.
I was hoping to get the beast of a PowerMac G4 Mirror Door setup complete by the end of this month for Marcintosh, but sadly nope. I wanted to have the fastest GPU that is supported in Mac OS 9, a Geforce 4 Ti 4600 (technically, it's the Quadro 4 900 XGL with some rom mods, but I haven't had luck on that one either as someone did a snipe bid at the last minute). I found one and overpaid ($200 on Ebay) and flash it to find out that it was defective. Not only the games crashed, it kernel panic with some lovely graphical artifacts.
When I flashed the original ROM back and test it in my custom build Pentium III retro gaming computer, and it showed graphical artifacts, but didn't fail spectucally. It's a shame since I want one of these cards since they are the holy grail for Mac OS 9 gaming and OS X.Not the fastest card in Mac OS X, but I needed the Mac OS 9 support. I am stuck with a Radeon 9000 Pro, which I am not satisfied with the performance at all. I ordered a Radeon 8500, but I still want a Geforce 4 Ti 4600, but not at a ridiculous price and surely not for $1273. At that point, I may as well get a scalped RTX 3xxx series card. I hope to probably source one out from the vintage Mac/computing community, hopefully not at ridiculous EBay prices. I just never going to be satisfied with a lowly Radeon 9000 Pro card. Even the Radeon 8500, the fastest ATI card on Mac OS 9 is outclassed by the Geforce 4 Ti 4600.
With that, this is my current setup. The M-Audio Audiophile 2496 PCI sound card caused issues with Mac OS X Tiger and strange sound issues in Mac OS 9, so I got the Firewire Audiophile one, which works perfectly both on Tiger and Mac OS 9. Now I can listen to quality Hi-res/Lossless Japanese music on my Mac.
Also, there is my Pentium III build. I decided to go with the Silverstone case since it gives the classic Desktop look from the 90s. Yes, I like the idea of building a reverse sleeper build. The funny thing is that I had a hard time sourcing a good Slot 1 motherboard that supports the Pentium III processor. I don't want to go with the Pentium 4 since it's a terrible processor and the newer Pentium III motherboards don't have ISA slots if I want to put in a AWE64 or something. I eventually bought a old stock new SE440BX2 and it works perfectly. It has a 700 MHz Pentium III processor, 512 MB of RAM, a Radeon 9000 Pro (ugh, the Radeon 9000 Pro is very disappointing), Gigabit Ethernet and a M-Audio Audiophile 2496 sound card, better than any Sound Blaster. It's running on a 30 GB hard drive since the CF to IDE adapter doesn't work due to the IDE controller, but I have a PCI ATA controller that will fix that on order. It runs most early 2000 games fine. Anything later can be run in my virtualized gaming PC via VMWare Horizon/Jump Desktop.
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Mac family: PowerBook 2005, MacBook Pro 2007, MacBook Air 2008, MacBook 2006, Macbook Pro 2006.
Best I can remember.
