Got 4/7 - my only experience with Seven has been 7.6.1 in Basilisk II.Not done on a PPC Mac, but there's this fun quiz on System 7 Today
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I've only ever really experienced 7.6.1 as well. I have done a lot of other research though.
I got 3/7, and yes, I have only had experience with System 7 through emulators like Mini vMac, SheepShaver and Basilisk II...
NOTHING will ever have the amount of personality as OS 9 has though...You should see them running MorphOS. It's FAST and puts os9 to shame. Internal sound and wifi works, no cursor freezes, 2020 webkit based browser, and more games than you can shake a stick at.
So I'm about 75% of the way through Parasite Eve now. What a great game... I have one boss I keep dying at so far until I have to disc swap mid game, hope I can pull this trick off! I ordered a PSX Change version 2 disc on Amazon which makes the swap trick very easy (just one swap and the disc stops for you!) but of course it doesn't work on a game like Parasite Eve when it makes you insert disc 2 mid game and not just let you do it at boot...
The final boss is literally insane as well, this will definitely take me some time to finish! Hardest game I've ever played in my life just because of the final boss. Even the sequel's final boss was easier.
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Oh man that was a great game. It's wild to think that Square made this game, it feels so unlike a lot of their library from that era. What's more wild is that it started life as Final Fantasy 8. I'm not actually sure how it got connected to the book it's a sequel to, but that took place in Japan, not America.
And once you beat it, there's a New Game+ and a whole different ending if you can beat the Chrysler Building. I've never actually managed to do that, myself. But if you crave more once you're done, there's more to beat.
Wow A fellow fan on MacRumors PPC! I keep dying at the scopian boss when it splits into multiple bugs in the subway. I actually had no idea about the Chrysler Building... I definitely will check this out this play through. My favorite level is the museum on Disc 2, fighting T-Rex is very fun. But that final boss, took me way too long to finish this game the first time. Literally insane, just keeps coming back from the dead and then you have to fight the ultimate being? Brutal, last time I finished I had like 56 HP IIRC.
Oh, be prepared to actually run after you beat that last boss. You're not actually done when you think you are. I was a huge fan of jrpgs growing up, and while I never really feel the urge to revisit it these days, Parasite Eve still lives in my head rent free. I mean, seriously, what else is like it? The story isn't the usual kind of thing that comes out of Japanese game devs, but it takes itself far to serious than it would if it was American. And the gameplay has a good enough flow to it that you just want to play more.
I am in pure disbelief. Parasite Eve says "Insert Disc 2". I remove my burned Verbatim CD-R from my Playstation for the first time since starting this game from the beginning. I put in my only legit PS1 game Driver. Remove my aluminum foil rod (which presses down the lid sensor button). Insert it again so the PS 1 thinks the lid is closed. Driver starts spinning. Then, Driver starts spinning fast. Swap it immediately with Parasite Eve Disc 2, freshly burned in the Mac mini G4. Before I can even continue with the trick, the Playstation goes ERRR and starts reading the Parasite Eve Disc 2 burned on the Verbatim CD-R! So much easier then the normal swap trick at boot. I'm in the clear and can complete the game now!
I know this has been beaten to death (and I respect their decisions on pricing) but I wish the license was slightly less expensive. At 50 bucks a pop I'd buy one just for the fun.
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Well, that value depends of the exchange rate and base income/outcome for any individual per country...
In Brazil, for example, USD 50 is nearly BRL 290 (R$, brazilian reais). That's a lot of money for brazilians where the base minimum salary is around BRL 1.100. The Mac Mini M1 starting configuration price is BRL 8.699. Currently, USD 1.00 equals BRL 5.68. We have the most expensive iPhone of the world in Brazil.
In Brazil, for example, USD 50 is nearly BRL 290 (R$, brazilian reais). That's a lot of money for brazilians where the base minimum salary is around BRL 1.100. The Mac Mini M1 starting configuration price is BRL 8.699. Currently, USD 1.00 equals BRL 5.68. We have the most expensive iPhone of the world in Brazil.
(Yesterday, actually). Again, very boring in comparison to a lot of you guys that do this sort of thing in your sleep, but I swapped out my G4 iMac Pioneer 102 drive (it was not exactly dead, but non-functional), and the original 80Gb HD, which was working, but making some interesting noises prior to the system booting. In place went a Pioneer 110 optical drive, and a 120Gb SSD.
I had cloned the HD to the SSD prior to switching out the drives, so no post-replacement install needed, which was good!
This was not exactly a fun job - there is so little space and no room for error. In fact the 110 drive was a tiny bit of a problem because it is 1mm longer than the 102 (thanks to the plastic facia) and that was enough to make it a very tight fit. But it all went back together eventually, and it is now back in use.
There is no great performance gain in the SSD, but it's hardly a fast system so I didn't expect there to be, but it runs a little more smoothly, and is a fair bit quieter without the HD spinning. Boot time is faster too, though not massively.
I liked this system already, but the SSD certainly makes it even more so now!
Today however, I have a Mac Classic II, and a MBA M1 being delivered. Too many Macs.... or is that even possible?
I had cloned the HD to the SSD prior to switching out the drives, so no post-replacement install needed, which was good!
This was not exactly a fun job - there is so little space and no room for error. In fact the 110 drive was a tiny bit of a problem because it is 1mm longer than the 102 (thanks to the plastic facia) and that was enough to make it a very tight fit. But it all went back together eventually, and it is now back in use.
There is no great performance gain in the SSD, but it's hardly a fast system so I didn't expect there to be, but it runs a little more smoothly, and is a fair bit quieter without the HD spinning. Boot time is faster too, though not massively.
I liked this system already, but the SSD certainly makes it even more so now!
Today however, I have a Mac Classic II, and a MBA M1 being delivered. Too many Macs.... or is that even possible?
Way I understand it, even as it is, it's pretty much the cheapest way to get into the modern Amiga scene. Yeah, sure, it's not technically the Amiga OS, but it's mostly binary compatible. But compared to the fairly wild PPC systems specifically built to run later versions of the Amiga OS, and the cost of the software, this is actually a deal. No to mention, MorphOS is an option for real Amiga hardware, so it's not just any old clone.
Yeah, but this isn't my primary goal. More of a nice bonus.
That's a good way of seeing it.
Unfortunately I can't really go out for dinner due to the lockdown.
No, I get you. It's not like I've ponied up the, what, 80 euros for the privilege? If I was into the Amiga scene, maybe that would make some sense, but it sure doesn't at the moment.
TBH, the one hour of full performance is actually generous, considering the Amiga scene almost never gives anything you really need away for free. I get why it's like that, it would probably be dead without the money being involved. Not that I'm saying it's right for every community, nor do I think it's a good way to welcome new people in. Putting money into things can cause all kinds of problems if the community it's in doesn't traditionally involve money.
Just look at paid mods:
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But it's a shame it seems like such a hard thing to get into, what with the Powermacs I have that support MorphOS.
It's half an hour. I'd much rather have e.g. a time-unlimited live CD that refuses to install to and boot from anything else until you purchase a license. But it's their baby.
I used to think that way, until I actually installed the demo. It boots faster than the length of time it takes open firmware to load. I also had a c64 and amiga2000 back in the day, but it wasn't about that. It was the fact that even though Linux is nice, morph made the old mini come to life. What's even more impressive is that the wayfarer browsers main dev has a video on YouTube showing a 1.5ghz mini doing 720p YouTube in browser without breaking a sweat.
Oh wow, last I'd really checked it out, they were lacking a good modern web browser. Clearly that has changed.
I gave it a try on a 1.33 GHz 12" iBook G4 and was also nothing short of amazed by its sheer speed. And considering how much we used to pay for a Mac OS X or Windows license, it isn't that expensive. It's just that I probably wouldn't use it often enough to justify the price.