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Pulled out the iBook G3 to test my Jaguar disk (that I'm pretty sure is just bad -- thankfully, it's just burned, but it really struggled just to read it), and disabled Platinum on it just because I only just recently found out that was possible and the excitement hasn't faded away just yet.
Yes, I know this iBook came with 10.2.4 and not 10.2.0, I just wanted to see if it would get past the point that I'd get Exit Code 138 on the PowerBook G3. It's just spitting my install disk out.,
This thing has really good speakers, probably the best ones of all my Macs, but I'd have to get them all in a room to compare.
So, funny update: somehow I got this 10.2.0 disk to boot, not complain, and now it's installing 10.2.0. On my 900MHz 14". Uh... I'll take it, I guess. And not update it at all, because who knows if I'll ever be able to replicate that success.
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Yes, I know this iBook came with 10.2.4 and not 10.2.0, I just wanted to see if it would get past the point that I'd get Exit Code 138 on the PowerBook G3. It's just spitting my install disk out.,
This thing has really good speakers, probably the best ones of all my Macs, but I'd have to get them all in a room to compare.
So, funny update: somehow I got this 10.2.0 disk to boot, not complain, and now it's installing 10.2.0. On my 900MHz 14". Uh... I'll take it, I guess. And not update it at all, because who knows if I'll ever be able to replicate that success.
Edit: oh
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Seems you do need to update to at least 10.2.5 after all.
@Amethyst1 Now that I've managed to boot it, I'm determined to give getting 10.2.0 running on it one more shot before I just use the internal 10.2.6 DVD and update from there.
Seeing as how my Dual 1GHz CPU doesn't work, I managed to overclock a single 800MHz G4 QS CPU to 933. I may have pushed the 7450 to its absolute limits.
Also the thought of clustering my eMacs is going through my mind.
Also the thought of clustering my eMacs is going through my mind.
Mission, like... 80% accomplished. Also, some help getting out of this windowbox would be quite appreciated. It seems to just be Finder, the mouse cursor shows outside the bounds.
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Update to 10.2.5 or later so you have the correct drivers for your iBook's GPU and the correct override file for the iBook's LCD.
In the meantime, have a look at the Displays preference pane. Is it showing a phantom secondary 640×480 display that the iBook's LCD is being mirrored to? If so, try disabling mirroring. Next, check the resolution the LCD is set to.
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Tried flashing a VisionTek 64 MB Radeon 7000 in my Sawtooth a couple days ago, but no dice. I tried various Mac ROMs and tried both Aticelerator and Graphicelerator. Nothing worked. The card showed up in system profiler, but it would just use a generic name, it would never say Radeon 7000, no matter what ROM I used. I tried booting up with my monitor hooked up to the card after flashing one of the ROMs on it, but all I got was a blank screen. I gave up, flashed the PC BIOS back onto the card and put it in my Compaq Deskpro EN SFF with Windows 98 SE and the card does work in there, though the drivers I got from AMD's website say I don't have any compatible hardware, so I'm just using Microsoft's generic driver for now. Going to have to try some different drivers. Hoping my flashing attempts didn't mess up the card somehow.
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That's sad... Personally I have a Radeon 9000 pro in my G4 AGP and a 7500 in my Cube. Perhaps your card is a different version which isn't compatible with Mac ROMs?
Forgot to say... you could try updating to 10.2.1, 10.2.2, 10.2.3, 10.2.4 and 10.2.5 one-by-one to see which one fixes this LOL!
I successfully Flashed a radeon 7000 64mb PCI card that is in my B&W. I used graphicelerator v1.3.4 & ATIhack_Radeon7000AGP-PCI_reduced.rom.zip from macelite IIRC. Worked like a charm, first time.
I have a Radeon 9000 Pro too and I really like that card, but performance in Leopard seems more consistent when I have a Core Image card in here like the Geforce 6200, which is what I am using right now. The problem with the 6200 is that there is no 2D/3D acceleration in OS 9, which means no DVD playback and no 2D/3D accelerated games. My hope was to have the 6200 in the AGP slot and the Radeon 7000 in the PCI slot and use my DVI switch box to switch between them. Say I wanted to go from Leopard to OS 9: I would select OS 9 from the Startup Disk control panel, restart, hit the button on the DVI switch for the input the R7000 is connected to, and voila! I would be booted into OS 9 with 2D/3D acceleration enabled because the R7000 would be the active GPU. Who knows if this would have worked, but I thought it was worth a try. I think I will either try to find a pre-flashed PCI GPU, a genuine Mac edition, or just spend the cash on a PM G5 and move all my PPC Leopard stuff over to it and have my 1.5 ghz Sawtooth be all about OS 9.
I tried to see if I could find a compatibility list of PC cards that can be flashed or brands to avoid, but I have yet to find such a document. Oh well, at least my VisionTek card was only $15 and if I can find working drivers for Windows 98 SE, at least my Compaq will finally get a GPU upgrade. Not sure if the R7000 is the most powerful GPU I could have put in there, but it would still be a step up from its integrated graphics.
Yep, that's one of the ROMs I tried. Thanks anyway though. I forget which version of graphicelerator I used, but it was whatever the latest version is on Macintosh Garden. I ran it under Tiger (I have it installed on the same partition as OS 9) both with and without safe boot.
The Mac mini G4 CD Burner is the best burner I own. I swear this thing makes the most accurate CD-Rs, my PS1 hates anything else, espically the 5,2 MacBook!
Do you know the specific model of the burner? What speed do you burn them at?
Taking a quick avian break. Got Linux dual-booted on my iBook G4 and now getting it set up on my PBG3 on the CF card I had OpenBSD on.
Played with a 4th browser option for the PowerPC macs - Aqua Web something ? Seems to load every website out there I can see. even, www.penfed.com my bank. So, that makes tenfourfox, interwebPPC, Somewhat LWK, and Aqua Web.
Done a track entirely on my iBook G3/OSX Tiger/Propellerhead Reason 3 - final mix was mastered in SonicWORX after booting into OS9....
Crashed it by unmounting a CD image I had mounted. That's... weird.
Also, I'm currently messing around in Gimp.
Also, I'm currently messing around in Gimp.
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You must love OS 9.. now if you can only re-design a new browser engine… let’s make Os 9 great again !
I thought you were doing that - you've been telling us you have for over a year
Yes, trying to figure out how to integrate Ancienne (forget 1st part of it) into classila, so modern TLS can allow most if not all websites to open - YouTube since YouTube never really worked as it should on OS 9, in fact, I don’t think OS 9 ever really ran YouTube at all when it came out in early 2000’s.
To each their own. I escaped my last purpose and use for OS9 circa 2010 I think. If I never have to use it again it will be too soon.