StarskJun 18
The Syquest Part 1. 27 years ago, I shut down this 1994 Syquest and its 88MB cartridge for the last time. It stayed in a box all this time, until I recently decided to plug it into the Power G4 I acquired a few months ago.
For that, I bought an Adaptec SCSI 2930 card and the appropriate cable... But when I plug the Syquest into the Mac and boot, I get a gray screen with the mouse cursor... nothing happens until I shut down the Syquest, and then the Mac boots up normally. It seems I need a SCSI terminator... to be continued...
#RetroComputing #VintageApple #PowerMac #vintageapple #SyQuest #scsi #VintageTech
N-gated Hacker NewsJun 18
👕🚴‍♂️ Oh wow, a riveting tale of how #debugging Power Macintosh #emulation is like assembling #IKEA furniture—tedious, multilingual, and leaving you questioning your #life #choices. But fear not, our hero emerges with screenshots of... progress? Or was it a cry for help? 🤔🔧
https://rbelmont.mameworld.info/?p=1725 #stories #comparison #PowerMac #tech #humor #HackerNews #ngated
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Jonathan AlfonsoJun 15, 2015

PowerPC in 2015

Intro Hi everyone, it's been a while since my last post. I figured I'd talk about a project I'm currently working on, which is my attempt to make a PowerPC-based Power Mac work well in the year 2015. The specific model in question is a PowerMac G4 FW800 (Dual 1.42GHz; PowerMac3,6), and it is my main desktop. This desktop was released in 2002 with some amazing specs - dual 1.42GHz PowerPC G4 processors, 512MB DDR RAM, a Radeon 9000 Pro, a 120GB 7200RPM IDE hard disk, and a HUGE display - 23" Apple Cinema Display that runs at 1920x1200. […]

https://alfonsojon.com/2015/06/14/powerpc-in-2015/

PowerPC in 2015

Intro Hi everyone, it’s been a while since my last post. I figured I’d talk about a project I’m currently working on, which is my attempt to make a PowerPC-based Po…

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Show threadGames That I MissedMay 31

I haven't turned this computer on in a few months, and really haven't used it for much at all since last year, when I verified it was working.

They had AppleWorks 6 installed on here. Really, this is about all I need in a word processor. Clean interface, functional, gets out of my way.

#PowerMac #Retrocomputing

Andrew DavisonApr 22
Think I’m installing #Debian Trixie on a #PowerMac #G4 Cube.
DesertFOXApr 14

Haufenweise PowerMac G3 in einem Computerraum in der Schule im Frühjahr 2000. Foto aus meinem persönlichen Archiv. We need to go back!!! 🙂

#School #Apple #Macintosh #PowerMacintosh #PowerMac #90s #2000s

DesertFOXApr 2

I just added another BIN/CUE disc image to "Kai's Photo Soap" on the Internet Archive. It's 80MB bigger than just the plain ISO file, which might be the Power Macintosh version of the program, but I'm not sure.

https://archive.org/details/kais_photo_soap_de

#PowerMac #Apple #Macintosh #RetroComputing #Retro #Tech #90s #Windows95 #Win95

Kai's Photo Soap - CD-ROM : MetaCreations : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Das Bildbearbeitungsprogramm Kai's Photo Soap.Aus dem Jahre 1997, für Windows 95 und NT 4.0.

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MarkoApr 2

Veronica Explains bringt ein neues Video, wie man Linux auf einen alten 90'er Jahre #PowerMac installiert. Da musste ich an meine Erfahrungen mit dem PowerMac G5 denken. Da hatte ich nach dem #OSX eine ganze Zeit lang #Gentoo Linux drauf laufen. Das hat mir am Anfang echt viele graue Haare gebracht. 🧓🍏🐧

Aber last not least lief es dann sehr flott auf der alten Kiste, bis mit dann das ständige Kompilieren zuviel wurde und ich die Hardware verkaufte.

🌀 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMiyV_Ib77XLpzHPQH_q0qQ

#apple #linux #risc #mac #veronicaexplains

Veronica Explains

I'm Veronica! I love Linux, old computer hardware, and explaining things. Some folks call me the Linux Mom, and that works for me. I'm a sysadmin and COBOL lady who's posting fun content about cool things you can do with Linux, as well as some fun retro tech stuff I come across!

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Justin DerrickApr 1

So, my #MARCHintosh adventure wasn't great this year. In trying to convert my internal drives to a CF card, I suspect I blew out the secondary IDE bus on my old #PowerMac #PMG3. It still runs, but I think this might be very close to the end of the road for my 30 year old Mac.

I did manage to copy the contents of the main boot drive to a 128GB MicroSD card, so I'll likely play with an emulator and see if I can restore that drive to a working VM.

I've also gone through my boxes of old CDs and DVDs, and I'll be converting them to ISOs, for upload to one of the old software repositories for #MacOS software, before disposing of the physical media in pursuit of downsizing and reducing clutter in my life.

thedæmon (Clay Ayers) [he / him]Mar 31
I won (off ebay), PowerMac 7,2 (able to run MorphOS) with a PPC G5, here I come! #PowerMac #MorphOS #Amiga