i've bought recently a blue iMac G3, here's the specs:
PowerPC G3 500mhz
Ram upgraded to 1GB
Hard Disk upgraded to 120GB (i think that's the maximum capacity supported)
Video Board Ati Rage Pro 128, 16MB
Unfortunatly the speakers are broken, i mean there is sound but the foam around the small woofer is damaged and it doesn't sound like it should. very sorry for this. Anyway, i've hooked up a pair of Empire R1000 (i think they're an italian rebrand of some speakers), an outstanding pair of desktop speakers.
When i bought it (for 25, less than 25$) it has Mac OS 10.4 preinstalled, i didn't bother to reinstall anything, just wiped out the old user account and created a new one.
I've installed so far:
Vox
Perian (vlc was too buggy, version 0.8.6 keep crashing and newer versions were too heavy to manage. quicktime is just fine)
Bean
Appcleaner
The Unarchiver
Camino (safari was doing his job but it was way too slow. camino is not exactly flying (and i should forgot facebook and youtube and everything flash based) but it works. i'm writing from it, right now)
wich is, more or less, the same software that i use on my Air 2011
questions:
is there a more lightweight browser than camino? some sort of chrome for ppc? on this machine i've tride firefox and tenfourfox but they're slow.
Gaming:
Fruit of Dojo ports of Quake and Quake II (and mission packs), they rock at 60FPS on this beast.
PRBoom, an engine for doom, the only that works, i've tried a lot of versions of zDoom (my personal favourite) but they keep crashing.. is there a version of zdoom that works on this machine?
Starcraft, downloaded installer from the blizzard website after registering the cd codes on battle.net but there is no sound and it crashes on tutorial (!!), downloading a patch right now
ScummVM (still not tried but i think it works)
Alien VS. Predator Gold (working but no sound, ****)
I've noticed that in every OpenGL game the brightness is very very low, even pushing it all up from the game itself, is there a workaround for this?
So far i'm satisfied from this little machine, apart from the browsing experience, very slow, and some minor hiccups in tiger due to the graphics effects of the OS (i've already disabled dashboard, keeping spotlight for launching programs)
Suggestions?
Is there some good software that i'm missing?
Some good games for OSX? (is there a version of unreal for tiger?)
I'm thinkig of a dualboot OSX-OS9 but is this a reasonable thing? there are video players and modern browsers (i've heard of classilla) for OS9?
thanks!
PowerPC G3 500mhz
Ram upgraded to 1GB
Hard Disk upgraded to 120GB (i think that's the maximum capacity supported)
Video Board Ati Rage Pro 128, 16MB
Unfortunatly the speakers are broken, i mean there is sound but the foam around the small woofer is damaged and it doesn't sound like it should. very sorry for this. Anyway, i've hooked up a pair of Empire R1000 (i think they're an italian rebrand of some speakers), an outstanding pair of desktop speakers.
When i bought it (for 25, less than 25$) it has Mac OS 10.4 preinstalled, i didn't bother to reinstall anything, just wiped out the old user account and created a new one.
I've installed so far:
Vox
Perian (vlc was too buggy, version 0.8.6 keep crashing and newer versions were too heavy to manage. quicktime is just fine)
Bean
Appcleaner
The Unarchiver
Camino (safari was doing his job but it was way too slow. camino is not exactly flying (and i should forgot facebook and youtube and everything flash based) but it works. i'm writing from it, right now)
wich is, more or less, the same software that i use on my Air 2011
questions:
is there a more lightweight browser than camino? some sort of chrome for ppc? on this machine i've tride firefox and tenfourfox but they're slow.
Gaming:
Fruit of Dojo ports of Quake and Quake II (and mission packs), they rock at 60FPS on this beast.
PRBoom, an engine for doom, the only that works, i've tried a lot of versions of zDoom (my personal favourite) but they keep crashing.. is there a version of zdoom that works on this machine?
Starcraft, downloaded installer from the blizzard website after registering the cd codes on battle.net but there is no sound and it crashes on tutorial (!!), downloading a patch right now
ScummVM (still not tried but i think it works)
Alien VS. Predator Gold (working but no sound, ****)
I've noticed that in every OpenGL game the brightness is very very low, even pushing it all up from the game itself, is there a workaround for this?
So far i'm satisfied from this little machine, apart from the browsing experience, very slow, and some minor hiccups in tiger due to the graphics effects of the OS (i've already disabled dashboard, keeping spotlight for launching programs)
Suggestions?
Is there some good software that i'm missing?
Some good games for OSX? (is there a version of unreal for tiger?)
I'm thinkig of a dualboot OSX-OS9 but is this a reasonable thing? there are video players and modern browsers (i've heard of classilla) for OS9?
thanks!