In theory, it should install on an iBook Clamshell but I never quite got it to work. Gigabit Ethernet is the official cut off point for G4 and Lombard 333Mhz for G3. Curious as to how you got the SnowBook to boot. I thought the GPU was the sticking point.if its worth anything Iv managed to boot OS X server 1.2v3 on a 500Mhz Snow iBook G3(and a Flower Power iMac) I should try getting it going on one of my MDDs...
I could guess what the above screenshot was on but i want to let others have a go
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GPU is only one half of the battle, the main sticking point here is the Boot loader does exact machine checks, so I have to go into OpenFirmware and fake my Model Identifier then it will normally boot assuming the GPU (and some other things) is compatible... (otherwise if the GPU is not compatible, the window-server wont load but SU mode works)
the CD-ROM in my SnowBook doesn't even work
I install 1.2v3 onto a 10GB drive using my Sawtooth then used DD to make an image of the drive that I can deploy to any machine/HDD i wish, its quite handyhttps://forums.macrumors.com/threads/lombard-g4-upgrade.2010811/#post-23826154 heres a post with a couple pictures
Sneaky. I have always done it the traditional way by way of installer. This is where I go wrong by playing by the rules.
the CD-ROM in my SnowBook doesn't even work
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/lombard-g4-upgrade.2010811/#post-23826154 heres a post with a couple pictures
This is very interesting ! Can you have thousand colors screen running 1.2v3 on that iBook , or only 256 ?
I know 1.2v3 runs on a Lombard, but only at 256 colors settings.
sadly only 256 colours on both the iBook and iMac, evidently the full driver is not there or not loading (I think its somewhat using the OF frame buffer as the iBook screen aint running at 75Hz like it says)
ill have to fudge with OF/1.2v3 some more and see if i can more colours out of it
Someone was kind enough to send me a bracket for the graphics card on my Cube so I got it out of storage and gave it an airing.
This is my autumn wallpaper. It bears a striking resemblance to my summer wallpaper.
This is my autumn wallpaper. It bears a striking resemblance to my summer wallpaper.
very nice! sonnet CPU? what GPU are you rocking?
your missing OS X Server 1.2v3
, its "offically" compatible with a G4 cube (ie PowerMac5,1 is in the boot loaders machine compatible check) also no Leopard sever? 
Holy operating systems Batman!
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very nice! sonnet CPU? what GPU are you rocking?
your missing OS X Server 1.2v3
You never know... Leopard might not have mounted the UFS(?) Server 1.x boot volume.
Gigadesigns, so I had to run a firmware update. It does have dip switches to cIock down to 1.4 or 1.5.very nice! sonnet CPU? what GPU are you rocking?
your missing OS X Server 1.2v3
I ran out of room for any more OSes, plus the Cube is blighted by the 128GB limit. I have Server 1.0, 1.2 and even the 1.2 updater but sadly no 1.2v3. Very hard to find these days unless I go into the garden.
The Rage 128 is beyond tragic in Leopard. Very laggy.
the equivalent sonnet CPU would of required a similar firmware patch too. do you have a OS X system profiler shot of this cube?
if you can try and find a Mac GeForce2 MX its compatible with the same bracket as the Rage 128 and should support most of those OSs (inc OS X server 1.2v3) and it will give you quartz extreme however you might wanna bodge a bigger heatsink/fan onto the card as from what i understand the non cube Mac GeForce2 runs REALLY hot in a cube. (an original ATI Radeon is older but faster, has QE too and should be compatible with every version of OS X you have there but they are very rare. it was the high end card that shipped with the GigE)
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Lol, that took me back for a bit. I ran BeOS R5 waaay back then too.. Prob my fave OS to date actually.. everything was just... great. even ran Dano for a while and with a voodoo 3 card it was awesome.
sadly BeOS went away and now only a few remain. There is of course the Haiku re-imaging, but has been long, long time coming and we are still much much further away than R5.03 ever was. Keeping up with some of the latest, it seems they are now forking away from BeOS native apps and now have other non native layers running.
anyways, thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Loved it.
I think the Radeon 7000 might be the way to go. I am not afraid to get the Dremel out on the card to persuade it to sit tightly. Not sure I want to up the heat quotient too highly.
I have a SysProf from OS9
but it is not as informative as the one from Kodiak, which bravely attempted to extract all the salient details from my Cube and almost succeeded. Except it got every one wrong.
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Nothing special here, just my PowerBook after its SSD upgrade and me messing around with GeekTool and the like for a while
ok so its not PowerPC, but its not intel either
this is my first 68k Macintosh! going to be a fun new experience, trying out all the 1980s games and whatnot
I got it in today was from a trade I did with @Daniël Oosterhuis , it was fun making floppies for it, luckily I have a bunch of 1.44MB DOS floppies that format fine into 800K disks (I know not recommended, but its all i got) im also glad I Have a floppy drive for my Kanga, saves having to drag out the G3 beige to make floppies (said floppy drive was from my 200Mhz 3400c I won on ebay a while back)
as you can see it has 2.5MB of RAM, it also has a 40MB SCSI hard drive but its otherwise a stock Macintosh SE, at some point ill max it out at a whopping 4MB of ram
anyhow time to load it up with games and see how she does.
this is my first 68k Macintosh! going to be a fun new experience, trying out all the 1980s games and whatnot
I got it in today was from a trade I did with @Daniël Oosterhuis , it was fun making floppies for it, luckily I have a bunch of 1.44MB DOS floppies that format fine into 800K disks (I know not recommended, but its all i got) im also glad I Have a floppy drive for my Kanga, saves having to drag out the G3 beige to make floppies
(said floppy drive was from my 200Mhz 3400c I won on ebay a while back)as you can see it has 2.5MB of RAM, it also has a 40MB SCSI hard drive but its otherwise a stock Macintosh SE, at some point ill max it out at a whopping 4MB of ram
anyhow time to load it up with games and see how she does.
Here's a special About This Mac, under a beta version of Mac OS X 10.5!
It's interesting to see the transition from Tiger's Aqua to the more gradient design of the era. And as seen in the screenshot, even at one point they considered a completely flat Menu Bar. Curiously, they brought that design back in OS X Yosemite.
It's interesting to see the transition from Tiger's Aqua to the more gradient design of the era. And as seen in the screenshot, even at one point they considered a completely flat Menu Bar. Curiously, they brought that design back in OS X Yosemite.
Mac Mini G4, overclocked from 1.25ghz to 1.42ghz, regreased CPU and running stable. Not that bad of a machine and pretty peppy under Tiger.
Following the Tiger theme, we go bit further back in time to a world where Mac OS X Leopard... looked like Tiger.
Of course, another beta of Mac OS X 10.5; this time it's build 9A241. I'd say it's pretty snappy too.
Of course, another beta of Mac OS X 10.5; this time it's build 9A241. I'd say it's pretty snappy too.
Let's just sneak this one in quietly with no fanfare. Move along, nothing to see.
No fair! what a tease
have you dug it out to do what I think your planning to do on it? No fair! what a tease
That must have been all of ten seconds. Did you have an alert notification?
Turns out what I thought was my Performa hidden under a ton of stuff was actually an Ultrasparc 5. This antique was skulking behind my Sawtooth and I only needed to haul out a few desktops to get to it. I have a fresh 80GB drive to play with. The original 4GB Quantum Fireball is too noisy and MacOS has started to freeze on me as if the CPU is pegged 100% on it.
Not sure if the 96MB of RAM would be better updated to 128MB first. What does slightly concern me is that although I could partition and format the 80GB drive booting up with the Performa's Restore CD (7.5.5), it then complained that there was no hard drive to restore to. Hoping that there aren't any other hardware gremlins on it.