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I use it for playing with Workbench and KarateScript (for making demos). I love Amiga demoscene, i don't play too much games. Its A1200 with Blizzard 1230IV. I have also Amiga 4000 with 060, Mediator, Voodoo3 and Sonnet 7200 PPC card. I have lots of other computers, mostly ZX Spectrum, ZX Clones, C64 etc. I use them to watch demos and play with HW
Amiga have strong community in Czech Republic. We had lots of user even at the end of 90s. Lots of users had Amiga with Blizzards PPCs, Mediators etc. And now we still have lots of parties, meetings, webs ect.Excellent! Amiga still going strong after all these years
Amiga RuleZ!
IMG_1414what program is that on your g4 imac?
what version would that be, since i'm only seeing the newest intel version. i would love to have my ppc do that when it's sitting idle
Finally got some cat5 fished out to my garage & PMG5 up n running. It’s kind of a wonky looking rig with two free CL lcds & my wife’s high school/college stereo driving sound. Oh yeah this PMG5 has the hillbilly BT antenna I made for it too ... Yanno in case the wonky stereo sound mashup wasn’t hilljack enough
I’m cable management obsessed so will certainly clean this up a bit - maybe suspend the monitors off the wall. Anyhow, glad to have it back up n’ running.
I’m cable management obsessed so will certainly clean this up a bit - maybe suspend the monitors off the wall. Anyhow, glad to have it back up n’ running.
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I was running my G5 through an early 00's SONY system for awhile, but I had so many audio issues with it. It got sent to the Goodwill when we moved.Finally got some cat5 fished out to my garage & PMG5 up n running. It’s kind of a wonky looking rig with two free CL lcds & my wife’s high school/college stereo driving sound. Oh yeah this PMG5 has the hillbilly BT antenna I made for it too ... Yanno in case the wonky stereo sound mashup wasn’t hilljack enough
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I’m cable management obsessed so will certainly clean this up a bit - maybe suspend the monitors off the wall. Anyhow, glad to have it back up n’ running.
My G5 is hooked up to a Boston set of speakers with a subwoofer now and I've had no issues with that so it had to be the stereo.
Glad your system is working!
Finally got some cat5 fished out to my garage & PMG5 up n running. It’s kind of a wonky looking rig with two free CL lcds & my wife’s high school/college stereo driving sound. Oh yeah this PMG5 has the hillbilly BT antenna I made for it too ... Yanno in case the wonky stereo sound mashup wasn’t hilljack enough
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I’m cable management obsessed so will certainly clean this up a bit - maybe suspend the monitors off the wall. Anyhow, glad to have it back up n’ running.
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Does the cutlery boost the Bluetooth signal?
All that silver plastic and aluminum looks
Edit: I used ‘great’ a bit much there... How ‘insanely great’!
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Haha, that’s actually the wedding cake knife n spatula set from our reception. Whew ten years flew by! I am unsure how to quantify the effect on my BT however
I am in the process of insulating & covering 3 of the 4 walls of my garage with pegboard as it was just frame. Yeah the pegboard is super handy/useful and way more affordable in both time & materials than Sheetrock.
Next garage project is to install those extra durable rubber locking floor tiles.
I am in the process of insulating & covering 3 of the 4 walls of my garage with pegboard as it was just frame. Yeah the pegboard is super handy/useful and way more affordable in both time & materials than Sheetrock.
Next garage project is to install those extra durable rubber locking floor tiles.
My office is a bit of a mix at the moment, some PowerPC and some Intel with a mix of Linux and Mac OS going on. some workhorse machines, some hobby machines and a bunch of repairs on the go...
Piccies below, apologies for the Intel gear dirtying it up ;-) on one side of the office lives:
Mac Pro 1.1 Quad
Mac Mini 2.1 Core 2 Duo
PowerMac G3 B&W custom
PowerMac G4 GE Dual (waiting on new PSU)
On the other side lives:
Mac Mini i7 Quad
2x Mac Pro 3.1 Octo
PowerMac G5 Dual
PowerMac G4 DA
PowerMac G4 QS (dead at the moment)
2x PowerBook G4 15in (one waiting on new SSD)
2x MacBook Alunibody
2x MacBook Pro 15in A1226
1x MacBook Pro 15in A1211 (waiting on new screen)
2x MacBook Pro 15in A1260 (one as a donor to fix the other)
1x MacBook Air 2.1 13in
EDIT - oh yeah there’s an iMac in there too! But that’s moving out tomorrow
And a Lenovo Thinkpad, an old Pentium D based PC, and a couple of Atom based Mini-ITX boxes
OS’s in regular use are:
OS X El Capitan
OS X Sierra
OS X Leopard (PPC)
OS X Snow Leopard
OS X Tiger (PPC)
Ubuntu
Debian (PPC)
Mint
ElementaryOS
Centos 6
Centos 7
ESX 6.5
Piccies below, apologies for the Intel gear dirtying it up ;-) on one side of the office lives:
Mac Pro 1.1 Quad
Mac Mini 2.1 Core 2 Duo
PowerMac G3 B&W custom
PowerMac G4 GE Dual (waiting on new PSU)
On the other side lives:
Mac Mini i7 Quad
2x Mac Pro 3.1 Octo
PowerMac G5 Dual
PowerMac G4 DA
PowerMac G4 QS (dead at the moment)
2x PowerBook G4 15in (one waiting on new SSD)
2x MacBook Alunibody
2x MacBook Pro 15in A1226
1x MacBook Pro 15in A1211 (waiting on new screen)
2x MacBook Pro 15in A1260 (one as a donor to fix the other)
1x MacBook Air 2.1 13in
EDIT - oh yeah there’s an iMac in there too! But that’s moving out tomorrow
And a Lenovo Thinkpad, an old Pentium D based PC, and a couple of Atom based Mini-ITX boxes
OS’s in regular use are:
OS X El Capitan
OS X Sierra
OS X Leopard (PPC)
OS X Snow Leopard
OS X Tiger (PPC)
Ubuntu
Debian (PPC)
Mint
ElementaryOS
Centos 6
Centos 7
ESX 6.5
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Sorry to disappoint, but it's tea, I am English after all...
not directly they're not, have you ever* tried to clean tea out of a PowerBook?
*not my finest moment
Finally have it all presentable enough to post! Came across these two last year on an impulse that I convinced my fiancé to go along with lol. He and I had parents who were deep into the graphic design world (my dad did outdoor advertising for a large nationwide company, his dad was a photographer). Picked these up for next to nothing and then tweaked them.
The Cube: stock 450mhz, Radeon 7500 added, 1.5GB Ram, 90GB SSD, Roccat USB audio (hence the soundbar) hooked up to the Cinema Display.
The MDD: started as a 1.0GHZ 133 bus, now a dual 1.33 from an Xserve with 167 bus, Radeon 9000 Pro, 2GB Ram, 120GB SSD, hooked up to the alu Cinema Display.
They are both for the sole purpose of playing older PPC games we grew up with. Him with lots of Hoyle style games, and Nanosaur (more the Cubes alley). Me with lots of Tomb Raider, Unreal, Giants, and Quake. I’ve been keeping an eye out for more upgrades for both. No real interest in the G5s though, not unless it was an interestingly spec’d out one for dirt cheap. These two were during our favorite era of Apple, we just need to add a 17” or 20” iMac G4 and it’s all we’ve ever wanted!
We also have a USB 2.0 eMac in the closet with no HDD but the screen is dying on it unfortunately. Enough ranting from me sorry, just wanted to share!
The Cube: stock 450mhz, Radeon 7500 added, 1.5GB Ram, 90GB SSD, Roccat USB audio (hence the soundbar) hooked up to the Cinema Display.
The MDD: started as a 1.0GHZ 133 bus, now a dual 1.33 from an Xserve with 167 bus, Radeon 9000 Pro, 2GB Ram, 120GB SSD, hooked up to the alu Cinema Display.
They are both for the sole purpose of playing older PPC games we grew up with. Him with lots of Hoyle style games, and Nanosaur (more the Cubes alley). Me with lots of Tomb Raider, Unreal, Giants, and Quake. I’ve been keeping an eye out for more upgrades for both. No real interest in the G5s though, not unless it was an interestingly spec’d out one for dirt cheap. These two were during our favorite era of Apple, we just need to add a 17” or 20” iMac G4 and it’s all we’ve ever wanted!
We also have a USB 2.0 eMac in the closet with no HDD but the screen is dying on it unfortunately. Enough ranting from me sorry, just wanted to share!
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Swapped out the MDD for a 20" 1.25GHZ iMac G4. The iMac G4 is what I knew growing up (early high school), and with the FX5200 it's slightly better for gaming than the MDD actually! DVD drive is bad, so a new one plus a 240GB SSD and a 1GB internal RAM stick for a total of 2GB are all on the way!
Donated the eMac to Goodwill last weekend...with both DDR333 1GB stick in it. Oh well! They're cheap!
Donated the eMac to Goodwill last weekend...with both DDR333 1GB stick in it. Oh well! They're cheap!
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Here’s a few of my PPC macs... I have a Power Mac G4, iMac G4, a few more Mac minis, and a couple graphite clamshells (that don’t work) as well. Looking for a good deal on a G4 cube.
Here’s a few of my PPC macs... I have a Power Mac G4, iMac G4, a few more Mac minis, and a couple graphite clamshells (that don’t work) as well. Looking for a good deal on a G4 cube.
Yah I'm over here basically looking at your key lime and nothing else.
Want to look at it real close? I’m selling it.
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.com/ulk/itm/323755374548