Thanks for the support guys, I appreciate it. I just hope that this lockdown stuff finally ends (in my country the government stated that they will be "gradually lifting it per area" on the 11th of May... So I guess that's a glitter of hope?)
Anyways, yeha, about that issue with the G4, it's a issue I never had before, and I think it's something rather "dumb", sometimes it refuses to flat out start, I can [faintly] hear the fan spin but that's all. No chime, nothing, not a peep.
And sometimes if I power-cycle it (unplug and hold the power button for 20 seconds, then plug it in again), it (or rather as I call it, Sultana) starts up again, and makes a not-so-oddly worrying (ha!) grinding noise, I don't think this is the hard drive but I could be wrong.
If I could describe the noise, it sounds like the same "Bzzt!" that some older Conner (another defunct hard drive manufacturer) HDDs make before spinning up.
Something like that:
Right now it's the least of my concerns, but the power cycle issue however, I think I have my idea... I recall that some Macs need a good PRAM battery to start (iirc some of the old 68K Macintoshes in the Mac II line), since the one in Sultana is still original (from 2004 iirc, but I have not yet checked!), I'll replace it in both my G3 and my G4, we'll see how it'll go... Either way this is going to be a wild goose hunt.
Anyways right now I'm also fighting to get "Souls in The System" working... I do have a serial but the game requires a CD to be in the drive... And it seems that not even mounting the image with Roxio cuts it.
I'd be damned to have to burn another CD 😤
I take it for granted, one day I might attempt this with a fairly beefy PowerMac (such as a MDD G4, I love that thing to bits) or a QuadG5... Maayybe that would have eased it for me.
One day I might as well do a 68K challenge provided I find a Quadra or a IIfx