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    USB/FW capture card for PowerPC Macs?

    Elgato Video Capture small USB device captures standard definition composite and s-video with left and right RCA audio jacks. Supposedly works with iPhone, iPad, Mac, and PC. Captures using H.264 encoder. I’ve never used one but I like Elgato’s products.
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    MPEG2 encoding on Mac OS 9?

    What hardware encoder are you testing? I've got a Wired Digital Mediapress PCI card in my Quicksilver though I haven't used it in years. It will do realtime conversion when capturing from composite, s-video, or SDI (with a breakout cable). It will also transcode from multiple formats to MPEG-2...
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    Mac Mini G4 (A1103) Lid Swapped with Intel Model (A1283)

    More careful use of the heatgun and a metal lab spatula to separate the two layers of plastic around the edges before slowly peeling them apart. Repeatedly stop and reheat as the plastic and glue cool and it becomes difficult to continue. Below is a pic of a lid from an A1283 Intel Mini that...
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    Mac Mini G4 (A1103) Lid Swapped with Intel Model (A1283)

    I've been working on cleaning and upgrading a 1.42 GHz G4 Mac Mini (A1103) to make a OS 9 and 10.4 system. We know the retrobright method doesn't work on Macs like the G4 Mini and eMac because the (formerly) white plastic is behind a clear acrylic layer and can't be touched by whatever version...
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    Tips for Upgrading a Mac mini G4 for Mac OS 9 Use

    Never mind. Success with 10.4! Not sure what was wrong before. Now to add AirPort and Bluetooth and figure out why it won’t recognize my white, wired Apple keyboard (Opt key would to select boot drive, disc eject key works at startup). I get a message that keyboard needs to be identified and...
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    Tips for Upgrading a Mac mini G4 for Mac OS 9 Use

    @davecom I probably should have purchased the ATA to mini mSATA adapter you linked to but I ended up buying a different one by mistake. I added a Kingston 1TB SSD. Do you know if there are problems with drives that large? My 10.4 DVD wasn't recognized and I thought my optical drive may be dead...
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    Tips for Upgrading a Mac mini G4 for Mac OS 9 Use

    I've got a 1.42 GHz Mac Mini and am planning to set it up to dual boot OS 9 and 10.4 but I want to get all my parts together so I hopefully only have to open it once. I'm going to test audio with a cheap USB to 3.5 mm headphone jack adapter connected to decent powered speakers. I'm guessing a...
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    Graphics Card with the Best Picture Quality?

    Oh yeah that's where I'm reading it. I'm trying to focus on a PIII build first since I think that's going to be the most useful. I'd like to do a dual CPU build just because I've owned them before and still have some of SGI's unusual (and non- DOS, Win 9X, or XP compatible) multiprocessor x86...
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    Graphics Card with the Best Picture Quality?

    I've been doing a lot of reading on 486 to Pentium III PCs to figure out how I want to build one or more systems for 90s-00s Windows 98 and DOS games. I know, boo PCs but I've got tons of old Macs and no old PCs - and I didn't expect parts to be so expensive. When forum contributors can stop...
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    A thread for RackMacs

    My Marathon GRack Quicksilver is in storage so here’s a pic I store from macrumors. I think is is actually a Digital Audio but the case is the same.
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    Truevision TARGA 2000 Pro driver

    Here's the Mac drives for the Targa 1000 and 2000 cards, Nubus and PCI versions. Let me know if this works for you. EDIT: Seems like the .zip file is too large. Need to try again.
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    Truevision TARGA 2000 Pro driver

    I should have this too. I saved CD-Rs of the Mac and Windows files from when I had the same card. I don't have access to a Mac at the moment and haven't found anything that will open the Mac CD. I'll try to get one set up in the next couple of days.
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    Paint Code/Color for Metal Parts of PPC Cases and Any Actual Beige LCDs?

    Thanks. I checked out the thread and it looks like I did actually see a spray can paint recommended but it’s not the platinum that I need. I don’t think I need the beige for anything but that Heavy Hammock looks really dark, at least on my screen.
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    Paint Code/Color for Metal Parts of PPC Cases and Any Actual Beige LCDs?

    I've got a 7100 and a 9500 That need some cosmetic work. I've had good luck retrobrighting Macs in the past and the plastics aren't too yellow on these systems. I'm going to go ahead with that assuming the 9500 doesn't crumble when I open it. They do both have some scratches on the metal parts...
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    Fastest NuBus Video Card for 68k Macs?

    http://lowendmac.com/video/index.html
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    Laser Printers: Vintage vs New(er)

    Update on my laser acquisitions. Laserjet 5M (14MB, 7K pages, network card), NEW duplexer, NEW 500-sheet tray, and real HP high-capacity toner cart. Total so far = $264 including all shipping. Haven't assembled it all yet (will do it after the move) but all in very-good to new shape. For...
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    Laser Printers: Vintage vs New(er)

    Well I just won a LaserJet 5M on ebay, only 7K pages. Look to be clean and nice and white, unlike the one I have at work that is badly yellowed. Total pice with shipping = $95. Looks like a duplex will run me $50 shipped. No toner with the printer though so that's about another hundred or...
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    Laser Printers: Vintage vs New(er)

    I've decided I want a laser printer for home. Mainly because my HP all-in-one that is a few years old sucks, at least as a printer. If it decides to suck up all the paper at once and then print a little bit on each page, relegating them all to the scrap paper pile, one more time it might just...
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    ATTO Silicon Express IV (SEIV) Driver

    Thanks. Now if the ebay seller will just accept my offer...
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    Dream peripherals (the return)

    I can't believe he still has all that Radius stuff listed! Any profit must have long disappeared in ebay fees. I bought what I think was his second to last StudioArray at least 3 years ago. I still have it though its suffered from mod attempts. For some reason I wanted to remove the...
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