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    16 color and 8 bit sound in PPC 7.1.2?

    Does anyone know if System 7.1.2 on a Power Mac supports 16 colors and 8-bit sound? I have a few games I can't play because I need to get down to those specs, and my machines only go down to 7.5. Trying to find out if I can run them on a NuBus Power Mac, or if I need to get a 68k machine (which...
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    How to Play Marathon over a LAN on Classic Macs

    I played Marathon over LAN back in the day, but I was having trouble getting it working this year: the machines could not see each other. The fix was simple: I had to use the AppleTalk control panel to configure AppleTalk to run over Ethernet. Once I did that, the machines could see one...
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    CD-ROM not recognizing burned discs

    I just bought a Power Mac G3 B&W and am hoping to run Mac OS X Server 1.2 (Rhapsody 5.6) on it. I had original install media back in the day but sadly don't have it anymore. I've burned a copy of the installer disc, but sadly the machine's CD-ROM drive does not appear to recognize any burned...
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    TAM recap: how urgent?

    It just clicked with me that I need to recap my TAM, and I’d love input on how urgent it is. A post in this thread suggested the idea of checking the caps for evidence of leaking. I’m no hardware expert and I don’t really know what I’m looking for, but I don’t see anything that looks like...
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    Proactive maintenance on a machine stored in an attic?

    I just bought a beautiful 1.25 gHz MDD G4 tower, and it's running great. The seller found it in the attic of a house they own, so they aren't sure of its history. I expect the attic was probably not climate-controlled, and this is in Georgia so it gets fairly hot and humid. Despite the fact...
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    Where to buy RAM for old Macs?

    (I apologize if I've missed an obvious place to find the answer to this.) Where's a good place to buy RAM for old Macs? It seems like the SDR 168-pin SDRAM in my Twentieth Anniversary Mac has notch positions that don't correspond to most of the RAM I can find for sale online. Wikipedia says: >...
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