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Steve's passing has inspired me to pick up my resto /mod / now memorial project that I began years ago on my Classic. The case is in awful shape and needs *filler and paint. I tried removing the rainbow badge on the front by forcing it out via the hole in the back of the case, but it wouldn't...

I did a search, but I couldn't really find the information I needed. I don't really know a lot about video cards... bear with me. I have a Sapphire Radeon 9600 Pro Atlantis card with 256MB DDR + 4x/8x agp for a PC. Is it possible to flash this card for use in my MDD FW800 G4? Right now I am...

Last week while I was taking out the trash, I found a beige box with a 1.7ghz AthlonXP and a 40gb drive in the dumpster. It had a fresh install of XP on it, and it's pretty quick. Faster than my old (main) PC, which was a measly 450mhz P3. Later that day, I got a call from my dad who has been...

Maybe we could have a thread for stuff like this? Just an idea. Anyway, Today I took trash out to the dumpster and found these screwed to some fiberboard: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aphetica/2622141252/ They were empty, but nonetheless I think they're pretty cool. I don't know why people...

Can I swap a 6500/300 mobo into a 6400 case without swapping the power supply, or will the extra 100mhz be too much for it? Also, the 6500 doesn't have onboard ram like the 6400, right? Does the board have traces leading to where ram should be, but no chips? Or is there simply nothing there at all?

I got a package in the mail today with a Todd Mcfarlane Halo 3 Xbox 360 controller! I totally wasn't expecting it. It came from Pepsi because apparently I entered a contest on their mailing list (they have like 4 different contests a month), and I actually won something! Yay! Too bad it's not...

Where would be a good source of information on how to write drivers for pre-OS9 machines? Where does one begin learning how to write code for Macs?

What are some good 3D games for PPC? I had Unreal 2k4 for awhile and that was okay, but I'm more into adventure games and whatnot, and especially survival horror. I just started into the demo for Penumbra: Black Plague and it seems kind of cool and creepy. The only other game I have played on...

How many different kinds are available, (models, colors, etc... other than the newer white one) and how many of them are interchangeable with other models? Like... will this remote: ...for a 6230CD... control a 6400? I noticed that both of my 6400s have IR sensors, but neither came...

Look what I just won! (pics from auction) http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h149/aphetica/858a_1.jpg http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h149/aphetica/d2e3_1.jpg In original box, owner said it didn't look like it hadn't ever been used... It ended up costing me way more than I initially wanted...

I keep getting this error when I try to copy files from a floppy to a folder on my desktop. My destination system is a PB520c, and the disks were created on a beige PM G3 with OS 9.1 It gets about 3/4 of the way through the transfer before reporting this error. What could be causing it...

I have been up all night attempting to figure out exactly that. My machine is a Powerbook 520c with 20mb of ram and a 240mb HDD. I had OS 8.1 installed on it, but I decided I wanted to wipe the drive, partition it, and dual boot OS 8 and System 7 using the installation files on Apple's site...

Silly Question: in OS 9, how do I get my desktop pattern to be all black behind my wallpaper? All it will let me choose from are a bunch of weak pastels for patterns. :/

I last used it about a year ago, a 520c with (I think) 4mb of ram and some flavor of system 6 or system 7. At the time, it booted with no problems. Today I booted it to make sure it worked before I went to install Sys 7, but I got nothing on the screen, just white. Tried taking the batteries...

So, based on the number of times you email people who are offering computers / parts on Freecycle- how many of them actually result in conquests? I must have sent about 50 emails in the last 6 months and none have paid off. Mostly because the item gets snagged in about 3 seconds flat. However...

I recently took my G3/266 Rev1 down from storage hoping that I might be able to turn it into a semi-competent web browser with Tiger (possibly panther), and also add a partition for OS9, for scsi and older games. [edit: nevermind. I'm working on installing 10.4 with xpostfacto.] Also, OS8's...

I have a rather large iTunes collection (113gb), and I want to back it up to another drive, but only the songs that ~didn't~ come from ripped CDs... since I already have a backup of those (the CD itself). Is there a simple way to do this?

Can anyone point me to an uncomplicated Mac p2p? (ppc, universal) 10.4 I have Limewire right now, but the network seems very limited and it's difficult to find anything that isn't mainstream. Bittorrent is good and all, but not for small, individual files. I recently DL'd Shakespeer and...

I'm currently setting up a 500gb USB hard drive that we picked up for about $55 on clearance at Target. :D :D I know WD doesn't have the best track record, but I really really need some extra storage space for my iTunes collection... 85 out of 120 GB of my main drive is music. :O Even if...

Is it possible to use a tray-loading CD-ROM in a slot-loading iMac? This would only be temporary, long enough to get an OS onto the hard drive and that is it. It doesn't even need to fit in the case. I could just leave the machine half open while it installs. I ask because I have a slot-load...