eMac saved from an e-recycling bin

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Last weekend I picked this eMac up from an after hours e-recycling bin.  I would have gone to be crushed by next morning.  It works well no issues, weights a ton though.

Here are the specs:

Apple eMac G4/1.25 (USB 2.0) Model A1002

1.25 GHz Power PC G4

512MB Ram

ATI Radeon 9200

40GB Hard Disk

DVD R CD RW

I did a fresh install of Mac OSX 10.4.11

Any Game Suggestions?

 

[MOS8_030]

Free, working Macs are the best Macs.

 

[Charadis]

So sad to see these still working machines being sent to be destroyed. Looks like a nice setup you’ve acquired, and for just a bit of effort

i remember seeing these computers in the biology lab of my college. Doesn’t seem they were used very often, either. Just sitting on the side benches...I imagine they’re no longer there tho, it’s been several years, probably meeting the same fate yours was going to meet :-(  

 

[danda]

The nice thing about that eMac is that it is a later revision, so supports up to 2GB of RAM (the older 800Mhz ones only support 1GB). These things are a pain to do any serious upgrades to, but the RAM is very easy to upgrade (just a panel on the base).

 

[3583Bytes]

I already upgraded the RAM from 256 MB to 512 MB.  I will have to look through my RAM box to see if I have the correct RAM to take it further.  Anyways 512 is probably enough to run most things from that era anyhow.

 

[CC_333]

I already upgraded the RAM from 256 MB to 512 MB....probably enough to run most things from that era anyhow.

Probably is, but having more never hurts, especially if you want to run Leopard, which pretty much demands a 1 GB minimum.

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[techknight]

You need MAX ram if you want to browse anything with TenFourFox without it coming to a crawl and crashing. JavaScript these days is RAM hungry... My iBook G4 1.25 has 1GB I think, and its not quite enough anymore. 

Anyways, as far as games, I know of a few. One of them I would play on that machine would be Unreal Tournament I am pretty sure that machine has the specs to run it if you like FPS games I know and love that one. Maybe medal of honor was built for mac, I think the first call of duty might have been as well. 

 

[EvieSigma]

You need MAX ram if you want to browse anything with TenFourFox without it coming to a crawl and crashing. JavaScript these days is RAM hungry... My iBook G4 1.25 has 1GB I think, and its not quite enough anymore. 

Anyways, as far as games, I know of a few. One of them I would play on that machine would be Unreal Tournament I am pretty sure that machine has the specs to run it if you like FPS games I know and love that one. Maybe medal of honor was built for mac, I think the first call of duty might have been as well. 

My 1.33GHz iBook G4 was pretty much unusable with the stock hard drive, even at max RAM...much better now with a PATA to mSATA adapter and an 80GB mSATA drive.

 

[Unknown_K]

I think anything single core is unusable on the net anymore. And try running Firefox with a dozen tabs open with 4gb or less RAM.

 

[TheDoctor]

Anyways, as far as games, I know of a few. One of them I would play on that machine would be Unreal Tournament I am pretty sure that machine has the specs to run it if you like FPS games I know and love that one. Maybe medal of honor was built for mac, I think the first call of duty might have been as well. 

I spent a lot of time playing Unreal Tournament 2004 on my PowerMac G4 Dual 533.  The 1.25Ghz eMac should have no trouble with it.

 

[Jon183]

Age of Empires I and II are good. Postal 2 is a game that is proper 3D and should run, I have it on my eMac.

Also, about tenfourfox and RAM, my Powerbook G4 1.42 or something GHz with 2GB RAM can kind of browse the internet properly, youtube will work better in sandbox mode but will never be that good.

A base model G5 with 4GB RAM ran youtube very well for me. Tenfourfox in general without any site open can slow down the computer.

 

[Skate323k137]

Very nice. I had a similar emac donated to me, same proc etc. It was filthy but cleaned right up (dry erase marker works wonders to remove permanent marker). I threw 1GB in there but I may gift it / pass it on to someone else eventually as I have other machines I use.