Mac OS 8.6 for (some) Unsupported G3s and G4s

[LightBulbFun]

Thanks for the heads up. I've tweaked it to match your version.

ahh its still not quite right im afraid

this is what you should do

dev /cpus/PowerPC,G4
000c0206 encode-int " cpu-version" property
unselect-dev

and if you want to actually see the changes before and after you would want to do it like so

dev /cpus/PowerPC,G4
.properties
000c0206 encode-int " cpu-version" property
.properties
unselect-dev

and also note the actual name of the CPU in Open Firmware, most stock G4 systems will be just "PowerPC,G4" but if you have something like a 7447-7448 CPU upgrade and depending on who's firmware patcher your using the name might be "PowerPC,60?" for example and if you have a multiple CPU system you will have to do it for each CPU, and dont forget you might likely need a patched multi-processor extension (or if using a 7455 just use the one from 9.2.2? I dunno, never really tested it!)

if your not sure you can just do a ls /cpus and see what name is read back

 

[RandomSeed]

Thanks for this! Will give it a go.

My hosting service isn't great sorry. People in the Americas might find the connection drops. All I can say is sorry, but if you keep trying it eventually should complete.

I had the connection drop issue but used wget via terminal and was able to handle the connection issues.

 

[Figgy2112]

Tried On My 2001 600mhz iMac G3 with the stock 16mb vram ati card, Seemed to read it fine and boot but no video, just a white screen even tho it looked and sounded like things were reading/working