The Beige Knight Rises - PPC 7100/66

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Updates.

Hit a bit or a weirdness patch recently. Don't know if its a prevailing trend of poor luck, or the hardware. Basically as it stands;

7100/66 "Arroway" - Drydocked/awaiting new orders

I have had to remove her main drive to get the power-house 80Mhz 7100 working.

7100/80 "Hadden" - Critical Care

This guy suffered drive failure and I was forced to remove the disc containing an install of MacOS8.5.1, move back to my 80MB 8.5 drive. :disapprove:

This install is unstable (I get Address errors at boot, am able to boot in safe mode), so I have had to disable some stock extensions as the mish-mash is surely causing conflicts. There are doubles of extensions for instance; Apple Built In Ethernet, and Ethernet (Built In). Then there are things like Ethertalk 2, which I'm not even sure I NEED anymore. Can anyone tell me what the bare minimum extensions I need for network communication would be?

AppleTalk is having problems connecting to my G4 Powerbook running 10.4. It never remembers to keep Ethernet as the default Appletalk connection, but even after resetting I can no longer get my server to mount. Even when presented with the dialogue box to enter my username and password I always end up being told the that "connection was severed unexpectedly."

 

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A productive night!

The network issues went away when I used the following extension profile

Extensions
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Apple Built-In Ethernet	41,145 bytes	1.0.5	comd	enbi
Apple CD/DVD Driver	103,149 bytes	1.0.1	INIT	psap
Apple Enet	379,066 bytes	2.0	ndrv	cfrg
Apple Ethernet NB	20,214 bytes	1.0.3	comd	ennb
AppleShare	456,101 bytes	3.8.1	RDEV	afpt
AppleTalk ADSP Tool	36,375 bytes	1.0.1	cbnd	ctbc
Application Switcher	87,023 bytes	1.0	appe	apsw
Contextual Menu Extension	74,773 bytes	1.0.2	INIT	cmnu
Control Strip Extension	70,244 bytes	2.0	appe	sdev
Ethernet (Built-In)	134,454 bytes	2.1	ndrv	cfrg
EtherTalk Phase 2	15,203 bytes	2.5.7	adev	et20
File Sharing Extension	194,076 bytes	7.6.2	INIT	hhgg
File Sharing Library	94,404 bytes	8.0.1	shlb	cfrg
Iomega Driver	66,824 bytes	6.0.1	INIT	gZip
Location Manager Extension	75,110 bytes	2.0	AINI	fall
Open Tpt AppleTalk Library	502,792 bytes	2.0.1	libr	OMGR
Open Tpt Internet Library	461,056 bytes	2.0.1	libr	OMGR
Open Transport Library	524,771 bytes	2.0.1	libr	OMGR
OpenTptAppleTalkLib	53,529 bytes	2.0.1	otsl	otan
OpenTptInternetLib	263,587 bytes	2.0.1	otsl	otan
OpenTransportLib	524,420 bytes	2.0.1	otsl	otan
QuickTime™	2,794,226 bytes	3.0.2	INIT	ånd6
QuickTime™ PowerPlug	2,525,156 bytes	3.0.2	INIT	ånd8
Shared Library Manager	168,325 bytes	2.0.1	INIT	OMGR
Shared Library Manager PPC	211,694 bytes	2.0.1	INIT	OMgr
SLPPlugin	147,613 bytes	1.0	shlb	nslp
SOMobjects™ for Mac OS	134,932 bytes	2.0.8	shlb	cfmg
Sound Manager	377,882 bytes	3.3	INIT	sad 
XTND Power Enabler	6,582 bytes	1.0	shlb	cfmg

I managed to succesfully install MS-DOS 6.1 on the OrangePC Card...



And managed to get to the Windows 3.1 Install Setup



But that's where I ran into trouble with my emulated C-Drive files on my Network drive. Also I am swapping two floppies for 7 images I have. Its a bit of a hassle. Decided to leave it for another night. In the meantime I got my old copy of soundjamMP working.



Plays M3u Streams pretty well, doesn't drop playback when its crunching away on something else, but you can feel the burden on it when you try to do too much else. Things are looking up!

 

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Having more problems with my OrangePC setup.

I am trying to share a volume as a drive but when I access it on the DOS side it keeps telling me:

C:\>D:
Invalid drive specification

I read about this executable called OSHARE.EXE in the manual, but don't know what to make of it. Can some OrangePC guru give me a hand?

I really want to get win95 installed.

 

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Updates!

I managed to get one of the CD drives I have working on the 7100/80. It appears as though I had the wrong version of foreign access enabled, and now they pop up on the desktop no problem... we'll see if it lasts.

Still no luck getting OrangePC shared volumes to work, nor CDs so windows is still very much on hold. I really wish there was an easy way to open these Windows emulated disks. I'm hoping when I get my Aztec CF adapter I can keep a partition that will be accesible by the program... but I'm not holding my breath.

 

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Well I got Windows 95 to install onto the emulated C-drive! I get through the installer, the setup and everything comes up asking me the date and when I provide it the whole thing falls apart due to illegal operation.

I can get to the desktop, play around with the start menu and everything but then it falls apart.

Oh well, maybe I'll try windows 3.1.

 

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Y2K updates?

 

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Thats what I'm wondering now too.

I will try it again one last time and enter a less post-millennial date, will report back. Getting closer though...

Also started trying out RayDream Studio. Pretty awesome application!!

 

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Here's a shotty of Win95 as it looks at start-up. As I mentioned before trying to do anything always leads to errors, I shall try again soon.

 

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I got the card working much better now.

Using the win3.1 setup disk acquired from archive.org's time machine I was able to install the necessary drivers to get win3.1 up and running in much better shape than win95.

Programs run, things work. But its clear I will need a co-processor to do anything really exciting with it. Still, I press on!

Questions for the informed:

-I have seen discussion online of the PowerMac 7100 being overclocked. Does anyone have any links where I could find more information? Everything I find discusses the why and what, but not the how.

-Does anyone have any advice what kind of coprocessor I should be looking for? More details and photos could be provided.