Congratulations - post about the config interesting to see what CPU, and PCI cards it has!I will be picking up a Power Macintosh 9600 later this week and would like to know the differences between a "Tsunami" and "Kansas" mainboard.
Yeah, there is very little difference between the 9500 and 9600. Basically the Tsunami 9600 boards are just a 9500 board with a different power connector.Wasn't "Tsunami" the codename for the PM 9500 and any clone that was based off it?
Not really much difference.Overall which one would be better?
I think you mean 9600 which has 6 PCI Slots. The 8600 has 3 PCI Slots even though it uses a similar if not identical case to the 9600.I think the later version of the 8600 ROM that fixed G3 upgrade issues won't run anything before OS 7.6.1.
What did they change in the ROM and when? I haven't heard of this.I think the later version of the 8600 ROM that fixed G3 upgrade issues won't run anything before OS 7.6.1.
Start by cleaning their contacts, and spray contact cleaner in the RAM slots. Dirty contacts is the issue more often than failing RAM.sadly 2 of the 64MB modules are causing the system to be unstable
Personally I let them be. I've heard it makes the plastic go more brittle and the yellow comes back quicker.Is retro brite an option?
Silly question time... So is that a virtualised PowerPC or still emulated? So just emulating a PPC on a PPC?That combination will happily run PPC BeOS on a G3
MacOS running on SheepShaver on BeOS, on a 466MHz G3 in a 9600 :
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Virtualised I believe, but wouldn't say with confidence. While not looking great on screen with the tests it has done so far, I think it scored fairly well overall. Well into the beige PPCs.S
Silly question time... So is that a virtualised PowerPC or still emulated? So just emulating a PPC on a PPC?