Recent content by ArbysTPossum

As far as I've known, any 68040 should do, just not the 68LC040. I think you can get loose processors on eBay.

Working on a PowerMac 6500 with a 400mhz G3 accelerator card. It doesn't look like everyone else's. and google gives me a white page. So far so good.

All of my sub-500Mhz machines are pre-G3 Powermacs, so they only support 9.1, not 9.2, or maybe that doesn't matter much? My use case was a 225Mhz 603e, then the same system with a 400MHz G3 accelerator card. I'm willing to try it again, as a fun project, because I'd like to be mistaken on this...

That's great, because a few of my favorite machines I have run 8.6. Anything sub 500Mhz seems to run 9 poorly, so I avoid it.

You are in competition with no one, in a niche sector of a niche hobby. Will this only run on MacOS9? Or will it run on older MacOS versions? Something something libraries.

Will this be or eventually be a competent replacement to Classizilla? It's a bit of a pig, so anything that runs in a smaller footprint would be neat.

You could pull the hard drive out, put an OS on it and put it back in, the machine should automatically attempt to boot from the internal drive. It doesn't remove the lock, but it sneaks passed it.

Heatsinks and fans. If the chip gets hot enough to steal your fingerprint, put a heatsink on it. If the case has stagnant airflow, put a fan in it. A lot of old computers have terrible heat management.

https://dosdays.co.uk/topics/Manufacturers/ati/ati_3drageII.php I have found this, it tells a lot about the Rage line in general. They're probably talking about the PC version, but I'm sure it's fine.

I have a Powertower Pro as well, I couldn't find enough reasons to fill the PCI slots. The board has ethernet on it, and everything else. The only thing outside of the ordinary I put in it was an OrangePC card and a USB/Firewire card.

I bought a 6360 with a bad logic board just for the chassis, then I jammed a 6500 board in there, because I admire the form factor. It has a billion other upgrades too, but that thicker pizza box is awesome.

Any chance on tricking the robot into making an optimized version of Doom on 68k Mac? After having played Doom and Duke3D on a 40Mhz 68040 and a 66Mhz 486, I can see that the 68k processor can really throw down.

Or get an LCII for hard mode.

I have both an LCIII and a Quadra 605. The 605 is definitely more powerful, but it's still not enough to do some of the more demanding things. Like the next logic step after an LCIII is a PowerPC. Anything I do on a Quadra 605 is done better on a PowerPC, or not possible on an LCIII.

Try with just the larger RAM module and not the smaller, if it can be helped. I'm not sure it matters, but I imagine the system would prefer to have a non-user servicable module always in place, and the bottom user-accessible one to be optional.