Recent content by ArbysTPossum

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.

The paste in mine was concrete, and kinda smelled like pee. That's it sown story, but it was worthless. The display on mine wouldn't turn on, there was no chime, it would just turn the fan on and hang there. A beep is usually a RAM issue on Macs, so pull out the smaller RAM module and see what...

I had the same problem with my 1Ghz iMac. The heatsink was not making good contact with the processor and/or the heat pipe wasn't sinking heat into the inner chassis well enough. I was also using two ram sticks that were different speeds, which might have been an issue too but I can't confirm. I...

This may have been brought up in all of this but could these tests differ in MacOS 8.0-8.6? I had a 6200 board that died in a tragic heatsink accident, and I found it to be absolutely charming. It was slow, it was not great, and it was the second beige retro machine I picked up. I miss it.