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Hi A friend want to make a new port from Duke 3D with the Easter Egg from the Mac version... and we have a problem. The problem is the Mac OS desktop. If you use the code DNMACS, the security monitors on the game are replaced by a Mac OS Desktop file. We want to extract the file, but it...

I have write a thing about that : https://www.journaldulapin.com/2026/06/09/powermac-g4-usb/

So. I have tried with a Linux Live CD, and the NEC chip was usable with the original ROM. After that, i have flashed the old ROM, and it works : with Mac OS X Tiger, the USB 2.0 is working,no problem with a USB flash drive. There is a weird things : with the original ROM, Mac OS X list only...

I have found a Power Mac near me, i will try to buy it.

Yep, it's a FW800 board (630T4357/630-4497)

And the chip on the logic board is USB 2.0

I have only the Logic Board, now (so i can't test)

I have a question: the Power Mac G4 MDDs include a USB 2.0 chip (NEC D720101F1), even though Apple marketed the machines as USB 1.1 only — possibly to highlight FireWire instead. I have a motherboard (without anything else) that allowed me to confirm that it really is a USB 2.0 chip. But I was...

Excellent. So with the right graphic card, i can just type pong on the open firmware ?

Have you a way to try that ? I will be fun to play pong on the open firmware from a graphic card

Actually, you can use EDO RAM with a G3 Beige. The Grackle suppoirt SDRAM and EDO. https://www.journaldulapin.com/2022/07/11/power-mac-g3-edo/ Many northbridge from this era can use EDO or SDRAM, like Intel 440BX (i have tried too with an Asus P2B motherboard)

I will try, thank you !

I think it will work with KanjiTalk 1.0 and not with the other

I have found a Kanji ROM Card for the Macintosh II, a NuBus card form Japan. I suppose the card contain Kanji font, like the Macintosh Plus ROM from Japan i have found earlier I have used SlotsDump to dump the ROM, but the size is only 4 KB. Is there a way to dump the ressources ? I assume...

Nice ! Il will try with mine