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    gsteemso posted the thread Repairing graphics cards in Hacks & Development.
    I've been trying to work out how to fix a stack of graphics cards I've got. The most urgent are a pair of Nvidia GeForce 6600s (just...
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    gsteemso replied to the thread SevenTTY — local shell + terminal + SSH for classic Mac OS.
    It does bring up an interesting point re: display efficiency. Presumably it would be a bit more performant if the blitting was...
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    gsteemso replied to the thread Rare PCI card.
    in the extreme case you could try contacting them, but I've had poor luck trying that with very old items because the people who worked...
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    gsteemso replied to the thread Macintosh Color Display giving up the ghost.
    It really depends on how far out of spec your mains power can get. Power supplies are designed to cope with input that might be...
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    gsteemso replied to the thread Backporting HFS+ to Mac OS 8.0 and earlier.
    I've been trying to work out what, in principle, would be needed to boot from an HFS+ volume on a 68k machine, which as we all know was...
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    gsteemso replied to the thread System 7 (and OS 8) natively boots on the Mac mini G4!.
    ...Huh. You learn something new every day. Were there any actual hardware differences (as opposed to mere SIMM or hard drive...
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    gsteemso replied to the thread System 7 (and OS 8) natively boots on the Mac mini G4!.
    Wasn't the P in 7.1.2p short for “Performa”? I was under the impression that the only difference was the bundled applications. (7.1...
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    gsteemso replied to the thread DumbDD.
    true. I didn't know about the other partitions but I agree completely with your assessment.
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    gsteemso replied to the thread DumbDD.
    it sounds like his Whole Disc Image includes the partition table. That would cause any system that mounts the drive to ignore the...
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    gsteemso replied to the thread Minimum Mac OS Version For Reading A DVD Properly?.
    Well, if you partitioned the daylights out of your BD-R before putting any data on it...
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    gsteemso replied to the thread DumbDD.
    You're quite correct, there's a driver on there too. I'd somehow forgotten that detail. 3rd party drivers that tried to be more...
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    gsteemso replied to the thread Minimum Mac OS Version For Reading A DVD Properly?.
    There's a point at which the limit rises from 2 GiB to 4, and then another point at which it rises from 4 GiB to 2 TiB. (Internally...
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    gsteemso replied to the thread DumbDD.
    A CD or DVD uses a different partition-map format than a hard drive, and the Mac would not be able to make sense of it unless you wrote...
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    gsteemso replied to the thread DumbDD.
    “dd” for Classic Mac OS sounds like a great idea! This could help with an issue that was mentioned in a thread somewhere here around...
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    gsteemso replied to the thread Connecting an Apple Monitor to VGA.
    I vaguelly recall at least one of the very early CRT monitors used Sync-on-Green. No idea which one(s), though.
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