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I actually did! Alas, like everyone else they only go up to 4.0, which is the latest available version. After 10 years, I've pretty much lost interest in using my RTMac on anything newer than what driver 4.0 supports (I might try using it on Mac OS 9 for the novelty), but I was recently...

10 years later, I try searching again, thinking maybe someone would've found and posted MatroxRTMac4.1.img.sitx by now, but no! The search still leads me back here! The search continues.... c

I tried booting System 7.1.2 om my Pismo today. To my amazement, it actually did boot, but the Finder won't load, so it's not very useful. But it basically works, so the Finder is probably fixable! c

It would be! When that article was written (not sure when, but probably early-mid 2000s), 3D printing wasn't available, but now it is, so a custom LC-style case could conceivably be created from scratch without sacrificing an existing machine, as the writer of the article did. I don't have the...

I remember reading an article years ago about an iMac ATX conversion that was hacked into a Mac II enclosure. Do you have similar plans (putting the thing into a pretty and tidy box, basically) or do you intend to leave it bare for testing and experimentation? c

That stinks! I may have a 366 MHz iBook motherboard somewhere, but the connector for the display backlight is broken with a torn up trace or two. I suppose if that could be repaired, it could work (it was fine otherwise, and I could see normal things when I shined a flashlight at the display)...

Ah, I see. Well, at least it's interesting (especially in the early years, Apple had some pretty whimsical naming practices). I don't find the industry's current naming conventions to be particularly exciting. I've heard that term ("giblets") used to describe random leftover turkey innards...

I think 'gbly's are basically the designated resource type for system enablers. Why Apple chose 'gbly' is beyond me, however. How does one go about creating an enabler? Can one simply take an existing one, strip it of any unneeded resources, copy in the HFS+ stuff in the right places, and...

I see. That makes sense. However, it won't harm them now to develop the HFS+ patch into a backwards-compatible enabler, so hopefully it can be done, especially since copy-pasting things in ResEdit is kind of tedious and error-prone, especially for beginners. c

Well, I did notice that the HFS+ patch doesn't work on CHRP-enabled Mac OS 7.6 when the patches are applied to the System file; for some reason, the patches have to instead be applied to the CHRP enabler to be functional, so this does tend to imply that it can indeed be implemented as an...

I see. The least problematic solution, therefore, would seem to be to find the routines in the newer ROM that allow the brightness controls to work (fortunately, it was fixed relatively early on; the initial retail release of 9.1, which contains ROM 6.1, has a working brightness control) and...

Tried 3.9. That worked, but brightness is still broken. All the machine-specific versions are, unsurprisingly, not working. Can that "This won't work on your model" stuff be patched out? I would try patching these ROMs myself, if I knew how (I don't). c

OK, I downloaded Mac OS ROM 5.5.1. Is it ready to go as is, or do I have to do anything to it? I guess I'll try a few things and find out.... EDIT. I just expanded it. However, 5.5.1 didn't work; I got a "this startup disk is not supported by your model" error just after the Happy Mac. c

Ahh, OK! I didn't realize there were stock ROMs there. I thought there were only patched versions. I'll check it out! c

No, I haven't! I'll have to do that! Do you know where I could find that specific version? Is there a repository of Mac OS ROMs somewhere? c

UPDATE #2: Perhaps I was a bit premature. The flash drive System folder boots up perfectly with ROM 10.2.1, but when I put it in the System folder on the internal hard drive, it locks up hard just before the Finder is supposed to load. No more errors at least, but it's not exactly an...

Update: The resources for display brightness control are in Mac OS ROM! On a hunch, I thought I'd try copying the Mac OS ROM off the OS 9.1 CD I have handy here (which can control brightness) and attempting to boot 9.0.4 with it. Well, it didn't work, because it crashed with innumerable...

I only just today discovered this minor, but important problem, and since nowadays, there's really no practical benefit to running the latest version of OS 9 (except perhaps for compatibility with the relatively few applications that require 9.1 and up), this is something that should probably be...

I gave up for now, because I couldn't get anything to work. So for now, I'm setting it up as stock with the original 9.0.4 (I learned that apparently, when Apple updated the firmware, they broke compatibility with a couple features when running 9.0.4 or below: brightness control, and clamshell...

I thought the NT bootloader was supposed to create that automatically? In, for instance, Mac OS 9, can I simply update the disk drivers via Drive Setup like normal without trashing all the NT stuff? Or is there a special procedure I need to follow? I patched my CHRP 7.6 installation for HFS+...