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68K software on PPC machines runs in a JIT software emulator. There's an interesting writeup of it on wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_68K_emulator

I remember a lot of old games used to come with both B&W and Colour binaries, and on Power Macintoshes you would often have to run the B&W version in order not to get graphicsl corruption. Vette! and Civ I come to mind as having this problem. The extension "CivHack FAT" can be used to...

ADC was doomed from the start because it powered the monitor. That means laptop users have to buy bulky extrenally-powered converter boxes and it also means yet-more auxiliary power connectors and amperage flowing over the PCI bus for GPUs. LCDs became larger and larger quite quickly, which of...

43690 hours = 2621440 minutes. That makes me guess that somewhere in the PRAM is 18 bits for the total uptime count, which gets incremented every 10 minutes.

OS X had quite bad printing support too, so I think they could perhaps have lived with it if they'd wanted. Reading books on the subject makes it sound like Be was never considered as seriously as NeXT was. Not sure if that's just a bit of revisionism but it's a little disappointing.

Yeah, I was thinking that it would be better to buy a 2.5mm minijack socket rather than desolder it from the iLamp board, but it's all a bit of a moot point anyway because I sold off the iLamp years ago! The PSU had died and then I foolishly managed to break the rest of it while attempting an...

Interesting question! Warcraft 3 expansion The Frozen Throne is fairly late at 2003. I remember having to boot into OS 9 to get better speeds out of the game, since OS X was still very slow at almost everything at that time.

What does the amplifier for the ball speakers take? I've got a "pair of balls" from my old iMac G4; it would be good if there were amplifiers available to use them with other devices.

I remember it went up to 5.2.3 for OS X, due to an Apple OS X update breaking the font rendering in 5.2.2 which was the latest version for years before that. I guess they never went to 5.5 to avoid confusion with the Windows version of IE?

That 80MB hard disk has to be after-market, surely. :D Maybe their hard disk died and they replaced it with the only SCSI disk they had available.

Isn't 2GB the max file size on HFS, not the max volume size? Power Macs certainly came with >2 GB hard disks before Mac OS 8.1 was released.

Is it possible to ship to Australia? I like the nice, simple design but 15 Euro is a little much for a plain silkscreened t-shirt in my opinion. Is the shirt/printing of a particularly high quality?

I think it was boot-usb? I was actually talking about it to a friend saturday night, he couldn't remember the exact command but he remember his issue well. Two iBook G4s, one could boot and one could not from the same USB DVD.

Some PPC Macs are very finicky about USB booting. They won't work at all, or require you to drop into Open Firmware to force it to try USB.

I believe you need a file called StartUpScreen in the System Folder of the boot disk/ette. ISTR that this file has a PICT resource with the new startup picture in it? GraphicConverter definitely has the option to create this file correctly for you.

Ambrosia stuff isn't really Shareware, not in the try sense of the word anyway. :p Snapz Pro is still around for OS X, although these days it is a very weak alternative to several other more powerful/cheaper options.

The Radeon should definitely be faster. You will of course need that old hack to enable Quartz Extreme on PCI devices.

That's pretty awesome; those 7V wall chargers are hard to replace with anything else and of course more battery packs is always good!

On a Mac though you need the Windows key so you have enough keys to cover Command, Control and Option! Yeah, unfortunately neither of those fills all the criteria. I'm guessing that most people who like clicky keyboards prefer that they do not have iTunes/shortcut keys. Maybe the TactiloPro3...

Chalk another one up for the ol' Model M, but I reckon it needs some improvements in this modern era. I would pay $100 for a Model M clone with: -USB 2 connection, plus inbuilt hub -Windows keys -Volume knob/keys -Media control keys Nice to have: -N-key rollover -LEDs under the caps...