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10.4. SheepShaver is pretty unstable especially with anything that goes "outside the box." You can take a chance with SheepShaver in 10.4 as well for apps that don't work properly in Classic.

Wolfenstein 3D should run great on a G4. At the very least, the latest version is a fat binary, so it'll be PPC accelerated. As far as I know, it will auto switch to 256 colors on launch, but if you have a video card that's not capable of 256 colors (for whatever reason) then it might not run.

That is the question. ;)

Follow-up to my last post: The bypass caps are probably just bridging Vcc and GND to filter out noise, given their proximity to the Vcc pins on the chips themselves. Probably 0.1uF ceramics or similar.

That is not a Mac TV. The top bezel seam on the Mac TV goes much deeper than what is shown in that photo. Not to mention that the Mac TV doesn't have top ventilation slots. Is it a black Power Mac 5500??

Thanks to trag, Compgeke, and a friend whose multimeter I'm borrowing, I now have a pinout of the retail Pippin ROM board. Since the pins are not visibly numbered on the board itself, I've numbered them starting with pin 1 on the chip side looking left to right with the pins facing down, and...

Cinepak is considered a "legacy" codec by this time so it's normally hidden from the export options in QuickTime, but in macOS you can re-enable it with some Terminal magic: qtdefaults write LegacyCodecsEnabled yes With that, Cinepak should appear in the list of video compression options in...

The CRT iMacs are notorious for weak flybacks. It's possible yours just now decided to kick the bucket.

Thanks for the insight, trag! The GM ROM uses 32-pin PLCC chips, but looking at the retail 1.2 ROM, the chips used on that board appear to be 44 pins each. Maybe these are PSOP chips as you suggest? I have to assume these chips are 5V, since the GM ROM uses 5V chips and works in my retail kit...

Hi all, Since Dandu's dump of the 1.3 Pippin ROM (which supposedly does no authentication checks), my interest in Apple's only foray into the gaming console space has been renewed. I do a bit of homebrew game development for the Atari 2600 and Nintendo Virtual Boy in my spare time, and a few...

Yeah I replaced the PSU in my II with a IIfx PSU and it made a noticeable difference. I'm also interested if there are further improvements to be made.

Resurrecting this thread to share a link to a dump I made of the Pippin @WORLD's ROM version 1.2. I used the MacRelix ROM Copier linked above, running on a stock Pippin @WORLD with 5MB of RAM. (FYI the ROM Copier suggests a minimum memory size of 4096K, but it will still copy the ROM with as...

MOTU's Performer was the hot thing back in the SE/30's day. If you can find a working copy of it I'd say that's a good bet. The tougher part might be finding a MIDI interface for the Mac...

Come to think of it, I don't know how or if InputSprocket detected and worked with ADB controllers, as I've only ever used it with USB. It predates the introduction of the first iMac, so I imagine it has to work with ADB devices, but I've never tried it.

The only other standard system used by game controllers that I know of is InputSprocket, but that came later on the Power Mac line and support there is less important given that a USB controller could be configured via InputSprocket.

I don't know how which or how many companies made ADB gamepads, but Gravis was kind of the de facto standard-- many games shipped with Gravis "sets" that were preconfigured mappings of their gamepad buttons to in-game keys. As I recall, the Gravis GamePad shipped with a control panel that you'd...

I'm definitely in for one of these when they're ready to ship. :) Does your firmware use the USB HID spec to detect attached USB devices, and if so, which HID classes is it designed to detect? I would *love* if support existed for game controllers, and then mapped gamepad inputs to Gravis...

SCSI voodoo. If I recall the Plus does not provide its own termination, so the chain needs to be terminated both at the end and at the SCSI port on the Plus itself. My Asante EN/SC also has this problem, but I think this is as a result of overheating. If I unplug it and let the EN/SC cool down...

My Plus has DIN-8 connectors... ;)

Don't toss out that rear bucket-- if you ever are looking to unload it, ping me. I got my early model 128 from a fellow who *engraved* ID into the back case. Would be nice to have a pristine version some day. :)