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I've searched for IIfx RAM before, but stuff rarely comes up. Is there some other search string I can use? 64 pin SIMM or something like that? Tempest

Now that I have a working Superdrive coming my way (hopefully two), I'll finally be able to use my IIfx. I have three questions though, keeping in mind that I'm pretty much only using it to play games (a waste I know, but that's what I want to do): 1. What's the best OS to have on it? 6.x...

I just found out that my G3 tower is a Rev 2. I know that the Rev 1 ROM had issues, but what about 2? Is there any reason to track down a Rev 3 rom? Tempest

I think I'm going to stick with OS 9.1. There's only one game I need OS X to play (Fallout 2) and I can play that on my PC. It's not worth muddling with OS X on a base G3 to play one game. I'd have to upgrade my video card anyway. Tempest

What are the specs on the hard drive for a beige G3 Tower? I want to put a bigger HD in, but I don't know if I can plug just any drive in or if it has to be a special Apple one. Is the HD IDE or SCSI on the G3? Tempest

Setting the options in OS X didn't carry over to OS 9. Looks like I'll have to use Classic for my gaming. Things seem to be working through Classic so far.

I have a Geforce 6200 crammed into my G4 Cube (with a fan) and it seems to work just fine in OS X, but there are some games that don't like Classic so I occasionally boot into OS 9.2. However the 9200 only provides on resolution under OS 9 and thousands of colors. My computer however says it's...

Success. It boots up now. No idea what I did, but it's working now.

Ok I can get it to boot if I hold down shift to turn off the boot items. However there don't actually appear to be any boot items in the account menu (other than some iTunes helper thing which removing didn't help).

Ok looks like I got it to work. I guess the first time was just a bad install. EDIT: Ok may have spoken too soon. It booted in Target Disk Mode, but on the real thing it hangs at a blue screen after the apple logo.

Oh and I decided to go with Tiger over Leopard because Tiger only took 4.5GB to install while Leopard wanted around 13GB. My partition is only 15GB so that wouldn't work too well. Why does Leopard require three times as much room?

I'm getting further. I decided to install SO 10.4 via the firewire cable and it appeared to install. Then I tried to boot from that drive via the firewire cable and I got the prohibitory sign (circle with slash). So I'm not able to boot from the drive on my G4 via my laptop through target...

I'm probably only going to run Fallout 1/2, SCUMM VM, Heretic / Hexen, Diablo II / Starcraft and stuff like that. Pretty major and standard stuff.

Well there's really no reason for me to run Classic as I have 9.2 installed on another partition. :)

If I'm only playing games on my G4 does Leopard offer me anything over Tiger? Will older games still play alright? Also, are you sure that Leopard would run ok with a 450Mhz, 1.5GB memory, Geforce 6200 machine? Tempest

Found a 10.4.6 DVD iso, but my Cube just spits it out (my Powerbook G4 reads it just fine). I wonder why? Maybe the cube's DVD drive isn't as good as the one in my Powerbook? I burned it as slow as I could, but no luck. I have a friend who is going to let me borrow a video card and a...

I might be able to burn a Mac bootable DVD on my PC. I think there's a way to do that. I need to find a 10.4.6 DVD iso to try it with first anyway.

Yeah that' would be the best solution, but I can't seem to find it on the 'various sites' so to speak. Even if I could find the image, I don't have a Mac that can burn DVD's, just CD's. I know there's a CD version of Tiger, but I think it's 10.4.0 (or at least the few I've found are).

I have a Powerbook G4 laptop, but it's running 10.5. Can I still install 10.4 on my cube? I guess I'll have to find a firewire cable. I don't think I own one of those. Tempest

I do have 1.5GB of memory, would that be sufficient to make 10.5 run adequately or is it really more the processor speed that's the issue? What's the seller's name with the cheap upgrades?