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The Apple 3.5 drive should work for Macintosh Plus compatible 800k disks on an Apple IIgs, although you might find it easier to find a Floppy Emu second hand or the next time BMOW has one in stock to cross that bridge. The deluxe Floppy Emu package even has a System 6.0.8 image ready to go. The...

Awesome! All the funny deaths work. :) Do you have an issue tracker? The one issue that I am very quickly noticing is that tapping with my Magic Trackpad 2 on the buttons ("BEGIN", "DONE" and the like) only sometimes registers as a click. I have this device set to "tap to click" under...

I am planning on taking this absurd setup with me to Mountain View representing #TeamPowerPC, with 2 GB of RAM. Wish me luck.

That makes some sense. Before Metal, Quartz Extreme (terrible name btw) backed each window with a GPU buffer via clever use of OpenGL textures. Texture calls are easily the most bandwidth heavy interaction between CPU and GPU, because you're streaming relatively large buffers of image data...

I’d try it to laugh at the results. :)  I’m already using ATI’s 9200 driver with a later iteration of ATI Displays, which has this very funny checkbox to boost PCI graphics performance at the expense of every other PCI device connected. The best part is it seems to actually work pretty well...

TenFourFox is interesting on a 500 MHz G4. Hmm. Camino used to be my favorite OS X Tiger browser, its former team lead went on to drive much of Apple’s Safari development during the HTML5 days. It is probably one of the better performing options but at the end of the day, it’s based on an old...

So... heading wayyy back to this thread, I feel like I've got some sharing of notes regarding what I've done with my B&W now that I have a PowerPC 7410 ZIF and Tiger to play with. Nothing fancy! Here's what I did: Started with Mac OS 9.2.2 (no idea what was the original install media...

Very cool! When my POWER9 Blackbird board arrives (...someday!...), I'll have to get a FireWire 400/800 card to try this out.

Speaking of, Cat_7 shared instructions via https://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=9820&sid=82d8b47320436047d61fb6d727d78789#p60834 No guarantees that this works with QEMU 4 or even various earlier versions. I'm largely waiting on POWER9 hardware to arrive before I try...

I had a link to a BYO enclosure kit that was selling on eBay for less than $10 earlier but that sold out fast. All told, if you know what products to search for and they're not called out on eBay as a FireWire enclosure (L@@K Steve Jobs etc etc), they tend to sell for peanuts. The thing about...

The G4 PCI, you mean the one that was based on the B&W/Yikes! board? That one has a funny FireWire output, IIRC, that doesn't support the feature. This is all going by memory, but Beige G3 Macs supported SCSI Target Disk Mode, and AGP G4 Macs supported FireWire Target Disk Mode. I'm not...

I'm pretty sure that all of those QEMU builds are copied from the E-Maculation OS X guide and the thread where Cat_7 regularly shares stable and experimental builds. Which will probably get you a better QEMU for Mac OS X. Not a fan of resources that copy without credit. It will save you from...

There's a couple of places to point to about the software-based floating point implementation in QEMU. Past a certain point, old Emaculation threads go over much of the material rediscovered here about where QEMU is and where it needs to go. That was nearly two years ago. The latest prerelease...

Very interesting! This project seems different from Advanced Mac Substitute, which Ars Technica covered recently: I suppose these are different efforts? Neat that we seem to have some friendly competition in this effort. :)

The original Myth definitely counts. Myth: TFL didn't have hardware acceleration through RAVE and OpenGL until its sequel, Myth II Soulblighter. TFL's tooling for third party maps and enhancements was also primarily Mac-only, as Bungie was only well known in the Mac gaming circles until Halo...

I shall +1 to this because I think this would help clarify some things. There's a point to which this is clearly fleacore , the act of buying up someone else's eBay junk and seeing what helps, what doesn't, to make art. I do really dig that spirit. The other side of that coin is, please don't...

I'll put out there that on Mac OS 9, given how much RAM you are probably not using if you've got anything close to a gigabyte, you can solve most every disk I/O problem cheaply and efficiently with RAM DISK. I can only think of a few situations where disk I/O is a problem on anything...

"The Definitive Guide to Connecting Your SE/30" covers all of this extremely thoroughly. We have a sticked topic for it up above the Compact Mac forum. http://www.applefool.com/se30/ Check "Apple Filing Protocol Ethernet Networks" to start, because it's AFP that won't fool with your resource...

I think the last three are the Newer Technology Quadra Overdrive. Similar layout to this one. 

I don't think it's worth struggling to get OS 9 and OS X to share a partition. OS 9 will never need as much space as Mac OS X for anything besides raw media. You can very easily partition HFS Extended (aka HFS+) to squeeze in another OS. I actually just did that on my PowerBook G4's boot drive...