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To cast the net a bit wider, the 50 MHz Newer Technology Quadra Overdrive upgrades were easier to find, and should work even better for any 68040 machine expecting a 25 MHz 68040. One was apparently sold on eBay as an Amiga 4000 upgrade. I've never found the Sonnet version in the past decade...

The best thing to get rid of the slight lagginess on a Q700, 900, 950, 650 or 800 (phew!) is a 68040 cache card in the PDS slot. They aren't usually properly identified when they turn up on the auction sites, and they (always?) require a driver or two. It's extremely worth it, though. My DiiMO...

This is not an answer, at all, mostly reminiscing on the not always great times.., I remember having trouble getting OS 9 and OS X 10.4 to work on the same partition on a Sawtooth many years ago. Was it "common" to have OS 9 running with OS X? Sure, sort of. There was a gnarly period where OS X...

Did you try using one of the apps suggested to re-apply creator and type codes so that you can open them in Finder? I'll reiterate that no version of the Mac OS X Finder or its supported file systems tamper with resource forks. Leopard doesn't do anything special there that Tiger doesn't...

This is subjective. You can get a leaner browser than TenFourFox (leopard-webkit is often suggested for 10.5 on PPC). You won't ever get around the problem that, this machine was made during a dark age when IE6 and Flash ruled the web browsing world, and requirements for web sites have scaled...

Zones are an AppleTalk concept. If you have AppleTalk set up right, the zones should be visible.

I know https://www.adelielinux.org/ has committed to G3, G4, G5 and POWER9 support. Brand new distro and its creators are determined to support 32 and 64 bit PPC as a first class platform. Void Linux has recently added support for 64 bit PPC made with the recent niche POWER9 hardware in mind...

Yeah, it's an MXM slot, which was an old Nvidia led standard that was kind of, sort of intended for upgradeable GPUs in thinner devices like workstation class laptops. Laptops got even thinner than expected, so that idea didn't quite pan out. The EFI firmware issue is basically the whole...

I've been wondering if a Mac Mini G4 with an SSD, and a compatible USB 1.1 audio interface to get sound working again, is secretly the best G4 for Mac OS 9.  :tongue:  Considering the small footprint that's perfect for any apartment, and how unlikely you are to take it apart once you max out RAM...

The MXM cards used for GPUs should be the same as the last round of Xserves. If you don't mind downgrading, you could just yank one of the Xserve MXM Nvidia cards that are still kind of cheap as a replacement, and those should have EFI compatible firmware on them. Thinking in terms of what...

Amen to that.  :/  I’m as surprised as you are.

I’d rather not speak of locked threads again. With that said, I don’t believe that business was resolved. Given how many members were unable to get boards back from him, Maccaps.com is not a good vendor to work with.

I'd rather go to the source. https://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/basilisk_ii has links to forums, guides, and the people who are currently patching Basilisk II are there, too. It's been long enough since I've set up Basilisk II that I can't immediately tell you what works and how. It's the...

Neat! I might look into setting that up with BII again. This is partially covered by VMware and Leopard on the AppleTalk front, but there's holes there as far as networking with really old Macs. I'd like to start with QEMU and OS 9 first, which should have some of that covered with the right...

Just curious, as I've never run into this need. I lean on VMware and QEMU for anything that requires the Internet and interfacing with old hardware. What do you need that networking support for? Not for running old Netscape, I imagine. Bolo, maybe, but it's rare to find other players. There...

I used Basilisk II quite a bit more than ten years ago, as sort of a bridge between a Q650 and my more-modern computers. It's good for fast 68k emulation, and I think that's still true today. It's not great for exact timing of those computers, and many shims have been built around it to get it...

If you want to make a very faithful emulator instead of a fast but unstable emulator, instead of emulating the results of a subset of Mac Toolbox calls for BeOS as Sheepshaver and Basilisk II did and cheat to make things acceptably fast, you have to start from the simplest processor family and...

Mini vMac doesn't emulate a 68030 with or without FPU or a 68040. That's all.  :)

There's source code for the documentation generator, sort of, but not for this particular version of gnuplot. I imagine though that they didn't do more than take THINK C 5, leverage TCL (THINK Class Libraries) to create a new console app, and piped through input/output to files or the console...

Mathematica's probably going to get you more interesting results, but that version does work on a Mac II. It's a command line app built to work with THINK C's console frameworks via TCL, the predecessor of Metrowerks' PowerPlant. It's not a Mac-like app, but it's an app that you can run on...