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The way I get around this is to use Mac OS X Leopard Server on VMware Fusion and hand the USB device over to Fusion. Parallels works, too. Unfortunately, my source for cheap copies of Leopard Server on eBay seems to have run out. I don't know the status of Fuse on High Sierra. I'm aware that it...

As far as HFS is concerned, the last version of Mac OS X that could read and write to HFS-not-extended was definitely Leopard (10.5). I think they started making HFS support read only with Snow Leopard (10.6) or Lion (10.7). I'm uncertain because 10.7 redid the driver interface for storage...

Assuming that your problem is what I think it is, HFS is not the same as HFS Extended, aka HFS+. HFS Extended was introduced in Mac OS 8.1. I'm a little surprised that you can read HFS at all from High Sierra, because I remember it being deprecated earlier than that. EDIT: The sharing and...

The closest I can think of "patching" A/UX was the Shoebill emulator written by one fellow who was promptly hired by Apple soon after. A/UX used early System 7 and the Macintosh ROM as a boot loader for A/UX's UNIX kernel. That combination makes it hard to fool, you really need something to...

I've always used that patched version of Apple HD SC Setup that I think originally came from Gamba's site, it works without complaints for 68k machines. I started using it for A/UX and have used it for everything from System 6.0.8 to 8.1 on CF card media and reused SCSI hard drives.

Tiger for OS X Intel was a bit of a weird one, in that Apple forked the OS X kernel for the entirety of the 10.4 cycle until Leopard, when they were able to unify the PowerPC and Intel codebases into a unified kernel. You can see this on the somewhat forgotten Apple Open Source website, where...

One more thing. This card did come with a set of OS 9 drivers that are supposed to cover the Crescendo and Encore G4 upgrade cards. I have version 2.3.1 in a CD that has a... decaying label that's flaking off bits of plastic, from the looks of things. Never seen this happen to my CDs before...

I have the ZIF version of this Sonnet upgrade with the giant purple heatsink and I've never even gotten a startup chime to sound, despite applying the supplied firmware patches for the B&W ROM and seemingly following instructions to the letter. So you got past the chime by reapplying the...

Nah, "merely" put a Quadra 800 logic board in there and took a kitchen knife to carve out an opening for the third slot. It was a long time ago and before I knew better. The ports match so, only the region where a rudimentary third slot now stands shows the abuse.

Remind me never to share with y'all what the backside of my Quadra 700 case looks like. :) What does that, to borrow a modern Apple-ism, "all screen" Color Classic look like when it's turned on? The higher res should really help some latter day 68k software run nicely on it. EDIT: It would...

Granted, looking through that archive of old ATI drivers, I don't see an entry that specifically addresses the "2X AGP ATI Mobility Radeon 7500" found in that iBook. You might need something closer to OEM drivers, then. I don't know if the referenced eMac disk has everything you need, but I...

Sounds like you have a GPU with an OS 9 compatible ROM, but that Mac OS 9 itself doesn't have the right drivers for it. Then I did a search on MacRumors where this fellow reported a similar issue, and found that installing a new set of drivers fixed some of the issues for...

Speaking somewhat broadly, I think OS projects are doomed to be a drain on resources unless their goals are extremely tightly scoped, especially if they have customers developing against it. It's telling that Mac OS X (nee Rhapsody), though in many respects a reskinned NeXTSTEP that was almost...

Functional Keys does exactly what you describe, to answer your bonus questioning. It's still actively developed and only available on the Macintosh Garden as freeware. Not sure how to get around your Sound control panel problem. If it's a problem with the driver not writing out the volume of...

"Monitors and Sound" is the newer control panel that showed up in the later releases of Mac OS 7, definitely 7.6 and maybe a later release of 7.5.x. I believe this was associated with the release of a line of Apple monitors that integrated speakers with the CRT and that's why it requires a...

Ditch the PSU, replace it with a stock ATX power supply and one of these adapters; http://atxg4.com Specifically this kit. http://atxg4.com/mdd.html QUICK EDIT: You might have to contact the maker at his Etsy store, since it looks like he's out of stock for the pre-made MDD ones. But that...

Interesting. eBay showed me that there were "more then 10 available" while I was logged in. Now that I have logged out, it says that the listing has ended. ... >:( Wondering if eBay has been practicing the dark arts of scummy "social" dark patterns. That whole thing feels not right.

I can verify that this is legit because I bought from this seller; https://www.ebay.com/itm/APPLE-MAC-OS-X-SERVER-LEOPARD-10-5-Maintenance-Unlimited-Client/263670725629 It's Leopard Server, which is largely the same as normal Leopard with some bits that you can ignore and no annoying first boot...

I double checked with sources so I'd be careful about my initial optimism (see edits prior). I remember Radeons were fairly easy to flash, and that there was a MacRumors (banned?) user who used to resell flashed cards for a living on the eBays. Which ones are safe to flash is not at all clear...

I think a Radeon 8500 should do it. The PC AGP version is both easy to find and can be flashed for the Mac (EDIT: NOPE). Radeon 9800 is also possible but there's a 9800 XT version flooding eBay that probably came pulled from a G5, that one doesn't have OS 9 drivers. The XT ones are easy to spot...