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Can you describe exactly what doesn't work? I (or other Amiga users here) might be able to help. If it fails to boot does it give a coloured screen? IF not does it just sit at a blank screen? If it has been moved any distance it's worth popping the lid and making sure the Warp Engine is sat in...

All that aluminium for only 200 bucks. America is indeed a crazy place ;) . Don't the G5s weight like 50-60lbs or something bizare? I know my Mac Pro weighs 27kg which come out at about 56lbs.

I think I moved that jumper on mine when I swapped the 040LC for a straight 040. In my book even in a 475 case it's spiritually a Quadra if it has a working FPU :)

Please refrain from using the name 'Honda Civic' in vein :p

Good catch, grab a newer quieter hard drive for it if you feel like a bit of hackery - the new 4200 and 5600 rpm disks make a big difference to speed and noise levels. I feel your pain brother, I ordered a 1GB RAM upgrade kit for the MAc Pro which should be here tomorrow. I'm pacing about...

It became the 'Personal Web Sharing' feature in Mac OS 8, that carried on to OS 9.2. Yes, you did hear me right - Apple used Microsoft HTTP server software for Mac OS. It's not very secure, but if you are running it on a 68k Mac there are seldom very many risks, although there might be to other...

I have to say I've heard literally dozens of stories of iMac G3s losing the analogue board to old age and overheating. The problem with the analogue board going south is not only does the CRT stop working but the iMac won't power on either. You'd need to seek out a mod to use an ATX PSU with it...

I didn't realise you intended the logs to be public. I've never agreed with public posting of IRC logs or sections from them unless all concerned parties involved in that section of the log are consulted and give permission first. The IRC channel I currently admin has a 'chat quotes' collection...

IRC chat rooms have a habit of descending into meaningless drivel after a while ;) Erm, yes, as an IRC admin of some vintage who's been in the centre of several flamewars I can advise logs are critical for the admin to be able to have a clear idea who was guilty and why. If your occupants are...

After Dark

It's not easily done if you have an Auto-Inject style case with the plastic center Fan/Speaker assy. Howevcer IIRC only one of the grilles is obscured by the later type boards, so maybe you can fix the fan over the speaker grille and put the speaker somewhere else (Note: NOT right up close to...

Spotlight also uses a bit of RAM, it also has the insatiable ability to grind any older Mac into the ground when you first install 10.4 because of the initial indexing process. My biggest concern would be that the Pismo, unless you have upgraded to a modern hard drive, has a slow hard disk with...

Cheapest solution I found was to buy a 80-pin SCA SCSI drive and an external case and sit it in the top. Suns '611' Ultra SCSI boxes are fairly easy to find and a re totally plug-and-play on a Quadra (they auto-terminate which is REALLY handy :) ). You'll need to find a 68-pin to 25-pin SCSI...

In fact, the best combination of compatibility and speed for Amiga Games is found in 68030/50MHz Amiga accelerators (older games have a habit of flaking out on 040s and 060s). I have an Amiga 1200 with a Blizzard 1230 Mk IV accelerator in it, with a the SCSI add-on module and 64MB (count em!) of...

Yeh, that's what the Amiga has got to - people have cloned the chipset to FPGAs and are working on replacement motherboards for the existing, and a new machine.

Most non-OEM'd UW drives work fine on a Fast Wide card. I know - I've done it many times :) I'm only throwing ideas out of my head here, but would it make any more sense to build a faster 68030/6882 combo in FPGA? It's something that's been mooted in the Amiga community to create a...

Living without PCI-e is not relevant to the posters original question as the early G5s didn't have PCI-e anyway so it's not exactly and issue. IIRC the G5s prior to the 'Dual Core' and 'Quad Core' series used AGP 8x graphics and PCI-X (not PCI-e which it totally different, and much faster)...

I didn't notice Coldfire had already been mentioned - I guess I'll just blame bad eyesight or the fact it was getting late or something lame. I think more coffee is in order...! There are code differences between 68000, 68020/030 and 68040 strains inside the 680x0 family that stop code written...

Not gonna happen. The Amiga 060 cards only work with apps that go through the 68060.library that contains the patches required. It was relatively east on the Amiga. I challenge anyone to build a similar library for the Mac that loads at ROM level (which would probably be required). Daystar did...

DVDs played fine in my B&W at 400MHz with 512MB RAM in OS X. That was in 10.3.x but nothing should really have changed? Skype requires a beefy CPU, as well as a decent slab of RAM, to work well as it has to transcode the audio stream on the fly, which hammers the CPU. A G4 would accelerate...