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OK, I'm applying the patch, but I'm having some trouble figuring it out. I copied ptch -20217, ptch 41, boot 22460 and PACK 2, and nothing. I haven't yet copied the Text Encoding Converter extension. I'll do that and see if it changes anything. EDIT: Nope, it didn't. c

OK, good to know! I'll try! I'm sure that will diminish over time as more people explore and document what's broken/missing so @Rairii can tweak the patched Mac OS ROM files and enabler accordingly. Speaking of patches, should I use @Phipli's Resource Miner, as found on his site, or just do...

That's pretty much true, but I think other than altivec and proper SMP (multi CPU) support, the core G4 instruction set is quite similar to the G3's. But, I'm neither a CPU expert nor a coder, so I can't say for certain. Hopefully someone more knowledgeable about such matters will chime in.... c

How reliable is HFS+ on your iBook? Can you boot from an HFS+ formatted disk? Are there any wonkiness or corruption issues? c

The G4 is basically a faster G3 with altivec tacked on, isn't it? c

True. c

Keep going! Once you get to a certain point where it works relatively well but needs optimization and refinement, hopefully it will encourage others to build on your good work here. Who knows, maybe you can work on getting an 88k CPU working next! c

A minor inconvenience compared to what has been (and continues to be) wrought upon we plebeians over here in the US.... 🤬 c

Figures. c

There's got to be more to it than that! However, that said, is it possible to hack normal consumer CF cards to behave as the "industrial" ones do (ie, reporting as "fixed" instead of "removable")? c

I don't know what MDK is, but I had forgotten that it does also include PageMill (3.0, if it matters). I had a feeling I was forgetting something! I'm sure I still have it somewhere, but it's been a long time. That said, it was a small yellow binder, not an envelope with the disks in paper...

I can confirm that in addition to the aforementioned Install/Restore and World Book disks, it did also ship with Quicken 98, Williams-Sonoma Guide to Good Cooking and Kai's Photo Soap. Were there any others I'm forgetting? That's interesting, so apparently the Rev. B and early Rev. C shipped...

My North American Rev. C iMac shipped with a very similar disk package featuring 8.5.1 Install and Restore disks, but it additionally included two World Book Encyclopedia disks (the main program disk and a data disk). It seems many (most?) iMacs shipped with either 8.1 (Rev. A and B) or 8.6...

I highly doubt any of those would work on a Power Mac G4 due to a lack of Open Firmware support. Unless I'm mistaken? I'm not sure if a Power Mac G4, with either an unsupported graphics card installed or no card installed, could boot with a blank screen and begin working when the OS drivers...

I think the only cards known to work with Mac OS 9's ancient drivers are cards derived from the ORiNOCO WaveLAN series of PC Card adapters. This works because the AirPort card itself was derived from the WaveLAN Gold card. However, since they're all functionally identical, there's really no...

You make good points, but so does @okto . It's a situation where StO (Security through Obscurity) is a valid and relatively effective model, for better or worse. c

Aaaahh, OK. So this is currently the only extant version, then? c

Maybe so, but it still merits being archived, particularly if it's a different version than that which is on Macintosh Garden. c

The MDD has faster PCI slots (66 MHz versus 33 MHz on all the other G4s). Does that make a SATA card faster on the MDD, then? If not, why? c

TL;DR: Yes. The Slot Loaders (the DV SE) used normal desktop DIMMs, whereas the Tray Loaders used laptop-style SODIMMs. In a basic sense, they're not too different (same form factor, similar specs), but internally they're quite different, as the difference in RAM style demonstrates. The Slot...