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I guess an asterisk is to consider what the card will be used for. This goes on a Nubus graphics card tangent, on the grounds of do you really need this considering recent discussion of what Nubus cards now cost on Fleabay. For Marathon or Pathways Into Darkness, 1152x870 at 24 bit is not going...

Yeah, the Radius cards work fine without drivers, I remember the Nubus ones being System 6 friendly through Mac OS 9.1 on a Nubus Power Mac. First hand experience. The half width Nubus slot Precision Color cards were cheap to source and did the job well for compact Mac IIs. For a Quadra they...

Sounds about right. The Radius display drivers can be pretty easily found. One of the control panels in that package, QuickColor, is a must for accelerating QuickDraw calls even if you have no use for driving a display with the card itself.

Try holding down “option” (or “alt” on a standard PC keyboard) to boot into Startup Manager, per this tip; https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4672 My PowerBook G4 supports booting from a CD or DVD with the “c” key, but it seems the Mac Mini G4 might be too new for that. 

Open Transport has a MacTCP translation layer. I'm not sure you really do want to deal with MacTCP 2.0.x itself because it is old, and buggy. MacTCP DNR is just a Domain Name Resolver for MacTCP-compatible interfaces, it's what turns domains like google.com into some IPv4 related numbers thing...

You might also be thinking about creator codes, which are stored in the resource fork. There was a small flare up among Apple bloggers almost ten years ago around how those were being ignored in Snow Leopard; http://livecode.byu.edu/helps/file-creatorcodes.php . Took me awhile to remember this...

To reiterate another point made in this thread, 10.5 handles HFS as well as 10.4, as mentioned before, and the Server version works great on VMware and Parallels. I also know Leopard works fine with USB floppy drives, as I used it ten years ago to shuffle files that way. Not as great as a local...

Uh, what? I'm running all three operating systems, and resource forks are still supported on Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5 and macOS 10.14. I'm not sure why you think they're no longer supported on 10.14. In Sierra, they were handled as part of a file's extended attributes. Check page 80 of the APFS File...

If it's not split up across multiple floppy disks, it was probably compressed with StuffIt 5.5. Recalling what StuffIt's original audience once was.  :tongue: macOS 10.14 shouldn't blow up any resource forks, I can still DeRez and Rez them with ease using the latest Xcode toolchain. What proof...

I am proud to count myself in the "cursed" pile as far as Zip drives failing and getting on board that sweet class action lawsuit against Iomega over how awful their drives were. It was maybe $12 from what I can recall? Easiest earned $12 I had, anyway. For a G4 you can get a CompactFlash card...

I am not a Spotify user but those screenshots are super coooool!  8-) This was done with Retro68? I should probably be making time to learn to build something with that toolkit.

Without the older, Apple confidential docs to determine problems with AHT, it's hard to say if AHT passing means much. The same goes for AHT failing, since some of the test processes it runs require manual intervention and without documentation, it's hard to say how to get them to pass. For...

Regarding handling old Mac files, APFS still recognizes and preserves resource forks as MFS, HFS and HFS+ did, which is kind of a surprise. The problem is that most command line tooling, especially Linux/BSD derived tooling, doesn't really know how to handle the resource forks properly. Git...

Agreed! HyperCard stacks were a rather intuitive means of indexing and searching for data. As a simple, fungible graphical store for what you say, tracking characters, subplots, and similar, it should do the trick.

I gave up somewhat on Pages since '09 was replaced with the iOS-derived Pages on the Mac App Store, which has its own problems ingesting documents from Pages '09 and earlier. All docs there seem to be stuck in an island. It's a shame because the original Pages was one of the nicest, easiest to...

WriteNow 4 should work well on just about any old Mac, definitely System 6 friendly, and it’s fast too. There is some interesting history with it, MacWrite and NeXT acquiring the company at one point. It has a pretty decent set of rich text features, might be all you need.

I’ve seen an iMac G4 that needed the RAM within the inner socket to be replaced, ten years ago. It had all kinds of random failures that made it impossible to install any then-remotely-recent OS X. I’m inclined to believe that the RAM is worth replacing. It is the one thing that I really don’t...

I am a little suspicious that something else might be foul if you can't boot into the DVD, either. You might have to hold down the "C" key on the keyboard while starting it up to boot from a CD or DVD. IIRC the hard drive always has priority over the CD/DVD unless you do that. That might just work.

System 6.0.7 (and 6.0.8?) for early PowerBooks was a modification of a Japanese-only version of System 6 with KanjiTalk done by 68k MLAers some time back. Definitely possible.

Not sure what can work with modern SSL standards, but for fairly standard IMAP I remember Mulberry being pretty good on Mac OS 9 while it was around. There was also an IMAP capable e-mail client developed by a Japanese developer that was 68k compatible, though its name totally escapes me. I...