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On a similar but different note, is there a database of Apple parts publicly available anywhere? I'm toying with building one myself if it doesn't exists. Or, at least, starting one and letting others contribute what they can. I've found https://beetstech.com/apple-device-lookup after a quick...

There are ISOs from MacOS9Lives that might boot your PB (I haven't checked recently). To echo the sentiments above, get yourself a Mac that can boot Mac OS 9 natively. In essence, that is any PB under 1GHz or any Mac before 2003. PowerMac G4s desktops are versatile, easy to expand, reasonably...

I think that the bus speed (100MHz) & 1 GB RAM are going to be your bottlenecks if you want to run Mac OS X 10.4. I'm even sure if this G4 supports Mac OS 10.5 tbh. This will make gameplay disagreeable even if you have one of the best Mac OS X AGP cards. And the Radeon X800XL won't support 3D...

Is there a limit to the number of SIMMS that, say, a Quadra can read from, is it the total number of kilobytes limited or is it limited by size? Could a PDS card with extra RAM slots allow the addition of more addressable RAM?

My first thought about such motherboards is whether there is a battery in situ, and, if so, has it shed its load?

I don't know about current but I picked up an Oki 321dn before the pandemic and I can print from my Mac OS 9 macs on it. I haven't tried my G5 on it yet but I see no reason why it wouldn't work. It is a colour 600dpi printer and prints A4 (and, I suppose US-Letter).

For example, https://www.startech.com/en-eu/cards-adapters/pcix1pex4?srsltid=AfmBOoqzvbi73YXOlr4BUPGUkFmTZ1UxKQIjqfo_3Fbe71wJtW0CNx-C I'm new to the G5 and PCI-X. I suspect that these adapters are no really available and probably a healthy price when they occasionally appear on eBay. Or are...

Let me commend you. This is very decent of you.

(message deleted) I should install drivers and see if that makes a difference.

Does the bus-speed make the PB540c noticeably slow? Try running Marathon and see how that goes.

I have a Powermac G5 2.0Ghz DP (Mid 2004) that I'd like to start using. From what I have seen online, these things seem to die at astonishing rate, mostly from heat-death. I don't really know what it will be used for as of yet, probably gaming. It is my PPC Mac OS X machine. It stands in a...

I write SQL for a living (which is sort of code) and while I often find LLM-generated SQL impressive, you really need to know what the right answer is, because otherwise you can't judge how useful or correct the generated SQL is. I have thought that LLMs might be great for someone who is...

Have you tried this? https://www.macintoshrepository.org/20657-matrox-rtmac

Be warned, the power supplies on MDDs have not all aged well. Both of my MDDs have failed power supplies. As for your question, is it primarily a Mac OS 9 machine, a Mac OS X machine or both? As for accelerators, 1200MHz are fast for Mac OS 9 and while 1400MHz processors, they aren't that much...

This great. I noticed aftwerwards that you had posted the ROM. Thanks for that.

Hi @joevt, I don't fully understand what you have posted. I shall have to go read up on ndrvs. If what you say is correct though, then this compressed version of the ROM should easily fit onto the 64KB ROM on my X850 Pro and the EEPROM will not need to be removed. Thanks everyone for your...

I can't answer your exact question. A lot of these SATA cards came out after Mac OS 9 had officially ended. It would not surprise me that Mac OS 9 support was nice to have but not essential. I do have an old point to raise with regard to cards in general. A lot of these cards are getting on in...

1024 * 1024 bits / 8 = 128 * 1024 bytes = 128KB. Meh. I should know this. Thanks for the reminder.

I have an X850 Pro AGP card that I intend flashing for my G5 2.0DP. @dosdude1 (of this parish) made an excellent video [1] and the process seems straightforward enough. Now, the EEPROM on the X850 Pro, it seems, is 64K and the X850 XT ROM for it is 128K. In the video, he replaces the EEPROM with...