PowerMac G4 OSX Server 1.2 v3 BlueBox Woes

[Figgy2112]

So I recently got a PowerMac G4 500mhz AGP (Sawtooth) with 1.25 gb ram and I got this machine with the specific intent of having compatibility and running stuff like osx server 1.2 (rhapsody 5.6) and so far I’ve installed and multi booted 4 operating systems without a hitch

Mac OS 8.6 (G4 Build)
Mac OS 9.2.2
OSX Server 1.2 v3
Mac OS 10.4.11

I installed an SSD in there and updated the firmware to the latest version and I haven’t had any many problems, except one particular one that has been baffling me, when trying to launch the blue box environment in osx server it shows that it’s opening the application and then shows it’s running, but nothing appears on my screen and if I click back in the desktop and then try to select the app, it just quits out and I’m just puzzled, I tried reinstalling the operating system to no avail, someone on the vintage apple discord was helping me out as they worked with osx server quite a bit and sent me the manual files that blue box uses and that still didn’t work so is this machine just incompatible or am I doing something wrong? I don’t have to have blue box working. I just wanted to try it out since it seemed cool from what I had seen about it.

Also, it seems to have the stock rage 128 16mb vram card to get that speculation out of the way

EDIT: I was also trying to run some stuff like doom and it wouldn’t work either so like i don’t even know

 

[Figgy2112]

So I fixed the problem and found a potential Rhapsody 5.6 bug, so it seems if your system has over a gigabyte of RAM the blue box environment (I would assume it has to do with Rhapsody managing bboxs memory and maybe it not being designed for more than that) just refuses to start, I was tinkering around, just trying to change a few things to see if anything would change and I happen to take out a couple of the ram sticks and low and behold, I heard the gong chime of blue box and literally flipped my shit lmfao, also carbonlib seems to bork bluebox if I install it but I assume that’s just a limitation of blue box itself

 

[adespoton]

That's useful to know; I can't recall ever using more than 512MB RAM with Rhapsody 5.6 -- usually 128MB.