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    An Introduction: My iMac G4 "Ichigo Daifuku"

    Screen Spanning Doctor disables Apple's limitations and allows you to use an external monitor as a second display however you want to. http://www.rutemoeller.com/mp/ibook/supportlist_e.html
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    PowerBook power adapter compatibility?

    That link brings up a 12V AC adapter.
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    The Brown SE

    I have had re-yellowing as well, but it isn't on all things I've treated. The UV-only method is very slow and doesn't get things as close to original, but in my experience it has proved to be more stable than any of the peroxide methods.
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    The Brown SE

    Foolproof? No. Likely to work? Yes. Hand wash the case well. Remove badges and other things that don't need bleaching. Buy peroxide hair developer cream, it's on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Salon-Care-Stabilized-Consistent-Predictable/dp/B0BZTKTFQC/ Apply the cream evenly, not too...
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    An Introduction: My iMac G4 "Ichigo Daifuku"

    I used my G4 iMac as an AirPlay music server for many years, streaming synced audio to speakers in every room. AppleScript and the built-in web server allowed me to control iTunes remotely and also integrate everything with my Home Assistant automation. It worked perfectly as a music server...
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    An Introduction: My iMac G4 "Ichigo Daifuku"

    I think there's lots of appreciation for the G4 iMacs, but they never reached the overall popularity and recognition of the earlier G3 iMacs so have less nostalgia associated with them. Over the years I've seen several modded/repurposed G4 iMac projects like the video you linked and all have...
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    An Introduction: My iMac G4 "Ichigo Daifuku"

    I'm glad to see someone else who loves their G4 iMac as much as I do. Thanks for the blog posts, that gives me something else fun to do.
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    First official C64 in 36 years

    The Atari 8-bit computers also had great audio from their POKEY chip (which was also used in Atari arcade machines). It's not quite as good as the C64 SID, but POKEY is also dated from 1979 so 3 years before SID. I had a MockingBoard IIc back in the day and it was an incredible improvement...
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    Installing Mac OS X Leopard on the Apple TV (1st generation)

    ^ Is there something wrong with 10.4 Server?
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    Installing Mac OS X Leopard on the Apple TV (1st generation)

    ^ Excellent! Have you experienced any issues?
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    Installing Mac OS X Leopard on the Apple TV (1st generation)

    There was definitely progress made since that 2007 Apple TV Hacks website entry. I followed a much later tutorial here: https://www.mark-up.com/apple-tv/install-osx/ When I was playing around with this many years ago I archived some of the files. With this later method Tiger worked acceptably...
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    Snow EMU - Emulator for 680x0-based Macintosh computers

    That's incredibly exciting! Thank you and the other contributors for this excellent work. I'm especially happy that it runs on macOS, Linux, and Windows. EDIT: Just noticed the Github Read Me mentions SE/30, IIcx, and IIci. Yay!
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    Snow EMU - Emulator for 680x0-based Macintosh computers

    The work on Snow is very impressive. Are there any plans to add 68030 and 68040 emulation?
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    2025 Model Mac IIci

    Beautiful.