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  • It's #MARCHintosh 2025! Join in on the fun and post your project or play with some new stuff in our #MARCHintosh 2025 thread.
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    MARCHintosh 2025 Projects

    I wasn't a part of the Mac world when all of this was happening, more so the PC world, and even then more like the super budget pc world. I haven't used a 601, but I can totally feel the problems with early 7.5 PPC builds and something like 8.6. I'm seeing it years later, and I find people's...
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    MARCHintosh 2025 Projects

    These results are kind of concerning. The 604e card is running at 225mhz with 1mb of L2 cache, the 298Mhz G3 with the the L2 cache is much faster but will crash if you look at it wrong, and the G3 without cache tests LOWER than the 604e. Real world testing, the G3 feels like it's snapper, games...
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    MARCHintosh 2025 Projects

    The processor card I have is this weird XLR8 Interex thing, and it took me far to long to realize that one knob is for the CPU clock speed and the other is for the BUS speed. But I got it running at 298Mhz at 45Mhz bus, so it's slick. Kinda wish I had run a benchmark program to show the...
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    MARCHintosh 2025 Projects

    I have a PowerTower 225 I want to do a fresh install of 7.6 and 8.6 on, install an OrangePC car and get it working (The software for them is hard to find), swap the 225 604 with a 320 G3, swap the Twin Turbo out with a Rage 128, and maybe beat a game or two. Maybe Mechwarrior Mercs on the PC...
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    Managing your collections

    Preface, somewhat related, I have a few disks with the minimum drivers to get an old Mac or PC to connect to a network, then I have a "website" hosted on a Raspberry Pi that has a downloads section for anything else I may need, depending on models. This was needed until I got a BlueSCSI for the...
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    BlueSCSI v2 Pico - Low cost, open hardware, fast SCSI device!

    I've been having an issue as of late, with my own BlueSCSI. It's on a Quadra 605, card is formatted, known good, single .hda file. Any version of MAcOS 7 seems to corrupt itself when writing files to itself. MacOS 8.1 runs fine, writes/reads fine, but if I install MacOS 7.1-7.6, if I write more...
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    #MARCHintosh 2025 - Planning Thread

    I have a PowerTower Pro 225, I feel like I haven't really dug into it too much. I put a bunch of cards in it, upgraded the processor to a G3 and messed with it for a week or two, but I could probably do more with it. Machines in the 100-500Mhz range are my favorite, so I think it's a prime...
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    2025 PowerPC Challenge

    I've been busy this year, so all major things I've doneare software things. After getting my hands on a 30-inch cinema display, I played some Unreal Tournament 2004. Invasion is my favorite mode, and I finally found out how to add more monsters. So here I am, gleefully blasting Doom 3 monsters...
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    68k Angry Robots! by Criminal Caterpillar Games

    Level editors for games like this make them live on forever.
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    2025 PowerPC Challenge

    They may have changed something in the 3Gs that make them incompatible with old SATA1. I've had issues getting many SATA SSDs working in my PCIe G5. I doubt the 6Gs will work either.
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    Microsoft Entertainment Pack and the 8088

    Posted elsewhere, but here too. I've recently been messing with an 8088 NEC V20 computer with an EMS Board, installing versions of Windows 3.0 and 3.1 Betas that still run in Real mode so they work on an 8088. I thought I installed a beta of 3.1 in Dosbox, but when I booted it on the 8088 it...
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    Compact Mac from (Nearly) New Parts?

    I'd be floored if someone managed to cook up a Micro ATX board with a 68030 on it, like the NuXT motherboard from a few years ago. Make your own clone!
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    Comm Slot II 10/100 Ethernet Cards

    Best of luck to you! Absolutely amazing.
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    Power Macintosh Bezels - 9600 / G3

    There are some more exotic ones, where they show the whole face of a 3.5in and 5.25 drives, which could make for some interesting modifications, like fan speed monitors and such.