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This is something that has been almost two years in the making. VCF West 2023. I was there with my table o' Macs, the SATA-equipped 9600 and Blue and White G3 in tow. My good friend brought his SE/30 and G4 Cube. Not sure what triggered it, but I came away from this VCF mega wanting a Cube...

If I had my act more together I'd say hey, you could send your cards to me and I could flash 'em for you. To anyone proficient with hot air, it's a really quick and easy job. Though that doesn't account for the programming part... And yes, optical drives do work. I've actually got a SATA...

Added some photos. Also got a few more I couldn't really fit into the post?

Right, been meaning to document this. The Premise To keep it simple, three things aligned to make this all happen. 1. I wanted to play some SimCity 2000, with cheats, and the Mac OS version's cheats suck. 2. I had recently been to a local's house and acquired some 98-era video cards that I...

Made one more alteration: Since I had to delve into the PC side of SATA things anyway and had to actually roll back one of my flashed cards so I could use it in my Win98 PC...I filled out that part of the guide. Short of just...clarifying things and such, I think this guide is very much complete.

Kept you waiting, huh. It's been a while! And I'm here to tell you I finally, FINALLY got around to using the OS 9 flasher for myself and boy oh boy was it so drop dead simple. If you have the means to go that route, I highly, HIGHLY recommend it. Unless you like soldering EEPROMs or something...

It "works" but only as a dumb framebuffer. No games will run in OS 9, the 6200 is too new. And Classic under OS X has...mixed results. Some games got updates to work in OS X, but some seem to just...not work properly, even given that. OS9 is my jam, and the GF3 is the best OS9 card that'll work...

So, as luck would have it, I managed to stumble into a real, in the flesh GeForce 3 for the Cube. While my Cube has a GF6200 in it, been on the look out for an OS9 card because that's the OS I generally want to use on the Cube. The only issue I've had is that of thermals. I've googled, even...

This sounds like a good time, count me in. iPods and the good 'ol Power Mac 9600.

I forget who told me this, but I gotta thank the person who told me that 9.x is just 8.6 but with OS X junk. To put it simply, the .sit file attached contains a few things that are nice to have assuming you have the hardware, because the OS 8.6 installer either doesn't have these things, or...

Decided to make a substantial update to the guide. Rewrote part of it, added a placeholder for a part of the guide I need to write. I will say if there's anyone on here willing to organize group buys and/or do the flashing process on the more difficult EEPROMs for those who lack the facilities...

Another update! Collin actually managed to shrink the ROM down so that it can fit on a 128K chip, which means that hopefully desoldering should no longer be necessary. He also patched the flasher utility for Mac OS so it should be able to flash these cards just fine for the most part. This is...

AirplaneHome linked it, but it was also in the original post, as well. (I keep that updated with the relevant info.) Only replied just in case people were watching this topic to know to give it a look. The patched firmware file is also attached to the OP, as well.

Replying to this because we've just had a major breakthrough in the SATA market: dosdude1 did what he does best and actually patched out the EEPROM check for the Seritek/Firmtek 1S2 ROM, so now it should be possible to use it in *ALL* EEPROMs, so long as they're 512K. I don't have the means to...

So I ripped apart my pretty busted up Scribe to find a TEC chip on it. Markings are TEC 7293-9137 EC-9137 8427AAA JAPAN This is the dump from that chip, taken in Xgpro with a TL866II+, though because the TEC chip wasn't in its database I set it to the Intel D27128. So your mileage may vary.