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You need the exact Mac OS 9.2.2 CD that will boot this eMac. You're correct that it can but it will only boot that precise part (by contrast, any other Mac that can boot 9.2.2 can use the eMac CD, including the MDDs, so it's a good CD to have). The part number is 691-4323-A. It looks like your...

You'd need an SMS gateway of some sort, either a purpose-built device or a cellular modem you can send AT commands to. I used to have a GSM terminal with a serial port back when 2G was still a thing I used for this and I drove it directly with Hayes AT commands to send and receive SMS. Now I...

Yeah, Power Windows is a good jam too. I got into Rush in the late 1980s so I'm skewed more towards their output in that decade.

Welcome. To be controversial, though, 2112 is probably one of Rush's albums I like least. I much preferred Moving Pictures, Signals and to a lesser extent A Farewell to Kings.

You could try, and I don't discount they may make things worse, but MDD power supplies were problematic even when they were new and were the subject of a recall. My dual 1.25 was the first computer I ever bought new and was affected by it, and Apple sent me a new one.

MDD power supplies aren't hard to find used and are generally straightforward swaps (here's me switching one out in mine a few years ago: https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2020/10/refurb-weekend-power-mac-g4-mdd.html ), but you run the risk of getting one of the pre-recall units which will fail...

Power supply. Very common on the MDDs.

If it's just a power issue, one way to work around that is to get a powered FireWire hub, plug the Mac into that, and plug your devices into the hub. The hub will provide them power. The Belkins aren't very expensive used, so that may be an easy way to diagnose the problem better. See also...

Define "bad FireWire." Unfortunately, you're probably looking at a logic board swap. I had a mini that ate its ATA controller and that was about all you could do (no slots to get around the problem).

As an open-source alternative to Photoshop, I like Krita more than the GIMP. Doesn't do everything that Photoshop does (the G5 is around for that) but it does a lot of it and is cross-platform.

Actually, on big-endian systems, I find the BSDs to be better choices (Linux on 32-bit PPC is not well-maintained and many distros don't even offer it anymore). All of the major BSDs (NetBSD, OpenBSD and FreeBSD) will run splendidly on that, though I'm a longtime pro-NetBSD bigot.

Oh, I hope you're going to sell a few of these.

I've actually got the source code for Mac Heretic (I asked and the author provided it). I should post that somewhere.

No, not the client - actual NetWare. It looks like this: This is NetWare 4.11 running on a Power Mac 6100, though the project (codenamed Cyberpunk) was actually intended for the Apple Network Server. Incredibly, there is still a Forth word "setenv-netware" in the production ANS ROM. Cyberpunk...

The Apple Network Server's implementation of AIX had a secret weapon, and that was a full Unix-side implementation of AppleTalk, Apple events and the Program-to-Program Communications Toolbox (PPC Toolbox). Apple published demonstration applications where Mac clients could offload their...

I love Engrish, but I love bombastic Engrish even more.

I have that very bag for my beat-up TiBook G4. I put a little foam spacer in there so it wouldn't bang around so much.

It's still Apple Events because they can go from Mac to Mac. The facility you want is the PPC Toolbox (not PowerPC: Process-to-Process Communication). https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/mac/pdf/Interapplication_Communication/PPC_Toolbox.pdf

Yes, this is pretty much what Apple Events were designed for.

I managed to land an unopened copy of the Cyberdog Programmer's Kit book. This included a full CD-ROM with Cyberdog 1.0, the Cyberdog SDK, and many interesting videos and documents. With tweaks it all builds in CodeWarrior Gold 9 and generates real, working Cyberdog/OpenDoc parts. So here they...