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  1. phunguss

    2024 PowerPC Challenge

    Day 1 Upgrading a G4 Sawtooth (Purchased at FreeGeek for $15 this past summer) Standard CPU G4 450MHz stock passive cooler Rage 128 Pro 16Mb AGP video card 1GB RAM Previously upgraded SSD on motherboard IDE single port adapter (red board) Upgrading the IDE->SATA controller StarTech...
  2. phunguss

    2024 PowerPC Challenge

    My first computer was the Coleco Adam, then I went to the Amiga 1000. Eventually got a 2000 and a Toaster, and the Flyer board + 2x 9GB (not TB) drives set me back about $7k. I think I will give MorphOS a try, wish I still had my hundreds of floppy disks!
  3. phunguss

    2024 PowerPC Challenge

    I just did a bunch of upgrades on 3 PPC machines in December, I guess I should have waited. G4 Lamp 17" 800Mhz got an SSD and more ram, G4 Lamp 15" 1GHz got an SSD and more ram, G4 Cube 1.2GHz got more ram, SSD, GeForce 6200 WANG flashed video card, and a slim slot load DVD drive from a donor...
  4. phunguss

    Dual Boot Linux Mint 21.2 and macOS with OpenCore Legacy Patcher and OpenCore Bootpicker

    I haven't played with rEFInd in many years... but OCLP was great in getting everything from 10.6.8 through Sonoma loaded on an iMac12,1. I haven't dared to try Windows or Linux on the same drive, I always prefer a secondary drive for isolation.
  5. phunguss

    Pismo - PRAM battery sources or rebuild info?

    I haven't taken one apart either, but it looks like two cells, 3rd wire may be the intermediary between the cells. If you are going to solder them, do it very quickly with a hot iron and lots of flux, as these LiOn batteries do NOT like to get hot (explode). Cool it down afterwards if you can...
  6. phunguss

    iMac G4 Appreciation Thread

    Finally updating my 17" G4 800MHz with an mSata->IDE 32Gb adapter with os9 and 10.4. I updated my 15" G4 1GHz with an mSata-IDE 120Gb running 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, and 10.5 (no classic support) I 3D printed a mini version running on a Hackintoshed NUC a while ago... Intel NUC mini iMac