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Hi there! The other day I got a Power Macintosh 8100/80, which has long wanted to experiment with vintage machines. But it turns out that the salesman wasn't honest with me and sold me a non-working... The Mac turns on, there is a bong, the PDS of the video cards gives an image - the gray...

@joevt, I'm interested in the built-in diagnostic tools. For some reason, I always believed that Power Mac has it. 🤔 Perhaps various materials about OpenFirmware in SUN computers have created confusion in my head. Indeed, if I do not connect the network cable to MDD and reboot after turning on...

Hi! I have long seen reports that OpenFirmware (OFW) can run tests of equipment that is equipped with self-testing instructions. On different sites you can find many similar messages that mainly link to this site. I tested it on QS and MDD. So, I enter the OFW and turn on diag-switch? And...

I didn't know such keyboard shortcuts, I'll have to try. (y)

Hah! My friend from another forum managed to find the original OS X 10.4.6 image, which can be easily booted from a USB drive. You can check it out: 1. Download #32 from here 2. Deploy to USB sudo dd if="/path/to/tiger-10-4-6-ppc.iso" of=/dev/rdisk4 bs=1m status=progress 4. Boot it! probe-usb...

I use this image on my PowerMac: MDD, QS, G3 B&W, G3 Minitiwer and it works great. :) Before I figured out Sil3112, I used a SATA<->IDE bridge, and it worked great if the bridge didn't have any problems. But I had others: I got it from Aliexpress. I just looked carefully at the screenshot and...

I have encountered problems with SATA<->IDE bridges many times, so I almost refused to use them. I used to have a working bridge, but when using it, the speed of the disk subsystem was terribly slow. I just threw it away. There are also sometimes problems due to "confusion" with...

Today is a great day -- I received a package with new toys! G4 DP 1.42 Ghz processor and copper heatsink from FW800. This will be installed in FW400 (2003) to get a powerful machine on OS9. I've never had these copper radiators before, and I thought it was just a piece of copper, as it...

I met a similar problem on the PM G3 Minitower (Rev. A). The Sil3112 card could not boot the OS when it was installed in slot C1.

Great job. I'm just beating my head against the table trying to start the OS X installation from a USB drive. I have PM G3 B&W, PM G4 QS, PM G4 MDD here -- OS 9 boots without problems, I used the following commands: boot usb0/@1:,\\:tbxi probe-usb boot usb0/@1:,\\:tbxi I also tried to specify...

You're probably talking about xPostFacto. I haven't tried it on my MiniTower yet, but it'll probably work.

Try using bootable iPartition #4. MorphOS requires 3 partitions, I kept a cheat sheet in the form of several screenshots to manually partition the disk. Try it, it should work out.

Hey! I want to tell about my Power Macintosh 9600/300. The plugs have not yet been installed. Soon I should receive a parcel in which the SCSI Zip Drive will be in an unknown state, after checking the zip, this computer will be fully assembled. Inside is: BlueSCSIv2 (12.2022) + 128 GB SDXC...

Too bad, I was hoping it would work. Thank you for checking it out. But, you can find Radeon 9200/9250 128 MB and also flash it. I've had experience with 9250 - it works. Just pay attention to the design of these boards, also not all are suitable for Resistor mode. Drivers for Mac OS 9 also...

If it's exactly Radeon 9000 Pro, I've always believed that for boards with this design, where there is no toggle switch, it's enough to remove the resistor. No? I want to try this trick, but I haven't found 128 MB 9000 Pro in this design yet. I have one 128 MB 9000 Pro, but there is a toggle...

@smiles, I don't want to believe that AppleScript will be abandoned. With the help of shortcuts you can do a lot of different cool actions, but the combination of shortcuts and AppleScript allows you to create quick actions that can't be created otherwise. Again, AppleScript can be linked to the...

I'll duplicate my message with Macos9lives. I've always thought it should be like this: ~/Library/Workflows/Applications/Folder Actions/ You may like my rough code better. property FileExt : {"docx", "doc", "pages", "pdf"} on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving added_items...

Hey! Great topic, I used this discussion to create my first SATA board and I want to share the result. I have 2 board designs with a SIL3112 controller, I'll call it conditionally "black" and "red". "Black" boards are discussed on most resources, and everything is more or less clear with them...