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Thanks! I am looking forward to it. Today, I am trying to decide if I should mess with the ribbon cable now removed and try to repair the broken traces, or just wait for the replacement. I don’t actually know if it even works at all, but it’s pretty clean inside from what I can tell. I suspect...

Thanks for this. Puts my mind at ease and gets me excited to make some progress getting this up and running. I just watched the Love Notes to Newton documentary, so I am looking forward to joining a new community of enthusiasts!

Thanks! In reply: I haven’t even turned on the eMate yet, so I don’t know what is on it. My question was more about the NEED to back it up if I am installing Androda’s memory upgrade. If the upgrade just resets the eMate to defaults, that seems fine to me—starting from scratch. But if it...

I finally picked up an Apple eMate 300! Like many of us, I remember seeing images here and there when the eMate was released for education thinking, wow, that would be a cool device to try. Later, I learned this was a Newton device, but I never really had the chance to try any of this, nor was I...

FYI, it looks like the polymaker muted white is back in stock at Amazon. Just ordered some to be delivered Monday.

I am finally following up on this project. Having failed to make progress with my BT dongle in OS9, and not able to observe obvious success with the firmware updater, I decided to try running the update in Panther since I have a few partitions with which I can mess around. I opted to keep...

Tried the Mighty Mouse Wireless. Works in OSX. Does not work in OF and does not work in OS9. So, I figured it was time to see if flashing the firmware helps. Downloaded the Apple BT Firmware Updater 1.2. Loaded this in Tiger. Ran it. Said I was already up to date. No updates. So, I...

According to that French page, my D-Link, which is HW revision B3, is already running the appropriate firmware to be detected in HID Proxy mode as a mouse and a keyboard. So, I paired a keyboard and it worked fine in OSX. Rebooted and was unable to use the ALT key to select startup disk. That...

Has anyone messed around with the D-Link DBT-120 USB Bluetooth dongle on a G4 using OS9? I was going to try to pair a wireless mouse on my eMac which is a dual-boot (triple boot) OS9 and OSX. I have the D-Link dongle which seems to work fine in OSX (Sorbet Leopard in my case) as without it, my...

My question above still stands for anyone trying this with a Sonoma Mac, but I was able to re-do all steps using my eMac running Sorbet without any issues. Booting now. Also, I should mention that I am having another go at this using the V2 Leopard image. Previously, I had shared that my ATV...

I've done a restore to a HDD using a firewire enclosure. All seems to be going along fine until I am trying to fix the partition info: sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk4 This command is giving me an "Operation not permitted" error in macOS Sonoma. I have done the steps in Security/Privacy settings...

For anyone paying attention here, or who comes looking for a solution, I will share the next step in my eMac journey: My problem was the catch 22: I wanted to setup a large drive (500GB) as a dual-boot OS9/OSX, which requires the drive be initialed with OS9 drivers. The drivers can be...

Thanks. I am no longer troubleshooting for two reasons: I was able to boot the MACOS9LIVES 9.2.2 for Unsupported G4 I concluded that may be my ONLY recourse now since my 1GHz "Combo" drive eMac is actually not the original 1GHz "Combo" drive. That second point is subtle, but it seems mine is...

Yes, but in spite of this, I am probably going to replace the 40 with something a lot bigger and try to setup a dual-boot situation, even if I need to use the updated image to do it. I can dedicate a partition to running OS9 native and another for OSX + Classic and have the flexibility. I doubt...

This has been some fun investigation, but I think I found the answer. According to https://everymac.com/systems/apple/emac/specs/emac_1.0.html only the “original” combo drive 1GHz model can boot OS9. Apple made a superdrive version (no os9) and finally, they released a cheaper combo drive model...

i made mixed progress tonight. I tried burning another 691-4323-A CD from my modern M1 Mac Mini. This time, the burned cd would not mount in Sonoma, something I took as maybe a good sign. This CD will not boot the eMac! I decided to try the “OS9LIVES OS9.2.2 UNSUPPORTED G4” disk image. This too...

I might not have the best answer here since mine was a (broken) hand-me-down from my dad (free + repair parts). The repair parts may or may not be a consideration for you. I have seen broken SE/30s sell for hundreds of dollars if they are not completely battery bombed. They are unique and rare...

Was looking up examples where folks call this "terminal" and I think another reason is that the fix is sometimes replacing RP2 Bourne filter? I don't recall having to do that myself, but those parts were/are apparently hard to find in low quantities, so it was often easier (cheaper) to pull them...

Thanks! This helps.

I think it varies by system and root cause. In my case, my SE/30 was exhibiting this issue and it eventually led me to replace a video mux chip if I recall, not to mention a complete recap and all of the cleanup that goes along with that. In the process of eliminating the problems, I had to...