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I originally wrote this article as a followup on my article on how to get iPhone development working on PowerPC Macs like my iMacG4. But as I was writing it I realized, it had nothing to do with the host Mac and was all about the Original iPhone. So I changed the title and the focus a bit, and I...

Hey everyone, since I got my iMac G4, I have wanted to get a retro iPhone development workstation setup. While PPC Macs were never supported for iPhone development, I did see tutorial online for how to force install it. Like the one on Macintosh Garden / Repository. However, those were only the...

Hey folks. I am in no rush, but I have 2 iMac G4 logic boards that won't boot. I won't go into the details, but I can't see anything wrong with them physically. However, on one of them one of the capacitors just fell off and I noticed the telltale signs of some capacitor residue on the board at...

I have a 1GHz iMac G4 17" and I have been using it almost daily for the last 3 months or so. I mostly use it as a secondary video player while I use my main computer. However, recently it started booting up to 3 beeps. Normally this would mean its bad ram, but I tested 5 or 6 different ram...

I think its amazing that Apple's Software Update servers for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and 10.5 Leopard are still up and running but unfortunately, they are no longer going for 10.3, 10.2, 10.1, etc. And while it is possible to just run the Combo Update for your version of Mac OS X and get mostly up...

Hi there, I'm Jeff and I'm a long time lurker and first time poster. When I was in High School, I always wanted an iMac G4 but I could never get one. Well recently, I changed that and went down the retro Mac road. I got myself a 1GHz 17" model and I absolutely love it. I put in an SSD and got...