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Hey folks! So, to preface this-the machine is not used often. This is what happens once in a while.... I hit the power button, and nothing. I unplug and plug the power cord back into the G4, and it boots up. The clock settings are lost, and I have to reset them. FYI, the Saft PRAM battery I...

Yoda-a little personal side note...my most recent acquisition (a year ago, maybe?) was a 2012 MacBook Air. I LOVE this machine. I needed a portable typewriter and something to do web surfing on . When this machine was new, I think it was just under $1000. I got it for $175 off of Mac Of All...

Great post, Yoda! :D Let me touch on folks with limited means again-let's say, a kid or a young adult who seriously wants to learn about graphic design, but can't afford a new Mac or a subscription service with Adobe. Solution? Get. let's say a 2008-2009 iMac. (This machine I'm on now is my...

I went to the School Of Visual Arts in New York City, from the late 1980s to the mid 1990s. The very first computer class I took was one on desktop publishing. The computers I used were all Macs: an SE & an SE/30. My professor at the time told me something that has remained with me for decades…...

No-though I did some free-lance work in the 1990s. I'm in the middle of editing a number of stories to send out for publication-a couple may become self-published e-fiction. One of my illustrations was published in a book last year.

This was done on my 2011 27" iMac. I went to the School Of Visual Arts in New York City. My first computer class was way back in 1988, where I used SEs and SE/30s. The class was desktop publishing. I'm a writer and illustrator. These drawings were done in Prismacolor pencils. Enjoy! Saul Trabal...

"Jus' keep movin' that dar decimal point to the left, ya hear?! Bless your heart. " 😚

Someone with a serious crack cocaine habit. 🤪🥴

One of the things that HIGHLY irritates me about Word is when you try converting a manuscript to HTML and it messes up the formatting. I sometimes post sample stories on the internet for a limited audience to get feedback from. It's important that the formatting stays the same-line breaks, scene...

Excellent. Now I REALLY have a reason to try out Linux! :D

While I can afford to buy a new Mac, I absolutely refuse to do so. I am currently using Photoshop CS6, which is the last copy of this software that you can own. Afterwards, you have to rent the cloud-based version. The same goes for Microsoft Word. What I use, while older, is good enough for...

Thanks for the responses! Another question-are there Word or Photoshop alternatives that run under any of these flavors of Linux?

Hey folks! So, I plan to populate all four drive connections inside my G4. One has OSX, which came with it, one has OS9 which I recently installed. A third will be additional storage. The fourth? Well, after watching some of Action Retro's videos, I'm trying to figure out what Linux GUI I'd...

I wanted to thank both Steve Matarazzo (Mac84) and Sean (Action Retro) for their help in upgrading my G4 mirror door Mac. I was able to add an SSD (I watched Sean's videos and used the adapter he mentioned), and Steve helped me out with some equipment and advice on how to make this upgrade...

I got it figured out. Thanks, everyone! :D

The bridge I'm using here was recommended by Sean (Action Retro) in one of his videos. However...I don't know if anyone has tried using it in this fashion before, using two separate boot devices-a mechanical HD (the original drive that came with this G4, that has OSX) and the SSD that I would...

In the end, I want the option to be able to boot into either the OS9 or OSX drive. It's frustrating that I got this far, but I haven't been able to install OS9. The original thread is here...

Hey folks! Okay, I cleaned the inside of the G4 a bit, put new thermal paste on the processor and added the SSD, partitioning it.. I found that in order to try and install OS9 on the SSD, the original OSX HD had to be in there as well. Downloaded the OS9 drivers from this link...

A little info on my G4.. .