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    Fitting Big Disks to G3s and G4s

    The 66 MHz slot of B&W G3 and Yikes is weird because it's basically an overclocked slot that can't run at 33 MHz like a normal PCI slot can. So if a card works in that slot then you know for sure that it's working at 66 MHz. 32 bit PCI to PCIe bridges are obtainable. 64 bit PCI to PCIe bridge...
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    Fitting Big Disks to G3s and G4s

    "Mac OS ROM" file is for New World Macs. It contains Open Firmware code which means it's loaded by Open Firmware. Once the ROM is setup, then it can load the Mac OS 9 drivers from the driver partitions of the disk just like Old World Mac ROMs do. Old World Mac ROMs are like the "Mac OS ROM"...
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    The Granny Smith emulator

    All the ROMs are in my fork of MacROMan. See the doonerom command in the mac_rom_checksums.sh script. It reads and verifies all checksums of a ROM. Use the script like this: source mac_rom_checksums.sh doonerom path_to_rom Results are in romlist.txt which shows how checksums changed since the...
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    Fitting Big Disks to G3s and G4s

    Your solutions to the problem basically amount to avoiding the problem - either by not using LBA 48 disks to their full potential or by not using the affected IDE controllers. I was just saying that the problem (drive size limits, etc) is not hardware related but firmware or software related...
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    Apple Network Server MacOS based ROMs found

    The The screen device can't be opened again? Could be a Open Firmware bug. Or it could be a bug in the graphics controller emulation. DingusPPC doesn't emulate the built-in graphics controller yet, so I can't compare. Someone with a real ANS could try it. " screen" output In the Granny Smith...
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    Apple Network Server MacOS based ROMs found

    Trying it out. I uploaded multiple ROMs. 1995-05-18 - 9630C68B - 2.26B6 ANS 300 & 500 & 700.ROM 1998-01-14 - 49B2BE8F - 2.0 ANS 300 & 500 & 700.ROM 1995-08-21 - 962F6C13 - 1.1.20.1 ANS 300 & 500 & 700.ROM 1995-08-21 - 962F6C13 - 1.1.22 ANS 300 & 500 & 700.ROM 1995-08-21 - 962F6C13 - 2.26NT ANS...
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    Fitting Big Disks to G3s and G4s

    I don't know of any reason why any Mac with an IDE connector can't support LBA-48 except for the drivers. Drivers can be replaced. The Open Firmware driver needs to be updated for Mac OS X to load "BootX" unless it's on a helper partition (setup by XPostFacto for example). The Open Firmware...
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    What the SIT?!

    The Infinite Mac HD is built from a list of URLs using a python script. I think it uses XADMaster to unarchive all the sit and hqx and whatever files. Stuffit archives include meta data such as folder window size and file icon position. mihaip's fork of XADMaster handles parsing that.
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    What the SIT?!

    https://github.com/mihaip/machfs has bug fixes for https://github.com/elliotnunn/machfs to create HFS disk images that pass Disk First Aid and fsck_hfs and Mac OS 9.2 tests. It's used to create the Infinite Mac HD at https://infinitemac.org
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    Apple Network Server MacOS based ROMs found

    Thanks for this. Looks like DingusPPC needs some fixes for 53c94. I think ,0 is for the LUN number? Not needed on most devices since they have a single LUN. Open Firmware has a show-children for each built-in SCSI controllers. Use it like this: \ 53c94 (TNT or ANS) " scsi" select-dev...
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    Apple Network Server MacOS based ROMs found

    Change @0 to the SCSI ID of your external drive?
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    Apple Network Server MacOS based ROMs found

    Some USB serial port adapters serial port wiring examples at https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/serial-app-to-old-world-of.2429025/post-33239745
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    Apple Network Server MacOS based ROMs found

    @ClassicHasClass you are booting into Mac OS using external SCSI? Looking at ANS 1.1.20.1 Open Firmware in DingusPPC, there's some differences from 1.0.5 that might be strange. When it creates the 53c94 device, it does a reset-scsi which 1.0.5 does not do. reset-scsi performs 3 commands...
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    Apple Network Server MacOS based ROMs found

    Can you insert some quotes from previous posts to remind us what this is about? EDIT your post, click the [ ] button to toggle off BB code, position the text insertion point in your post where you want to insert a quote, find the old post that you want to quote and click the REPLY button of...
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    Apple Network Server MacOS based ROMs found

    Yes. 0 to my-self dev enet 1 encode-int " PLSCCPort" property .properties device-end dev doesn't open the device. It just sets the active-package. For the console problem, I wonder if serial can remain the input/output device and you open the graphics device manually. Like this...
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    Apple Network Server MacOS based ROMs found

    I suppose I can understand that the ndrv might not be sufficient to opening the graphics device if it wasn't opened in Open Firmware beforehand. That just means the ndrv was poorly written. Looking at the code for property, it uses my-self if it is not zero. Otherwise, it uses active-package...
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    Apple Network Server MacOS based ROMs found

    You're talking about fixing the Open Firmware console? Does it matter if it's screen/keyboard or serial port? Some might prefer serial if they have another computer and a serial port connection. Default for PowerSurge machines is modem port. Usually it doesn't matter because boot usually skips...
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    "This version of MoviePlayer requires version 14 or 15 of the Codec Manager. Sorry."

    Did you do as I suggested to find the version of MoviePlayer that doesn't work? Not sure about Codec Manager. I thought it was referring to Component Manager. Maybe they're related. Things -> Codecs -> Components ? QuickTime 4 Reference mentions the codec manager once. The supermario source...
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    "This version of MoviePlayer requires version 14 or 15 of the Codec Manager. Sorry."

    Select "Recent Applications" from the Apple menu to open the "Recent Applications" folder. Select the "MoviePlayer" icon, then select "Show Original" in the "File" menu. This will select the application that you are trying to run. Select "Get Info" from the "File" menu. What version does it...
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    New Web Resource: The Visual Catalog of Retro Macintosh Software (a.k.a. a whole lotta icons!)

    I didn't notice any special characters that don't exist in other icon data links. Might want to log a bug with FireFox. What about PowerFox? https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/powerfox-new-web-browser-for-leopard-on-powerpc.5024/