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Still has an ADC port, but it might work without ADC voltage.

No, actually, the one on the left is ADC, the one on the right is DVI. That looks like an ATI Radeon 9000 PRO. The ADC voltage is provided by that extra little set of "fingers" next to the AGP connector. I would think it would work without ADC voltage on the DVI port, but I've never tried...

I can't tell from your picture: is that an ADC or a DVI connection? What connectors are on your card? If it has a DVI or VGA port, any difference? The power supply provides the ADC voltage, which you'd need to convert from ATX (the ATX-to-G4 converters I've seen and that you appear to have are...

This is a bit of a grab bag, but some of you will remember my DVT prototype Macintosh Portable (happily running with Androda's RAM card). It was formerly used by an Apple district manager and I wanted to back it up and then start digging into what was there. Well, that's all done, and it...

Does he go by any other names?

Too bad, but worth hearing, since the usual conventional wisdom is combo drive = OS9.

That would be good voltage. When it's in the holder, do you get the same voltage testing the contact pads around it? Maybe the battery holder is bad instead.

You need the exact Mac OS 9.2.2 CD that will boot this eMac. You're correct that it can but it will only boot that precise part (by contrast, any other Mac that can boot 9.2.2 can use the eMac CD, including the MDDs, so it's a good CD to have). The part number is 691-4323-A. It looks like your...

You'd need an SMS gateway of some sort, either a purpose-built device or a cellular modem you can send AT commands to. I used to have a GSM terminal with a serial port back when 2G was still a thing I used for this and I drove it directly with Hayes AT commands to send and receive SMS. Now I...

Yeah, Power Windows is a good jam too. I got into Rush in the late 1980s so I'm skewed more towards their output in that decade.

Welcome. To be controversial, though, 2112 is probably one of Rush's albums I like least. I much preferred Moving Pictures, Signals and to a lesser extent A Farewell to Kings.

You could try, and I don't discount they may make things worse, but MDD power supplies were problematic even when they were new and were the subject of a recall. My dual 1.25 was the first computer I ever bought new and was affected by it, and Apple sent me a new one.

MDD power supplies aren't hard to find used and are generally straightforward swaps (here's me switching one out in mine a few years ago: https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2020/10/refurb-weekend-power-mac-g4-mdd.html ), but you run the risk of getting one of the pre-recall units which will fail...

Power supply. Very common on the MDDs.

If it's just a power issue, one way to work around that is to get a powered FireWire hub, plug the Mac into that, and plug your devices into the hub. The hub will provide them power. The Belkins aren't very expensive used, so that may be an easy way to diagnose the problem better. See also...

Define "bad FireWire." Unfortunately, you're probably looking at a logic board swap. I had a mini that ate its ATA controller and that was about all you could do (no slots to get around the problem).

As an open-source alternative to Photoshop, I like Krita more than the GIMP. Doesn't do everything that Photoshop does (the G5 is around for that) but it does a lot of it and is cross-platform.

Actually, on big-endian systems, I find the BSDs to be better choices (Linux on 32-bit PPC is not well-maintained and many distros don't even offer it anymore). All of the major BSDs (NetBSD, OpenBSD and FreeBSD) will run splendidly on that, though I'm a longtime pro-NetBSD bigot.

Oh, I hope you're going to sell a few of these.

I've actually got the source code for Mac Heretic (I asked and the author provided it). I should post that somewhere.