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Perian did it!!! Looks to playback with some small stutters on the Dual 500MHz.

Day 5 I found a dual G5 PSU on eBay for under $25 delivered, so hoping that works out. It should arrive next week. The fuse I cobbled in just blew immediately, photo here: So I headed to FreeGeek Minneapolis to see what kind of treasures I could find.... Since the Sawtooth has a zip drive...

Day 4 Dual G5 Towers today If memory serves me, I once purchased a Dual G5 many years ago and stripped the guts to build a hackintosh. I think I gifted that case to one of my children and then later purchased another empty case. The case I originally gutted had a liquid cooling system, and...

Check the link under the last picture in the post above, for the full write up and lots more pics. It's actually an iPad screen with Mipi driver board and will do 2048x1536 on a 7.6" screen. The NUC model I used did not have an SD card slot built in, but the front and back IO shields are...

Day 3 Long day at work, 100 mile commute, so not a lot of time to play tonight. Lets try to relax. I have some .avi files, wondering if VLC for ppc will play them. Installed VLC 0.9.10 on 10.4 but they would not play. It may be due to the Rage128 Pro graphics card? Now that my Sawtooth is...

Day 2, a little lighter side.... Picked up a couple original airport cards from craigslist, $12 each local (for the G4 FP 17 800MHz and Sawtooth). A package arrived containing an Airport Express that I got on eBay for $9 delivered (for the G4 FP 15 1GHz USB 2.0). And a little light gaming on...

Day 1 Upgrading a G4 Sawtooth (Purchased at FreeGeek for $15 this past summer) Standard CPU G4 450MHz stock passive cooler Rage 128 Pro 16Mb AGP video card 1GB RAM Previously upgraded SSD on motherboard IDE single port adapter (red board) Upgrading the IDE->SATA controller StarTech...

My first computer was the Coleco Adam, then I went to the Amiga 1000. Eventually got a 2000 and a Toaster, and the Flyer board + 2x 9GB (not TB) drives set me back about $7k. I think I will give MorphOS a try, wish I still had my hundreds of floppy disks!

I just did a bunch of upgrades on 3 PPC machines in December, I guess I should have waited. G4 Lamp 17" 800Mhz got an SSD and more ram, G4 Lamp 15" 1GHz got an SSD and more ram, G4 Cube 1.2GHz got more ram, SSD, GeForce 6200 WANG flashed video card, and a slim slot load DVD drive from a donor...

I haven't played with rEFInd in many years... but OCLP was great in getting everything from 10.6.8 through Sonoma loaded on an iMac12,1. I haven't dared to try Windows or Linux on the same drive, I always prefer a secondary drive for isolation.

I haven't taken one apart either, but it looks like two cells, 3rd wire may be the intermediary between the cells. If you are going to solder them, do it very quickly with a hot iron and lots of flux, as these LiOn batteries do NOT like to get hot (explode). Cool it down afterwards if you can...

Finally updating my 17" G4 800MHz with an mSata->IDE 32Gb adapter with os9 and 10.4. I updated my 15" G4 1GHz with an mSata-IDE 120Gb running 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, and 10.5 (no classic support) I 3D printed a mini version running on a Hackintoshed NUC a while ago... Intel NUC mini iMac