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Software / vnc server.
October 14, 2010, 01:20 |
Another option for running X on an older Mac is running vnc server (apt-get install vnc4server) instead. It can be pretty fast and you could probably skip ssh port forwarding if your Linux box is on your secure local network. You can get a normal Gnome desktop to run under vnc server and just use a vnc client on the old mac. All of the hard work will be done on the Linux system and if your vnc client crashes you just reconnect. With the following in ~/.vnc/xstartup you get a full Gnome desktop and selecting "logout" from the menu actually shuts the vnc server down. #!/bin/sh unset SESSION_MANAGER /usr/bin/gnome-session /bin/sleep 2 /usr/bin/vnc4server -kill $DISPLAY # # end-of-file # |
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Classifieds / Realistic pricing.
October 13, 2010, 23:41 |
Starting very low and letting the item go through a normal auction typical sells better. If you check completed you will occasionally see things go via auction for more than another item that didn't sell but had a slightly lower Buy It Now price. If you don't want to sell it too cheaply use a reserve price if you have to, but usually you will have more activity with a $0.99 starting price than $50. On the other hand that system probably would sell better as a fast System 7 machine than a slow MacOS 9 system. People looking for 9.x have a lot better/cheap/faster options, but if properly presented as one of the fastest available System 7 machines you might get somewhere. I have a PowerMac 9600/350. I believe it is the fastest (stock) System 7.6.1 machine available. That has some value versus just being a slower MacOS 9 system. |
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Development / eBay has it right now.
October 13, 2010, 23:16 |
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160485306691 This is "CodeWarrior Pro 5" apparently. Based on the timeline you mentioned that should be it versus the "CodeWarrior 5 Gold" that would have been 1994-1995 or similar. |
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Hardware / Kanga G3
October 10, 2008, 23:48 |
Did you do all the battery revival tricks? I managed to get a couple of 540c batteries going that arrived dead with my 540c. I have a PowerBook 3400c as well and I don't know if the Kanga is that much better, especially since it won't run 7.6.1 like my 3400c. |
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Hardware / Kinetics Fastpath 4
October 02, 2008, 20:38 |
If you can do a screen capture of a few of the configuration dialogs I would be glad to look at them and see if they make any sense to me. I'm a networking person by trade. I booted a virtual router under dynamips and was able to configure it as a MacIP server. I didn't get around to actually testing it with a real Mac though. 
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Hardware / Radeon 7000 Card not flashing.
October 02, 2008, 20:33 |
Once you have an image flashed on the PC side, you should not attempt to run any ATI Updater on the Mac. The reason is that a *real* Mac Radeon has 128KB so the rom image and software requires 128KB. The reason people were able to reduce a 128KB ROM to 64KB was by stripping out the native driver or "NDRV" resource in the ROM. I believe New World macs don't really need this to be present in the ROM while Old World macs won't be able to use the display without it. At least as the primary display. Anyway, you really need a 128KB card if you want to use it on some of the oldest (7.6.1 friendly) pci macs. |
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Hardware / Radeon 7000 Card not flashing.
September 30, 2008, 19:56 |
Yes, this means you have a PC card with only 64KB. It won't hold a full 128KB Mac ROM. You can flash it with a reduced ROM that will work, at least with newer Macs. Search Google for "reduced ppc radeon 7000 rom" and you should see a link for themacelite that has more information. I have two 7000s, one with 64KB and one with 128KB. Only the 128KB one with a full Mac ROM worked in my 9500, but the 64KB with a reduced ROM worked in a Beige G3. To get a screaming 7.6.1 system I think you need a 128KB model. At least if you want to use it as the primary display. I haven't tested all options, so YMMV. |
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Hardware / Radeon 7000 Card not flashing.
September 30, 2008, 01:49 |
Make sure the PC bios has "init display first" (or similar) set to AGP. It might be set to PCI by default. The flash stuff I was using was under 10.2. I'll fire up the machine in the garage tonight and try to get some more details for you. |
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Hardware / Radeon 7000 Card not flashing.
September 27, 2008, 20:49 |
You can't use the flashed video card as the PC's primary display anymore. So that is probably why you just got beeps. You need another working video card and an extra slot for the Mac flashed card. There is a tool Graphiccelerator that will allow you to change the clock speed of a ROM and reflash on the Mac side. This can also be used to do a full reflash. Basically it mods the ATI flash tool so it will flash a modded rom. I found another tool to help with that but I can't remember the name and my Mac is not plugged in out in the garage right now. I will try to find the page again, if I can't I'll fire up the old Mac. |
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Hardware / Kinetics Fastpath 4
September 26, 2008, 23:46 |
Regarding the AsanteTalk / TimeCapsule issue, I forgot to mention. My Farallon (I think) only really works on a 10 meg hub that I have. It doesn't like my Cisco 10/100 autonegotiating switch at all. Also has some problems with cheapo 10/100 switches. My 10 meg Netgear hub works fine. You might be running into a problem where the AsanteTalk and the gigabit port on the TimeCapsule are flapping. |
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Hardware / Kinetics Fastpath 4
September 26, 2008, 23:44 |
I've been using MacIP with a Cisco router as the MacIP server. I don't have the Macs (or router) powered up at the moment, but I could if there is something you wanted me to test. (like tcpdump of the packets from the client) I use a localtalk / ethernet bridge (designed for printers) to get my non ethernet macs connected. I was using the localtalk bridge extension for a while and it worked ok. Your AsanteTalk sounds like the same thing. I think mine is a Farallon, but can't remember right now. I ended up getting a scsi ethernet for my Classic II so I don't really depend on localtalk at this point. There is a router emulator called DynaMIPS that runs on Linux and might be used to gateway MacIP. I'll see if I can spend some time with that this weekend. Can you grab some screen shots of your FastPath configuration? Or post some specific questions about the configuration? |
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Operating System / System 7 ISO images?
September 13, 2008, 00:59 |
I got mine from this seller on eBay. $8.50 + $4.00 shipping and it is the generic retail 7.6.1 not a version bundled with hardware. I'm just a satisfied buyer, not associated with this seller except having bought a couple of these. |
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Hardware / Radeon 7000 Card not flashing.
September 07, 2008, 18:53 |
Are you sure this video card has a 128KB flash rom? Many PC reflashes have 64KB flash roms and use a "reduced" 128KB flash rom that has had the NDRV stripped to make it fit in the 64KB flash. I have one and it doesn't seem to work with an old world Mac rom, but works with new world. E.g. my B&W G3 likes it fine, my 9600 doesn't. I have a PC reflash that has a 128KB flash rom on it and it worked fine with an ATI updater that had been modded slightly. -Andrew |
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Software / MacX for X session over SSH in System 7
August 15, 2008, 21:01 |
To followup on this I will say I was dumb. I realized there was a MacTCP Tool in the A/UX system folder. It works fine under 7.1 and 7.6.1 I must say MacX 1.2 isn't too bad, even on my AWS80. It worked a lot better than Mix68k. Mix is X11R6 based, but hardly worked at all on my AWS80 and was buggy. I haven't tried the PPC version yet. Also I'm using 8bit mode since that is all the onboard video supports. That might not be its best mode. Alas I have figured out that my AWS80 didn't ship with A/UX so until I can find a real copy I can't really use this anyway. I'm glad to know it works though, hopefully I'll run into a copy of MacX for sale or even better A/UX. Oh and to address the original question of using ssh. I tried out MacSSH with the "forward X" checked and it worked ok with XFree86 libraries (on my NetBSD box), but wasn't so happy with X.org based stuff with Ubuntu on my MythTV box. Both worked fine directly connecting, but ssh tunneling didn't work at all with Ubuntu. I'll try some of this again with a PowerMac and MixPPC at some point here. |
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Operating System / System 7.5.5 vs Mac OS 7.6.1 on LC III
August 15, 2008, 20:53 |
Personally I like 7.5.5 because it is freely available from Apple. You can buy a 7.6.1 CD / license on eBay for $10.50 shipped, but if you don't really need it, why bother? I bought two myself for my 6500 and 3400c, but I'm on the fence about buying it for my 68k stuff. With 7.5.5 you can also boot in 24 bit address mode which might let you run some older System 6 stuff. You can't do that under 7.6.1. Performance wise I can't really say as I haven't really compared the two side by side on the same system. |
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