By the way, Reckless Drivin' worked fine on my G3 for a fun driving game, ran
jjust as well as on my new IMac - and also Bushfire played very well on it,
though it "wasn't supposed to run" on the low of a machine, no problems.
Dennis
On Monday, January 26, 2009, at 10:12AM, "r_poetic" <radford.scha...@mms.gov>
wrote:
>
>Good explanation, Jim, thanks. As for RAM, the cost is amazingly low
>nowadays, and all one needs to open up is a little door. I have kept
>my lime green iMac and put it in the playroom mainly because I can't
>bear to part with such a nice looking computer. It's a cool-looking
>DVD player. My experience is that the children have only slight
>interest in the Classic games, unfortunately. Good OSX games for the
>G3 include the Professor Fizzwizzle series.
>
>RS
>
>On Jan 25, 11:39 pm, Jim Scott <jesco...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Jan 25, 2009, at 7:33 PM, Kathy K wrote:
>>
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>>
>>
>> > I have an iMac G3, graphite 500 mhz, 128mb, and 30g harddrive.
>>
>> > It is currently running OS 10.3 only.
>>
>> > Is it possible to reinstall and add OS 9 back on it? Or classic? I
>> > haven't messed with this iMac for awhile and have forgotten the ins
>> > and outs of OS9/OSX installs. I do have two other old G3s, but we are
>> > making some trades. Now we want to set this one up for my youngest to
>> > play old OS 9 games on CD. It would be nice to leave OS X on there as
>> > well, if possible.
>>
>> > And though the machine probably needs more ram, I don't plan to do
>> > that. Not interested in opening it up or investing more $ in it.
>>
>> > Also, while I'm at it... at one time I had an ethernet/usb adapter on
>> > this thing. The ethernet port was broken on it when I bought it (a
>> > steal at $25 several years ago). I bought an adapter online that
>> > worked great, but after awhile the adapter broke (poorly designed). I
>> > since bought a different adapter... but could never get it to work.
>> > Any other ideas out there for getting this G3 online without an
>> > ethernet port?
>>
>> > Kathy K
>>
>> The best/easiest way to set it up for a new user is to boot from an OS
>> 9.1 or preferably OS 9.2 CD, wipe the hard drive, initialize it for
>> HFS Extended, and use Disk Utility to check the hard drive for bad
>> sectors. lf Disk Utility finds bad sectors, replace the hard drive. If
>> it doesn't, then you can install OS 9.x. Then run Software Update
>> until there are no updates. Then set all your preferences in Control
>> Panel. Finally, install all of the OS 9 programs and games.
>>
>> Once you've got OS 9 squared away, insert the OS X disk and install OS
>> X. Run Software Update until there are no more to install. Then set
>> your preferences. Finally, attempt to launch an OS 9 program. This
>> will start Classic. Complete the dialogue and set your Classic
>> preferences. Note that you can set Classic to launch when the computer
>> starts up. If you do this, then it makes perfect sense to put favorite
>> OS 9 aliases on the OS X desktop. That makes for a pretty seamless and
>> almost transparent ability to use OS 9 and OS 10 programs at will
>> without a bunch of switching back and forth and waiting for OS 9/
>> Classic to launch. I set a room full of G3e iMacs up this way at a
>> local elementary school lab, and the lab instructor is quite happy
>> with the kids' ability to surf via Firefox or Safari and use old OS 9
>> programs without any trouble or problems.
>>
>> As for getting it online without an ethernet port, you can use an
>> original Airport card (with G3 iMac adapter), or buy another USB/
>> ethernet adapter. I'll leave other suggestions to the fine members on
>> this list.
>>
>> Good luck and have fun!
>>
>> -- Jim- Hide quoted text -
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