If you're mostly concerned with the speed of X, you should get something like an ATI Rage or Radeon PCI card. I have been buying Sapphire Radeon 7000 cards from Newegg for around $45 USD and flashing the Mac ROM onto it (although the cards will only run at 143 MHz). But any Mac compatible ATI card should do for both serving the console and running X pretty decently.
Any useful links that you would recommend please?
Sure. Newegg has the video card: http://www.newegg.com/app/SearchProductResult.asp?Submit=Go&DEPA=0
It's $40 USD, but you have to find a PC to use to flash the ROM.
Get these files: http://people.freenet.de/amichalak/flashrm2new.sit
The Sapphire is supposed to run at 183 MHz, but some are 150 MHz parts, and some are 133 MHz. It's hard to complain when the cards are so cheap. Having done more than a dozen, most will run at 183 MHz.
If not, you need ROMs which are set up for lower speeds. I'll post links to modified ROMs when I have a few free minutes.
Sheepshaver was a shareware mac emulator for PPC BE in the begining and worked like mac on linux. Sheepshaver for nix seems to be progressing well, doing a fair job of emulating a ppc mac on intel hardware. I'm sure it does a much faster job on macs running OSX or the BEbox you mentioned above. I haven't tried it with ppc MDK, MoL works fine.
Sheepshaver was never intended to run any sort of Mac software on non-PowerPC hardware. Perhaps you're thinking of PearPC. In any case, SheepShaver became what is known as MacOnLinux, which is not a good name because GNU/Linux isn't the only system that runs SheepShaver. But Linux eccentrics will be Linux eccentrics...
L2 DIMMs can be bought off of eBay or elsewhere for very cheap. I got one for my Motorola Starmax for around $5 USD total, shipping included.
Excellent point, I jumped straight to a Gx upgrade which was wrong. Any mac works better with a cache card installed.
Not necessarily wrong, but more expensive.
How much would VM play a part in choppiness, 96mb of ram isn't bad until you install OS9+ then the hard drive starts doing extra work. A extension set to suit video capture and VM off may help a little maxing the ram wouldn't hurt or cost much either, sorry shades of the pci mac list there.
You shouldn't go into swap if you have 136. Heck, even with 96 you should be fine unless you've got extra software running.
Good luck!
John Klos
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