Re: Need good Emulator for windows games

2011-10-22 Thread Jonas Ulrich
I know that you could use Virtual PC, but you would have to install Windows, and from experience, it won't run at full speed. I'm almost positive that for a full speed emulator would require an Intel processor. Maybe someone else can shed some more light on this. -Jonas -- You received this mes

Re: Need good Emulator for windows games

2011-10-22 Thread Eric Hall
I would try dosbox. Works good on my sawtooth: http://www.dosbox.com/download.php?main=1 From: Lavode To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2011 11:08 PM Subject: Re: Need good Emulator for windows games Only one I can think of is an old

Re: Apple black box - what is this?

2011-10-22 Thread Yersinia
On 10/22/11 3:26 PM, Roger Hodge wrote: Here it is. Took a bit to find it... :) http://www.redmondpie.com/8-mysterious-apple-products-which-you-might-not-know-of-list/ Thank you for posting this. I enjoyed the trip down Memory Lane. On Oct 19, 2011, at 12:16 PM, Jerry K wrote: Can

Re: Need good Emulator for windows games

2011-10-22 Thread Lavode
Only one I can think of is an old version of Virtual PC. YMMV. "Better to reign in hell than surf in heav'n." - Original Message - From: "Wm. Arnold" To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2011 7:47:29 PM Subject: Need good Emulator for windows games Hi, I

Need good Emulator for windows games

2011-10-22 Thread Wm. Arnold
Hi, I need a good Emulator for some windows games I have. I will use my G3 B&W with OSX 10.4.11. I want to play: "Civil War 2" by Sierra & "Harpoon II" by Intracorp Entertainment, Inc. These require DOS 5.0, 466/DX66. Also "Gettysburg" by Sid Meier's Requiring Windows 95. Can anyone suggest an Em

Re: Is there a way...

2011-10-22 Thread Brian Fuelleman
Click  on one of the images and do a "Get Info", that will at least tell you a date, and possibly a version of the software that created or modified it. You might also look at the file names/numbers and do a search on the internet to see what it matches up with.

Is there a way...

2011-10-22 Thread Jeffrey Engle
I have an older iPhoto library, that I need to find out which version of iPhoto/ilife created it? any ideas? Jeffrey Engle Kamiah, Idaho 83536 macgu...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a

Re: video

2011-10-22 Thread Miguel Garcia-Gell
Moths ago I get the same issue with a G4 Quicksilver 867 connected to my HD Tv I fixed with a 64 mb graphic card...I think...the card came from. Dead G4 MDD 800 Beware with the ADC monitor and the Power supply of your Mac...I also kill the power supply with a 20" ADC.some models have enough powe

Re: Apple black box - what is this?

2011-10-22 Thread Roger Hodge
Here it is. Took a bit to find it... :) http://www.redmondpie.com/8-mysterious-apple-products-which-you-might- not-know-of-list/ On Oct 19, 2011, at 12:16 PM, Jerry K wrote: Can anyone identify this Apple item for me please? http://www.oryx.cc/z/apple-what-is-this.jpg Jerry -- Y

Re: Dropbox on a Mac

2011-10-22 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 22, 2011, at 2:32 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: (well, presuming Dropbox doesn't screw up again, and given this interview with the founder, I suspect it won't do that again. The kid

Re: Disk image from SD card

2011-10-22 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 22, 2011, at 2:48 PM, John Carmonne wrote: >> >> On Oct 18, 2011, at 8:11 PM, John Carmonne wrote: >> >>> What's the fastest method to create a 8GB video image from an SDHC card >>> from a video camera using a G4 1.25 machine? Toast or disk Utility? Does >>> processor speed matter? Doe

Re: Disk image from SD card

2011-10-22 Thread John Carmonne
On Oct 22, 2011, at 12:28 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Oct 18, 2011, at 8:11 PM, John Carmonne wrote: What's the fastest method to create a 8GB video image from an SDHC card from a video camera using a G4 1.25 machine? Toast or disk Utility? Does processor speed matter? Does max ram help?

Re: Dropbox on a Mac

2011-10-22 Thread Dan
At 9:54 AM -0400 10/15/2011, Bill Connelly wrote: Anyone have any experience with Dropbox on a Mac under Leopard 10.5.8? My music teacher, who works on a PC, wanted me to use it for easier communication between him and myself. Asked an answered in your other thread, on the 18th. "Can I talk a

Re: Image Scaling Software needed

2011-10-22 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 16, 2011, at 10:29 AM, Bill Connelly wrote: > Perhaps there is an earlier version of GraphicConverter that runs on PPC Macs > under Tiger out there ... No perhaps about it. get it right at the source: He offers versio

Re: Dropbox on a Mac

2011-10-22 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 15, 2011, at 6:54 AM, Bill Connelly wrote: > Anyone have any experience with Dropbox on a Mac under Leopard 10.5.8? My > music teacher, who works on a PC, wanted me to use it for easier > communication between him and myself. > > Here's a link: > http://www.dropbox.com/ > > It asked m

Re: Disk image from SD card

2011-10-22 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 18, 2011, at 8:11 PM, John Carmonne wrote: > What's the fastest method to create a 8GB video image from an SDHC card from > a video camera using a G4 1.25 machine? Toast or disk Utility? Does processor > speed matter? Does max ram help? What adaptors work best? Do you mean a DVD? Or do

Ralink RT3072 802.11 b/g/n driver

2011-10-22 Thread Dan
Hi all, I'm having one of those days. I thought I had the driver here, but can't find it. Googled, found it for Leopard/SL/Lion -- but I'm running Tiger. Found it for Tiger - but the links are all broken (404). Trying to use a Cisco Valet Connector on a machine running Tiger (one Mac is

Re: Highest OSX a G4 sawtooth can run?

2011-10-22 Thread Clark Martin
On Oct 17, 2011, at 10:15 AM, Alexander Gomes wrote: > I have 10.4 on my Sawtooth 350mhz G4. It will run 10.5 but no higher then > that. Really, 867mhz is the minimum that you are suppose to run 10.4 on, 512 > megs ram minimum too. If you have a 1ghz upgrade card for the cpu, really all > you

Re: Apple black box - what is this?

2011-10-22 Thread Jesse
It's actually a private apple tv kiosk for use at Disney theme parks, no different than, say, a cable company box. I don't know if it has any other uses though... They were for info and pay per views Sent from my iPhone 4 On Oct 19, 2011, at 11:16 AM, Jerry K wrote: > Can anyone iden

Re: video

2011-10-22 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 22, 2011, at 1:35 PM, Baldassare Guzzo wrote: I think I am doing something wrong. I have a G4 933, 1.5Gig ram, 10.4.11, and a Geforce Ti 4600 128mb (which is near the top for this machine). I am using an Apple 23" Cinema Display via ADC. I am using 1900x1200 and love the graphics .

Re: non ECC RAM?

2011-10-22 Thread peterhaas
> Yes, I try before in a PPC G5 Dual 2.5(this one do not support > ECC)...somebody from this group time ago send me some INFO about ECC can't > be mixed with NON ECC, at that time I was wrong about the model of my Dual > 2.5...the very last PPC Dual Core/Single Pro from 05 support ECC and NON

video

2011-10-22 Thread Baldassare Guzzo
I think I am doing something wrong. I have a G4 933, 1.5Gig ram, 10.4.11, and a Geforce Ti 4600 128mb (which is near the top for this machine). I am using an Apple 23" Cinema Display via ADC. I am using 1900x1200 and love the graphics except for internet video. When I play a Y

Re: Need Wireless advice for late 2005 G5

2011-10-22 Thread JOHN MCNIVEN
As I have said before - I have a G5 PowerMac Quad LC and I ordered a mini USB adaptor (RNX-MiniN1) from Newegg and it is small and it works right out of the box and it was under $20.00. On 2011-10-22, at 12:34 AM, peterh...@cruzio.com wrote: > >> I checked out this option and asked the sell

Re: Need Wireless advice for late 2005 G5

2011-10-22 Thread JOHN MCNIVEN
Actually it works just fine, Dana. It does not show up as as an airport card but has an icon on the dock. It comes with a cd to load and just works. Was surprised how simple the software was to install. Don't often find too much Mac on Newegg. John On 2011-10-22, at 12:13 AM, DLC wrote: > Hell

Re: 22" Apple LCD - brightness a little uneven

2011-10-22 Thread Jonas Ulrich
I think that it is either a back light problem, or an inverter board problem. The inverter board power the back light. I've had this issue with several laptops I've used in the past, and just ignored it. I'm not sure about replacing back lights, but inverter boards should be easy to replace. As f

Apple black box - what is this?

2011-10-22 Thread Jerry K
Can anyone identify this Apple item for me please? http://www.oryx.cc/z/apple-what-is-this.jpg Jerry -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowen

Re: Upgrade video card on G5 PowerMac quad

2011-10-22 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 16, 2011, at 6:06 AM, gramps wrote: It has the original nVidia GeForce 6600 w/256 GDDR ram PCI x. I believe this is a PCIe card? I'm not certain why you're looking for a new card, but the options for PPC cards are fairly limited, and probably won't result in much higher perform

Re: 10.3.9 hacking

2011-10-22 Thread Andrew Owen
Well so far I'm up to GCC 4.1.2. the 4.2.x series are refusing to build so I'm going to jump over them and see if I can get a later series to build. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on

Re: My computer has a strange smell

2011-10-22 Thread Bill Connelly
On Oct 17, 2011, at 8:01 PM, cheryl wrote: The air intake fan appears not to be running, but since I run the machine with the case slightly open that shouldn't be a problem. Any advice would be appreciated! I've always heard the cases are designed for fans that are running. Your intake fan n

Disk image from SD card

2011-10-22 Thread John Carmonne
What's the fastest method to create a 8GB video image from an SDHC card from a video camera using a G4 1.25 machine? Toast or disk Utility? Does processor speed matter? Does max ram help? What adaptors work best? JOHN CARMONNE Yorba Linda CA 92886 USA From TiBook 867 -- You received thi

Re: My computer has a strange smell

2011-10-22 Thread Ashgrove
On Oct 18, 12:44 pm, cheryl wrote: > thanks to all for your input and advice! I'm buying a used Mac Mini > from someone on the swap list, but I may hold onto this computer or > give it to my friend who loves to tinker with Macs. I was wanting to > get a machine with a faster processor than this on

Re: My computer has a strange smell

2011-10-22 Thread Ghossamer
Smell the power supply exhaust fan. they often make a horrid odor as they fail. Morgan On Oct 17, 2011, at 5:01 PM, cheryl wrote: You guys will think I'm nuts but here goes. My Quicksilver 2002 has a smell coming out of it. It doesn't smell like it's burning but it's definitely not normal. I'

Re: Highest OSX a G4 sawtooth can run?

2011-10-22 Thread Alexander Gomes
I have 10.4 on my Sawtooth 350mhz G4. It will run 10.5 but no higher then that. Really, 867mhz is the minimum that you are suppose to run 10.4 on, 512 megs ram minimum too. If you have a 1ghz upgrade card for the cpu, really all you need to do is max out ram and it will run perfectly. -- You rece

Re: Need Wireless advice for late 2005 G5

2011-10-22 Thread JOHN MCNIVEN
It comes with install disc and own utility and icon sits in dock. Works great on my liquid cooled G5 quad powermac with leopard. John On 2011-10-16, at 5:03 PM, DLC wrote: > Thank you John for the advice - USB dongles certainly look more hassle > free at the moment. Does this show up as an Ai

Re: What is the Highest OSX a Digital Audio G4 can run?

2011-10-22 Thread smac0031
I thought 10.4.11 was the highest you could go and still run OS9. Thanks. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and

Re: What is the Highest OSX a Digital Audio G4 can run?

2011-10-22 Thread Todd -
I have an ANS 700 myself but haven,t had any luck finding AIX 4.1.4 for it Todd On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 12:46 PM, wrote: > > > 10.5 is a great OS, but on PowerPCs Tiger is IMHO the best choice. > > True, but ... > > > > If you want 10.5, have it installed on a [ separate ] partition alongside >

Re: Image Scaling Software needed

2011-10-22 Thread Bill Connelly
I'm using Digital Photo Professional / Batch Processing, but I got it with my Canon 60D Digital Camera. Perhaps there is an earlier version of GraphicConverter that runs on PPC Macs under Tiger out there ... -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for thos

Re: Image Scaling Software Needed

2011-10-22 Thread M Christol
latest version needs intel You can DL pirated torrents of old GF. I mean, if you really can't find a copy to buy, it's an option. On 10/15/11 7:28 PM, Brian Fuelleman wrote: You can get a free 30 day trial of the newest version at ononesoftware.com, though they've changed the name of the produ

Upgrade video card on G5 PowerMac quad

2011-10-22 Thread gramps....
I have a liquid cooled G5 powermac, 2.5 Ghz, running 10.5.8 and am looking for an affordable video card. It has the original nVidia GeForce 6600 w/256 GDDR ram PCI x. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a pa

Re: 10.3.9 hacking

2011-10-22 Thread Andrew Owen
Except that Apple doesn't like GPLv3, so the gcc you get in Xcode will forever be a fork of 4.2.1. So far I've managed to build the gcc 3.4.6 using the version of gcc 3.3 included with Xcode 1.5. Going straight to 4.6.1 was never going to work. I then used that version of gcc to build the GNU c

Re: 10.3.9 hacking

2011-10-22 Thread Andrew Owen
To me Panther was the first version of OS X that really nailed it. Then they started adding bloat like Dashboard. It runs GarageBand 2 (also my favourite version for functionality against bloat) with the most available resources. And PPC has always been better for time syncing than Intel. I hop

Re: What is the Highest OSX a Digital Audio G4 can run?

2011-10-22 Thread Bill Connelly
On Oct 14, 2011, at 6:59 PM, Valter Prahlad wrote: Il giorno 14-10-2011 18:25, smac0031 ha scritto: IIRC you could install 10.5 on it, using some hacks (I think there's plenty info on the Net). CCC works just fine. After that, If you need to use the OS X Install Disk (for example to ch

Dropbox on a Mac

2011-10-22 Thread Bill Connelly
Anyone have any experience with Dropbox on a Mac under Leopard 10.5.8? My music teacher, who works on a PC, wanted me to use it for easier communication between him and myself. Here's a link: http://www.dropbox.com/ It asked me a second time for my admin Password, in order to open up some

Re: What is the Highest OSX a Digital Audio G4 can run?

2011-10-22 Thread Jonas Ulrich
Since your processor is well above the minimum requirements for 10.5 Leopard, no hack is needed for install. -Jonas -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at h

Re: non ECC RAM?

2011-10-22 Thread maggell42
Yes, I try before in a PPC G5 Dual 2.5(this one do not support ECC)...somebody from this group time ago send me some INFO about ECC can't be mixed with NON ECC, at that time I was wrong about the model of my Dual 2.5...the very last PPC Dual Core/Single Pro from 05 support ECC and NON E

Re: 22" Apple LCD - brightness a little uneven

2011-10-22 Thread Geke
Is this about the Apple Cinema Display, 1600x1024, DVI? All Apple says is: "For best results, allow the display to warm up for 30 minutes to reach peak color quality. When displaying a large area of a single color, the color might not appear uniform throughout the area. This symptom can occur if th