Re: Communicating to my iphone

2017-10-01 Thread Thomas Fritsch
Sorry it snot an easy idea, but it's all that comes to mind as nothing i could test or do would be valid as i only still have my aging iphone4(non-S), but i cant be certain, You might be able to do something w/ Linux. the most upto date distro i think available for PowerPC's is Ubuntu MATE 16.04.1

Re: Linux (Ubuntu MATE) on G5 tower?

2017-04-23 Thread Thomas Fritsch
ok i havent powered it up in awhile and apparently the GPU was upgraded before i got mine this actually has the 6600 Nvidia card and not the 5200 (this brought me alot of trouble w/ noveau drivers) if theres too many issues no ones really gotten around w/ this GPU i'll just stick w/ this or will h

Re: Dumping inventory

2017-03-06 Thread Thomas Fritsch
some still working devs for Classic (OS9 and older.) might be intrested , i came across the devs for Bugdom 1 are looking for a Machine that still runs OS9 for them to play thier own older games. so could contact them w/ something. On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 12:53 PM, Dan Cottler wrote: > Hi All, >

Re: Partitions corrupted on a drive

2016-12-29 Thread Thomas Fritsch
i'm not super certain and Mght cause more problems than it'd solve but there are partitioning tools in UbuntuMATE that should work on your Powermac Model After you'd install hfstools (which can still be done in an liveCD Session) On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 7:34 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > On

Reverse flashing a Apple Radeon 7500? (for use in PC)

2016-08-01 Thread Thomas Fritsch
i feel like i may have something some might want for thier G3 or G4 towers, but i have no further Use for my G4, anything i could of used it for has been taken over by my Dual G5 Model tower, and i've been trying to restore an old PII 300MHZ Windows PC for Older games Last thing left is to replace

Re: G5 Beeps, no startup...

2016-07-31 Thread Thomas Fritsch
i Hate to Hijack where are the CPUS located on a Dual G5 Model? (it sparked me to re-paste my G5 w/ Artic Silver) as for the OP, it could be a Dying PSU or bad Ram, try to locate an older PC that used DDR2 Ram, and Run Memtest86+ On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 12:29 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: > On Jul 2

Re: Add normal floppy drive to Power Mac G4?

2016-07-23 Thread Thomas Fritsch
there is one option. if you have a PC w/ one. to read/write Mac Floppies, you can grab TransMac for it but if teh floppies you have laying arund are allready in MS-Dos/FAT16 Format, then the point's Moot. On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 1:04 PM, wrote: > > > I am aware there is no floppy connector on

Re: salvaging a semi-dead G3,

2014-07-19 Thread Thomas Fritsch
coverable by someone less knowledgeable. :/ On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 1:32 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: > On Jul 19, 2014, at 12:02 AM, Thomas Fritsch > wrote: > > found a G3 sittin on the road in desperate need of some TLC, to see the > internal display has been "Necked" (this its

salvaging a semi-dead G3,

2014-07-18 Thread Thomas Fritsch
found a G3 sittin on the road in desperate need of some TLC, to see the internal display has been "Necked" (this its not going to work anymore,) is it possible to run the mac w/o its internal Monitor? if it is how do i go about removing its power and Data connections so i can rely Soly on the VGA

Re: replacement HDD only gets MS-DOS Options in partition menu

2014-04-12 Thread Thomas Fritsch
reformatted the HDD again cleaned off my disc and it installed properly , Now to connect it to the net and grab all the updates ! thanks for the help. On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: > On Apr 12, 2014, at 6:32 AM, Thomas Fritsch wrote: > > ok this is weird ... th

Re: replacement HDD only gets MS-DOS Options in partition menu

2014-04-12 Thread Thomas Fritsch
ok this is weird ... the install breaks the moment it needs CD 2. (it says "There were errors durring install try again later") On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 5:32 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: > On Apr 12, 2014, at 3:59 AM, Xion Dracari wrote: > > however w/ this iMac under the partition Scheme, only see

Re: Balky HDs vs SMART data

2013-05-01 Thread Thomas Fritsch
could always use a spare Sh*t beater windows PC (runnin linux or a Live-CD) to do SMART Checks. its what i do to keep my aging G3 in line. On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > On May 1, 2013, at 11:53 AM, Dan wrote: > > > > > The tools I found on MacUpdate seem useless; does

Re: Classic Environment

2012-09-30 Thread Thomas Fritsch
umm now its been ages since i really messed with classic, but wasnt classic removed from 10.5/.6/.7 ? i know it was from .7 as 10.7 was Intel Only thus unable to run anything from PPC macs. On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote: > > > I wish to run Photoshop version 7 on my G4 Pow

Re: Games for G3's?

2012-05-01 Thread Thomas Fritsch
im a puzzle Solver/RPG type of person though i love games like Sam &Max , Monekyisland and what not :3 On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:41 AM, t...@io.com wrote: > > > On Apr 30, 1:06 pm, Len Gerstel wrote: > > > On Apr 29, 2012, at 7:22 PM, Xion Dracari wrote: > > > > >> well i still cant find the Ri