OS9.x on G4 imacs?

2009-07-28 Thread williamd
I read somewhere that certain models of G4 imacs can boot into os9 as well as X. But does this also mean they can use OS 9 without installing X? Thanks for any info. bill --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End

Re: Bondi Blue Imac Upgrades

2009-07-28 Thread Mike Audia
Ugrade the ram, went from 64 to 512 with some old 256mb dimms. Then you'll probably have to update the firmware then you can add OSX if you want. I did it with a ruby red slot loader and no Mac experience at all. The Apple support site is a great place to start Michael Audia

Re: Kindergarden Software for OS X Graphite?

2009-07-28 Thread Charles Lenington
SteveCraft wrote: Hopefully the subject line says it all. I have a Kindergartener and need to get all of the educational-level stuff I can find that will run on my iMac Graphite/DVD system running OS X 10.4.3. I had a resource list “somewhere on my system” and now can’t find it. All

Re: OS9.x on G4 imacs?

2009-07-28 Thread Simon Royal
Hi. Remember Leopard has no Classic support. However if your Mac still supports booting into OS9 and has higher enough requirements to support Leopard you can dual boot between to the two. I do on my PowerBook G4. Simon On 28 Jul 2009, at 10:47, Mike Linnett wrote: Yep, that should

OS 9 software

2009-07-28 Thread Catastrophe
After putting OS X on my iMac G3 summer 2001 500Mhz I realized that I liked how it ran under OS 9 for my son since some of his games take forever to launch in classic under OS X. Does anyone know where (other than Ebay) I can get some software that runs under 9? I have Adobe Pagemaker, and I have

Re: OS 9 software

2009-07-28 Thread Janice F. Jorgensen
try http://macintoshgarden.org/ Janice F. Jorgensen Hadley, MA 01035 - Original Message - From: Catastrophe To: imaclist@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 11:32 AM Subject: OS 9 software After putting OS X on my iMac G3 summer 2001 500Mhz I realized that I liked

Re: Bondi Blue Imac Upgrades

2009-07-28 Thread Cyrus Griffin
Well, remember the Bondi has a lower RAM limit, probably 256, but you might check on your model number to see if it's a Rev.A or Rev. B. But yes, you'll want to update the firmware, otherwise you'll totally destroy it trying to install OSX. We accidentally did this to a Blueberry

Re: Bondi Blue Imac Upgrades

2009-07-28 Thread Jasiu
So How do I get the firmware number and then update it? Cyrus, you successfully dual booted this machine? 10.4.11 ran ok for you? It has 6 MB Video RAM n it Cyrus Griffin wrote: Well, remember the Bondi has a lower RAM limit, probably 256, but you might check on your model number to see if