Hmmm.... Id like to see the mac classic doing *nix. I have an old one.. I
even have a 20 meg "HyperDrive" with it. It didnt boot last time I checked...
but before that It had worked great (for a 15 year old computer...) If there
is a reasonably easy way to put linux on it, ill dig the thing up and try...
I cant imagine playing mp3's on it...word processing and web browsing would
be about the max, heck I cant even remember any graphics to speak of.
my P120 will play mp3's just fine (atleast at 128kbps), but I just dont
think any mac classic will do the compression required for mp3, kernel
compile may take many hours on such a computer. but I would still like to try
linux on it.
Jamie
On Saturday 12 January 2002 22:17, you wrote:
> Has anyone experience with Unices/Gnu/Linux on the Mac Classic II?
> This is pretty olf stuff but not so bad at all, should be a fun little gig;
> it's my neighbor's by the by -- the biggest hurdle seems connectivity.
> There's another Mac (also relatively old -68k) which I'm hoping appletalk
> could be established to avoid trying to use a serial line. Here's some
> info:
> Classic II has a 16MHz 68030, PMMU but no FPU, B&W of course and
> works a lot like the Performa 200 apparently...
> Any idea if this could decode and play mp3's? The primary goal is just to
> to be able to write on it, and move the text to another local pc, prolly
> his other mac via appletalk, maybe via serial. I am of course looking to
> test the limits a little, maybe see how mame works on that old beast, which
> is also apparently fully 32-bit. Maybe linux games would
> be best (lbreakout is one I like)... or, uh, text-mode quake anyone?
> Hum, this http://maclinuxstatus.sourceforge.net/status/ shows
> that the FPU is optional, but looks like http://www.mac.linux-m68k.org/
> will make it work. Looking to finish & return the little doorstop in the
> next two weeks. Anyone interested or got tips, suggestions?
>
> cheers
> ben
>
> ps - the internal drive is HD afaik, and there is an additional 250MB
> external HD.
