What about on G4 350 AGP's? With rage 128's?? Does the patch work for them as well? or is it just for the pci video macs and beige G3's?
Justin on 10/25/2001 5:11 PM, Alan Robinson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> Can I put a regular atapi IDE apple DVD-ROM drive into my beige G3 and play >>> a dvd using apple's dvd player software? I don't have the decoder card (and >>> OS X doesn't support them as far as I know) so I'd just be using software. >>> Would I need any other software? >> >> There's a patch available so that you can use Apple DVD Player w/o a >decoder >> card, but you need to have an ATI Rage 128 or Nvidia GeForce or ATI Radeon >> installed to watch. See http://web.tiscali.it/thinkdifferent/. > > > The above patch is for OS9. I have tried it and it works quite well on my > 350/Mhz B&W. For OSX, Accelerate You Mac has this article on patching the OSX > DVD player to work on unsupported (PCI video) machines: > http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/OSX/OS_X_10.1/OS_X_DVD_player_mod.html > > I have patched my OSX player and have found that it works even better then the > OS9 version. The mod has been reported to work on beige G3's with Rage 128 or > Radeon cards, as well as B&W's. > > Alan Robinson -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
