On Jan 6, 2012, at 6:47 AM, John Ruschmeyer wrote:
Any possibility of sharing some details of your "alternative use"?
I think I speak for a lot of people who would be interested in
hearing how to get continued mileage out of our PPC systems and/or
help our own local communities. Perhaps we can all share ideas.
One thing I'm also a bit curious about. You mention only wanting the
last iteration of the PowerBook G4 as well as late versions of the
eMac with no mention of the G4 iMac and a willingness to take pretty
much any PowerMac G4 (500mhz and above pretty much only excludes the
Yikes! and the early Sawtooth models). What gives with that? Are you
sitting on a pile of CPU upgrades for AGP G4's?
Genuinely curious...
JR
Hello JR,
I am not sure I can share the alternative use here on this list, as it
involves running an alternative OS, not an Apple MacOS. Since I am
relatively new here and have already made a few mistakes in posting
messages, I am trying to be careful not to violate any more rules and
risk getting kicked off the list. If you wish to find out more, and
if anyone else wishes the same, all of you are encouraged to contact
me "Off List" using my private email address.
As for your question regarding which models I am interested in, only
certain models have been supported by the team writing this
alternative OS for certain models of PPC Mac computers. The task of
supporting any Mac hardware is a bit difficult, as no documentation
exists for third parties to write drivers for, so they are a bit more
difficult to support than a generic PC. It has to do with what
hardware is inside the supported models. Now that Apple has switched
to Intel CPU's and more industry standard components, the newer
computers are probably easier to write alternative OSes for, but the
Team writing the alternative OS I am interested in has not yet made
the switch from PPC to x86, and may not do so for a few more years (if
ever).
I would really like to hear from as many owners of G4 Mac's as
possible and share my info with them, so please do not hesitate in
contacting me.
David
aka AmigaDave
Dual booting MacOSX & MorphOS2.7 on 1.5GHz G4 MacMini & Dual 1.42GHz
G4 PowerMac MDD, plus MacOSX & MorphOS3.0 beta on 15" & 17" 1.67GHz G4
PowerBooks and MacOSX & Ubuntu PPC 10.10 on a Dual 2.7GHz G5 PowerMac
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