John Klos wrote:
1. Has anyone tried gentoo on an old world machine? If so, were you
able to get X working and was it any more speedy than YDL?
If you're mostly concerned with the speed of X, you should get something
like an ATI Rage or Radeon PCI card. I have been buying Sapphire Radeon
7000 cards from Newegg for around $45 USD and flashing the Mac ROM onto
it (although the cards will only run at 143 MHz). But any Mac compatible
ATI card should do for both serving the console and running X pretty
decently.
Any useful links that you would recommend please?
2. Has anyone managed to get BeOS usable in the modern world? I have
Personal Ed. 5 preview and have had it running before, but don't know
whether I can make it relevant and whether it's worth the hassle.
Just out of curiosity, what software do you run on BeOS? I used to have
a real dual processor Be machine, but it hardly ever did anything
because I could never find much software for it (but that was many years
ago...)
I dont think Personal version 5 can run on ppc. Any old intel will
make a good BE box. Nice thing about BE is it will mount most file
systems and will do appletalk out of the box so can be useful in a
network. The Development version allows you to try to port nix source
for use with BE.
There's not a huge list of software, guess ther never has been
http://www.beosonline.com/?page=software
I am a member here, why the site is setup with no guest browsing I
dont know. Membership here is harmless, no spam or any other email so
I'd recommend it if you are interested
Any OS that will network ID games is ok by me. :)
Sheepshaver was a shareware mac emulator for PPC BE in the begining
and worked like mac on linux. Sheepshaver for nix seems to be
progressing well, doing a fair job of emulating a ppc mac on intel
hardware. I'm sure it does a much faster job on macs running OSX or
the BEbox you mentioned above. I haven't tried it with ppc MDK, MoL
works fine.
3. I wanted to use my 6500 to record stuff off a Tivo because it has
the video in card. After trying a few things, though, I've found
QuickTime's capture results to be prettty choppy. Anyone tried using
that video in card to capture video under a *nix? If so, would it be
good enough to make it worth the effort? This is a 275mhz 6500 with
96mb RAM and no l2 cache chip, so it ain't exactly a powerhouse.
L2 DIMMs can be bought off of eBay or elsewhere for very cheap. I got
one for my Motorola Starmax for around $5 USD total, shipping included.
Excellent point, I jumped straight to a Gx upgrade which was wrong.
Any mac works better with a cache card installed.
How much would VM play a part in choppiness, 96mb of ram isn't bad
until you install OS9+ then the hard drive starts doing extra work.
A extension set to suit video capture and VM off may help a little
maxing the ram wouldn't hurt or cost much either, sorry shades of the
pci mac list there.
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