I ran a PTP on 9.1 for years. Works fine. Do not go to 9.2.2 though. In my case, it made the sound go away.
Jim
On Wednesday, December 10, 2003, at 06:12 PM, Jackie Tarry wrote:
Chuck, thanks for your reply.
Happily, you have what is probably the most upgradeable Power Computing
machine, the PTP (power tower pro).
hey, that's nice to know. :) all this time I've been kicking myself for buying
a clone coz I haven't been able to ugrade it and keep it compatible.
do you know if the PTP needs a special version of the OS 9 cd? I've borrowed OS
9 cds in the past and tried to install them on my machine, but always got
errors that the drive couldn't be upgraded.
I'd be happy if I could just get to 9.something so I can have software
versions that are compatible with G4 machines. (I can't install anything past
Photoshop 5 coz it requires min. of OS9). If I can get OS9 running stable, I
may try loading OS X via XPostFacto to use occasionally. I just won an iPod and
would like to be able to use it on my home machine. so I thought I could run
from OS 9 and occasionally switch to OS X when I need iTunes.
re: cd drive...I do have an older version of CD-ROM ToolKit. that might work.
thanks Jackie
OS 9 should work very nicely on your machine. Personally, I would be content
to stop at OS 9.1 (worked great on two non-pro Power Tower machines of
mine); that will do all you need is the OS 9.x world.
You also have options concerning upgrading to OS X. It could be a fun
project, if you'd like. Personally, having been spoiled by a 1 GIG iMac
running X, I would hate to try it on a 200 mhz machine. But running
XPostFacto, you might be able to run OS X.
But the PTP will run OS 9 just swell.
As for your CD: You will likely need a different driver to make your CD-ROM
work.
The old CD driver from OS 7.6 might work: Go to: http://www.macdrivermuseum.com/disk.shtml
And click on: # Apple's Universal CD ROM Driver 5.3.1
Unstuff it (if necessary), drag it to your System Folder | Extensions, then
restart. (In fact, I would try this before you change your OS, to see
whether this works for you. Your PTP came with FWB CD-ROM Toolkit to run
your CD; in most cases, the Apple OS CD driver won't work; version 5.3.1 may
be an exception.)
If that doesn't work for your CD, there are other options. But do the simple
things first.
-- Chuck
on 12/10/03 6:13 PM, Jackie Tarry at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm looking for some help or advice on how to update my Mac Clone to system 9.
I have a Power Computing Power Tower Pro 200 MHz, 604e Processor hard drive: 4 MB ROM 208 MB RAM about 6GB hard drive 1.4 MB floppy drive 8x CD-ROM drive, 1200 kb transfer rate IMS TwinTurbo-128M8 128-bit graphics accelerator 8 MB VRAM on graphics card
The machine itself actually runs pretty good. The main problem is that
it's becoming useless because I can't get any current software without
updating the OS. Which means I can't use files from other Macs and
general processes are cumbersome.
I've been running OS 8.0 for ages because whenever I've tried to update
in the past I continually got errors stating my machine could not be updated because it was not Apple native/not compatible. I've tried a million work-arounds, but I've never been able to work past OS 8.
I know that I'll need to replace it with a G5, etc. but I'd like to have
my current PTP get me through another year. I'd like to know:
Is this possible?
How can I upgrade my OS on an non-Apple native machine? (system 9 would
be fine if OS X is not feasible.)
will my CD-ROM drive work when I update? (it currently can't read newer
CD formats).
I'd appreciate any advice or info you may have.
Jackie Tarry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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