Linux (Ubuntu MATE) on G5 tower?

2017-04-23 Thread Xion Dracari
i've had rotten luck espically making it dualboot, if its not display problems im faced w/ its that yaboot canot locate the FS on the disk for it. anyone have luck using a 2TB Sata drive in these getting linux to work w/ the model that shipped w/ the FX 5200 Videocard?

replacement HDD only gets MS-DOS Options in partition menu

2014-04-12 Thread Xion Dracari
i replaced my old Snow white iMac G3's 40GB hdd w/ a 80GB IDE Drive i had in an old IBM Server, what i remember when preparing the drive boot the iMac w/ Disc one of OSX's CDvers set (this iMac doesnt have a DVD Drive) select the Drive itself and under Erase set it to Volume Format: MacOS

Attention all Minecraft players on PowerPC Macs Reguarding the MC 1.4.6 Update

2012-12-15 Thread Xion Dracari
while a good chunk of power PC Macs would probbly lag like heck on minecraft it is being stated that as of the 1.4.6 the LWJGL Lightweight Java Game Library in use by Minecraft will no longer be compatable with Java 1.5 (Java 5) avilable to PowerPC Users see:

Re: G3 Snow Shite Fruit Mac now only accepting PC100?

2012-06-15 Thread Xion Dracari
On Friday, June 15, 2012 5:54:25 PM UTC-4, Kris Tilford wrote: On Jun 15, 2012, at 4:35 PM, Xion Dracari wrote: i turned on my old G3 fruity model imac to load Classic mode Instead of doing Classic emulation under OS X, just boot directly into your MacOS system and you won't need

Re: Games for G3's?

2012-04-30 Thread Xion Dracari
:22 PM, Xion Dracari wrote: well i still cant find the Right Codec/(and encoder settings to us efor video!) but what games would everyone suggets for the Snow white iMac (G3 600mhz 512MB Ram) -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using

Games for G3's?

2012-04-29 Thread Xion Dracari
well i still cant find the Right Codec/(and encoder settings to us efor video!) but what games would everyone suggets for the Snow white iMac (G3 600mhz 512MB Ram) -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a

Re: SMART status

2012-04-29 Thread Xion Dracari
if you got access to a Intelmac runnin windows (or a Windows PC) thers CrystalDiskInfo that'll show status on USB Drive sbut not sure about Firewire though -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular

Video playback on Tangerine G3 iMac

2012-04-01 Thread Xion Dracari
for the time being it's stuck on OS9 (cant get OSX to boot w/ Kernel panic ) but i Digress. whats the best codec to convert some of my videos to play under OS9? ther than raw DVD Mpeg-2 atm it has 256MB Ram -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those