Re: Zip drive on an MDD G4

2011-12-04 Thread Jeff Bequette
yep, I have 2 smurf's with zip100, functional. Unfortunately, have no need ... so if your close to omaha.. On Dec 3, 2011, at 11:31 AM, David W. Morris wrote: I have a MDD G4 PowerMac and wanted a Zip drive for it, so I found one on eBay. It makes it easy to Sneaker Net files between my MDD

Re: G4 Cube and Quicksilver

2011-12-04 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 3, 2011, at 4:01 PM, John Carmonne wrote: On Dec 3, 2011, at 1:39 AM, Roger Faulkner wrote: I recently acquired a Cube, tower 2 monitors through a freebee day at one of the Mac forums I frequent. Free except for fairly hefty shipping. Everything powers up but only to the

Re: G4 Cube and Quicksilver

2011-12-04 Thread John Carmonne
On Dec 4, 2011, at 6:41 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Dec 3, 2011, at 4:01 PM, John Carmonne wrote: That sounds like a loose video card or missing RAM. No, actually it doesn't. The flashing question mark is quite explicit: no bootable system can be found. This could be from a bad

Rolling Back to Panther OSX

2011-12-04 Thread Avid_Fan
Hi, I'm having an issue using Final Cut Express 2 where I cannot capture footage for more than 5 mins without the window freezing up. After some digging it would appear to be because FCE2 needs to utilise an older version of quicktime. My G4 MDD came pre-loaded with 10.4 and I had (or I have

Re: Rolling Back to Panther OSX

2011-12-04 Thread Bill Connelly
On Dec 4, 2011, at 4:27 PM, Avid_Fan wrote: My G4 MDD came pre-loaded with 10.4 and I had (or I have since upgraded to) a newer version of Quicktime and thus this problem. SoI have picked up the MDD original install discs for peanuts and may roll back to 10.3.2 to solve the Quicktime

Re: Rolling Back to Panther OSX

2011-12-04 Thread David W. Morris
On Dec 4, 2011, at 2:37 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: I'm running Leopard 10.5.8 on my Macs, but I also have Tiger 10.4.11 on another partition. When I do audio work, I use Tiger since my M- Audio 2496 PCI card only seems to function up to but not including Leopard. Maybe you could do a

USB 2.0 PCI Card

2011-12-04 Thread jan
Hi, all! I am new to the group and glad to know you are out there! I have a G4 PowerPC and even with the powered hub i added some of my devices aren't working (iPhone, IceCam2) Isn't this because ultimately the 2.0 usb is plugged into a 1.1 port? I purchased an iogear that was recommended not to

Re: USB 2.0 PCI Card

2011-12-04 Thread peterhaas
I am new to the group and glad to know you are out there! I have a G4 PowerPC and even with the powered hub i added some of my devices aren't working (iPhone, IceCam2) Isn't this because ultimately the 2.0 usb is plugged into a 1.1 port? I purchased an iogear that was recommended not to

PPC Flash Player UPDATE NEWS

2011-12-04 Thread Kris Tilford
A few days ago Facebook instituted a script that checked the version of Adobe Flash Player before playing a flash video, and if the Flash Player version was not the most current version, it would give an error message saying you needed to update your Flash Player, and won't allow the video

Re: PPC Flash Player UPDATE NEWS

2011-12-04 Thread John Ruschmeyer
On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: Fortunately, there's a solution. This seems crazy, but they're saying that the current version and all previous versions that were Intel only actually work fine on PPC Macs, the problem is that Adobe's installer won't

Re: PPC Flash Player UPDATE NEWS

2011-12-04 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 4, 2011, at 11:09 PM, John Ruschmeyer wrote: According to the file, the Zip actually contains a copy of the last PPC-compatible version which has then been hacked to report a later version number as required for the Facebook test. I think the assumption here is that while sites may

Re: PPC Flash Player UPDATE NEWS

2011-12-04 Thread Tina K.
On 2011/12/04 22:37, Kris Tilford so eloquently wrote: On Dec 4, 2011, at 11:09 PM, John Ruschmeyer wrote: According to the file, the Zip actually contains a copy of the last PPC-compatible version which has then been hacked to report a later version number as required for the Facebook test.