Subj : Any Apple fans?
To   : All
From : esc
Date : Tue Apr 04 2023 00:15:24

Hey friends, I've been on an Apple kick recently. Anyone else into vintage Apple gear?

I have two Bandai Pippin game consoles, neither of which work. There aren't really any games for them anyway but it would be cool if they worked lol.

I have an Apple IIGS with some upgrades and a ton of old Apple II games. I love that thing. I play Oregon Trail end to end pretty frequently :) It's amazing with the old keyboard, old sound/speakers, vintage Apple CRT...takes me back to first grade.

I also have a Mac Mini G4 with the "silent upgrade" (i.e., the upgraded Radeon card that they never announced and only exists in a handful of them). I use this for MorphOS primarily. It works very well for that purpose. I did an SSD swap and I /think/ that's the only modification.

A friend recently donated to me a Performa 6112CD which I've updated quite a bit - BlueSCSI V2 card, Sonnet accelerator, maxxed out the RAM, added a VRAM card. She works great! I'm trying to figure out the ideal software package to use here...I don't think OS 9.2.2 is providing any specific benefit over an older version of Mac OS however I'm not sure what compatibility looks like for the Sonnet card going farther back. My goal is to use it as a period correct OS7/OS8 gaming machine, just for the heck of it. Resurrecting this machine has been quite a lot of fun.

I also recently picked up a PowerMac G4 "Quicksilver" and have been modifying the heck out of it. I found a stash of old Sonnet PCI cards which work with this machine and with OS9. I've decided to make this the "world's most outrageous OS9" machine :P I have PCI USB, Firewire, and SATA, which includes OS9 support and can even boot natively into OS9. I have maxed the RAM and currently am doing a PSU swap into a modern PSU simply because I am going to upgrade the CPU to some modded 2ghz thing and I don't want the measly stock PSU to fail the extra power draw. My goal here is to build an OS9 gaming machine but also to use OS9 native audio editing software for a classic DAW.

I've got a Powerbook G4 1.67GHZ 17" laptop which is a hefty beast and a very capable machine. I've maxed out the RAM and installed an SSD. It's flawless, somehow I found an extremely clean machine and it works great. I have OSX 10.4.11 on one partition and OSX Sorbet Leopard on another. I also have Gentoo linux running on a partition but frankly I never use it. This machine would be great for MorphOS but I am fine just using the Mac Mini for that, so no need to purchase another MOS license lol.

Finally, the coup de grace, my PowerMac G5. It's a dual processor 2.7GHz with 8GB RAM and the fastest GPU available (think it's an X850XT or something). It has a MOTU PCI card and I have a couple MOTU rackmount units. Right now this machine is used for gaming and screwing around, using the internet, basic computing stuff, but ideally I'd like to use it as an OSX DAW machine as well.

Anyway I was just messing with some of these machines so figured I'd do a mini writeup here. Not so mini, by the looks of things. hehe.

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