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Backstory:
I grew up with DoS at home, and eventually windows 3.1 on up, but our schools always had macs. So I got to mess with apple II's, quadra, performa, power macs, basically everything leading up to OSX and all the 68K / PPC stuff.
About 12 years ago when I left my parents house at their "request" they eventually sold off a lot of my stuff including all my macs. I lost a really nice power mac with S-video input and tons of other upgrades.
Fast forward to present:
A couple days ago at work, a co-worker that knew this backstory, hands me a power mac 7500 with a G3 slotted processor upgrade already in it. "it's yours, just don't sell it."
I'll be damned if the thing didn't boot right up to OS 9.1 after a good cleaning out. It's got a sonnet crescendo 333 in it, and I found a 500mhz card that's on the way.
At this point I have some ADB peripherals on the way too, and I'm considering trying to SCSI2SD it. My thoughts there are a live boot PPC linux to just copy the block device, replaced the drive, and DD it back. I don't see a reason why it wouldn't work but if you do... let me know lol.
Any of you guys still mess with classic macs? Any favorite games? I know I gotta get Escape Velocity back at the least.
I grew up with DoS at home, and eventually windows 3.1 on up, but our schools always had macs. So I got to mess with apple II's, quadra, performa, power macs, basically everything leading up to OSX and all the 68K / PPC stuff.
About 12 years ago when I left my parents house at their "request" they eventually sold off a lot of my stuff including all my macs. I lost a really nice power mac with S-video input and tons of other upgrades.
Fast forward to present:
A couple days ago at work, a co-worker that knew this backstory, hands me a power mac 7500 with a G3 slotted processor upgrade already in it. "it's yours, just don't sell it."
I'll be damned if the thing didn't boot right up to OS 9.1 after a good cleaning out. It's got a sonnet crescendo 333 in it, and I found a 500mhz card that's on the way.
At this point I have some ADB peripherals on the way too, and I'm considering trying to SCSI2SD it. My thoughts there are a live boot PPC linux to just copy the block device, replaced the drive, and DD it back. I don't see a reason why it wouldn't work but if you do... let me know lol.
Any of you guys still mess with classic macs? Any favorite games? I know I gotta get Escape Velocity back at the least.