Decided to power on the performa and play around with kid pix. Good times and great memories. Used to print out my creations on the LaserWriter that was shared upon 4 PowerMac all in ones. Shoutout Westmore elementary in Fairfax!

Who needs to spend £299 on a HomeView, when I have an iMac G3 that can communicate with HomeKit via a Raspberry Pi running Home Assistant?

As it stands, it’s essentially a mouse controlled kiosk that currently can control one of my lights, and read one of my climate sensors. It works great!

Eventually i will add all my HomeKit devices, and even AirPlay controls for my speakers throughout the house.

I added a little screensaver summary that dims after 30 seconds, and switches the screen off entirely after 15 mins to reduce power/burn in, and I can add more summary info to it later.

Let me know what you think!

After few years of no use i just restarting my old PowerBook…. I can’t stay logged more than few minutes. Think eol HDD 🤭Time to put hands under the hood

Check out this experimental OS project made to run on minimal to no hardware.It's GUI is styled on Mac OS 7.5 and it has a full C compiler text editor and terminal environments. Plus MP3 player !

i'm looking to mostly play old games and use old software from the OS X era. the only modern thing i'd need is a web browser, for downloading those games and apps. i mostly want tiger for its looks, but maybe classic mode could be useful too. i've heard leopard is laggy, but i'm not sure if it applies to only G4s or all PPC macs. this is my first PPC mac btw so tell me if there's anything else i should know.

Hey!
I got a Macintosh SE 1/20 without a mouse or Keyboard, so I Hope I get them in the Next days…

I opened it, and there was no dust in it.
I removed the battery to be on the safe side.
At first it did not boot, but after opening it now somehow boots immediately into MacOS.

I’m so happy when I have the periphery and can play around with it!
I’ve been a student at university since last week, so I don’t want to invest too much directly. That at least for the time being the internal hard drive is running is therefore great!

Does anyone have any tips? :)

I have a problem. I “accidentally”(don’t ask how) erased my PBG3’s OS 9 disk. And no ways that I found can recover the resource fork based things and Apps and system stuff. Is there a way to recover the system files and apps in general? Thanks a lot in advance!

My specs are:
CPU: 233 MHz G3 512K cache
GPU: ATI Rage LT Pro 2 MB VRAM
RAM: 160 MB
OS 9 Version: 9.2.2
HDD: Internal ATA 2 GB Toshiba Hard Disk(the original one, still holds up well!)
Disc Drive: CD-ROM 20x

https://github.com/nagualcode/th0nk3000

My father had an old AEKII in his attic at work and I found it and decided to have a hand at restoring it a couple of years ago. I removed all the keycaps and bleached all the stained plastic parts with hair dye in the sun, which came close to removing all the yellowing, but didn't fully get it.

After putting it all back together, I judged that it seemed to have gone well, but there are still some instances of keys that don't feel as good as other keys, the delete key "squeaks" for lack of a better word, on some actuations. The caps lock triggers before it's fully depressed (maybe that's how they all are?) and the spacebar never fully bleached back to the original color.

I am wondering if I should try lubricating the switches or if there are common maintenance items that people do for these old keyboards to keep the operational for as long as possible. Using a nearly 35 year old keyboard is a really cool experience but I don't want it to break due to the abuse of everyday use.

Thanks in advance for any tips or for pointing me to useful resources. I'm including a pic of my keyboard for reference.

Work in progress, please check the post in the original subreddit for full details. Next steps are to remove the protective sheet from the new acrylic bezel, glue on a white frame for the original look, and apply a matte screen protector. Suggestions welcome!

I recently bought an eMac G4 and was wondering if it was possible to remove the front plate around the screen since it has yellowed over time.

On top of that, if I was able to remove it, I was going to either repaint it or try to remove the yellowing, if anyone has tips for customization/cleaning.

Hi all- I have a Daystar Genesis MP given to me by my MIL that I want to sell, but first I want to safely turn it on (I know there is a special battery that has to be swapped before I do that) and I want to extract her files and wipe the drive.

Can anyone recommend someone?

i would like to apologise for the fact that my setup isn't the cleanest, i've recently moved and haven't really been able to have everything set up the way i'd like

with that out of the way, this is a Power Mac G4 "Yikes!" i recently purchased for 25 dollars without really knowing anything at all about it other than the fact that it was a graphite G4 with no zip drive

i uh, may have gone a bit overboard with upgrading it, primarily because i never see anyone do anything with this model and i wanted to give it the love it (debatably) deserves

so, the current specs of it are an overclocked 450mhz G4 processor, a Radeon 7000 Mac Edition that i honestly paid too much for (twice as much as the computer itself! PCI video cards are so expensive now...), 768mb of PC-100 SDRAM (i don't have another 256mb stick to put in here unfortunately), a 160gb... *hard drive...* because SSD prices are completely outrageous right now and i didn't have a spare one for this machine

i've installed a rather generic 4 port USB 2.0 card with a compatible chipset, a gigabit ethernet card, and a SATA card that's been flashed to work in both Mac OS 9 and OS X (which is what the aforementioned hard drive is connected to)

anyway, not much more to say other than it runs Unreal Tournament like a dream (:

I’ve been a Mac user since the age of about 5 and have fond memories of Mac gaming around the 1995-2002 sort of time frame. I collect retro games and consoles and I’m thinking of adding a Mac to that collection.

I’m thinking hardware wise of a PowerMac G4 (Quicksilver or not, I’m not sure) with a 17” or 21” Apple Studio CRT. It’s funny how even all these decades later the idea of owning a PowerMac G4 feels like a luxury haha

Open to suggestions on mouse and keyboard! Mainly erring towards authenticity.

I’m hoping to run OS X and all the OS 9 games through Classic, or even vibe coding OS X patches where needed - but also open to running OS 9 if I have to.

And then keen for any suggestions on games, other than the default “all Blizzard games of the era”. I love adventure games and keen to explore obscure RPGs and strategy games of the era.

I've been working on a project called macMAKE, and the first public release is finally available.

It grew out of my work on MacSurf, a modern web browser for Classic Mac OS. I've spent a considerable amount of time using CodeWarrior 8 on actual PowerPC hardware, eventually automating nearly the entire build process through Linux, SSH, and AppleScript. While CodeWarrior is an incredible development environment, managing hundreds of source files, access paths, dependencies, and builds on 25-year-old hardware comes with obvious limitations.

I wanted to take the power of CodeWarrior and bring it to the Linux command line, without losing the project semantics and Macintosh-specific behavior that made it work so well.

macMAKE isn't a CodeWarrior emulator or a Retro68 frontend. It's a Linux-native development toolchain using GCC 12.2.0 for PowerPC compilation, with CodeWarrior-style project management, native CFM linking, PEF executable generation, resource processing, Finder metadata, and MacBinary packaging. It also supports incremental builds, SDK management, build diagnostics, and extensive offline CLI documentation.

The idea is to make it easier to create both new and existing Classic Mac applications using modern editors, Git, automation, and AI coding agents. Want to build a text editor, calculator, game, or something considerably larger? You shouldn't have to maintain an entire vintage development environment just to get started.

Development versions of macMAKE have already successfully built MacSurf, which has roughly 900 source files, and I've been pushing the toolchain further using Classilla's much larger CodeWarrior project. The public release is still undergoing independent application testing.

Version 0.1.0 currently targets Mac OS 9 PowerPC applications, primarily C, from Linux x86-64. Earlier PowerPC versions of System 7 and Mac OS 8 haven't been verified yet, and native 68K builds aren't supported. Some historical Apple and Metrowerks SDK/runtime files are still required, but I'm working on freely distributable replacements.

macMAKE is free for personal and commercial use, including AI-assisted development. The core is proprietary, with the GNU toolchain sources available separately.

Website and documentation: https://macmake.dev

GitHub release: https://github.com/mplsllc/macMAKE/releases/tag/v0.1.0

There's still a lot of work ahead, but I'm excited to finally get this out and hopefully make developing new software for these old Macs a little easier.

I want to ship a 20-inch iMac G4. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can ship it without the original box and keep it as undamaged as possible? I have checked eBay Listings to see what the original box looks like. That way I could probably build one myself. But if anyone has any other suggestion, I would be more than happy to hear about it :) Thanks!

Was given this ImageWriter but I can’t figure out for the life of me where it goes. I think maybe like this but still doesn’t seem right. Anyone know

I've been updating some of Apple's .slideSaver screensavers with HD photos (I'll share them when they're done). I'm currently working on Cosmos.slideSaver. There's been so many great improvements in technology and photos since Apple's original version, and would love to get some more suggestions.

My only criterial are:

• They need to real imagines (nothing artistic, no computer model, no AI), but lightwave composites, x-ray, radio, micro, UV, gamma, and Interferometry, and similar, are fine.
• Should to be about "Full HD" (1920x1080, 1920×1200, 1440×1080, give or take) or larger. I don't mind sizing them down, but I'd rather not scale them up and deal with potential quality issues. It doesn't have to be exact, though.
• landscape or square images are preferred. Portrait/tall images will scale to fit the width of most computer monitors, and probably look terrible.
• Royalty free (most space images are public domain).

I assume reddit will scale down any images you post in the comments, so links are fine, and probably preferred.

All suggests are welcome, I'll curate them once I have everything. Planets, stars, asteroids, moons, comet, galaxies, nebula, nova/supernova, certain images of the Earth from space, etc. Basically anything that Apple might consider putting in the Cosmo screensaver in the OS X days.

The idea here is I want to get a sense of everyone's favorite images, I've been looking at top lists online, but I want to narrow it down to about 50-60.

Screenshot is of what I'm working with so far.

Thanks in advance!

[EDIT: using solder wick to fully clean the old contaminated solder off the pads solved the problem. Learned a new technique!]

I'm recapping some LC IIs and having a real dick of a time getting the original solder to melt properly. I've started popping the old caps off with a chip lifter, cause putting the iron to them resulted in several lifted pads, cause the solder won't melt enough to actually let go. When I pry the old caps off, there's a hard blob of solder left behind which takes an unreasonbale amount of heat to melt initially—several seconds with a 380º Hakko iron. It doesn't flow right, doesn't flood pads regardless of whether I use rosin or no-clean flux, soldering in the new caps works very poorly.

I washed the board with isopropyl cause it was kinda schmutzy, and then went back and gave it a scrub with hot water and dish soap when that didn't quite cut it. Once the caps are off, I've been giving the pads a scrub with a toothbrush and isopropyl.

The only way I've been able to get any of the new caps to stick is flooding their pins with flux and heavily tinning them, then fluxing the pad, loading the tip of the iron with solder, placing the cap leads on the far inside of the pad and dragging them into place while the solder on the pad is liquid—which still takes up to ten seconds to achieve, and then the other pin is a devil to get soldered cause it has ~0.5mm of pad exposed. This sucks.

Am I missing something? I've been soldering since I was 14 and this is at least a dozen recap jobs I've done, and none of them have been this difficult.

So a couple of months ago, i bought this macintosh portable for parts because it was at a good price, until I realized that it was coming from Germany, and the import fees blew all my money away. What ever.

I put it away and a month passes, and I remember that i have it. So, i started looking online for the parts i needed(my checklist: charger, battery, and blue scsi). I found a generic charger that matched the volts, amps and barrel size.

Next, I ordered the blue scsi from Joe's computer museum, then i ordered a battery, but the seller was away and wouldn't come back for another week and the expected shipping time was 2 weeks, because the battery was hand made. Fine!

So, the blue scsi and macintosh portable adapter comes in less than a week later and fast forward 3 weeks the battery finally arrives. So, i put the battery in, and pressed the space bar. Nothing.

Ok, so I google why my macintosh portable isn't working and it said that i needed to hold down the reset and interrupt button down for 10 seconds. So i do and it sprang to life!

I had trouble finding out how to put an OS on my sd card for the blue scsi, so I put it away again for another month. Untill today, where I looked at it and said" ok, i need to get this thing up and running."

It took way longer than it needed to get a bootable image of 6.0.8 on to an sd card, but today, I finally did it! It is my rarest item in my collection, and it is my baby, my pride and joy, my holy grail, my everything!

I'm so lucky to have the issue only be the battery, and not the caps. But time is inevitable, so i will eventually have to replace them.

anyone have a link to a guide for this? i could also go HDMI and use another adapter. im looking to buy a 23" cinema display for my work system

Hey guys what's up? A couple of months ago, I bought this mint condition Powerbook 190cs, its only issue was a dead battery with little corrosion and now that is working perfectly with its original hdd, I want to recreate a battery or at least a battery cover for the battery compartment.

So here I ask, someone had ever recreated anything like this or has a 3d printable design? if you guys could help me with this, I would be more than happy.

Or if there are other models’ batteries compatible with this one, as I know some parts are compatible with the 5300c.

traded one of my clamshells for this complete Apple IIe. Pretty satisfied w my trade. Gonna retrobright at sum point prob

• Model: Power Macintosh 9600/300
• CPU: 445 MHz Newer Technology Maxlogic MaxPowr G3
  • 1 CPU, 1 Core, 32-Bit, PowerPC 750, <6W TDP
• RAM: 1.18 GB of 70ns 168-pin DIMMs
• Graphics: GPU 1 – ATI Rage LT Pro, 8 MB SDRAM
  • Samsung LC27F591FD, 1600 x 1200, Millions of Colors, 60 Hz, via VGA port
  • 75 MHz GPU Clock, 100 MHz Memory Clock, 800 MB/s Memory Bandwidth
• GPU 2: ATI 3D Rage II PCI
  • 60 Mhz GPU Clock, 83 MHz Memory Clock, 4 MB SDRAM, 664 MB/s Bandwidth
  • DB-15, Composite, and S-Video out
• Boot Drive: 2.1 GB Seagate ST3215N SCSI, Mac OS 9.1
• More Storage: 60 GB Maxtor 6Y060L0, with many apps including Photoshop 5.5
• Operating System: Mac OS 9.1
• PCI Cards:
  • Sonnet Tempo HD Ultra ATA/133 (Ultra-Tek133P+)
  • D-Link DFE-530TX+ 10/100 PCI Ethernet
  • Lucent USB + Firewire PCI Combo card
    • Lucent USS312MC Controller – USB 1.1
    • Lucent FW323-04 Controller – FireWire 400
  • Atto 68-Pin Express PCI SCSI controller card