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    From unixl0rd@1337:3/129 to All on Sat Feb 10 07:25:05 2024
    Hello,

    A good friend of mine has given me his old 12" Powerbook G4 and I am not sure what to do with it. It's a beautiful machine, so it would be a shame to let it sit on a shelf collecting dust.

    The OS is OS X 10.4. Apparently, MacOS 9.2 can be installed with a few caveats.
















































































































































































































































































































    I've never used classic MacOS, so this could be a good opportunity to try it out.

    Any ideas?

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  • From Roon@1337:1/112 to unixl0rd on Mon Feb 12 20:37:08 2024
    Hello unixl0rd,

    10 Feb 24 07:25, you wrote to All:

    Hello,

    A good friend of mine has given me his old 12" Powerbook G4 and I am
    not sure what to do with it. It's a beautiful machine, so it would be
    a shame to let it sit on a shelf collecting dust.

    The OS is OS X 10.4. Apparently, MacOS 9.2 can be installed with a few caveats. I've never used classic MacOS, so this could be a good opportunity to try it out.

    if your ok without web browsing an older macosx or classic os is ok.
    but if you'd like to use it for browsing i recommend debian or something like that.

    Regards,
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  • From MeaTLoTioN@1337:1/101 to unixl0rd on Thu Feb 15 10:47:50 2024
    On 10 Feb 2024, unixl0rd said the following...

    Hello,

    A good friend of mine has given me his old 12" Powerbook G4 and I am not sure what to do with it. It's a beautiful machine, so it would be a
    shame to let it sit on a shelf collecting dust.

    The OS is OS X 10.4. Apparently, MacOS 9.2 can be installed with a few caveats. I've never used classic MacOS, so this could be a good opportunity to try it out.

    Any ideas?

    Hell yes, forget MacOS, install MorphOS and turn it into a decent Amiga clone! That's my $0.02 =)

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  • From djatropine@1337:1/120 to MeaTLoTioN on Sat Aug 31 03:49:34 2024

    A good friend of mine has given me his old 12" Powerbook G4 and I am sure what to do with it. It's a beautiful machine, so it would be a shame to let it sit on a shelf collecting dust.

    The OS is OS X 10.4. Apparently, MacOS 9.2 can be installed with a fe caveats. I've never used classic MacOS, so this could be a good opportunity to try it out.

    Any ideas?

    Hell yes, forget MacOS, install MorphOS and turn it into a decent Amiga clone! That's my $0.02 =)



    MorphOS is way easier to use than MacOS :D

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  • From MeaTLoTioN@1337:1/101 to djatropine on Sat Aug 31 15:22:07 2024
    On 31 Aug 2024, djatropine said the following...

    Hell yes, forget MacOS, install MorphOS and turn it into a decent Ami clone! That's my $0.02 =)



    MorphOS is way easier to use than MacOS :D

    Amen to that!

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  • From halian@1337:3/159 to unixl0rd on Thu Sep 5 15:37:52 2024
    Hello,

    A good friend of mine has given me his old 12" Powerbook G4 and I am not s what to do with it. It's a beautiful machine, so it would be a shame to le sit on a shelf collecting dust.

    The OS is OS X 10.4. Apparently, MacOS 9.2 can be installed with a few cav

    The Mac OS 9 Lives forum has an install CD image that they offer for Macs that don't officially support booting into OS 9; I've used it on my eMac without incident. :D

    -Ƕƒlian

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  • From halian@1337:3/159 to djatropine on Thu Sep 5 15:38:31 2024
    A good friend of mine has given me his old 12" Powerbook G4 and sure what to do with it. It's a beautiful machine, so it would b shame to let it sit on a shelf collecting dust.

    The OS is OS X 10.4. Apparently, MacOS 9.2 can be installed with caveats. I've never used classic MacOS, so this could be a good opportunity to try it out.

    Any ideas?

    Hell yes, forget MacOS, install MorphOS and turn it into a decent Ami clone! That's my $0.02 =)



    MorphOS is way easier to use than MacOS :D

    How easy is it to install MorphOS on a PPC Mac? I've never used it.

    -Ƕƒlian

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  • From MeaTLoTioN@1337:1/101 to halian on Fri Sep 6 00:49:12 2024
    On 05 Sep 2024, halian said the following...

    MorphOS is way easier to use than MacOS :D

    How easy is it to install MorphOS on a PPC Mac? I've never used it.

    A good question, I've never owned a PPC before, but I've installed it in an emulator ok. I would love to get my hands on actual hardware tho and use it as originally intended. I remember when Windows XP had WindowBlinds and it had a MorphOS theme to make Windows look like MorphOS with all the fancy window decorations, it looks amazing and I drooled over it haha.

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  • From halian@1337:3/100 to MeaTLoTioN on Wed Sep 11 23:15:44 2024
    º MorphOS is way easier to use than MacOS :D ÈÍËÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ [quote from djatropine] SEEN-BY: 3/100 209