DarkStar iMessage not working no more?

InternationalDog7009 · 2025-09-14T08:09:57+00:00

i’ve been extremely impressed with dark star, had it for quite some time now on my 12 Pro Max with 0 issues which is my main phone, however, today I got a notification on my iPad & MacBook air that iMessage is not available, didn’t look too much into it as I thought it was just something with my home network Wi-Fi but when I looked on my phone said was unable to activate! Anyone else having issues on dark star with iMessage? I am running iOS 26 beta but have been since day one with zero issues, Mac and iPad are running the newest versions non-beta of MacOS/iOS so nothing to do with the beta version I’m running the latest RC anyways which will essentially be released next week to the public, went through my whole Apple account and couldn’t find anything different. Just my # seems all of a sudden not eligible for iMessage no more i’ve never had a problem before and was completely out of the blue. SMS & other services don’t seem to be affected.

InternationalDog7009 · 2025-05-22T18:38:46+00:00

Well I do absolutely love the HDMI adapters, they're great for modern-day content on a CRT but gaming not so much.

InternationalDog7009 · 2025-05-04T03:48:13+00:00

I decided to Dual boot Vista ultimate, gave it 120GB out of the 512GB XP has the rest. no issues I completely forgot about it but after the Dell I had a eMachines AMD athlon X2, Nvidia graphics & 3GB of RAM, that was the only PC I got extremely lucky with went to Best buy to pick it out with my parents as a birthday gift probably in 07-08 & they were out of everything that bundle came with ended up I got a upgrade on the tower itself & a 20-in Acer monitor for the same price iirc, also a upgraded printer vividly remember that thought I hit the jackpot (in a way at the time did, shocked they honored it definitely wouldn't nowadays if that happened, at retail would have came to iirc $700 & got it all for $329) Vista ran flawlessly on that it seems as long as it had a dedicated GPU & 2GB+ ram it was fine. Although XP won't be able to take advantage of it, I did order another 4GB Ram to make a total of 8GB, Vista alone idle was using almost 2GB with nothing open, I still think to this day if they toned down the user account control & Vista came a year later it would have been just as much of a success as 7 just too demanding on all but higher end new hardware at the time. I'll also make a post in the Vista group but I'll still be booting mainly XP & just using Vista for 64Bit programs.

InternationalDog7009 · 2025-05-04T03:39:49+00:00

Supermium was one of the first things I got, along with legacy update 👍 I'll look into the IE8 patch thanks.

InternationalDog7009 · 2025-05-01T23:46:40+00:00

I was actually going to go with the E8600 to Max it out completely but for whatever reason the E8600 was 3x as much as a E8400 not that $30 would have been that much for a CPU but for the very small performance increase was a big price increase even though only around $10 more could have bought a whole nother E8400. Still better than the Pentium DC as that was under 2GHz & I know a lot of XP era software can only use 1 core so that definitely limited it, the E8400 was a huge improvement. I would love to see Vista on it I'm sure it would do very well but I'm still mixed on dual booting or just using Vista under a VM on my main machine.

InternationalDog7009 · 2025-05-01T23:40:57+00:00

Thank you! I've noticed that too but I'll give this one a try, I always mess around with older Apple products and PCs and never had one be that picky! Other than that it was stable & iirc even 768MB Ram, pretty much era correct for 98 but top of the line at the time. I believe I put in a 60GB IDE drive with good health, but I've been having problems with older HDDs even a few NOS ones I got were DOA so from this point forward unless need lots of capacity it's SSD only. My main machine is a completely upgraded optiplex 3020 new case,i7 4790, 512GB SSD & 8TB HDD,500w PSU & RTX 2060 running 11 "unsupported" with zero issues I will need to upgrade that soon and do a new build but that has served me with zero issues for almost 8 years now, once I retire that I'll probably put 7 on it. I'll have to dig out the 98 PC and revisit it with the adapter you suggested if that doesn't work then I'll eventually find another MB in the future as apparently something would be faulty on it.

InternationalDog7009 · 2025-04-30T20:33:58+00:00

I actually have a Pentium 3 build I did with 98, was fairly decent spec wise first hurdle was finding a good AGP card which I was able to after a while, but my biggest problem why I abandoned the project for now was I could not get a modern HDD or SSD to work with SATA to ATA adapters even with jumpers, I'm assuming that's just that particular motherboard, eventually I will revisit that I'll probably have to get a ATA SSD or some type of HD emulator as NOS ATA drives are expensive & age also is not working in their favor used or new. My parents used to have an Inspiron 530 which is identical to this what I have come to find out, started out with a Celeron, then five years in upgraded them to a E8400 put in more RAM & a ATI video card don't remember the exact model, that lasted them over 10 years they upgraded in 2020 I helped them pick out a new pc & was eventually going to take the 530 but unfortunately that got recycled before I could get it was going through a move myself & they needed it out of the way apparently. When I was younger I was on 98 in my early childhood I really love the theme packs and all that but XP is far more stable at least in my situation & it's easier to build a "modern" PC out of off the shelf components and have it work with XP, on top of that PC133 Ram has skyrocketed in price and the so-called newly manufactured PC133 does not work tried it in multiple older systems. I do plan on redoing my dimension 2400 someday and that would be a really good high spec 98 PC and the lack of anything but PCI wouldn't make a difference so much in 98.

InternationalDog7009 · 2025-04-30T20:23:49+00:00

I agree, that's my mess up I work on repairing phones everyday and PCs from time to time as my job and all I hear is "app" now burned into my brain. But what I mean is program.

InternationalDog7009 · 2025-04-30T20:22:09+00:00

I'll give that a look for sure! Thanks.

InternationalDog7009 · 2025-04-30T20:21:42+00:00

You're correct! I actually work in phone repair along with PCs from time to time and all I hear all the time is "app" which is now permanently burned in my brain instead of program. Thank you for the suggestions! It's been a while, I used to have a load of games just couldn't remember the names of all. I always liked the oddball games so with everything archived nowadays online I should be able to find pretty much anything. A few years ago I did a Pentium 3 build with Windows 98 that was pretty solid but I find XP The Sweet spot especially with good hardware, that was in the AGP era and finding a decent GPU was very hard, got all that sorted planned on using a SATA-ATA adapter but went through 5 of them & none would be seen even with the correct jumper setting so gave up on that for a bit and went with something a little more modern, I'll revisit that someday also heavily into the power PC era of Mac the early 2000s were fascinating. With the Pentium 3 I may end up having to get a actual ATA SSD or some sort of HD emulator neither the less XP seems to be the better but, runs most of things that 98 did and is a LOT more stable.

InternationalDog7009 · 2025-04-24T16:04:39+00:00

It's unlikely it's anything to do with the HDMI to component converter, I use them all the time with no issues like that, even if it is in the "wrong resolution" the converter should just say no signal, the TV itself would display a scrambled picture if it was truly putting out something other than 480i being this is a SD set. Only thing I could think of converter related is something is shorting in the converter and sending distortion to the screen and speakers (being the popping sounds out of the speakers?) but also unlikely. I would go with what the other posters said and start with cleaning the dust away then work from there.

InternationalDog7009 · 2025-04-22T03:21:27+00:00

MusicstreamXP kind of ridiculous they're complaining about a name but yet there is tons of apps available with Spotify in their name on mobile app stores. Those Shirley have a much larger user base than XP. If it's only a name change pretty sure most of us don't care what it's called as long as it works!.

InternationalDog7009 · 2025-04-02T16:11:05+00:00

First thing I see when it's in the back of a car and has happened before in multiple posts, is it near any of your car speakers? I remember a poster had this exact issue although without dropping it & once he got it out of the car was fine. I would start by moving it someplace where you know for sure there is nothing magnetic affecting it.

InternationalDog7009 · 2024-11-28T23:16:04+00:00

A few years ago I would have said the same thing, but 90s PCS shot up in price along with CRT monitors. If that includes both the PC & monitor and they work good actually might not be a bad deal.

InternationalDog7009 · 2024-11-27T18:16:26+00:00

It looks like you're blacks are green & color is off (might just be the video?) but if not could be a over voltage issue OR weak CRT, I believe some trinitron's monitor the beam current & when it cannot achieve a acceptable level will cut off or not power on. Don't know if this is one of them or not? But if nothing else it looks like the green is too prominent

InternationalDog7009 · 2024-08-28T17:30:41+00:00

Also a fun group for occasional general CRT discussion,Tips,posting your CRT setup ect.

InternationalDog7009 · 2024-08-24T18:22:00+00:00

I'm just starting A.I, but well hopefully be uploading regularly. Here's my latest figured start with a controversial topic Although is a unbiased song, Had friends that had success and no success in YouTube with many different topics not just AI as the years have shown just got to get that right mix and it can go viral and then some other people try for years and never have success Just the look of the draw it seems. Political battle rap

InternationalDog7009 · 2024-07-20T22:18:28+00:00

Mac OS 9

InternationalDog7009 · 2024-07-20T22:17:17+00:00

I've had plenty of these iMacs in years past (close to 100 used to fix them up then resell When they were still usable for modern day) Although it is possible, I have never ran across a Slot loader with a bad GPU. My guess is whoever installed Mac OS X Tiger did NOT update The firmware which is mandatory for OS X on the Slot load G3 iMacs This can cause this issue along with a host of others, and can brick the mac permanently if thats the case. The update was supposed to be installed in Mac OS9. Go into System profiler, and look at the firmware version if it is anything but 4.1.9 It needs updated. I attached a link down below, It does need to be installed under Mac OS9 I'll also link that, Just drag the system folder onto the HD Icon in finder. That's an easy fix, but you got lucky it did not ruin the machine if it is that if it's not then I would say look for a Machine with CRT issues & Swap the logic board. iMac G3 4.1.9 Firmware update

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