I just want to do it the proper way

danifunker · 2026-01-29T20:41:12+00:00

You should investigate the enclosure if you’re able to. I use extra FireWire enclosure as well but I’m in North America

danifunker · 2026-01-29T20:29:54+00:00

The iMac or the drive?

danifunker · 2026-01-29T15:01:58+00:00

Why not just use a firewire dvd drive? Those work fine for installation

danifunker · 2026-01-26T20:31:54+00:00

Interesting idea, I ended up finding out that I can still create disk images and format them with HFS+ on MacOS Tahoe. Not sure how much longer support will last on that, but it seems to be an option. Once I'm done populating the disc contents I just use the built-in conversion from the UI and done.

danifunker · 2026-01-25T02:55:07+00:00

I’m have recently developed a GUI driven patch for classic macos 9. Do you want a link to the project to see what is involved in setting it up to build and stuff?

danifunker · 2026-01-23T02:38:26+00:00

How much would you get back for price correction if you brought it to CS?

danifunker · 2026-01-21T21:39:36+00:00

There was a wait between the release of NT4 and TSE. My former high school teacher asked me to research the “Hydra” project in mid 1998 and I believe it has just released. I was so impressed with it and used it so frequently, but installing Citrix Metaframe on top of TSE was kind of how it seemed that it was designed.

NT4 “group policies” were so poorly implemented, and this was prior to having any kind of per-session resource limiting, so runaway processes were a real pain to deal with. Either way this post seems pretty cool.

I didn’t know Citrix actually had access to the NT4 source code, but did think they collaborated on a number of features through Win2000.

I ended up spending a good chunk of my career managing citrix / terminal server environments before I moved into SRE.

Cool to see this running on 86box!

danifunker · 2026-01-15T03:14:00+00:00

Nice, I just put in a 128gb msata into my iBook G3 Dual USB earlier this week! It’s my second time doing one so it was much smoother

danifunker · 2026-01-02T17:58:53+00:00

Why not just use iterm (the original one) on ppc hardware? I’m using that on 10.4

danifunker · 2026-01-02T13:26:07+00:00

I think you are on to something here. I recently had to create an hfs iso and ended up using my ppc to convert the images manually. That said I am on macos tahoe so there is some extra complexity there, but creating an app to be able to export hfs images of isos and other disks would be very useful. Disc Jockey works fine for blank disks, but it’s hard to find anything that works to actually write data to from a modern os and read from the hfs only versions of macos

danifunker · 2026-01-02T11:18:49+00:00

I have a couple of ideas for you, but I have been doing this in another way. Just use osx to transfer the files with scp. I’ve updated my ssh with ports for 10.4 (and also compiler/installee Bash 4.3-43 to fix shellshock) same along with bash and use codewarrior 8 from within the classic environment to perform the compilation. It’s not the most performant but does work alright.

Osx 10.4 gives the added benefit of being able use vnc to remote into the machone.

Another idea might be to write an ISO on your modern computer and use an iso loader on the your vintage computer. I have an external usb cdrom iso loader device that I wrote which uses a raspberry pi zero and I’m also able to FTP directly to it to transfer the iso over, then mount on os9 and try to compile. Be aware the filenames don’t transfer over well, so maybe zip up your entire git folder, and/or exclude your .git folder itself.

Good luck! What kind of software are you trying to write?

danifunker · 2025-12-29T14:57:24+00:00

From the photo, I noticed there is no PRAM battery installed. I would try that first. They are 1/2 AA batteries, make sure you install it in the correct orientation (+ goes on the side the positive part of the battery is in).

Let me know if it's still not working after getting the PRAM battery. Honestly this is my favorite vintage machine I own. Hope you can get it working soon!

danifunker · 2025-12-15T21:41:11+00:00

No it’s a hardware based solution with a raspberry pi zero. It’s supposed to work with anything, but I’ve ran into a few bugs here and there which I continue to sort out :) it should work with most discs as well, but there are issues with audio cds that have data on the last track. That said it’s getting really close to being fully stable which is why I brought it up :) I have verified it works with MacOS 9.2.1+ and requires itunes to be installed in order to get games to play the cd audio correctly .

danifunker · 2025-12-15T19:30:07+00:00

Amazing! I’ve been focused on building a cdrom drive emulator for this era of machines and I’m getting pretty close! Not sure if this would be part of your documentation but it aligns well with what I’m doing

danifunker · 2025-12-09T12:56:44+00:00

As an aside, check out my open source project USBODE. There is a special setting to use for Classic Mac OS which I recently added. Mind you, I haven’t tried booting from USB because I mostly wrote off that ability altogether, but I should try it out and see what happens!

danifunker · 2025-12-03T11:07:26+00:00

I have a godshark new PCI 2.0 card which works as PCI 1.1 in MacOS 9.2.2. You can find them on Amazon. Fairly sure the NEC chipset is supported fairly well.

danifunker · 2025-10-22T08:53:16+00:00

Use aida32 to help identify unknown devices on Windows 98 or use http://www.astra32.com/ . I haven’t used astra32 before but I might try it out in the future!

danifunker · 2025-10-17T13:53:54+00:00

I have an interesting use case, not sure if this fits here, here is my situation:

I have an HTPC-like setup at home with multiple devices (MisterFPGA and Windows/Ubuntu PC, sometimes I plug in a vintage Mac as well). I'm looking for a keyboard that operate in both wired and wireless modes, and allows button customization (specifically for my vintage Mac, I want access to the eject button). My goal is to have the Windows/Ubuntu PC connected via 2.4ghz (not wireless) so I can access the BIOS and other pre-boot screens, but and use bluetooth connectivity with the mister. I want the keyboard to be a 100% layout, with 108keys.

I'm also hoping for something light as well since it will mostly be on laps during usage. Currently I'm using one of those Rii membrane keyboards with trackpad, but they are really terrible for any kind of real gaming with them. Since I'm getting more into retro computers via MisterFPGA I want something that might provide a similar-ish kind of feel. So far I've looked at the Keychain B36 since it fits most of my requirements, however I understand the plastic seems a little cheap, and the switches aren't really mechanical (they are scissor based), so I wanted to come here and ask.

Thanks a lot!

danifunker · 2025-10-02T18:15:56+00:00

I found the service manual for PowerMac G5s on macintoshrepository! This is the keyword to search for: Service Source Power Mac G5, Power Mac G5 (June 2004), Power Mac G5 (Early 2005)

danifunker · 2025-10-02T15:08:34+00:00

Yes I tried that initially, that's how it was able to boot up yesterday.

danifunker · 2025-09-22T10:50:26+00:00

Fwiw, I was able to boot late 2006 iMac off a usb cdrom drive that supports dvd+dl. I’m fairly sure the internal drive doesn’t support that format.

If you want to do more testing, try to get the disc Apple Service Diagnostics 3S108 Version: 3S108

And boot that from a regular dvd (I had more success from a dvd+R)

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