Because Jaguar is supposed to offload all of the Finder 2D video to the video card, and because this requires a modern video card, I would not expect it to EVER work on your 8600...Originally posted by Krevinek
Well, I TRIED to get Jaguar working, but because of a major change or two in BootX and the kernel... it just won't boot. Verbose mode gives me nothing, which hints at something going bad before the kernel is even ready to go... not fun.
Hopefully someone (Ryan Rempel is the best bet right now) will figure out what is going on and un-break the un-support.
Originally posted by Krevinek
Oh, should I also mention OS X 10.1 AND Jaguar still have support for the 'control' video device compiled in? IIRC, the only Apple-built machines that used this were the PowerSurge models. So I think this kinda points out that Apple would have willingly supported the PowerSurge models had there not been GUI performance problems and CPU utilization problems to no end in the public beta.
Originally posted by benpoole
See http://www.apple.com/macosx/upgrade/requirements.html
Well, Apple say that "all iMacs" can run OS X. So, why not use the original Bondi blue iMac (1998) as a start?
- 233 MHz G3 processor
66 MHz bus (I think)
ATI Rage (?) graphics card with 2MB of SGRAM to start
$GB hard drive
512KB L2 cache
32KB L1 cache
Oh yes... 128MB RAM would be a requirement too.
But I'd hate to actually have to use OS X on that spec...!
Originally posted by BlingBling 3k12
i have just gotten a Power Macintosh 7200/75 and will be upgrading it soon with a Sonnet Technology G4 upgrade card along with adding the max amount of RAM... anyways...
would OS 10.1.X work on this system pretty well?
also, on the motherboard, there are 3 "VRAM" slots and (i think) 4 "DRAM" slots...
does VRAM mean Video RAM? If so, where can I get some modules to upgrade this? I know i'll need at least 8 or more...
btw... this is my first mac... just got it for FREE from work... so i know jack ***** about macs...
Crikey. Does it really run OK? I've seen some on this forum with older Macs running OS X say that windows take 5- 6 seconds to re-size and wot-not.Originally posted by theravednh
Well, it runs fine on my Bondi iMac - and the only thing that I've done is push the memory up to 320MB.
It's given it a whole new lease of life - before it was seeming pretty tired and due for replacement, but now I reckon that it's good for another couple of years...
Originally posted by BlingBling 3k12
i have just gotten a Power Macintosh 7200/75 and will be upgrading it soon with a Sonnet Technology G4 upgrade card along with adding the max amount of RAM... anyways...
would OS 10.1.X work on this system pretty well?
also, on the motherboard, there are 3 "VRAM" slots and (i think) 4 "DRAM" slots...
does VRAM mean Video RAM? If so, where can I get some modules to upgrade this? I know i'll need at least 8 or more...
btw... this is my first mac... just got it for FREE from work... so i know jack ***** about macs...
Originally posted by dricci
http://www.sonnettech.com/product/crescendo_7200.html
Doesn't look like you'll be able to go past 9.1