My new old iMac DV+ :-)
Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2015 9:45 pm
Hi all! I'm a relatively new member and I recently acquired an old iMac G3 for free. By process of elimination, I've come to the conclusion it's a 450mhz DV+ from summer 2000! At first I thought it was a 400mhz DV but it's got a DVD-ROM and a 20GB hard drive, so it's definitely a DV+
I am now wanting to pimp this baby up by making a huge Mac OS 9 dedicated platform, complete with 1GB of PC100 RAM and a 120GB SSD bridged onto a PATA to SATA converter AAAAND a WiFi bridge plugged into the ethernet port on the side door! Those 8MB of VRAM should be just about enough to play all games ever made for Mac OS 9 and earlier, right?
I've been using SheepShaver for almost 5 years now and I think it's time to move some stuff over to the real machine, but I've got a lot. I was wondering, is it possible to format a USB stick or an external USB drive using SheepShaver? I haven't found how to do that. Normally, when I insert a Mac formatted CD-ROM while SheepShaver is launched, it mounts on the MacOS Finder just fine, but it doesn't do that with USB sticks. What I'm doing at the moment is .sit a (maximum) 1GB archive, copy it to the Windows desktop via the "Computer" icon in SheepShaver, then using Windows I normally copy it to a FAT32 USB stick and then I plug it in the iMac and copy the files on the desktop and then uncompress them. It's long and tedious work, especially the 1GB single file limit that SheepShaver is imposing. How could I format a USB drive in SheepShaver and directly copy 50GB of stuff in there in 1 operation?
I'm planning on preparing the SSD drive while connecting it via USB to SheepShaver, because unforunately the DV+ iMac's internal DVD drive is broken!... so I will not be able to install Mac OS 9 from a CD-ROM as I would normally do
Thanks for reading!
I am now wanting to pimp this baby up by making a huge Mac OS 9 dedicated platform, complete with 1GB of PC100 RAM and a 120GB SSD bridged onto a PATA to SATA converter AAAAND a WiFi bridge plugged into the ethernet port on the side door! Those 8MB of VRAM should be just about enough to play all games ever made for Mac OS 9 and earlier, right?
I've been using SheepShaver for almost 5 years now and I think it's time to move some stuff over to the real machine, but I've got a lot. I was wondering, is it possible to format a USB stick or an external USB drive using SheepShaver? I haven't found how to do that. Normally, when I insert a Mac formatted CD-ROM while SheepShaver is launched, it mounts on the MacOS Finder just fine, but it doesn't do that with USB sticks. What I'm doing at the moment is .sit a (maximum) 1GB archive, copy it to the Windows desktop via the "Computer" icon in SheepShaver, then using Windows I normally copy it to a FAT32 USB stick and then I plug it in the iMac and copy the files on the desktop and then uncompress them. It's long and tedious work, especially the 1GB single file limit that SheepShaver is imposing. How could I format a USB drive in SheepShaver and directly copy 50GB of stuff in there in 1 operation?
I'm planning on preparing the SSD drive while connecting it via USB to SheepShaver, because unforunately the DV+ iMac's internal DVD drive is broken!... so I will not be able to install Mac OS 9 from a CD-ROM as I would normally do
Thanks for reading!