[Coco] iMac/CoCo emulator users here?

[mike delyea]

I have an ibook thats a G3 300mhz.  I've got Yellowdog linux on it
right now.  Everything works except I don't have an airport card to
put in it so I have to hook it up via the built in ethernet.  I
believe you can also install Ubuntu up to dapper drake.

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 12:37 AM, J.P. Samson
<jps.subscriptions at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jul 7, 2008, at 10:02 PM, Roger Taylor wrote:

>>

>> I obtained a very nice G3 266mhz iMac at a garage sale for $20 the other

>> day.  I can't find or access any updating sites yet.  The IE update site

>> acts like it doesn't recognize that I'm visiting from an iMac, and the

>> FireFox site won't come up right, and the Safari site won't come up at all

>> from either Netscape or IE.

>>

>> I want to bring the iMac up to date somehow and use it with my CoCo

>> projects... will M.E.S.S. run on the iMac, any other CoCo emulators?

>

> This is a Mac circa 1999, so she's nine plus years old.  I believe the last

> version of the Mac OS X operating system that was officially compatible was

> 10.3 (Panther)--that's two revisions out-of-date from today.  I think you

> will run into some difficulties finding software that will work on these

> older OS revisions now.

>

> http://guides.macrumors.com/iMac_G3#Apple_iMac_G3_.28266_MHz.29_5_Colors

>

> Some applications have features that only work in 10.5, the latest version

> of Mac OS X, although most still work in 10.4.  The other problem is these

> applications have been compiled and linked, and are thus dependent on the

> later version of several core OS frameworks (libraries).  Again, this means

> they will not work in 10.3.  So unlike PC users content with Windows XP over

> Vista, I think you'll find most Mac users try to keep their OS up-to-date so

> they can keep running the latest software!

>

> The last version of IE for the Mac was 5.23.  I have a copy I can e-mail you

> if need be, Roger--it's a 6.7MB file.  Firefox 3 supposedly won't run on

> your older Mac as it requires version 10.4 of the OS.  You could try Firefox

> 2.  Worst case scenario is it'll crash on startup if it is incompatible with

> your version of Mac OS X:

>

> http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-2.0.0.15&os=osx&lang=en-US

>

> -- JP

>

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