[Coco] iMac/CoCo emulator users here?

[David Hazelton]

I don't have a G3, but I have a G4 and Opensuse 11.0 works on that and I 
can't find anywhere of a minimum PPC model.  I am running Mac OS 10.5.4 
on a G4 450 (10.5 minimum is a 850mhz) and 10.5 runs ok. on it.  Would 
love to upgrade my CPU but can't see me spending $300 on a 10 year old 
machine. Other than Dual 1.8ghz sure would speed it up :)

Joel Ewy wrote:
> mike delyea wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>
>>   
>>     
> Yup.  I don't know how much RAM you have Roger, but Ubuntu would
> probably prefer at least 128M RAM.  Also, Gnome (particularly the
> Nautilus file manager) can be pretty sluggish on those older machines. 
> Xubuntu is a little more usable in such a situation, in my experience. 
> The last version of Ubuntu I have installed on a G3 iMac was something
> around 6.04 or 6.10, I think.  Another issue is that the iMac CD drives
> are finicky about CD-R media.  YMMV.
>
> JCE
>   
>> 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 10.3 (Panther)--that's two revisions out-of-date from today.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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