TNM for mac

[skizzzo63]

I always preferred iCab. Fast and 68k compatible.

Oh, I'll give it a try.
I'm also using Mozilla 1.3 for IE-Incompatbile websites, but there are more and more sites requiring newer browsers.

Which upgrade did you get?

An OWC Mercury G4/1.4.
At 209$, it was a good alternative to a louder G4 MDD. And, except for modern games, I usually don't feel the need for more speed.
Alas, with it my Formac TV Card stopped working, and - in OS9 - sound often doesn't work.

I think it's a 7455 processor. I chose it, because it goes smoother with OS9 (no need to system patches).

yet another reason Macintosh users love the Macintosh, but hate Apple

Since a long time, Apple didn't offer me what I wanted, so I didn't buy my Mac from them

What was your first Mac?

Mac LC. "LC" stand for "Low Cost", and that was the reason.
Then Quadra 650 (excellent), Performa 6400 (disappointing), G3 Beige (excellent), and now the G4 DA (very good).
I sold all of them when buying new ones... I'm totally for recycling.

[justanotherfan]

Oh yeah, iCab 68k was up to date as of 2006. I still miss the Filter Manager, setting site preferences using easy bash-type regex (eg. "Javascript on, cookies off for http://*.apple.com/*). The latest for PPC carbon is from 2008. It's the browser I used on my Performa 460 32.3mhz, though the inclusion of CSS did slow it down a bit. Mozilla was such a resource-hog. The application itself was bigger than my 460's hard drive, and iCab was something like a megabyte, but I think it's 5mb now.

OWC was great. The only problem was that their prices never changed, ever. I'd probably buy a processor upgrade for my G4 still, but it wouldn't be worth much. Maybe I can find one used.

I'm pretty sure USB audio works in OS 9. That's how I got SPDIF out. I probably still have my Soundblaster Mac in the closet, but hopefully not, since it had the most unstable drivers ever on the Macintosh (aside from Microsoft's Intellimouse drivers, which crashed).

I liked the Digital Audio G4, especially for the gigabit ethernet and GeForce 2 MX, though ISTR the GeForce OS9 drivers were never Apple's focus; ISTR they had terrible trouble with Quickdraw3D and RAVE games, though OpenGL was fine and fast. You can cheaply add PC USB2 and the USB sound card, though I can't remember which cards were OS 9 compatible; I can check what I used, but I started with OS X DP4 and may not have kept OS 9 compatibility. There's USB video input, but who knows what of that'll be OS 9 compatible. I think LaCie used to sell a firewire video input/output thing, because I remember wanting to buy one.

[skizzzo63]

I liked the Digital Audio G4, especially for the gigabit ethernet and GeForce 2 MX, though ISTR the GeForce OS9 drivers were never Apple's focus

I got a GeForce 4 4600 Ti 128MB and it runs really good.

Obviously it's not enough for COD 5 Modern Warfare or Halo 3 but it rendered Myst V beautifully.

You can cheaply add PC USB2

I got it.

I think LaCie used to sell a firewire video input/output thing

I solved the TV problem connecting an external DTT decoder to the video input of the TV card; now the card doesn't use its internal tuner, and just displays the video signal in a window.
And it works.
(I think the problem had to do with strict tuner timings)


I'm afraid we are exceedingly going OT, though!
Cheers,
Skizzo