Geforce4 Titanium Rom Maker

[darthnVader]

Arti is legendary!
thanks for making this happen Darth

can we get a bit more information on this?
ive not inspected the files..
is it a native macos9 application?
or is it a script of some sort?

It's an OS X PPC app.

If memory serves, it's just a bunch of Pascal scripts wrapped up in a GUI. You can show the package contents and read the scripts to see what it does, or run it on a PC ROM and do a hex compare with the GF 4 ROM that is included in the package, with the output ROM to see all the changes.

 

[macStuff]

osx ppc?
so it requires a g3/g4 with OSX installed to make the rom.
good to know

[DieHard]

osx ppc?
so it requires a g3/g4 with OSX installed to make the rom.
good to know

Hmmm... think I better included that info on the download

[dosdude1]

Thanks for posting this! I've actually been after finding a copy of this for YEARS, and have had no sign of ever finding it until now. Unfortunately, though, I am unable to download from the provided ADrive link, it keeps throwing a "Public File Busy" error. Is there any possibility of uploading to a different server or file hosting site? I'm really looking forward to flashing my GeForce 4Ti 4200. Thanks!

[darthnVader]

Thanks for posting this! I've actually been after finding a copy of this for YEARS, and have had no sign of ever finding it until now. Unfortunately, though, I am unable to download from the provided ADrive link, it keeps throwing a "Public File Busy" error. Is there any possibility of uploading to a different server or file hosting site? I'm really looking forward to flashing my GeForce 4Ti 4200. Thanks!

I'm getting that too, file busy.

PM me and I'll email it to you.

[macStuff]

please just post the file as an attachment

[darthnVader]

please just post the file as an attachment

Try:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1b-4_ppHb_a7fVtczy9dmRv-iiVof5TJI

You may need to chmod 755 the contents of the app to make the scripts executable, I'm not sure zipping them up preserves that.

[macStuff]

files in size  up to 60mb can be attached to *ANY* thread/post on the forums here

[DieHard]

Hey Darth,

OK... just got this one with some ewaste today, is this a candidate to burn ? says Model P83 on back in circuit board, on front: 180-10083-0000-A02

[macStuff]

diehard thats a 900 XGL!  dual dvi.. darth will show you the power of the darkside
too bad u cant fit it into your mini

[MacTron]

diehard thats a 900 XGL!  dual dvi.. darth will show you the power of the darkside

Exactly as the one I had damaged ...   

Even Though it can be flashed, Mac Os 9 nVidia drivers don't accept this card without mods -If I have correctly understood-
 ... Wait for darthnVader advice.

[MacOS Plus]

  Man!  An I'd be looking at well over $100 minimum on eBay for one of these.  Sh*t, DieHard, you just got crazy-lucky!!!

[darthnVader]

Hey Darth,

OK... just got this one with some ewaste today, is this a candidate to burn ? says Model P83 on back in circuit board, on front: 180-10083-0000-A02

A good chance you'll get a working FCode Rom from the Rom maker, however I don't think you'll find any driver support in 9/X.

I haven't been able to figure how to patch the OS 9 nVidia drivers like I did for ATI. Short of that, we'd have to find the resister that changes the last half byte of the Device ID.

[macStuff]

any success stories yet?

[macStuff]

  Man!  An I'd be looking at well over $100 minimum on eBay for one of these.  Sh*t, DieHard, you just got crazy-lucky!!!

dont pay that..
search for p83 nvidia

things go in cycles on ebay for sure
sometimes things are available in slews
and then .. nada

[DieHard]

Darth,

I can send it to you with other items if you want to mess with it and post the results

[DieHard]

Man!  An I'd be looking at well over $100 minimum on eBay for one of these.  Sh*t, DieHard, you just got crazy-lucky!!!

LOL, I call it "Diehard Luck" it was in a box labeled with marker, "Working, but worthless old crap"

and the next box said "Old iMac, not used since move in 2007" so I have an early 2001 indigo that I don't want to throw out
https://everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/specs/imac_400_indigo.html

It looks new, but I have no use for it and no box to ship it in   But it is free to any member here with local pickup or anyone that wants to pay a shipping place to box and ship.

[macStuff]

one mans junk.. another mans treasure
unless that man is diehard.. then his junk is his own treasure haha

[DieHard]

one mans junk.. another mans treasure
unless that man is diehard.. then his junk is his own treasure haha

So true

[darthnVader]

Darth,

I can send it to you with other items if you want to mess with it and post the results

That would likely be helpful, we may be able to figure out how to hack the nVidia drivers to work with this card.

I haven't been able to recover the one MacTron sent, bad EEPROM, tho there should be a way to load the FCdoe Rom from a file in Open Firmware, I can't really figure that either.

I've been ensured it can be done, and I'm sure the people that wrote FCode ROMs for PPC Macs used this to test ROM's before flashing them, but I just can't figure the correct commands.

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load hd:10,\ppc\QuadroMac.rom
" agp/@10" open-dev to my-self
800040 1 byte-load