i really dig the lowres quality for artistic purposes.

Me too!

i really dig the lowres quality for artistic purposes.

welcome!!! i really dig your precise writing style and your creativity with new words!

Well, having the downloads in the forum was a bad idea, so everything that was hosted in the forum from the "Downloads" link is now moved to the real downloads page on the forum.
The way it was before just added to the confusion. Sorry about that.

I've got an MBox and a Mac running Tiger... as far as I can tell, the latest Pro Tools version is LE 7.4. Does anyone have that? The download is gone from Digidesign/Avid's site.

Welcome Jacob!

I hope you'll be able to dig deep into Mac OS and find it as fascinating as we do. I'm discovering new functions & secrets even after 30+ years of usage (and it's the only OS that I "feel home" --- seeing the desktop after booting the Mac always puts a smile on my face) :-)

So, I got the Paid Subscriptions function working in the forum software. I can't test it myself (I only have one PayPal account at hand). If anyone is willing to help out with a few bucks, this is the preferred way to do it.


As a token of my appreciation you will get a "Supporter" banner instead of the post "dots" to mark your seniority. You will get the text "Project Patron" under your nickname as well.


Any thoughts on other payment "plans" than the current one is greatly appreciated as well.

Welcome to Mac OS 9 Lives!

Hello there, I'm Jacob, a person who's on the Autism Spectrum, and a person who likes to play around with computers from time to time, but mostly I use WIndows or Linux.

My first taste in Macintosh computers was about a month before I started middle school. I would later go to that same middle school for the sixth grade, and then I would really get a feel for how a Mac and its apps worked.

I went through at least three Macintosh machines (one 68K PowerBook, two PPC iBooks) in my closing years of high school. The 68K broke, the two PPCs died. I'm not gonna bother you with the details.

Later, I wound up getting a PowerMac G3 tower, but that one had a few problems freezing after I installed OSX. It wound up going to my brother, and that's the last I heard of that one.

A couple years later, I got a PowerMac G4 tower from someone I wound up meeting in my neighborhood. That's the one I'm using to send this. I've managed to dual-boot OS9 and OSX Tiger, and get a few applications as well. Personally, I have physical media of a select few games that work on PPC Macs.

Here's some specs of my current Mac:
933 MHz PowerPC G4
1 GB memory
80 GB system storage
DVD/CD reader/writer
Iomega ZIP drive built-in
nVidia GeForce 4 MX w/64 MB video memory
Mac OS 9.2.2 and Mac OS X 10.4.11 Tiger installed (dual-boot configuration, favor OS 9)
Apple Studio Display (1280x1024 video monitor)
Currently using Logitech wireless trackball and keyboard on system.

Omochao moment*: If you decide to use a Windows keyboard on a Mac, you use the Windows key as Command, and you use Alt as Option. So, to bring up a Force Quit box, you would use Windows-Alt-Escape.

* An Omochao moment is where I put out information that I believe could be useful, but many people might already know. I named the term after the robotic chao from the Sonic games.

All that aside...I hope to make some friends here.

Wow… this is like a long-dead ghost from the grave. Like many other ≤OS9 apps and such that were never ported to OSX, I remember this issue being lamented at length 20 years ago when the iSight first appeared.

The iSight was released in 2003 in the time of OSX10.2…10.3. It was specifically made to be used for videoconferencing with iChatAV. For that use, the 640x480 resolution was perfectly adequate.
The reason it was a Firewire device was because video + audio over USB1 was simply impossible. Even over FW, there is a noticeable latency.

So, since there never was a version of iChat for ≤OS9, there was never an OS9 driver for the camera either.