Your contributions are greatly appreciated
Take all the time off you need; your previous work has helped (and will help) many others in the future. We can mirror any files you wish here. Your studies are very important (and so is keeping your girl happy), so we all understand... at least until the new improved Hologram Slut Systems come out in 2020, then we will not be as dependent on the ladies.
It has been a difficult time since my last round of updates here, especially the last few weeks in particular. She's been keeping me going through all of it though. (Cue
Awwwwww.)
I'm not opposed to the idea of having these files mirrored here. They're self contained archives containing the necessary extensions and some documentation about what they do, how to use them and how to install them, so they should already contain everything most users would need.
To understand what machines are OS9'able with this updates:
From what I can tell:
Previous MDD FW800 - Confirmed Working.
PowerBook6,3 iBook G4 [
http://www.everymac.com/ultimate-mac-lookup/?search_keywords=PowerBook6,3 ]
Mostly Working. ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 framebuffer is usable but lacks hardware 2D/3D acceleration. Sleep Mode is not supported, the system will sleep but be unable to wake, requiring a hard reboot. AirPort Extreme does not work. All other functions of the machine work correctly.
PowerBook6,5 iBook G4 (Early/Late 2004) [
http://www.everymac.com/ultimate-mac-lookup/?search_keywords=PowerBook6,5 ]
Mostly Working.
PowerPC 7447A processor requires OF commands to identify to Mac OS 9 as an older G4 CPU. Multiprocessing folder must be removed from Extensions folder prior to first boot. ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 framebuffer is usable but lacks hardware 2D/3D acceleration. Sleep Mode is not supported, the system will sleep but be unable to wake, requiring a hard reboot. AirPort Extreme does not work. All other functions of the machine work correctly.
PowerBook6,7 iBook G4 (Mid 2005) [
http://www.everymac.com/ultimate-mac-lookup/?search_keywords=PowerBook6,7 ]
Unlikely to work. Initial testing shows the machine hangs during startup. Possibly requires further investigation to determine if this machine is capable of booting into Mac OS 9. ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 extensions are unlikely to work with the Mobility Radeon 9550 without further modification.
I haven't tested the eMac models personally, but I'm hearing some success with earlier OS X-only models. The ATI Radeon 9200 extensions still need to be patched to determine whether they can be made to work with the onboard graphics in these models.
Some PowerBook G4 models, including the earlier 12", 15" and 17" models, also appear to work in a limited capacity. The main issue there seems to be the graphics hardware, and while I've looked into nVidia's extensions to see if they could be tweaked to work, they're a completely different beast to ATI's extensions and somewhat harder to understand and work with.