First of all, I have to say: I really have difficulty navigating this site. My last question (a year or so ago, I think), got some answers. And I could never find them again.
Anyway, two issues, one being somewhat of an emergency.
II have been printing from 9 to my ancient but very good printer, a HP 5100 (prints on 11 X 17 is one of its virtues).
Anyway, all of a sudden I run into an issue I've never seen before, for printing and making PDFS.
I got to print and get the following message:
"the printer description file associated with this printer has caused an error"
followed by the application I'm using, Mosaic, to "unexpectedly quit" with a type 2 error.
I tried a backup drive I have, and it worked fine. I found the PDF files, and other printing related files, and replaced the ones on my startup drive, and that didn't solve the problem. I have no idea what to try next.
Ny other question is: i have a newer model printer also, that I use in X. Is there any way I can get 9 to print using it? It's on my network (ethernet) but doesn't show up.

try a sonnet 1,8ghz upgrade

Yep - something like LinPlug Albino is constantly hitting the limits, even after giving it as much as I can with having 1GB total. 2GB would be fantastic to have for these very specific but frequent circumstances.

Quote from: Tag365 on November 24, 2025, 04:57:25 AM

Hopefully someone gets back to work on the project... I thought after like 7 years they would have figured out how to get 2 GB of RAM usable. Pretty disappointing that the project seemly stopped like that.

Name me ONE OS7-OS9 application that would benefit from having 2GB of RAM available.

Some people from earlier in the thread claimed that music programs use colossal amounts of RAM for sampler instruments.

I just added 256 MB or RAM to my main working computer (a G4 MDD) and I started to do real life test, In this picture we can see Cubase using 1.54 Gb or RAM, (mainly loaded by Kompakt sampler instruments). No problems by now ... 

Putting a feeler out there to see if anybody has what I'm looking for -

I'm on the hunt for the fastest PowerMac G4 that can natively run OS 9. I currently have a 533mhz G4 (Digital Audio) that I'm pushing the limits of in Logic. I'm also looking for a 23" Apple Cinema Display (with the ADC connector) - currently have a 17" that's a little cramped. I've been building a home studio that's centered around OS 9 and am confident in the software enough that I'm ready to upgrade the hardware I'm using.

Long shot but I'm in SE Wisconsin if that helps because I know shipping these is a pain. If nearby, I have an Apple ][e (a few broken keys that need to be glued(?) back on) with an Apple /// screen (and two floppy drives), some Mac Classics, and a massive stack of old ThinkPads to potentially trade haha. I'm not in a rush so if you see this post way down the line, definitely reach out!

Thanks!

Quote from: Tag365 on November 24, 2025, 04:57:25 AM

Hopefully someone gets back to work on the project... I thought after like 7 years they would have figured out how to get 2 GB of RAM usable. Pretty disappointing that the project seemly stopped like that.

Name me ONE OS7-OS9 application that would benefit from having 2GB of RAM available.

NI Kontakt. 

Hello,

I have installed Macos9lives on my eMac G4 and everything was working fine, except I always had to hold the option key to force boot into os9 instead of osX (I have dual boot).

So I decided to use the command bless from osX to set os9 has the boot volume. It worked and it booted to os9 automatically however now I am getting that message (from the post title) and the Apple menu on the left only has “about this computer”, menu is gone.

I’ve tried dragging the finder + system folder on the desktop and putting those back but it didn’t fix the problem.

Have I ruined the system to the point I need to reinstall it?

Hopefully someone gets back to work on the project... I thought after like 7 years they would have figured out how to get 2 GB of RAM usable. Pretty disappointing that the project seemly stopped like that.

Name me ONE OS7-OS9 application that would benefit from having 2GB of RAM available.

OK… You have confirmed the problem is indeed inside the TV. So, we're back to my first guess. Either the blue bias or drive is out of adjustment. Somewhere inside your TV are Red, green and blue "drive" controls. I have NO idea where exactly since I can't even tell what make or model of TV it is and I probably wouldn't recognize it anyway.

It's impossible for me to really help beyond this from way over here.
Can you even see anything besides blue ever? If not, there could be an entirely different issue.

Good luck.

I have same issue no matter what i connect: Apple TV 1st gen, PS3, PS2
About why i ask this here is because people there might be familiar with crt quirks, due to one of the most popular mac os 9 machine having crt(iMac G3)
About twisting stuff inside: i cut out some plastic to access focus and some other knob on the side using non conductive screwdriver