@Greystash, were you able to spare some time? There's no rush, and besides, it's summer

Sorry I missed your messages and haven't revisited as my iMac has been packed over the last year and a bit due to several moves. I'll try look at this again in the weekend and hopefully shed some light on the other issues too. Fingers crossed my iMac boots, I'm pretty sure the caps are bad 

Pls help as i don't want to gut this powermac to put board with laptop core duo cpu in it 

I have this:
17" iMac G4 1.25GHz USB 2.0
Unsupported G4s CD burned at 4x
CPU spoof and screamer fix both applied via nvedit
Gets past happy Mac, goes black while reading CD, then garbled colored lines screen that never resolves.  At first I thought it was because I had to use an external optical drive - but I finally replaced the internal optical with a working one and still the same issue.  I was able to get it working on my Mac Mini G4 1.5Ghz using the Mac Mini G4 specific disk, but no luck on the iMac G4 so far.

https://duc.avid.com/home/forum/legacy-products/-003-mbox-2-digi-002-original-mbox-digi-001-mac/55500-mbox-rev-a-or-rev-b-what-s-the-diff?t=56033

One shipped with Pro Tools LE 5 and the latter with Pro Tools LE 6

Wow, didn't know about different generation MBOX1.... ! - Technically they're identical?

you got original Mbox 1 -> Mbox is the required hardware -> Mbox is not the full software dongle/not like an iLok ->Pro Tools still needs authorization code -> First launch asks for serial / auth code (came with Mbox package -> check booklet/CD Sleeve/registration card) = Initializing erased the previous authorization -> Pro Tools asks again

i have no LE except AMIII but maybe this helps: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/pro-tools-le-511
damn free shipping in the US, i envy you guys: https://www.ebay.at/itm/277918854633

i do have two boxed iBooks G4 though waiting once i can find "complete" MBox Rev A and B boxes

Mbox & iBook - they are peak early 2000s design LOVE IT
doesnt look too shabby next to a TiBook as well, but a TiBook can hook up to a 4-Slot PCI Express to PCI Expansion System from Magma and run a Mix Cube Pro Tools TDM rig

I'm trying to launch Pro Tools LE 5.2.1 on my Mac G4. The interface is an Mbox1. I've initialized the G4. Pro Tools LE is asking for an authorization code. Isn't the Mbox1 a dongle? In any case, I'm at a loss for ideas and would appreciate any advice you can offer.

Going public for a reply: This is a terrific utility. Thank you for it!

I know you don't need suggestions, but here's one that would be useful for BasiliskII users who use sparsebundles instead of disk images. Could you offer to convert a sparsebundle into a CDR image (using hdiutil behind the scenes) and then convert the edited CDR image back to a sparsebundle when done?

Of course a user can do this from the command line, but it would be nice to have it automated. And of course feel free to ignore this...

Appreciate the praise of Sector! Thanks for the feature suggestion; going to keep the editor focused on doing one thing well for now; you never know where the future might take you but for now trying to just be the best way to edit HFS Disk Images. Other features I've added in like HFS disk verifying and HFS disk creation are there because they are part of HFS Utils so if I'm already doing all the work of updating HFS Utils and creating a layer between it and my app, I might as well add the most important features of HFS Utils in...

Terrific! But exactly where can we find it via Hotline?

EDIT: Found it: in the --->Uploads [UL]<--- folder, then in "MacDrive - read HFSPlus from Windows"

added a proper HFS+ (plus only!) reader for the windows OS explorer to the download site.

(hopefully not too offtopic here)