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News, Information & Feedback / We're hiring (and have some ideas)!
« Last post by Knezzen on Today at 07:38:56 AM »
Bolkonskij is helping me with a forum theme and new webpage that houses both the old content and adds lots of space for new stuff. The idea is to make it THE place to link to if somebody asks "What's Mac OS 9"? and "What can I do with it in 2024?".

Since I want the info to be top-notch and from folks who know what they're talking about, I'm looking for people who would like contribute information, guides and how-to's in whatever segments that are relevant to Mac OS 9. If you've written good content that are buried in the forum structure, now is the time to dig it out :)

Right now there's some info in the following categories:
  • DAW & music
  • Games
  • Drivers
  • Utilities
  • Writing & Calc
  • Video Editing
  • Emulators on OS9
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Off Topic / Re: Sub forum for PPC OS X discussion
« Last post by Knezzen on Today at 04:35:41 AM »
We’ve had this question from time to time and the answer is that it is alright to discuss it if you make a thread in “off topic”, since it’s off topic for this site :)
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Off Topic / Re: Sub forum for PPC OS X discussion
« Last post by ssp3 on Today at 02:55:31 AM »
That's a big can of worms  ;)
Some very specific OSX topics are discussed here, but that's about it. For everything else there's macrumours.
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Off Topic / Sub forum for PPC OS X discussion
« Last post by alphaTECH on Today at 02:41:21 AM »
Has this idea been brought up before? It'd be nice to have a place here to discuss OS 10 - 10.5, I'm sure there are some knowledgeable and helpful members here that know early OS X just as well as they know OS 9.
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Mac OS 9 on Unsupported Hardware / Re: Mac Mini G4 + display oddities
« Last post by ssp3 on Today at 02:37:23 AM »
Two more Dell displays tested with both Minis.
Note the strange setting required for Dell P190S to work with RockHopper driver. I have a feeling that somewhere some resolutions table is off in that driver.

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Community Marketplace / Re: Selling Powerbook G4 - cosmetically terrible, no WiFi
« Last post by alphaTECH on Yesterday at 11:47:35 PM »
UPDATE: Free to a good home. You just pay shipping.
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Development & Programming / Re: PEF Explorer - does anyone still have it?
« Last post by ssp3 on Yesterday at 05:38:22 AM »
Quote from: IIO on Yesterday at 05:22:42 AM
so it is a disassembler but you can not edit and save?

It is a bit more than that. For example, it told me that our beloved ATI driver for Mac Mini is screwed and its data fork is corrupt. Sloppy hackers  ;)
It shows nicely exports and imports and some other parts that IDA knows nothing about, but as PPC disassembler as such it sucks.
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Development & Programming / Re: PEF Explorer - does anyone still have it?
« Last post by IIO on Yesterday at 05:22:42 AM »
Quote from: ssp3 on Yesterday at 03:56:33 AM
It just occured to me that maybe meow_mx ment PEF Viewer and not PEF Explorer?

that would explain why google and archive-org do not know anything about it.

hehe, there´s a document on HI which mentions it. :)

https://cdn.preterhuman.net/texts/computing/macintosh/PPC_Cracking_Bible_v1.0.2.pdf

so it is a disassembler but you can not edit and save?
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New Member Welcome / Re: Finally after many years I get a real Mac OS9 mac!
« Last post by fergycool on Yesterday at 04:33:30 AM »
Ahh, thanks! I missed your reply, and that would have saved me some time/money! I bought a pack of 650MB CDrs. They would not boot either. So after ordering a mSATA drive/IDE adaptor I ended up using a USB/IDE adaptor to install from the image that I'd copied to the original boot drive (with iBored) and installed to the new mSATA drive. I swapped that for the original drive and it's working OK now.
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Development & Programming / Re: PEF Explorer - does anyone still have it?
« Last post by ssp3 on Yesterday at 03:56:33 AM »
It just occured to me that maybe meow_mx ment PEF Viewer and not PEF Explorer?

If so, there are two versions - one for OS9 and another one for OSX.
The OS9 version I don't remember where I got it from, the OSX version is part of early XCode tools.
The OS9 version works standalone as is. The OSX version installs additional Powerplant framework into System -> Private frameworks.
I hate when something from the old system is installed into newer system, so I made my own standalone version of it by moving the Powerplant framework inside the PEF Viewer app and patching both executables with install_name_tool. Tested and working on Intel with Rosetta and on PPC Leopard.
If someone needs these, I can put them up.
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