Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Steve_W]

Morning all from sunny Margate, Kent, UK. I’ve been making music with Macs since mid 90s (Spectrum and Amiga before my Mac journey). I bought the holy trinity of Rebirth first, then reason and recycle and still have my original big box software with everything intact.

I have a G4 Mac mini 1.33ghz running the MacOS9lives OS 9.2.2 which is running great.

I’ll be installing all the software over Christmas and getting back into it all. I have an old M Audio keyboard with a built in soundcard I think I’ll use.

I will document the journey in this thread in case anyone is doing similar . Maybe it’ll help in some way.

I expect I’ll be installing Logic 4.8.1 (using that patcher I remember that says “Excellent!” From Bill & Ted when it’s launched  ).

I’ve just ordered a DVI-I to VGA adapter as I can’t find mine anywhere so hopefully should be up and running fairly soon. Speak soon RetroMacAudioNutters!

[aBc]

@Steve_W

You’re having us on just a bit about “sunny” Margate? (I checked current weather.)

Appreciate you documenting your upcoming journey with the 1.33 GHz Mac mini.
(Hope that it works out, as it could be quite interesting.)

And, btw nice to see that avi of yours popping up again after so long.
(Last post from you was September of 2022.)

Laissez les bons temps rouler! 

[kkroos]

Wow, looking forward to getting an update on how all this goes! I'm interested in getting OS9 sound and midi software running with this set up as well.

I'm particularly interested in how well a sound interface from this era might work with a mac mini running OS9. I'm hoping to try out a M-audio firewire audiophile unit, as I've tracked one down that I'm picking up in a few days with the original driver CD that's good for OS9. If anyone has tried anything similar with firewire with the mac mini OS9 set up please let me know.