[rescue] revived: TiBook G4 867 (DVI)/ 1GB and MacOS9

[Liam Proven]

On 10 April 2018 at 16:53, Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I also have a PowerPC MacMini that is just sitting on the shelf...

What is it with folk top-posting on here?

Gmail bottom-posts fine. Look at me, I'm doing it right here in the
web interface. No client required. Hit Ctrl-A, trim, reply,
Ctrl-Enter.

Anyway. The most interesting thing I found to do with my Mac mini G4
was to put MorphOS on it.

It was an epic task -- brief mention here:
https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/48183.html

I had to use a mixture of Mac OS X 10.4, Ubuntu for PowerPC, and at
least one 3rd party disk management tool, _plus_ the MorphOS
partitioner and installer. It needs 2 partitions, as I recall, which
are the Amiga equivalents of /boot and /.

But it works. The freeware version is hobbled and goes into a slowdown
mode after 20min. There's no wireless support at all -- see the blog
post.

But saying that, it makes a Mac mini into one of the fastest Amigas
that there ever was.

Unfortunately, I was never an Amiga guy (I went with an Acorn
Archimedes instead and had a 32-bit personal RISC workstation in 1989)
so I don't really know what to do with it, but it was an educational
and instructive exercise.

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