Hello,

A good friend of mine has given me his old 12" Powerbook G4 and I am not sure what to do with it. It's a beautiful machine, so it would be a shame to let it sit on a shelf collecting dust.

The OS is OS X 10.4. Apparently, MacOS 9.2 can be installed with a few caveats.



















































































































































































I've never used classic MacOS, so this could be a good opportunity to try it out.

Any ideas?

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Hello unixl0rd,

10 Feb 24 07:25, you wrote to All:

Hello,

A good friend of mine has given me his old 12" Powerbook G4 and I am
not sure what to do with it. It's a beautiful machine, so it would be
a shame to let it sit on a shelf collecting dust.

The OS is OS X 10.4. Apparently, MacOS 9.2 can be installed with a few caveats. I've never used classic MacOS, so this could be a good opportunity to try it out.

if your ok without web browsing an older macosx or classic os is ok.
but if you'd like to use it for browsing i recommend debian or something like that.

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On 10 Feb 2024, unixl0rd said the following...

Hello,

A good friend of mine has given me his old 12" Powerbook G4 and I am not sure what to do with it. It's a beautiful machine, so it would be a
shame to let it sit on a shelf collecting dust.

The OS is OS X 10.4. Apparently, MacOS 9.2 can be installed with a few caveats. I've never used classic MacOS, so this could be a good opportunity to try it out.

Any ideas?

Hell yes, forget MacOS, install MorphOS and turn it into a decent Amiga clone! That's my $0.02 =)

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A good friend of mine has given me his old 12" Powerbook G4 and I am sure what to do with it. It's a beautiful machine, so it would be a shame to let it sit on a shelf collecting dust.

The OS is OS X 10.4. Apparently, MacOS 9.2 can be installed with a fe caveats. I've never used classic MacOS, so this could be a good opportunity to try it out.

Any ideas?

Hell yes, forget MacOS, install MorphOS and turn it into a decent Amiga clone! That's my $0.02 =)

MorphOS is way easier to use than MacOS :D

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On 31 Aug 2024, djatropine said the following...

Hell yes, forget MacOS, install MorphOS and turn it into a decent Ami clone! That's my $0.02 =)

MorphOS is way easier to use than MacOS :D

Amen to that!

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Hello,

A good friend of mine has given me his old 12" Powerbook G4 and I am not s what to do with it. It's a beautiful machine, so it would be a shame to le sit on a shelf collecting dust.

The OS is OS X 10.4. Apparently, MacOS 9.2 can be installed with a few cav

The Mac OS 9 Lives forum has an install CD image that they offer for Macs that don't officially support booting into OS 9; I've used it on my eMac without incident. :D

-Ƕƒlian

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A good friend of mine has given me his old 12" Powerbook G4 and sure what to do with it. It's a beautiful machine, so it would b shame to let it sit on a shelf collecting dust.

The OS is OS X 10.4. Apparently, MacOS 9.2 can be installed with caveats. I've never used classic MacOS, so this could be a good opportunity to try it out.

Any ideas?

Hell yes, forget MacOS, install MorphOS and turn it into a decent Ami clone! That's my $0.02 =)

MorphOS is way easier to use than MacOS :D

How easy is it to install MorphOS on a PPC Mac? I've never used it.

-Ƕƒlian

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On 05 Sep 2024, halian said the following...

MorphOS is way easier to use than MacOS :D

How easy is it to install MorphOS on a PPC Mac? I've never used it.

A good question, I've never owned a PPC before, but I've installed it in an emulator ok. I would love to get my hands on actual hardware tho and use it as originally intended. I remember when Windows XP had WindowBlinds and it had a MorphOS theme to make Windows look like MorphOS with all the fancy window decorations, it looks amazing and I drooled over it haha.

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º MorphOS is way easier to use than MacOS :D ÈÍËÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ [quote from djatropine] SEEN-BY: 1/100 3/100 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 111 113 115 116 119 121 122 SEEN-BY: 3/123 125 127 129 130 131 132 135 137 138 140 142 145 146 147 149 150 SEEN-BY: 3/151 152 153 154 155 156 157 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 SEEN-BY: 3/170 171 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 SEEN-BY: 3/188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201

On 11 Sep 2024, halian said the following...

º MorphOS is way easier to use than MacOS :D ÈÍËÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ [quote from djatropine]

I still really wanna get hardware I can put MorphOS on - Mac G4 would be lovely I reckon, but finding one and sensible price is gonna be challenging over here I suspect :')

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MeaTLoTioN wrote to unixl0rd <=-

Hell yes, forget MacOS, install MorphOS and turn it into a decent Amiga clone! That's my $0.02 =)

This is interesting!!! I had not heard of MorphOS before. We are all MAC
at work, other than chromebooks for the students the last few years.
Pretty sure all I ahve in old equipment is Intel based now, but I'm
going to look and see what I can find. :-)




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