In article  ,
"Turin"
 wrote:

> Deborah Terreson wrote:
>> Turin wrote:

>> >
>> > (So, Deb.  I'm guessing that another "topless
piccy" is probably
> due
>> > for you about this time...)
>>
>> Hrmmm, yeah, was thinking about it last summer, but the photographer
> who
>> took that has closed up his shop. Another local casualty to the real
> estate
>> fiasco in town here. Ermm..
>
>
> Hahaha ...well, another local casualty to *something*....
>
>
>> Will probably stick to the fakes for now,
>
>
> I figured.  ;D
>
>
>> as I recently got a PERCH card
>> (Apple video input and output) installed and running. 7 year old,
> obsolete
>> OS 8.1 did the trick, no less. Go figure. Can make grabs of movies
> and
>> stills now, DRM restrictions be damned.
>
>
> Maybe you're experiencing some form or another of "seven years bad
> luck"...
>
Hey! I'll thank you very much to be reminded that in all this time I've
never gotten a single computer virus - IIRC there aren't any for the classic
Mac OS! Hell, this machine has run flawlessly, barring the times *I've* gone
and screwed it up (Note to Deb: you cannot put two system folders on one
partition, no matter what you rename the second..).
>
>> If I can't get the resolution I want
>> on these grabs, I may bite the bullet and give it one more shot on
> the
>> install of Panther (Mac OS 10.3.7), but the last three times I tried,
> I got
>> a kernel panic and the installs failed. :(
>
>
> Peripherals with brand names that are taken from animals always seem to
> have huge compatibility problems.
>
I think I'm just not taking the time on the installs.

There is a program, XPostFacto, that is run immediately prior to and with
the install that rewrites the open firmware and changes the hardware ID,
tricking the OS installer into thinking it's going into a native USB Mac -
Almost everyone in the older hardware forum on the Apple boards is running
Panther on their beige G3 machines, so it can be done.

What needs to happen for success is something I don't want to do, which is
remove the CPU upgrade and put back the original processor. It's a plain out
pain in the ass. Once I get the OS in, I can put back in all the
peripherals, and get OSX drivers for the lot. Probably leave it with dual
boot mode, OS9 and 10. I really want to get the damn thing installed and
start learning UNIX so when I get a new Mac in a few years time, I know what
the fuck I'll be doing with it.

Deb.
>
>> This is what I get for trying to
>> shoehorn an OS into unsupported hardware.
>
>
> I hear you.  ...Almost as bad as Tune and Adjective trying to shoehorn
> some real facts into their heads....



>
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