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Comments and Predictions About the Apple on Intel - Some clarification of what these means, my personal take about what it does and does not mean, and predictions.
Article About How and Why PCI Quartz Extreme Can and Does Help - Discussion about how small differences in the details can make all the difference in the end.
Choosing Legacy Hardware, What to Get, What to Avoid - Brief guide to the upgrade potential of your system, or some information on choosing legacy hardware to upgrade.
Setting Up Bluetooth WAP Internet Access Using OS X, and a Cingular Sony-E T637 Mobile - Brief setup instructions.
Topic Groups - Groups of related Links listed later in the Site Map
Articles/Information About Installing/Using OS X on Legacy Hardware
Articles/Information About Hardware Modifications and Technical How-Too's
Some Other Random Site Content - There are many more pages most technical and/or relating to legacy systems and thus linked in the following sections.
Main Entry (Home) Page – Original PM 8500 specifications page that also serves as the index page.
Recent Activities – Updates on the 8500, what I have been up to, thoughts....Ok, ok, its a blog.
Comments and Predictions About the Apple on Intel - Some clarification of what these means, my personal take about what it does and does not mean, and predictions. Posted 6/10/05. We can see how accurate my few predictions are.
Article About How and Why PCI Quartz Extreme Can and Does Help - Discussion about how small differences in the details can make all the difference in the end. Why PCI QE may help of certain legacy systems.
Choosing Legacy Hardware to Upgrade for Play or Work, What to Get and What to Avoid - Brief guide to the upgrade potential of your system, or some information on choosing legacy hardware to upgrade.
Pirates – who hate pointy things - mp3, AV Piracy, and the Law of Unintended Consequences. A brief article about DivX and where it came from, and where we might be going.
Why Windows Sucks, but Microsoft Likes Variety – I know why I like my OS of choice, do you?
My Apples – List of all Apples/Macs I have owned with Specifications. Of little interest to ANYONE but me.
Off Site Links – Links to sites referenced heavily from Sliced Apple, sites I like, both, are site linked via a mistyped URL.
Sliced Apple Software (Various freeware releases of dubious value)
Sliced Apple (NMS) Software
- Main site for software I have posted to Version Tracker.
KDE Launcher - Launch KDE in Apple's X11 that works and use other X11 apps using Apple's WM at the same time.
SAS - Pop - RENAMED! Set of folder actions to organize and maintain a Dock folder as a Pop Up launcher.
NMS Utility - Small faceless application to solve problems of laptop insomnia. Now at version 2.0 (beta).
Sliced Apple
General Downloads – A
mix of AppleScript Studio, AppleScripts and/or shell scripts
that someone
might find useful. Includes Sliced Apple (NMS)
Software as well.
Legacy Project PM8500 "Bertha"
Power Macintosh 8500
Separator Project - My
legacy computer that
separates me from my money
Introduction (Warm up for the Preface (Pre-Pre)) –What the Hell? Why? What were you thinking?!?
Pre-Pre-Preface (Excuses, rationalization, etc…) –First a Word
Pre-Preface (Some OS X/Unix history) -Unix/Apple Background
Preface (OS X history) -OS X
Before (More money than brains) -Original System Technical Specs
After (No money, no br…) –Current System Specs…more or less
Some random thoughts about After -Hardware Discussion re Current System then to now
Early Upgrades (I was poor) –Brief Upgrade History Prior to the BIG PUSH
Hindsight (with foresight) -Upgrade Strategy (had I planned)
Reality of Hindsight (I Am Going To Be Poor - A story of Love, Impulse buying, and Realtek Tragedies) -Psychotic diary of recent upgrades
Just a trim (She Broke It) -Upgrades begin
Oops (I Broke it…Moose from Manure) -Upgrades Escalate
Why plans are important –Scalability and Upgrades
The Aftermath -How it works?
The Actual Math (Benchmarks and wishful thinking) –Lies, Damn Lies, and Benchmarking
Final Thoughts –Conclusions To Date
Those thoughts that come after Final Thoughts -Future plans
The Final Math (with afterthoughts)
and more… (Further upgrades and struggles)
Just In Case – Diary of issues relating to moving the PM 8500 to a standard ATX case, not once, but twice
The 8500 Genuine Mac ATX Power Supply – Brief discussion of using a modern ATX power supply in a legacy Mac.
Theory and Reality of Building a Soft Power Signal Inverter – Somewhat tedious discussion of building the adapter circuit to allow modern power supplies to work with the soft power of old Mac motherboards (but it has art)
Other Upgraded/Modified Systems
Beige G3 (G4 400) Project Site – Beige G3 Tune-up and Pearls of Wisdom -A brief description of details and important points I learned upgrading a PowerMac G3 Mini-tower I placed in an ATX case, graced with some new hardware, and brought up to date including an XPF dependent 10.3 install.
Warranty-smarranty: Upgrades to Our New iBook G4 – Upgrades for the faint of intellect – Using the internal Bluetooth module, 60 Gb HD, and DVD-RW from our defunct PowerBook to update our already new iBook G4
Articles on Legacy Hardware and Software (Including OS X)
Some relevant content may not be linked from this section.This section is under construction so these pages are draft only (lots of types, formatting errors, you name it) ...
Thoughts About OS X and Legacy Hardware – General rant/overview on some of the technical differences between OS 9 and OS X, why you want OS X, why installation can be tricky, etc...
Installing OS X on Legacy Hardware – Links and some tips on nstalling OS X on Legacy Macs. More scattered information can be found on this site, especially regarding hardware modifications, or specifics regarding PM8500 (or related) or PowerMacintosh G3 (beige) system.
Tips About OS 9 on Legacy Hardware (with or without X) – Information on using OS 9 as part of your OS X upgrade strategy for your legacy system, updating to Mac OS 9.2.2 on unsupported system, and USB Card suppport in Mac OS 9, especially Os 9.2.2.
It Won't Boot in OS 9 or X! - Booting help. Just some help, advice, and tricks for booting problems during your legacy upgrade adventures.
Articles on Hardware Modifications and Technical How-Too's
Some relevant content may not be linked from this section and most links are also linked elsewhere on this page.This section is under construction so these pages are draft only (lots of types, formatting errors, you name it) ...
Using an ATX Power Supply In a Legacy Mac - Using an ATX power supply in a legacy PCI (1st generation Power Macintosh .
Building a Signal Inverter for Using Soft on a Legacy Mac with an ATX Power Supply - Theory and reality of building a soft power signal inverter.
Upgrading an an iBook G4 to Internal Bluetooth - Our project to add internal Bluetooth to our (rev 2) 1 GHz iBook G4.
Mouting a PM8500 Motheboard in an ATX Case - A desctiption/diary of issues I encounted while recasing my PM8500 "Bertha".
Using Apple OEM Bluetooth Module (from laptop) in Desktop - Brief description of using Apple's Internal Bluetooth module in different computer.
Some Tips on Taking Apart the iBook G4 and PowerBook 12 inch - A general description of iBook G4 and PowerBook dissassembly, NOT a detailed set of instructions.
Setting Up Bluetooth WAP Internet Access Using OS X, and a Cingular Sony-E T637 Mobile - Brief setup instructions.
Thoughts on Legacy OS Installs
Hardware/Driver Compatibility with Legacy Installs Using the PM8500 as the Test Base
Other On-Site Pages
Site History – Short Page of Site Chronology
The Final Truth – Things I don’t want to learn
Poetry – Some poetry by my wife in those rare moments when she remembers how.
XPostFacto – Open source project that allows OS X to run on just about ANY PCI based Macintosh.
OS 9 Helper – Utility that modifies the Mac OS 9.2.1 updater to allow it to install and run on certain unsupported Macs. From 9.2.1 you can update to 9.2.2 normally.
Surfin’ Safari - Dave Hyatt's, development lead for the rendering engine (webcore) of Apple’s KHTML based Safari web browser, gives us a peak inside the complexity and tradeoff’s involved in building a Web browser from someone truly on the inside in this talented and focused community. Dave Hyatt is a player in the web browser development world having been a leader or founder of at least three browsers including Mozilla, Camino, and now Safari.
Ars Technica – Very good articles on the technology beyond the computer hardware and operating systems of today. Ars has been following OS X since its earliest days and have the articles and perspective to prove it.
Technical Review of Mac OS 10.4 Tiger - Mac OS X 10.4 is one of the most important system releases Apple has ever done, and one of the most groundbreaking and technology packed. Think it's hard to tell...read this...
XLR8 Your Mac – Detailed and specific technical news, discussion, and reviews geared towards technically inclined hobbyist interested in specific types of modifications or upgrades. Includes a very extensive hardware compatibility database and set of How To technical articles that are invaluable.
There are many other excellent Mac sites that I visit every day.
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