Building the Ultimate Classic Mac.

-----Original Message----- From: other at oryx.us Sent: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 16:26:06 -0500 To: general at classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Building the Ultimate Classic Mac. I went thru this exercise myself a couple of years back. Even kicked off a thread on a Mac email list. I don't/didn't have any experience or background with the Mac on the 68K, so that didn't come into my decision making. I ultimately decided that I didn't need the fastest/biggest/most memory power house Mac that would run Classic. I just needed to run my Mac OS apps and games that would never be ported to x86. I purchased a G4 cube and have been happy with that decision. I can boot up into Mac OS 9.x, and also boot into OS X 10.4 with Classic support. This was what worked well for me. I will be interested to see what you ultimately end up choosing. Jerry > On 07/15/16 02:03 PM, Austin Pass wrote: > I'm toying with putting the "ultimate" classic Mac together, although > I'm > having a little difficulty pinning down the definition of what the > ultimate > representation of the type is, so was looking for a little input from > Classic CMP'ers. > > I'm aware that there's a clear divide between Motorola and PowerPC CPU'd > variants, so I'm going to plump for a PowerPC based version so that I > can > get access to newer hardware and use it as a kind of bridge system > between > my current computers and the more historic versions. > > In terms of hardware I have a lovely mirror-door G4 PowerMac I'm > intending > to use. I have the original media that shipped with this, so I can get > 9.2.1 on it relatively easily. Are there any add-in cards (PCI) I > should > be considering? It has a built in Airport Card (possibly Airport > Extreme?) > although my home Wi-Fi is 802.11n or better with WPA2 so I'll just use > Ethernet to connect it to my LAN. Was a gigabit ethernet card ever > released with Mac OS 9 drivers? I have a couple of 600GB PATA disks > that I > can use with it, but has there ever been a SATA implementation that > worked > with classic Mac OS? > > Also, I have an Asant? ether bridge tucked away somewhere that I hope to > be > able to use to connect some of my older Mac OS boxen without Ethernet. > > In terms of the software - any top-line utilities or System Extensions I > should look to get my hands on? What's the state of the art in classic > Mac > OS browsing nowadays, Mr Kaiser - is Clasilla still maintained? > > -Austin.