Computers (General): April 2007 Archives
For instance, the picture above is from one called Pocket Battle. You could make your own map and play against the computer or just let the computer fight itself. Fun times.
I actually made a disk image of the Performa's hard drive in order to run under the 680x0 emulator on my B&W G3. Sadly, the emulator is rather crappy and doesn't even support sound. I might try to bring the Performa up with me to Troy in order to play around with it.
Speaking of the Performa, I've upgraded it quite a bit since the olden days. Its got a FPU, upgraded memory, upgraded VRAM, and an ethernet card. I still have to get it a bigger hard drive in there, though. That 'ole 80MB one just doesn't hold that much. It doesn't hold very much at all.
The Radeon 9500 Pro that I flashed has been declared a success. It performed perfectly in the G4 I tested it in. It easily trumpted the Geforce 5200 I pitted it against. I hope that it pulls in some money from the eBay auction.
I hope to get back the money spent on finding out it doesn't work in my Gaming PC's motherboard due to some various incompatibility.
The flashing of the 9500 Pro took only less than a minute but it was quite successful. Well, I haven't yet tried it in a G4 yet. I'm going to have to go down to my parent's house to retrieve the G4 I left down there.
I wish that flashing would have taken a little longer. Now I'm just sitting here unable to do anything else with the card. I do hope that it works. That way, I can get some money back on the damn thing.
I've gotten tired of the Radeon 9500 Pro being troublesome under Windows. So, I'm going to flash it and give it a shot running in a Mac.
If it continues to be a bother, I'll then end up selling it on eBay and getting what I can for it. I hope it doesn't come to that, though. I would enjoy using it on the G4. If it works, that is.
I'm currently contemplating bringing that 'Sawtooth' G4 up here and plopping some various flavor of Linux on it. I want to give it a shot at being my personal server.
Sadly, Linux won't support my Applescript CGIs like my previous Beige G3 Server did. Mind you, I could install OS 9 on the G4, but I wanted to give a Linux server a shot. I want to see how well it does.
I'll have to go look and see if I have any relatively large hard drives lying around. I don't think that I do. But, I might as well go have a looksy.
Even after giving my BenQ wireless optical mouse a good review, I've had to switch back to my good 'ole trusty Logitech one. The BenQ hasn't been acting weird or anything. It's just that lately it feels like I'm having to drag the thing around the mousepad area.
Plus, that damn delay in responding when it goes to 'sleep' after a long idle time has become annoying. I suppose the delay might be becoming more noticeable as the batteries wear down. Nevertheles, I've relegated it to my Gaming PC. I still think it was a good deal, though.
Well, after some extensive work into it, I have determined that the Radeon 9500 Pro I got recently is just incompatible with my motherboard. I've installed/uninstalled/reinstalled so many things that it was a horibble mess of things.
So, I simple removed it all and started back again with the Radeon 9100. It took me about 30 minutes to get everything situated back again properly and the Gaming PC is humming along just fine now. It sucks but failure is the victor in this battle. Not the war, though. I'm not done trying to upgrade my video card yet.
I should have kept that Geforce 6800 somehow. Damn...
I'm being trying to determine why the flashed Geforce 5200 I flashed for my Dad's G4 doesn't make it past the blue screen. Hell, at least it works. I did test it in the G4, running 10.3.9, I have up here and it ran fine the whole time. Must be something I have to do especially for 10.4.x. I'll have to go looking on the flashing forum to see what others did about it.
EDIT: According to this, I only have to do a little tinkering to get it to work just right. In fact, this makes almost perfect sense, sort of.
Well, I tested the video card again and the fan on it seems to work just fine. I don't suppose that is the source of the problems then. Hmm. I even tried an older version of the Catalyst software/drivers and that didn't make any difference either. I might try some other things. I don't know what I plan on trying, though.
EDIT: My brother suggested that perhaps a third party cooling solution was used on it. Thus, when they put the stock heatsink/fan back on they did it incorrectly, causing it to overheat. I suppose I'll be focusing on fixing that. Perhaps I'll even try running it on another computer to see if it exhibits the same problems.
