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The Beige Knight Rises - PPC 7100/66
Posted by: directive0 on 2012-10-09 15:33:11 Updates. Hit a bit or a weirdness patch recently. Don't know if its a prevailing trend of poor luck, or the hardware. Basically as it stands; 7100/66 "Arroway" - Drydocked/awaiting new orders I have had to remove her main drive to get the power-house 80Mhz 7100 working. 7100/80 "Hadden" - Critical Care This guy suffered drive failure and I was forced to remove the disc containing an install of MacOS8.5.1, move back to my 80MB 8.5 drive. :disapprove: This install is unstable (I get Address errors at boot, am able to boot in safe mode), so I have had to disable some stock extensions as the mish-mash is surely causing conflicts. There are doubles of extensions for instance; Apple Built In Ethernet, and Ethernet (Built In). Then there are things like Ethertalk 2, which I'm not even sure I NEED anymore. Can anyone tell me what the bare minimum extensions I need for network communication would be? AppleTalk is having problems connecting to my G4 Powerbook running 10.4. It never remembers to keep Ethernet as the default Appletalk connection, but even after resetting I can no longer get my server to mount. Even when presented with the dialogue box to enter my username and password I always end up being told the that "connection was severed unexpectedly."
Posted by: directive0 on 2012-10-09 23:15:52 A productive night! The network issues went away when I used the following extension profile Extensions ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ Apple Built-In Ethernet 41,145 bytes 1.0.5 comd enbi Apple CD/DVD Driver 103,149 bytes 1.0.1 INIT psap Apple Enet 379,066 bytes 2.0 ndrv cfrg Apple Ethernet NB 20,214 bytes 1.0.3 comd ennb AppleShare 456,101 bytes 3.8.1 RDEV afpt AppleTalk ADSP Tool 36,375 bytes 1.0.1 cbnd ctbc Application Switcher 87,023 bytes 1.0 appe apsw Contextual Menu Extension 74,773 bytes 1.0.2 INIT cmnu Control Strip Extension 70,244 bytes 2.0 appe sdev Ethernet (Built-In) 134,454 bytes 2.1 ndrv cfrg EtherTalk Phase 2 15,203 bytes 2.5.7 adev et20 File Sharing Extension 194,076 bytes 7.6.2 INIT hhgg File Sharing Library 94,404 bytes 8.0.1 shlb cfrg Iomega Driver 66,824 bytes 6.0.1 INIT gZip Location Manager Extension 75,110 bytes 2.0 AINI fall Open Tpt AppleTalk Library 502,792 bytes 2.0.1 libr OMGR Open Tpt Internet Library 461,056 bytes 2.0.1 libr OMGR Open Transport Library 524,771 bytes 2.0.1 libr OMGR OpenTptAppleTalkLib 53,529 bytes 2.0.1 otsl otan OpenTptInternetLib 263,587 bytes 2.0.1 otsl otan OpenTransportLib 524,420 bytes 2.0.1 otsl otan QuickTime™ 2,794,226 bytes 3.0.2 INIT ånd6 QuickTime™ PowerPlug 2,525,156 bytes 3.0.2 INIT ånd8 Shared Library Manager 168,325 bytes 2.0.1 INIT OMGR Shared Library Manager PPC 211,694 bytes 2.0.1 INIT OMgr SLPPlugin 147,613 bytes 1.0 shlb nslp SOMobjects™ for Mac OS 134,932 bytes 2.0.8 shlb cfmg Sound Manager 377,882 bytes 3.3 INIT sad XTND Power Enabler 6,582 bytes 1.0 shlb cfmg I managed to succesfully install MS-DOS 6.1 on the OrangePC Card... And managed to get to the Windows 3.1 Install Setup But that's where I ran into trouble with my emulated C-Drive files on my Network drive. Also I am swapping two floppies for 7 images I have. Its a bit of a hassle. Decided to leave it for another night. In the meantime I got my old copy of soundjamMP working. Plays M3u Streams pretty well, doesn't drop playback when its crunching away on something else, but you can feel the burden on it when you try to do too much else. Things are looking up!
Posted by: directive0 on 2012-10-14 11:35:00 Having more problems with my OrangePC setup. I am trying to share a volume as a drive but when I access it on the DOS side it keeps telling me: C:\>D: Invalid drive specification I read about this executable called OSHARE.EXE in the manual, but don't know what to make of it. Can some OrangePC guru give me a hand? I really want to get win95 installed.
Posted by: directive0 on 2012-11-02 08:17:33 Updates! I managed to get one of the CD drives I have working on the 7100/80. It appears as though I had the wrong version of foreign access enabled, and now they pop up on the desktop no problem... we'll see if it lasts. Still no luck getting OrangePC shared volumes to work, nor CDs so windows is still very much on hold. I really wish there was an easy way to open these Windows emulated disks. I'm hoping when I get my Aztec CF adapter I can keep a partition that will be accesible by the program... but I'm not holding my breath.
Posted by: directive0 on 2012-11-16 08:18:10 Well I got Windows 95 to install onto the emulated C-drive! I get through the installer, the setup and everything comes up asking me the date and when I provide it the whole thing falls apart due to illegal operation. I can get to the desktop, play around with the start menu and everything but then it falls apart. Oh well, maybe I'll try windows 3.1.
Posted by: mcdermd on 2012-11-16 08:34:16 Y2K updates?
Posted by: directive0 on 2012-11-16 08:39:03 Thats what I'm wondering now too. I will try it again one last time and enter a less post-millennial date, will report back. Getting closer though... Also started trying out RayDream Studio. Pretty awesome application!!
Posted by: directive0 on 2012-11-18 09:50:32 Here's a shotty of Win95 as it looks at start-up. As I mentioned before trying to do anything always leads to errors, I shall try again soon.
Posted by: directive0 on 2012-12-30 13:12:07 I got the card working much better now. Using the win3.1 setup disk acquired from archive.org's time machine I was able to install the necessary drivers to get win3.1 up and running in much better shape than win95. Programs run, things work. But its clear I will need a co-processor to do anything really exciting with it. Still, I press on! Questions for the informed: -I have seen discussion online of the PowerMac 7100 being overclocked. Does anyone have any links where I could find more information? Everything I find discusses the why and what, but not the how. -Does anyone have any advice what kind of coprocessor I should be looking for? More details and photos could be provided.
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