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| Mac os 6.0.7 for powerbook 140/170 |
Posted by: jimbauwens on 2011-02-04 10:22:44
Quite some time ago I got a powerbook 140, with a dead hardrive. I managed to get it working again by putting the harddrive in a fridge. This was however temporally, after a couple of days it stopped working. xx(
The only way to boot a system was with a floppy, but System 7 takes so much space in that you can't include any program.
So I went searching and found that there was a Japanese version of Mac Os 6.07 (mac os 6 is so much smaller) that ran on the powerbook 140 and 170.
The only problem was that it was in japanese. But I spend some time with mini vmac and resedit, and successfully translated the system English.
I had enough space to include a couple of games, and it ran perfect on my powerbook (and still does).
Today I found the image again, and was wondering if someone of you might be interested in it. 🙂
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Posted by: beachycove on 2011-02-04 11:30:50
Yes.
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Posted by: jimbauwens on 2011-02-04 11:45:18
I pm'ed the link to you 🙂
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Posted by: mx-v on 2011-02-04 12:21:10
I am too. Would like to try it on the 165.
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Posted by: jimbauwens on 2011-02-04 13:56:09
I sent you the link, but I'm not sure if it will work with the 165.
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Posted by: mx-v on 2011-02-04 18:32:34
Well, it doesn't boot a 165. 🙁
It does boot a Classic tho, for what it's worth. (proves my floppy is good)
Thanks anyway, it's nice from you to share. 🙂
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Posted by: Strimkind on 2011-02-04 19:12:57
I'd love a copy for my 170 🙂
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Posted by: basalgangster on 2011-02-04 19:22:20
would definitely like to have that too.
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Posted by: CJ_Miller on 2011-02-04 20:57:15
Cool project, I didn't even know that one could run 6.0.x on any powerbooks, apart from the "portable".
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Posted by: jimbauwens on 2011-02-05 12:15:11
@basalgangster and Strimkind, I send you guys the link 🙂
Tell me if it works out!
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Posted by: beachycove on 2011-02-05 14:27:25
Before I go a-downloading, does this version have the Resedit hack already done, or is it the original Japanese language software?
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Posted by: jimbauwens on 2011-02-05 14:50:11
It's the tweaked version, all the work is done.
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Posted by: beachycove on 2011-02-05 16:54:58
You are a gentleman!
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Posted by: basalgangster on 2011-02-05 18:37:45
Worked like a charm in my PB170. Very cool that you left the Japanese Welcome to Macintosh message in place. I guess I knew it couldn't work in my PB180, but I had to try. No luck. Thanks much for that.
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Posted by: jimbauwens on 2011-02-06 02:19:05
I'm very happy that it works for you 🙂
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Posted by: closeddoors1559 on 2011-02-06 03:58:12
I'd also like to try it.
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Posted by: beachycove on 2011-02-06 08:57:25
Actually, I couldn't get it to work on a PB170. Procedure was:
d/l in OSX.4 -> .dsk file not recognized, and gave up.
d/l in OS9, forced file recognition in Stuffit Expander -> disk image, from which I made floppy via DiskCopy. All seemed well.
However, the PB170 will not boot from the floppy. Have I missed something?
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Posted by: jimbauwens on 2011-02-06 10:11:28
You're floppy must be a 1,4 mb one, not smaller. Maybe this is your problem?
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Posted by: basalgangster on 2011-02-06 20:18:00
Dialog -15904, the General Control panel dialog still has the KanjiTalk name.
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