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Posted by: mraroid on 2016-04-26 10:09:04
Hi...
I found this web site:
http://www.mac512.com/ccpmg4.htm
Showing a Color Classic G4 cube mod. It looked really sloppy to me, not to mention that I would have to gut a color classic to do this.
Has anyone here done the G4 cube color classic upgrade?
If not, can anyone point me to web sites that talk about this upgrade?
I would like to see other cube options....
Thanks
jack
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Posted by: TheWhiteFalcon on 2016-04-26 10:53:39
I'd like if people stopped butchering Cubes, personally. There aren't that many of them.
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Posted by: ScutBoy on 2016-04-26 12:21:55
I'd like if people stopped butchering Cubes, personally. There aren't that many of them. Yeah - seems like a waste of a Cube and a CC, if you ask me.
Not the most elegant mod, either, but I shouldn't throw stones since I don't know how much better I could do 🙂
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Posted by: EvilCapitalist on 2016-04-26 12:37:33
I personally would go for a G4 Mac Mini plus a Color Classic with more dead than just the motherboard if you were going for something that could still do 68K/PPC (otherwise a newer Mac Mini). If you had one with a bum analog board that caps couldn't fix, in addition to the usual dead hard drives and motherboards needing caps I wouldn't feel as bad seeing the mash up.
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Posted by: archer174 on 2016-04-26 12:54:09
Yeah, I think a mac mini would be perfect for this. I think you could even manage to do it without hacking the case because the board is low profile enough. Power/video could be taken from the existing backplane, and a solid state drive could be laid to the side or on top of the board.
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Posted by: mraroid on 2016-04-26 14:18:41
It would be great if I could use the CRT in the color classic.... I love that screen.... I have no idea if the mac mini would drive the CRT.... The best mode would be if I did not have to hack up the insides of my CC....
jack
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Posted by: sstaylor on 2016-04-26 17:28:51
Yeah, I'd have to go with a mini in a regular Classic, Plus, or SE case with an LCD. Seems a real shame to wreck *two* of the rarer and more desirable vintage macs.
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