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John Paul Adrian Glaubitz is working on #debian ports on #SPARC64, #PowerPC, #PowerPC64...

You can help him with keeping HFS, with testing last images on cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/por and report bugs on lists.debian.org/debian-powerp.

There are bugs and TODO items that affect Debian Ports architectures,
listed at people.debian.org/~glaubitz/de

For anyone who wants to support his work, there's a Github Sponsoring on github.com/sponsors/glaubitz

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Mr Least

This is my Motorola StarMax 3000 that I bought back in the 90’s. It’s one of the Mac clones from the short period where Apple had a clone program. It has the Apple designed Tanzania board that the 4400 also used. The 4400 is generally regarded as the least “Mac” Mac, so the StarMax is even less of a Mac I guess. It was my first “Mac”, and I got it pretty cheap when they were getting rid of the old stock.
The StarMax was universally criticized for its obscene noise level, and it is really is very loud, to the point of being unusable.
I’ve worked a little on mine recently.
It has two fans - a 92mm in the PSU and a 60mm in the front, which takes care of the CPU. Yes, really. 60mm.
I have replaced those with Noctuas.
Another noise source, which is perhaps even worse, is the obscenely loud OEM IBM hard drive. I have replaced it with a CF card in the back, also making getting files across easier.
The StarMax has also been fitted with a Sonnet CPU upgrade, which replaces the L2 DIMM and needs an extension to activate.
All in all, this is a delightfully quirky system.

The back of the machine, a CF card and SCSI terminator are visible
The StarMax from the front. It is 90’s beige and features a Motorola and PowerPC logo. The StarMax badge is missing
A fan in a fan cage inside the machine clipped to the front
A DIMM sized CPU upgrade covered in a large purple heatsink
#retrocomputing#mac#powerpc
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LinuxUserGD :godot:

Project Espresso alpha now available

"We are excited to announce that Project Espresso, our project to port Adélie Linux to the Wii U console, has just released alpha repositories. We will be providing root images for SD cards in the coming days. For more information, including links to the repositories and how to set up your existing install to use these binaries, see the linked blog post. Happy computing!"

blog.atwilcox.tech/2025/02/24/

blog.atwilcox.techEspresso alpha available! – Wilcox Technologies Inc. Blog
#adélie#release#linux
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RyeNCode 🇨🇦

#retro #linux #powerpc
Did some reason my ADHD brain remembered running Linux on my Apple Performa 6400/200 tower.
Found this lunduke.locals.com/post/408868
It's a good quick rundown of running a micro-kernel based OS. It was a wild time.

6400: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_
The main board was on a giant socket and slid in/out with little effort.
It floored my PC friends at the time how easy it was to access the internals.
That was the last/best Mac I owned. MacOS 9 was a weird thing, nevermind 10

lunduke.locals.comMkLinux: The delightfully weird PowerPC Mac Linux Distro of the 1990sConnect with Lunduke and other members of Lunduke community
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Scott Small 🇨🇦

Does anyone know how to swap the Command and Option keys on Mac OS 8.6?

I tried following the instructions from here: macintoshgarden.org/forum/how- (which worked for me on System 7.1), but they had no effect on Mac OS 8.6.

I even tried modifying the other KMAP resources (and substituting their IDs in ROv#) but that had no effect either.

#MARCHintosh#RetroComputing#VintageMac
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Scott Small 🇨🇦

The new Power Mac 6500, "Miracle" has been moved onto the Tower of Power 😁

The internal hard drive is truly dead - Apple System Profiler is the only thing that is able to see it. So I connected the 4 GB LaCie SCSI drive up and formatted that to use for now, until I can pop in a new internal drive or a CF to IDE adapter.

There's still a weird problem with the video. Sometimes when I boot the machine, there's no video at all, and I have to power it off and back on again a few times before the video returns. But when it does have a picture, it's stable, and not flickering like it did on the TV or the monitor that it came with.

Finding an install disc to boot this from is troublesome. Most of my classic Mac OS install discs I burned 25 years ago, and turns out they don't work properly any more and just make the CD drive spin up and down a lot (like the 8.6 disc in the attached pic).

Eventually I found the original Mac OS 8.1 install disc from my Dad's old G3, which works, so I'm going to install that for now and see if I can upgrade the OS either to 8.6 or 9.1 later, once I have the machine on the network and can install from there.

The TOWER OF POWER Lower Level: Mac SE, Max IIfx Mid Level: Power Mac 6500, KVM switch, Monitor, keyboard, mouse Upper Level: Apple IIgs, miscelaneous parts
#MARCHintosh#RetroComputing#VintageMac
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Scott Small 🇨🇦

So this morning, I was laying in bed and doomscrolling, when I got a Facebook Marketplace notification that someone in the next town over was selling a Power Mac 6500/275, with a bunch of peripherals, for an _unbelievably_ low price.

90 minutes later I was loading it into my car. 😅 It's a #MARCHintosh miracle!

Anyway, presenting the newest member of my Tower of Power:
- Power Mac 6500/275
- 128 MB RAM
- 60GB internal IDE hard drive (might be dead)
- 4GB external SCSI hard drive, working (the smaller one in the pic)
- ?GB external SCSI hard drive, condition unknown (the gigantic one in the pic)
- internal ZIP drive
- includes a 10Mbit ethernet PCI card
- includes a USB PCI card (probably USB 1.x)
- includes a modem (lol)
- includes an Acer AL1716 monitor

It does have some quirks:
1. I'm not sure what the condition of the internal IDE hard drive is. Apple System Profiler recognizes that there is one installed, but doesn't recognize any volumes, and I can't hear it spin up. Not sure if it's dead or just needs to be formatted. Also the serial number is showing up in ASP as garbage characters?

2. I can't connect the second external SCSI drive because I need to connect the first one to boot right now. Later on I'll see if I can find a bootable CD to get around that.

3. It came with two VGA cables and two VGA-DB15 adapters. One of them didn't work with the monitor at all. The other one worked but the screen would flicker on and off every couple of seconds. So I hooked it up to my TV instead (which has a VGA port). The adapter that "worked" with the monitor didn't work with the TV, but the one that didn't work with the monitor worked fine with the TV. The screen flickered a couple times on the TV, but otherwise worked.

4. One of the plastic tabs on the back used to slide out the logic board was broken off. I was able to get the board out to inspect it using a flat head screwdriver but it was annoying.

5. The case needs a real good cleaning.

6. ASP says that there's no modem installed... but there's definitely a modem installed in the machine. I'm guessing it's just missing a driver or something? The OS install doesn't look complete.

7. Battery is dead and needs replacing. It's a Rayovac 840 so not as simple as swapping one of my MeowToast CR2032 adapters in. Hmm.

Anyway, I guess I have a second project for Marchintosh now. 😂

A Power Mac 6500/275 in a slightly dirty and yellowed case sitting on the floor of my condo next to the fireplace. It's attached to an ADB mouse and Apple Extended Keyboard II, and two external SCSI drives, one of which is quite small, the other is gigantic.
Screenshot of Apple System Profiler running on the 6500, showing system 9.1 running, 128 MB of RAM, and a PowerPC 603ev processor at 275 Mhz.
Screenshot of Apple System Profiler running showing a 60GB IDE drive installed with no volumes, and internal SCSI CD-ROM and ZIP drives with no volumes. Also there is an external SCSI HD attached with 5 volumes.
#RetroComputing#VintageMac#PowerPC
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