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First post, by ynari

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I've got the high end covered (see below), but wondering about the low end. I've bought a Powermac 4400 (IDE disks, etc) so it can run system 7/Mac OS 8 and support 16 colours for particularly old games.

First, I can't find the link where it specifies which version of Mac OS drops support for 2/16 colour - is it 8.6, an earlier 8 or something else? The 4400 takes 7.5.3 through 9.1 (except for 7.5.5). What's the best version here - I'd like it to support all the games it can, plus basic networking (FTP transfers are fine).

Is there anything early the above won't handle, i.e. being too fast, or are there any notable 24 bit dirty games (which would need a 68xxx based system)?

At the high end I've had a Digital Audio 733 PowerMac for ages - it's a bit noisy, but can handle a reasonable amount of memory, takes a Ti4600, and can run lots of OS9 and OSX games.

Recently I bought a 1.5GHz Mac Mini G4 and a 2.3GHz dual core G5 (with a Geforce 6600LE) for running Unix on a different endian platform. I'll probably dual boot the G5 to OS X to handle later high end OS X PPC games. The Mac Mini I'll probably leave at running Unix, can't see if I see the point of an in-between system for gaming.

Reply 1 of 5, by dr.zeissler

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G4 Mini is also gest for ppc Amiga Gaming

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Reply 2 of 5, by Jorpho

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I was not previously aware that some version of Mac OS dropped support for 2/16 color. Have you gotten an error message upon trying to run something in particular?

I have a vague understanding that there's no good way to slow down an old Mac OS machine – but then, there might not be much that's really worth playing that would require such measures.

ynari wrote:

The 4400 takes 7.5.3 through 9.1 (except for 7.5.5).

Isn't 7.5.5 a minor, free update to 7.5.3?

There's an old table somewhere that specifies exactly which OS verisons are supported by particular old Macintosh models, but I keep forgetting where it is.

I'll probably dual boot the G5 to OS X to handle later high end OS X PPC games.

I'm curious as to which games you might be thinking of that don't have entirely equivalent PC ports.

Reply 3 of 5, by ynari

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I've not got as far as actually running any games yet! Still trying to get it built and on the network.. However, I read in a forum post that support for limited colour depths was dropped in a certain version of Mac OS preventing some games from running.

There probably isn't much at the high end (if anything) that's worth bothering about that isn't already on PC, yes.

PPC Amiga Gaming on a G4 Mini? Tell me more!

Reply 4 of 5, by dr.zeissler

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There are some ppc Ports of Games and Demos that run quite well on a g4

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