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Re: Amiga OS4 on old (PPC) Macs
« Reply #344 from previous page: May 24, 2008, 05:31:09 PM »
Cheapskate :-P

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Re: Amiga OS4 on old (PPC) Macs
« Reply #345 on: May 24, 2008, 05:33:44 PM »
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Cheapskate :-P

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No... I just been down that path before... Does anyone know if I would be able to network boot it?
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Re: Amiga OS4 on old (PPC) Macs
« Reply #346 on: May 24, 2008, 05:41:42 PM »
I've plug the old machine in powered it up... beeped a few times... and connected it to my MBP via ethernet... I can ping it fine... but I can't SSH or telnet... not AFP either... I have no idea what I else I can do...
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Re: Amiga OS4 on old (PPC) Macs
« Reply #347 on: May 24, 2008, 05:43:11 PM »
Can those old machines do target disk mode or anything similar?

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Re: Amiga OS4 on old (PPC) Macs
« Reply #348 on: May 24, 2008, 05:45:54 PM »
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Can those old machines do target disk mode or anything similar?

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Maybe... but I don't have a keyboard to hold any keys down :-)
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Re: Amiga OS4 on old (PPC) Macs
« Reply #349 on: May 24, 2008, 05:48:08 PM »
Oh yeah... off to eBay then...

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Re: Amiga OS4 on old (PPC) Macs
« Reply #350 on: May 24, 2008, 05:49:05 PM »
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Oh yeah... off to eBay then...

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Hmmm... running a portscan now... looks like all the ports are closed :-(
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Re: Amiga OS4 on old (PPC) Macs
« Reply #351 on: May 24, 2008, 05:53:04 PM »
Bummer... can you take the disk out and put it in a caddy? Might enable you to edit some BSD config file to enable telnet or AFP.

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Re: Amiga OS4 on old (PPC) Macs
« Reply #352 on: May 24, 2008, 05:55:56 PM »
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Bummer... can you take the disk out and put it in a caddy? Might enable you to edit some BSD config file to enable telnet or AFP.

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The Hard disk is SCSI... I have nothing here that can interface with it other than my Roland W-30... and that would just erase the disk and use the first 50meg for storing sound samples :-)

Remember that this machine is running Mac OS8... it's got no BSD heritage...

-Edit- I have noticed that the CD drive is IDE... and there is a spare IDE port on the MOBO... I wonder what I can do with that?
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Re: Amiga OS4 on old (PPC) Macs
« Reply #353 on: May 24, 2008, 06:20:45 PM »
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The Hard disk is SCSI...

I wonder if an Amiga could access it through ShapeShifter?

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Remember that this machine is running Mac OS8... it's got no BSD heritage...

I didn't know there was a PPC version of OS8. No idea how to do anything in that case!

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-Edit- I have noticed that the CD drive is IDE... and there is a spare IDE port on the MOBO... I wonder what I can do with that?

Connect IDE devices to it? ;-)

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Re: Amiga OS4 on old (PPC) Macs
« Reply #354 on: May 24, 2008, 06:24:59 PM »
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The Hard disk is SCSI...

I wonder if an Amiga could access it through ShapeShifter?


Yeah... if I had a SCSI interface on any of my Amigas...

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Remember that this machine is running Mac OS8... it's got no BSD heritage...

I didn't know there was a PPC version of OS8. No idea how to do anything in that case!


Apple went PPC with OS7.3.x...

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-Edit- I have noticed that the CD drive is IDE... and there is a spare IDE port on the MOBO... I wonder what I can do with that?

Connect IDE devices to it? ;-)


Hmmm... but to what end?
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Re: Amiga OS4 on old (PPC) Macs
« Reply #355 on: May 24, 2008, 06:33:13 PM »
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I wonder if an Amiga could access it through ShapeShifter?

Yeah... if I had a SCSI interface on any of my Amigas...

I have... ;-)

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Connect IDE devices to it? ;-)

Hmmm... but to what end?

I know it would be pretty pointless in this case - I was just being facetious :-D

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Re: Amiga OS4 on old (PPC) Macs
« Reply #356 on: May 24, 2008, 06:50:50 PM »
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I wonder if an Amiga could access it through ShapeShifter?

Yeah... if I had a SCSI interface on any of my Amigas...

I have... ;-)



Well I'm not posting this one to you... it weighs the same as an old russian tank...

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Connect IDE devices to it? ;-)

Hmmm... but to what end?

I know it would be pretty pointless in this case - I was just being facetious :-D
 


But there are two ports I can interface with on this machine... the IDE and the Ethernet... somehow I must be able to get this machine to do something?!!?
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Re: Amiga OS4 on old (PPC) Macs
« Reply #357 on: May 24, 2008, 07:11:48 PM »
You should be able to get an Open Firmware interface on the serial port, but you might need to hold down a keyboard combination to get to it.
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Re: Amiga OS4 on old (PPC) Macs
« Reply #358 on: May 24, 2008, 07:14:15 PM »
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You should be able to get an Open Firmware interface on the serial port, but you might need to hold down a keyboard combination to get to it.


It has no serial port... well it's got a "phone" port which is probably a serial port but it's a DIN socket...
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Re: Amiga OS4 on old (PPC) Macs
« Reply #359 on: May 24, 2008, 07:22:57 PM »
A 7600 is not going to have any networking servers running by default. The only FTP/HTTP servers were 3rd party, too.

It has got two serial ports (on mini-DIN socets), marked modem and printer. Both can be connected to PC serial ports (both 9 and 25 pin) with a simple mechanical adaptor.

But even if you got into OpenFirmware via serial, the only thing you would be able to do was boot it into MacOS 8.6 or whatever's on it and there's no way to interact with that over serial line.

Basically, no keyboard and monitor == useless Mac. It will boot up without a keyboard attached, though (no need to Press F1 to Resume), but you can do fuck all with it unless it's been configured first.

I might pay you for the RAM and G3 card, though..
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