I think OS4 CAN be run on MAC MINI (USABLE)

[gaula92]

If you look for Amiga Moana on Piratebay, you'll see both the Moana files and the combine OS 4 for Mac Mini. They are SO close each other!
We're ALMOST here! (My mac mini, as MOST of them, is a 4.8.9f1, pre-silent update, so we need the safe atiradeon.chip file).

Keep up the good work! How can I help, guys?

[A1260]

its never ever going to happen, period!!!  :roll:

[ck007]

Does anyone know why I get the message "USB stack not started." when booting from the CD??? :-?

[_ThEcRoW]

@a1260
Sorry to disappoint you, but it already happened, some users already have os4 on their minis, so it's a matter of time that it reach the rest of usd who want it.

[persia]

Leopard sucks on a G4, besides you can buy a complete 1.43 MHz G4 MacMini for less than a 25 MHz 68040 Amiga.  It's small change, a couple hundred dollars.  Yes, I lust after OS4 on a Mac Mini...

[kickstart]

Hi everyone...

I see that some users talk about atiradeon.chip safe or not safe version, well... browsing in the 45mb iso file on /kickstart directoy are atiradeon.chip and atiradeon.chip_safe.

What i need for a g4 mini 32mb radeon? rename one of this atiradeon file? copy another version to the iso? if we need another version, what version?

Thanks.

[amigadave]

A1260 wrote:
its never ever going to happen, period!!!  :roll:

There are so many members here that speak in absolutes!  :lol:

I love it when they get to eat their words.  Time has a way of making fools of many prophets that predict the future. :-D

[ck007]

It looks like another ISO was released today on thepiratebay and mininova which has a loader profile for the ATI safe driver.  It also contains the July 2007 updates.

For those who own a 1.42GHz G4 Mac Mini, this could be your lucky day...  :-D

[motorollin]

Excellent! Downloading now! :-D Can't wait to get home and see whether this works.

BTW ck007, I love your avatar. Is (s)he a Staffie?

--
moto

[gaula92]

Downloading here, too! Today IS the day...my dusty Mac Mini G4 is AT LAST going to run THE DESKTOP OS. I knew this day would eventually come! (That's why I got PowerPC Minis instead of Intel ones: what a farsighted man I am!)

[_ThEcRoW]

I get black screen when booting with the safe driver. How did you it ck007?
I have a 1.42 ghz mac mini 32mb vram

[_ThEcRoW]

My firmware is 4.8.9f4.

[gaula92]

I get a garbled/corrupted screen with strange colors on boot, just after OF, when using the ATI_SAFE profile. Any ideas? My firmware is VERY close to yours, TheCrow, being 4.8.9f1.
it's SO NEAR now!! I can heard the beast coming....hehehe!

[kickstart]

I get the same screen with corrupted colors predominating purple using ati_safe, my mini is a 32mb gfx memory, i can use keyboard and mouse in this corrupted screen and click icons, move windows... but seems great advance, i hope this error will be fix soon.

[ck007]

@_ThEcRoW

I have a 1.5GHz Mac Mini.  Here's my specs:

Model Name: Mac mini
Model Identifier: PowerMac10,2
Processor Name: PowerPC G4 (1.2)
Processor Speed: 1.5 GHz
Number Of CPUs: 1
L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
Memory: 1 GB
Bus Speed: 167 MHz
Boot ROM Version: 4.9.4f0

It seems we get 3 different results:

 1) It works
 2) Black screen
 3) Garbled screen

On my Mac Mini, the non-safe driver works perfect.  When I try using the safe driver, the screen looks fine but the pointer is a transparent cyan colour.

Maybe if everyone posts their Mac Mini details (found under About this Mac), we could try troubleshoot the problems.


Cheers,
ck16

_ThEcRoW wrote:
I get black screen when booting with the safe driver. How did you it ck007?
I have a 1.42 ghz mac mini 32mb vram

[kickstart]

Ok specs follow...

Tietokoneen nimi: Mac mini
Tietokoneen malli: PowerMac10,1
Prosessorin tyyppi: PowerPC G4 (1.2)
Prosessorien lukumäärä: 1
Prosessorin nopeus: 1.42 GHz
L2-välimuisti (prosessoria kohden): 512 Kt
Muisti: 512 Mt
Väylänopeus: 167 MHz
Boot ROMin versio: 4.8.9f1

And my result with the latest iso are corrupted color screen but mouse and kb works.

1.2hgz and 1.4ghz mac minis have the same specs and 1.5 aka "silent update" have 64mb gfx card and updated boot rom... i dont think that rom firmware cause errors like corrupted screens, this come by atiradeon.chip, but this is only my humble opinion.