MikeyD Posted August 11, 2006 Share Posted August 11, 2006 A possible tragedy in the MikeyD household. My poor old (6 year old) G3 mac decided to NOT start up day before last! And after a day of emergency triage the thing STILL won't start. The plan is for me to drag the mac to someone who knows what he's doing over the weekend, see if there's still hope. We all knows what this means. No pre-OSX mac means no CM, which means no more mods. Which also means I'm going to have to pass my time housecleaning or exercising or something. A fate worse than death! Keep your fingers crossed, we've ALL got a stake in the outcome 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David I Posted August 11, 2006 Share Posted August 11, 2006 Nooooooooo! Tell me it ain't so, Joe. That mac has got to pull through! I haven't gotten MikeyD's Brummbars yet. Hoping and praying. DavidI 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Enigma Posted August 11, 2006 Share Posted August 11, 2006 *weeps* ... have you tried swearing and kicking at it? It usally works 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junk2drive Posted August 11, 2006 Share Posted August 11, 2006 A search of the Drop Team forum shows 8 posts for MikeyD. You seem to have been leaning toward the WWII mod for Drop Team on a new Mac. Thanks for the update. We all appreciate your hard work up to now. Can't you just buy a used PC for CM? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finnius Mack Posted August 11, 2006 Share Posted August 11, 2006 I'm not a Mac expert, but I have worked with a few. Isn't there an OS9 emulator built into OSX that you could use? If that doesn't work for you, don't forget about Apple's Bootcamp, which allows you to run Windows on Mac hardware. http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Navy Posted August 11, 2006 Share Posted August 11, 2006 :eek: cannot be ! David, could you organize a MickeyDathon 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wicky Posted August 11, 2006 Share Posted August 11, 2006 First look at pram battery then power supply then why not consider e-bay OS9 bootable G4 tower - Cheap as Chips! - After getting a G5 I'm looking at a basic G4 for £100 just for CM. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOS was 71331 Posted August 11, 2006 Share Posted August 11, 2006 I, too, have a G3 Mac, and I'm afraid some of the other responders don't realize that the old technology of a G3 won't support the latest versions of the Mac's OS X. The best you can hope for is running version 10.1. For anything later, you're out of luck. If your Mac's down, you can't run anything, neither the v9 emulator or the new "Bootcamp" which only runs on the new Intel processors. You must be running something, though, because you're still on the internet and posting away. Good luck. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sequoia Posted August 11, 2006 Share Posted August 11, 2006 Gets reference to death scene of Edward G. Robison in "Little Ceasar" and begins to cry. Then remembers Edward G. Robison had a long and distinguished film carreer afterward until he was eaten in "Soylent Green". Begins to hope for a similar comeback for Mikey D except for the being eaten part. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveP Posted August 11, 2006 Share Posted August 11, 2006 MOS: I doubt if this is relevant to Mikey's problem, but you can run newer versions of OS 10 on his G3. I'm running Tiger on an old Beige G3 (with upgraded CPU). You just need some shareware called XPostFacto to install the new system software. It's just a way of getting around Apple's little trick to avoid having to support newer software on older machines. I suppose it's possible that Mikey's G3 has blown it's power supply or something nasty like that. Probably not worth trying to repair if it's a hardware problem. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted August 11, 2006 Author Share Posted August 11, 2006 "You must be running something, though, because you're still on the internet" Yeh, I'm running my work mac The game plan is to get the dead machine into the hands of clever people and pay them only moderately large sums of money to resurrect it (not til Monday though). If the thing's still dead I might ask them if they've got a used OS9 G4 hanging around for sale. After that its the big mac/PC upgrade decision I've been postponing for the past 8 months. Both choices means all new apps - Ouch! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColumbusOHGamer Posted August 11, 2006 Share Posted August 11, 2006 Dude, eBay is your friend for old crappy Macs. Also, try local colleges. Ohio State has a sale every Tuesday of old IT equipment. Just a thought... And if you do join the darkside of PCs, I'm sure we can help you get the applications you need. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vergeltungswaffe Posted August 11, 2006 Share Posted August 11, 2006 Worst thing I've ever read on these forums. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted August 11, 2006 Share Posted August 11, 2006 MikeyD, As someone who has experienced cyberproblems even the OEM could never have imagined, I feel for you and your travails. Here's hoping that the problem is easy to fix and cheap! SteveP, Never heard of XPostFacto, but that's good to know. Regards, John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KG_Jag Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 Joe...er MikeyD, say it ain't so!! @COG--sale of used computer equipment at Ohio State sounds like a potenial future career move for Maurice "AK-47" Clarett, on condition he can stay out the can long enough! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mies Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 Someone get Schrullenhaft in here. Fix or do somefink! Mies 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aco4bn187inf Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 Surely you could get an old used iMac or such for a couple hundred bucks, maybe cheaper than a repair bill. Anyway, best of luck in your time of sorrow! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uberpickle Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 NO MIKEY!!!!! SOX LOSE, SOX LOSE! Damn it Ozzie! Well, I think you can get some good, cheap macs from the e-bay or hell, craig's list for that matter. I need your skins man. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted August 14, 2006 Author Share Posted August 14, 2006 YEE HAW! GOOD NEWS!!! Do not underestimate people who are smarter than you. I dragged my dead computer to the computer fix-it place, They waved a magic wand while chanting "Presto-Chango", and just like Jesus it returned to life. Woo Hoo! About survivng a week with no computer - Oh my God! What do 'normal' people do with themselves Sunday mornings? With no mods to putter over I was forced to resort to housecleaning to break the boredom ...and exercising ...and watching reality TV! Aaaaah!!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earl Grey Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 We are glad to here you're back again. All of us, I'm sure. But, hey, if you're bored again, why don't you go and get yourself a real model? That's what we do when we're fed up with PC gaming... *g* 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColumbusOHGamer Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 So now that it's back up, you are thinking of a BACK UP system/plan, right? Even simple DVD burners are like <$50 these days. Just a thought from someone who has gone thru this a couple times... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted August 14, 2006 Author Share Posted August 14, 2006 Actually, I had already been burned once before and had to retrieve a bunch of my own stuff from your cmmods.com. So all my art (and the games) are safely stashed on a peripheral HD. Only problem is a dead computer means I couldn't touch the peripheral either! :mad: All I want is for my current system to soldier on until proper system requirements are posted for CMx2. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 MikeyD, Great news! Did your, er, cyberwizard deign to share the specifics of your problem with you, or did he/she simply rely on arcane nonexplanations? Regards, John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted August 14, 2006 Author Share Posted August 14, 2006 He opened the case, pushed a button, closed the case, then kicked me out the door without charging me. Oh, and he said next time the computer dies I should try pushing that button myself. When I said I had to go to people cleverer than me to get my computer fixed I was implying that I wasn't very clever at all. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wicky Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 Ahh the ol' Cuda reset button trick Cheaper and easier than re-crystallizing the dilithium crystals 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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