Recent content by marco75

Very informative, thank you Delta! Since the Mac in question doesn't belong to me, I probably won't spend money upgrading it. It belongs to a local non-profit university, and hasn't been used by any of the clients yet. I find it fun to play around with, it's so different from the WinPCs I'm...

I just updated the G4 "Lamp" to 10.4 and didn't yet have time to experiment further with installing apps. It seems to be about as responsive as before. It only has 256 MB RAM, as well. I have a lot of old RAM at home, I wonder if any of it would be compatible...? Amazed how easy the update...

Thanks for your advice! I will upgrade it to Tiger. At least it will be compatible with more of the software on the internet, and .dmg's with bzip compression will mount. I will go with a clean install, as there is no valuable data on the machine.

The local U3A has received an iMac G4 (800 MHz, GeForce2MX) sporting the table lamp design. It has MacOS 10.3.9 installed, which is incompatible with a lot of software. 10.4 seems to be a transition point for OSX software -- like .dmg's not mounting under 10.3.9 because the compression format...