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[Early Access] I Turned a Toshiba Libretto into a Teeny Tiny Hackintosh with Apple Rhapsody OS!

The Toshiba Libretto - a computer I've dreamt of owning since I was a  kid, and I finally have one to experiment with!   

This Libretto 50CT is decked with with a Pentium 166 MMX, 32 megs of  RAM, and Windows 98 on an incredibly loud and clicky hard drive. Let's  give this tiny miracle of a machine a new lease on l...

[Early Access] Can a Cheap Mac Mini Out-Pi a Raspberry Pi 4?

Hello Patreon friends!  

Now that the Mac Yak PowerPC Challenge is over, it's time to take our  community Minecraft server off of the loud and power-hungry PowerMac G5  tower and on to a machine that's a little more reasonable.  

Is a 12 year old 2ghz Mac Mini up for the challenge? Or, is a new  Raspberry Pi ...

[Early Access] Building a WORKING Mini Power Mac G3!

It seems like everyone has a cool miniature version of their favorite classic tech - except us Mac fans! Today, with the help of long-time friend of the channel Taylor, we're out to right this wrong.  
What does it take to turn this awesome 3D printed mini Blue and White G3 case into a working Power Mac? Stay tuned and find out!   2021-01-28 21:02:36 +0000 UTC View Post

[Early Access] Insane Apple G4 Cube Processor Upgrade - BEHOLD the MEGA CUBE!

Hello Patreon friends!

Oh my goodness. Today we're swapping out the Sonnet processor upgrade in  the G4 Cube for an upgrade that's even more ridiculous. Just how much  G4 power can we squeeze out of this Cube? What will it take to make this  the ultimate MEGA CUBE?  

Most importantly, can we get playable framerate...

[Early Access] Pumping Up the Volume on the Cursed Macintosh SE/30!

Heya Patreon friends! Today we're back with our favorite frenemy, the Cursed Macintosh SE/30!   

The person who originally modified this mutant Macintosh used it for  music production, and haphazardly glued a bunch of random speakers all  over the case. Let's fix that by installing nice new fancy speakers in  it, a...

[Early Access] Touring our Retro PowerPC Minecraft Server!

Hello Patreon friends!

Today we're taking a trip into our retro Minecraft server, running on an  upgraded Power Macintosh G5 tower, to see all of the cool stuff that  you've all built!  

The server is running Minecraft 1.2.5 on a dual-processor G5 with 8gb of  RAM, using Adelie Linux to get a full 64 bit version o...

[Early Access] Turning a PowerMac G5 into a Retro Minecraft Server!

Happy New Year!

Today we're turning our 2005 Power Macintosh Dual G5 tower into a retro  PowerPC Minecraft server! To help PowerPC Minecraft players get the most  out of their limited machines, a server can take the load off of world  generation, allowing PowerPC Macs to get the highest possible in-game  framerate. It s...

[Early Access] Getting Ready for PowerPC CHALLENGE WEEK!

Hello Patreon friends!  

Today we're getting ready for the PowerPC Challenge, where I'm going to use only PowerPC computers for as much of my daily computering as possible for an entire week! I'm choosing the massively-upgraded G4 Cube, along with a PowerBook G3 Wallstreet. Let's make a checklist of everything I'm going to need to do ...

Early Access] Securing the G4 Cube's Hacked Graphics Card!

Hello Patreon friends! With the help of an awesome viewer of the channel, today we're finally de-janking the Cube's fancy upgraded 6200 graphics card!

[Early Access] Why Apple Laptops Got Trackpads First

Hello Patreon friends, I'm really excited to tell this quick story about the how Apple came to be the first computer manufacturer to include trackpads on their laptops!

[Early Access] Pushing a PowerBook Pismo to the Limit... Can It Run SNOW LEOPARD?!

Hello Patreon friends! 

Sorry for the late early access - I got a new editing machine! I'm really excited about this week's project:

Today we're doing an upgrade I've always been curious about - a  processor swap in a Powerbook Pismo to take it from G3 to G4! As you  probably know from my last video on the Pismo, I was...

[Early Access] Playing Minecraft on a 21 Year Old Apple G4 Cube

Hello Patreon friends! 

In light of the holiday here in America-land this week, I'm posting the early access video extra early-like! This is probably my favorite thing I've done with the Cube so far - if Minecraft works on this computer that should never ever have been able to run it, then all of those upgrades were totally worth it!<...

[Early Access] Weird 90's Mouse With a Built-in Telephone - the Curtis Tele-Mouse

So I found a late-90's PS/2 mouse with a land-line telephone built in to  it, new in the box. Let's open this up and try calling people with it!  I'm sure it sounds amazing...

[Early Access] Hacking a super-powered PC graphics card into my G4 Cube

Hello Patreon friends! Welcome to the early access video for this week!  

OK, I'm really excited about this mod. The G4 Cube is quite famously  under-powered, originally coming with either a 400mhz or 500mhz G4 and a really lame Rage 128 Pro graphics card. Since we've already maxed ours out with a 1.2 GHz G4 and an SSD, really th...

[Early Access] I finally ❤️ my PowerBook G3 Pismo (SSD upgraded!)

Hello Patreon friends! 

For the longest time, I really thought the PowerBook G3 Pismo was terrible. From the "unique" color of the transparent keyboard to the  gigantic white Apple logo and lack of a rainbow anywhere, this and the  Lombard seemed like just throw-away bridge machines before the Titanium  PowerBook G4 cam...

[Early Access] Improving my hideous iBook G3 Clamshell with TRANSPARENCY

Hello Patreon friends! Here's the early-access of my next video, where I do a mod I've always wanted to do! Plus, there's a sneak-peak at the end of the next upgrades I'm going to do to the Clamshell, incuding a pretty intense one.

And no Jay, I'm not putting LEDs in here no matter HOW much you ask me to!

Cyber Alien G3

Is it just me, or does the clamshell iBook G3 look like a cyberpunk alien with the screen casing removed?

[Early Access] Is the CURSED Macintosh SE/30 finally UN-CURSED?

Hello Patreon friends! Here's the early access version of the new Cursed Mac video!

Just in time for Halloween, it's the return of the Cursed Macintosh SE/30! Now freshly recapped, is it finally un-cursed? Let's open up the spooky package from Steve at Mac84, wrangle this oddball machine back together, and find out!

Upgrade time!

I'm finally getting ready to try and installa pretty epic video card upgrade into the G4 Cube. Assuming I can actually get it to work, what do you all think I should use to benchmark it against the old card?

[Early Access] Is the Radeon 9200 Mac Edition the best possible PCI graphics card for a Beige G3?

Hello Patreon friends! Here's the early access link for the new video! I'm really interested if you have any ideas on where we should take this Beige G3/G4 build next.

Today we're upgrading my favorite machine, a Sonnet G4-upgraded Power  Macintosh G3 Desktop, with probably the best possible video card - an  ATI Radeon 9200 M...

[Early Access] I put RGB in my G4 Cube and I have no regrets.

Hello Patreon friends! I asked you a few weeks ago about putting RGB in my G4 cube. The general consensus was "that's a terrible idea, you should definitely do it" ... and so I have! 

I'm pretty happy with how it turned out too - no visible change to the exterior of the cube, so when RGB is off you have no idea it's there. But when it...

Yay or nay?

I'm not sure if this is an awesome idea, or terrible. What do you think?

[Early Access] Pushing my G4 Cube even FURTHER! The ultimate SSD, and can this thing YouTube?

Hello Patreon friends! Here is the early access of the new video! I'm super excited about where this Cube is going :)

If anyone has any suggestions about what's going wrong with the SD and CF readers, I'd be much obliged!

[Early Access] Rescuing a Crazy MODDED G4 Cube (with scorch marks inside!)

Hey friends! Here's the early access link to a video I've been excited to make for some time - rescuing my modded G4 Cube with a special board from Japan!

Cubey fun!

I'm working on a G4 cube that's a little sick. Also, it has an extreme upgrade in it! Fingers crossed I can bring it back from the brink.

[Early Access] Is My Rare Macintosh Clone DEAD? UMAX SuperMac S900 Upgrade Woes

Hello friends! Here's the early access link for the new video!

Building a FreeNAS system

Up until now I've been using random external hard drives to store my video files, but I have terabytes of data and I'm running out of space. Time to up my professionalism and use my old gaming PC as a FreeNAS system!

[Early Access] Installing a RARE SEALED Sonnet G4 upgrade in a PowerBook G3 Wallstreet!

Hey Patreon friends! Here's the early access link for my new video, where I install a sealed Sonnet G4 upgrade in a PowerBook G3 Wallstreet! And as usual, nothing at all goes wrong and it's smooth sailing the whole way.

Turning on my SGI Indy for the first time!

Just for my Patreon friends - I finally got the matching keyboard and mouse for my SGI Indy, as well as a monitor adapter. Will it work? Let's find out!

Pushing a Wallstreet a bit

I have made my Wallstreet 266mhz ever so slightly faster