How to manually install Classic Environment using a Mac OS 9.2.2 System Folder I suggest that you grab the first download "Generic Classic Environment for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger" here because it fits most needs, but feel free to try another Mac OS 9.2.2 System Folder if you want.  Download it on your Mac OS X 10.4 (or earlier) computer and expand the .sit archive.  Then drag the resulting System Folder to the Mac's hard...

See this archived turorial: https://web.archive.org/web/20160319003118/http://www.jabbawok.net/?p=47  

If you need instructions on how to make a USB flash drive for this tutorial, one for creating it on Windows can be found here. Creating the USB drive on a Mac running OS X is as simple as restoring an image with Disk Utility. The Leopard disc image used in this tutorial can be found here. Note: This tutorial assumes you have already created a bootable USB drive containing Leopard. 1. Shut down your PowerPC Mac. 2. Plug in your Leopard...

Neofetch is a command-line system information tool written in bash 3.2+. Neofetch displays information about your operating system, software and hardware in an aesthetic and visually pleasing way.   Installing with tigerbrew (See: How To Install Tigerbrew) brew install neofetch   Installing from source Download 7.1.0.tar.gz and open Terminal in the same directory you downloaded that to. Run the...

What is Tigerbrew? Tigerbrew is an experimental fork of Homebrew that adds support for PowerPC Macs running Tiger or Leopard. Installing First you will need to install Xcode on your Mac. Xcode 2.5 for Tiger Xcode 3.1.4 for Leopard   Download this install script to your PowerPC mac. https://raw.github.com/mistydemeo/tigerbrew/go/install Run the script by opening Terminal and typing ruby then draging the install...

This tutorial used this copy of Leopard, a 16GB PNY USB 3.0 Flash drive, and Windows 10 version 1909. An 8GB drive should work fine, but that is the minimum size I would recommend to try. You will also need to download TransMac. The version used in this tutorial is TransMac 12.6. Note: TransMac costs $59, but a 15 day free trial is also offered and will work well enough for this purpose. Please purchase a license if you intend to use the...

This tutorial only applies to old Macs that have a regular 1.4MB floppy disk drive, NOT a 800KB or 400KB floppy drive.  800KB/400KB floppy drives were uniquely manufactured by Apple and cannot be emulated using a generic PC floppy drive at all, because they have special firmware in their boards that can pack more DATA per track than regular PC drives could, at the time.  Moreover, please note that even if you have a Mac floppy drive...

One of the problems retro Mac enthousiasts face nowadays is figuring out how to mount old/random disk images in order to access the game or app in it. First of all, you have to know that there were at least a dozen disk image formats back then (altough only a handful of them were widely used) and fortunately for you, there is a very nice disk image mounting tool for classic Mac called Virtual DVD-ROM/CD Utility that mounts just about all of them...

This tutorial is meant for people who did not use older Macs back in the 90's who are struggling to open (or "load") old Mac files into their emulator (or even a real Mac, doesn't matter) and it's split in paragraphs that depict a specific file type/extension, so please skip to the paragraph that talks about the kind of file you're trying to open to discover how to do it.   .sit Stuffit archives Stuffit...

Before you read any further: If your file does NOT EXACTLY END WITH .001, .002, etc... (e.g. ASD_3S152.001.dmg) then you need to jump to the split Disk Utility disk image section. When you come across split files that end with sequential numbers (e.g. .001, .002, etc...), before you can use the file, you first need to join the split files together into a single, whole file.  A split ZIP file could look like this, for...

[WIP, coming soon] Hi.  Altough this guide has nothing to do with retro Mac technology per se, it could still prove to be useful to you, wheter you use an old Mac or a new one or even Windows.  It has nothing to do with what brand of computer you use, what type of storage media you use or even how old the storage media is.  DATA recovery applies to everyone and failing hard drives, especially new ones, are often caused solely...

The issue Got yourself an old PowerPC Mac with USB ports and would like to download files from MR on a Windows PC then copy those files to an USB stick and onto the old PowerPC Mac but the USB stick doesn't want to read in both the Mac and Windows? It works in Windows but when you insert it in the old Mac, it asks you to initialize/format it? An USB stick? But what about an USB HARD DRIVE? Note that "USB stick" in this...

(Issued by an actually iBook G3) Hello everyone, I have a problem of my iBook that I can't solve is: My iBook not charging :( that mean I can't unplug the power adapter, iBook became to a "iMac". I'm thinking maybe problem come from non original charger and battery? But I'm not sure, so I need help to repair this old iBook, make it out the house again, if you have good suggestion, please tell me.

Back in 1996, Stuffit introduced DropSegment which worked much like DropStuff (compression aoo) and StuffIt Expander (decompression app). Dropping a StuffIt archive (a single file compressed as .sit file) on DropSegment enabled the user to make a multi-segment, self-joining, self-extracting archive, which was useful for copying huge archives to floppy disks. Segmenting files has not gone away despite increases to storage,...

OK, so you got yourself FloppyEmu or a similar disk emulator for your old Mac and it works great, except not with all the files.  Why? Because FloppyEmu and such disk emulators are... disk emulators.  They expect you to feed them a disk image, not just random loose files. So just how can you wrap loose Mac files inside a disk image for use with FloppyEmu? Here's a full tutorial: 1) Grab a copy of this Disk image wrap tutorial...

This article is about what to do when : I got this Mac and the previous owner didn't or add me as new admin user or gave his/her/its/their password. So I can't open the [LOCK] in the configuration panels. I forgot my password for this Mac I just want to have a sparkling new clear desktop and adding a new admin account and want to keep the old user account. (which can be deleted later..) And Bonus: I get to see that...

If you downloaded anything from this website and it doesn't work on your Mac and you want help, then you have to post in the chat all the following details.  Otherwise, nobody will even try to help you. 1) Make sure that you have read and you understand the terms that you agreed to when you registered your MR account. Here they are again: "By registering, you understand that this is a retro-computing archive site for OLDER Macs....

Okay, first off, there aren't a ton of .bin/.cue files, but there are some and when you'll face them, you most likely won't understand how to deal with them because it's an awkward format.  Also, you have to understand that .bin/.cue files MUST work in pairs so whenever you see them, always keep them together in the same folder and do not rename them.  The .cue file is a cue sheet that explains to the disk image...

This article is about checking which was the last version of an application that can run on your machine. Not all applications will be put here, just the most used and favourited.   First note :  With MacOS Catalina (10.15)  the transition from 32-bit apps to 64-bit apps was effective by dropping support for 32-bit apps.   So older 32-bit apps would not work on Catalina or newer. MacOS Catalina can...

We've all run into some trouble with our vintage Macs, emulators or Mac software. Sometimes, it just doesn't work and you need help. Everyone has been there. The purpose of this article is to provide some guidance on where to find help and how to approach appraoch online users through the built-in chat as a potential support candidate. The Macintosh Repository is a non-profit site, devoted to storing digital artifacts...