That G3 microphone actually still holds its own. Better than 95 percent of computers I've used. I love these little experiments, definitely keep doing more!
When Halo was released for the Mac, I remember it running quite slow on a system meeting the minimum requirements (800MHz G4, 32MB VRAM), I'm surprised it ran at all on the G3.
Oh my god, it's actually Mac84! I was amazed too as it's sluggish on my G4. In the setup it actually displayed a warning saying it didn't meet the minimum requirements, but unlike games nowadays it actually let me install anyway! I'm a huge fan, thanks so much for your comment!
@@techmw1988 hello! 😅 Yes, today’s games won’t let you, probably because people would complain it is running too poorly 😂 Thanks for the kind words, I enjoyed this video! Keep up the great work 👍
Loved the video! Noticed a lot of your software were later releases (iLife 09, iWork 09, Mac OS X Tiger) and this is really pushing the hardware on such an old computer. These iMac G3s and early G4s work best with Mac OS 9. Stick to software that came out around 1998-2003 and you'll do a lot better :)
For future I'd reccomend trying Minecraft for Raspberry Pi on lower end systems as a minecraft test. It's written officially by Notch, and it's just written in Python and is designed for a system not a magnitude of order more powerful than the G3, given it came out for the original Pi not even the B especially. Even similar ram.
Heyo, first, sick video (lmao). But I was wondering if you have the link to the wallpaper you use on your imac shown at about 50 seconds in or so. Thanks!
Nice video, but you were really swimming up stream with the software you tried to run on that machine. Selecting more period-correct software and lowering expecations for modern computnig use-cases would have given you a much better experiance!
Yea I'm not sure either, I've been able to get stuff working perfectly on windows 2000 & xp! It's possible I was just missing something with the apple mail app, but it refused to accept my Google login on every attempt!
@@techmw1988 my guess would be you've gold old versions of openssl on there or they are calling older libraries on the system and it physically can not understand the response from the server, because it can't decrypt it, and possibly the server can't read what it's saying either. A lot of devices this old are effectively useless online unless you can fix it as older versions were depreciated across the net after some high profile vulnerabilities.
As sort of comment I watched recently this video m.th-cam.com/video/zg7RTjwlGNU/w-d-xo.html Machine in it had slightly faster (but still g3) processor, 1gb ram and SSD. Not really rocket speed, but quite good for my eyes ....
Even Linux doesn't support this thing anymore. If some random distro still does (in late 2023), it's either very obscure at this point, or everything to install with that distro has to be compiled manually from source code..... every...... time. Ain't nobody (at least no casual) got the time to do that. Do YOU wanna compile everything from source code (on the PowerPC)? You can have kids, they'd finish college, and have kids of their own, before compiling anything on the iMac G3 would finish. I only bring up Linux because it's really the only way to get modern email working.
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I love how the G3's microphone is better than some TH-camrs' dedicated microphones
That G3 microphone actually still holds its own. Better than 95 percent of computers I've used. I love these little experiments, definitely keep doing more!
When Halo was released for the Mac, I remember it running quite slow on a system meeting the minimum requirements (800MHz G4, 32MB VRAM), I'm surprised it ran at all on the G3.
Oh my god, it's actually Mac84! I was amazed too as it's sluggish on my G4. In the setup it actually displayed a warning saying it didn't meet the minimum requirements, but unlike games nowadays it actually let me install anyway! I'm a huge fan, thanks so much for your comment!
@@techmw1988 hello! 😅
Yes, today’s games won’t let you, probably because people would complain it is running too poorly 😂
Thanks for the kind words, I enjoyed this video! Keep up the great work 👍
@@Mac84 Most definitely yeah! Or it's to keep the graphics card market flowing!
Thank you so much!
Loved the video! Noticed a lot of your software were later releases (iLife 09, iWork 09, Mac OS X Tiger) and this is really pushing the hardware on such an old computer. These iMac G3s and early G4s work best with Mac OS 9. Stick to software that came out around 1998-2003 and you'll do a lot better :)
Definitely! :)
Dude, this kinda stuff is sooo underrated!
Try it again, but with debian and more ram.
For future I'd reccomend trying Minecraft for Raspberry Pi on lower end systems as a minecraft test. It's written officially by Notch, and it's just written in Python and is designed for a system not a magnitude of order more powerful than the G3, given it came out for the original Pi not even the B especially. Even similar ram.
It's not written in python, it's c++
it's absolutely written in python, you can use a python ide to mess with it. @@bene5431
How did you install teenfourfox on mac os 10.3.9?
nice video for a small channel!
When you were installing iwork why did you have a drive called ps4?
I used it before to update my PS4, when I formatted it, it just kept the same name
Heyo, first, sick video (lmao). But I was wondering if you have the link to the wallpaper you use on your imac shown at about 50 seconds in or so. Thanks!
Thank you! Here's the wallpaper: www.reddit.com/r/wallpaper/comments/x6kojv/4k_upscaled_windows_98_clouds_wallpaper_4096x3072/
Love the content!!!:D
yes
Yo your 2011 imac has the exact same specs as mine. Btw the cpu is a intel core i5 2400s
I saw a guy running minecraft from this same imac
Nice video, but you were really swimming up stream with the software you tried to run on that machine. Selecting more period-correct software and lowering expecations for modern computnig use-cases would have given you a much better experiance!
Thanks! Appreciate the feedback 🙂
You could also go back to a slot 1 pentium2, but would you really want to?
Definitely not! 😂
It’s unfortunate that TenFourFox no longer receives updates. Such a good browser
All was missing was 56k internet
I have had great success making mail work with gmail on old computers (Windows 98 Outlook Express). I dont have any idea why you had so many problems
Yea I'm not sure either, I've been able to get stuff working perfectly on windows 2000 & xp! It's possible I was just missing something with the apple mail app, but it refused to accept my Google login on every attempt!
@@techmw1988 my guess would be you've gold old versions of openssl on there or they are calling older libraries on the system and it physically can not understand the response from the server, because it can't decrypt it, and possibly the server can't read what it's saying either. A lot of devices this old are effectively useless online unless you can fix it as older versions were depreciated across the net after some high profile vulnerabilities.
Rip iMac G3
Why do you use outdated software? An actual port of OpenBSD for 32bit PPC ist existing.
I like to keep it all-apple! But I definitely need to try one of these other operating systems soon!
Chrome will be dropping macos 10.13 support soon btw
Greaaaaaaat!
@@techmw1988I guess as the minimum supported is 10.13
I have a 2011 27 inch i5 iMac
The iMac mid 2011 have gpu failing
As sort of comment I watched recently this video
m.th-cam.com/video/zg7RTjwlGNU/w-d-xo.html
Machine in it had slightly faster (but still g3) processor, 1gb ram and SSD. Not really rocket speed, but quite good for my eyes ....
I would recommend to you to replace MacOS with Morphos and suddenly you would be able to do a lot of tasks you wanted to do.
morphos doesnt work with imacs g3
openbsd would be best option
Even Linux doesn't support this thing anymore. If some random distro still does (in late 2023), it's either very obscure at this point, or everything to install with that distro has to be compiled manually from source code..... every...... time. Ain't nobody (at least no casual) got the time to do that. Do YOU wanna compile everything from source code (on the PowerPC)? You can have kids, they'd finish college, and have kids of their own, before compiling anything on the iMac G3 would finish.
I only bring up Linux because it's really the only way to get modern email working.
Just get BSD
I have an iMac g4 I named it after my friend Uni she's my favorite friend all times
So...I'm guessing it's more profitable for TH-camrs to make "old gear is useless" rather than "old gear can still be used" videos?
keep up the good work!!!!! also im Tails#3736 your biggest fan:D