N64 zip drive

I'd go with a white and blue PowerMac G3 as the others said. Using one of the G3 iMacs must be a pain in the ass in comparison, plus having to look at a 15 year old CRT monitor.

 

They do have their uses.

 

Why buy an old Mac with Firewire ports when you can get a Firewire to USB connector for PC for a much better price? Also, if the carts are only compatible with Macintosh hardware, would it be possible to access their data on a Mac emulator like Basilisk II or SheepShaver?

EDIT: Apparently USB connectors aren't as reliable as actual cards, but even so, you can still get cards that are PC compatible for a good price.

 

I would recommend a iMac G3. The CRT isn't that bad, and it is a conversation piece.

 

no,that was all the OG Imacs and 128 or 512K Macs

 

No luck finding an imac colored G3.

 

has thou looked on ebay?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Apple-Power...EE-shipping-/271961548128?hash=item3f522be560

 

I beg to differ...

https://www.google.com/search?site=....869.zkQRciOM4l4#tbm=isch&q=imac+g3+fish+tank

 

Wouldnt it make more sense to use a windows machine with a pci FireWire card?

Old PC hardware is easy to come across and even a modern motherboard would work with win95. Only issue is drivers for the FireWire card, hence looking for a old PCI one.

Or a modern machine with FireWire and then use VMware to pass through the FireWire device to older os?

(Full disclosure, not able to google check but seems reasonable enough off top of my head)

 

Firewire has an OHCI standard - so any OHCI driver should work on an OHCI-compliant card. There are some known exceptions to this (i.e. the CXD1947AQ from old SONY Vaio notebooks), which even Linux doesn't support anyway because they are not OHCI-compliant.

 

I don't get it. Are you assembler or do you just have a similar name?

 

yes that is the god we all praise bananas to on this forum

 

Lol. Then who's the other guy with just "assembler" in his name?

 

That other guy was banned from what I remember. It was someone copying Assembler.

 

Haha. But seriously why does he have two accounts? Still don't get it.

 

This is very surprising to me, having previously worked for Iomega. I never heard of such a thing. Of course if it was never actually produced, then that may explain it.

 

Small bump. Curious where this has gone.

 

Here goes the exhumation of a thread from the recent past. Was there anything interesting found regarding the zip drive?

 

Assembler is under the weather and busy right now, so maybe we should ask him when he returns in full force.