The Retro PC Thread

[samsonlonghair]

Good story Ziggy.

I obtained a copy of El Cap through the usual methods. I hope it's clean and safe. The process of trying to do anything on a fresh install of Snow Leopard today reminded me of running a PowerPC mac a few years ago. I couldn't find a safe, up-to-date, browser for Snow Leopard. Many of my favorite apps no longer support this great old operating system.

[isiolia]

Biggest problem right now: seems like Apple has already de-listed El Capitan from the app store. The only OS listed is Sierra... which of course this machine cannot run. Does anyone have a reliable (not too shady) source for me to dl El Cap? Please and thank you. If not I can resort to the usual torrent trickery, but I'm hoping there's a resource for IT pros who face this exact issue... something like macintoshgarden.org but for Intel Macs.

I believe you can still download it in the App Store if you purchased it before. I'd have thought it would also show it for machines that can't run 10.12.

In any case, I have it in my App Store purchase history and have the installer sitting in my Applications folder on my Mac at work at least. So you could possibly log in with my Apple account to download or I can send you a USB stick with it.

(I've never had a reason to go looking for the installer, though I would probably start with hackintosh sites if you wanted to find a source).

[samsonlonghair]

Biggest problem right now: seems like Apple has already de-listed El Capitan from the app store. The only OS listed is Sierra... which of course this machine cannot run. Does anyone have a reliable (not too shady) source for me to dl El Cap? Please and thank you. If not I can resort to the usual torrent trickery, but I'm hoping there's a resource for IT pros who face this exact issue... something like macintoshgarden.org but for Intel Macs.

I believe you can still download it in the App Store if you purchased it before. I'd have thought it would also show it for machines that can't run 10.12.

I have never ran El Capitan before. Apple really should allow me to download El cap on a machine that won't run Sierra, but they don't. That's just Apple being Apple again. I have a love/hate relationship with this company.

In any case, I have it in my App Store purchase history and have the installer sitting in my Applications folder on my Mac at work at least. So you could possibly log in with my Apple account to download or I can send you a USB stick with it.

(I've never had a reason to go looking for the installer, though I would probably start with hackintosh sites if you wanted to find a source).

Thanks Isiola, that's real darn generous of you. I managed to dl a copy through the usual means. I just logged into El Capitan this moment. I appreciate the offer though. I may need to ask you for similar help in the future, but for now It's all good.

[samsonlonghair]

Update. I finished Installing El Capitan on the MacPro4,1 and installing all the updates. I installed El Cap onto a different hard drive than the Snow Leopard Installation. I retained the ability to boot either OS through EFI. I expect that El Cap will be my day-to-day operating system and I can boot Snow Leopard to watch a flick in front row or run an OS9 app in Rosetta.

Then I turned my attention to the MacPro1,1. Unlike his brother, this MacPro has an ample 5GB of RAM. I dropped a spare 250GB SATA drive in. These MacPros make it dead simple to install hard drives. Even though it was all one partition, I still had to "repartition" the drive to a single partition on GUID instead of MBR so that I could install a Mac Operating System. I installed Snow Leopard, iLife11, Office 2011, and Adobe CS5 with Topaz plugins. I've never used these Topaz Plugins before, and I figured I could take 'em for a test drive sometime soon.

I'm not sure if I want to fool around with installing Bootcamp on these machines, but it does seem like the logical next step to me.

[noiseredux]

I forgot to mention that over the weekend I found one of these ugly bastards



still boxed, for $2 at a thrift shop.

[samsonlonghair]

I forgot to mention that over the weekend I found one of these ugly bastards



still boxed, for $2 at a thrift shop.

I love those ugly bastards! I have one constantly plugged into my lenovo PC right next to a mechanical keyboard. They're super versatile for emulation because of the six face buttons and two shoulder buttons.

Microsoft sidewinder for the win!

[noiseredux]

I def have a soft spot for it historically. I think it's really the squishy dpad that bugs me. But the 6 face buttons is really nice. Either way, I couldn't pass it up as it "matched" the Sidewinder flight stick I already had haha.

[samsonlonghair]

Yeah, the D-Pad isn't great, but it's not terrible either. It's certainly better than most contemporary third-party D-Pads by Intec, Pelican, Logic3, or Mad Catz.

[retrosportsgamer]

I forgot to mention that over the weekend I found one of these ugly bastards



still boxed, for $2 at a thrift shop.

I went from Gravis Gamepad to the Sidewinder as my PC controller evolution. Lot of NBA Live '96 with that thing.

[noiseredux]

Gravis FTW. I know there were some redesigns over the years, and eventually the Gravis resembled a Dual Shock, but I always rocked the SNES-style



I keep hoping to stumble upon another one in good shape locally.