I Built a WORKING Mini PowerMac G3!

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3 жыл бұрын

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!
🍎 Want to turn your own Raspberry Pi 3B or newer into a Raspberry Mac? Here's my SD card image! archive.org/details/raspberry...
If your Pi has trouble booting it, open the boot/config.txt and turn down the overclocking options.
🔨 Thingiverse link: www.thingiverse.com/thing:389...
💎 Here's the switch that fits perfectly in the power button space: amzn.to/36tOia6
💎 Here's the fan I used in the bottom case: amzn.to/3ajuabO
💎 My adorable little LCD screen: amzn.to/36uRD8S
🖥 Here's a quick list of what I did to make the Pi behave all Mac-like:
⚙️ Turned off bootup text in /boot/ options on the Pi
⚙️ Systemd loads fbi framebuffer image viewer to show the Happy Mac (it's a screenshot!)
⚙️ Systemd loads aplay to play the boot chime
⚙️ Systemd loads my QEMU startup script, which loads the MacHD image and boots it
⚙️ I modified QEMU Screamer source code to remove its startup messaging, and compiled it
My modified QEMU source code is available in the image alongside the compiled QEMU.
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@HughJeffreys 3 жыл бұрын

Turned out great, would be awesome to see a custom 3d printed case for that monitor to make it match the mini computer

@ActionRetro 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Hugh! Yeah I'd love to figure that out, and make a casing like the original blueberry Apple Studio Display

@axurios_ 3 жыл бұрын

@@ActionRetro you should get a 3d printer so you can make more videos like this

@dregenius 3 жыл бұрын

YES! The 15" Apple Studio Display would be *perfect* ! You know the one... the semi-translucent bondi-blue or smoke grey with the stand that telescoped up and down... one of the first LCD monitors I'd seen in a computer lab growing up... everymac.com/monitors/apple/studio_cinema/specs/apple_studio_display.html

@tigerchillyable 3 жыл бұрын

Hugh Jeffrey's your car restoration was really good. Keep it uo

@ThePlayzOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

Hey it's Hugh Jeffreys

@dialupdave6276 3 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU FOR INCLUDING THE IMAGE!!!

@ActionRetro 3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome, let me know if you try it out!

@dialupdave6276 3 жыл бұрын

@@ActionRetro I did on my 3b+ and it ran HORRIBLY it barely loaded and even when it did it crashed when I dragged a window. Also sound diddn't work for some reason.

@ActionRetro 3 жыл бұрын

@@dialupdave6276 try putting the sd card in your PC and commenting out the overclock options in /boot/config.txt - the 3b+ usually can't handle overclocking from what i understand

@SatanicMac 3 жыл бұрын

@@ActionRetro I attempted this as well and disabling it still didn't improve load/run times. Just another nudge to upgrade to pi4?

@ActionRetro 3 жыл бұрын

@@SatanicMac i think so 😂

@KOSMOS1701A 3 жыл бұрын

to the guy who made that case: "Shut up and take my money!" Also the fan has a blue LED in it. I guessed at 7:24.

@mccrh7737 3 жыл бұрын

I second this ;) Would totally buy one :)

@MaverickTheDemonWolf 3 жыл бұрын

Agreed. 😩 I want one so bad. And he's posted the design docs, but I don't have a 3D printer. 😭

@molten_software 3 жыл бұрын

I would love to buy this, my 3d printer isn't big or accurate enough!!

@Rune2650 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks KOSMOS1701A, im happy that you like the design ^^ it took forever to design the curved "handles" and locking mechanism

@mccrh7737 3 жыл бұрын

@@Rune2650 Amazing Work :) If you ever get brave enough, I'm sure it would sell like fire ;) I know I would buy a few :)

@eddiew.4650 3 жыл бұрын

We're one step closer to having mini iBook Clamshells.

@laurensnieuwland4657 3 жыл бұрын

Mini? We need life sized modern spec ones!

@peteasmr2952 3 жыл бұрын

@@laurensnieuwland4657 I agree and in the same colours. Indigo is my favourite.

@Blubbstock 3 жыл бұрын

We need modern replicas of the apple newton running iOS. but sadly, this is impossible.

@laurensnieuwland4657 3 жыл бұрын

@@Blubbstock nope, it's quite possible to 3d print/machine a housing for loose iphone parts. It might not match completely, but it would kinda work.

@johnnino7520 3 жыл бұрын

Yes I always wanted one. Even the ones that had the pen

@tombarber8929 3 жыл бұрын

Action Retro - "Where's our miniature Macs" Mac Mini - "I've been around since 2005!"

@ActionRetro 3 жыл бұрын

11 inch MacBook air: "what about me"

@JeremyLevi 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe it's just me but I think you could probably fit the guts out of a PPC Mac Mini into this case with a bit of work. That would certainly perform better and feel more authentic. Before he said it was for a Pi I was already thinking that's what the case would be designed to hold.

@mstreemyt 3 жыл бұрын

@@ActionRetro lol

@MaverickTheDemonWolf 3 жыл бұрын

@@ActionRetro I have a 2015 11inch MacBook Air. 🤣

@ActionRetro 3 жыл бұрын

Honestly I love those 11 inch MBAs

@BrightSpark 3 жыл бұрын

Okay, now I am curious how much better my Pi 4 will perform with this image!

@ActionRetro 3 жыл бұрын

Oh nice let me know how it does!

@BrightSpark 3 жыл бұрын

@@ActionRetro I just gave it a quick test, unfortunately it seems to hang shortly after the initial fake Happy Mac, and gets stuck in a terminal window. I didn't have the time to do any troubleshooting myself yet, and I didn't memorize the error message, but I will return to it when I have the time, and hopefully provide some more useful info.

@jpmoney384 3 жыл бұрын

@@BrightSpark I had to change the overclock and voltage settings in the config, but it'll run about the same as it does on the Pi 3.

@Rune2650 3 жыл бұрын

Dude, this is awesome :D im glad you like the design, i spend a lot of time getting the curved "handles" and the opening to be like the real PowerMac G3

@ActionRetro 3 жыл бұрын

It's so good man! Thanks for making it!!

@Rune2650 3 жыл бұрын

@@ActionRetro thanks, and you´re welcome ^^

@ActionRetro 3 жыл бұрын

Now if only we could build a case that turns this little LCD into a blueberry Apple Studio Display 🤔

@richard-gorman 2 жыл бұрын

Morning, can you build me one of these?

@tybracadabra6321 Жыл бұрын

think you'd be willing to post the 3d files so we can print this design at home?

@macinjosh2223 3 жыл бұрын

Brings a new meaning to 'Mac Mini' 😂

@BrightSpark 3 жыл бұрын

Introducing the new Mac Micro (Granted: I don't think it's TOO much smaller than a Mini, but still)

@macinjosh2223 3 жыл бұрын

@@BrightSpark *has flashbacks to the Mactini*

@brostenen 3 жыл бұрын

Actually yes. Sure TheC64-Mini and all that have come the last few years and stuff.... But Apple were in a sence, the first ones. Just, they did not do replicas as mini editions. So in a way yes, and in a way no. Depends on how you look at the words.

@NewRepublicMapper Жыл бұрын

Mac Nano

@kaitlyn__L Жыл бұрын

@@macinjosh2223 just one, simple button

@microtecture2442 3 жыл бұрын

We need a G4 Mac reproduction motherboard, cool fact: someone on the 68KMLA forums is already developing a Mac SE motherboard. He’s trying to reverse engineer it and he’s gotten pretty close actually.

@MaxOakland 3 жыл бұрын

Woah, that’s wild! What does it involve?

@djneo92nl 3 жыл бұрын

O would be cool a Raspberry PI CM4 board for example that fits a G4 case

@microtecture2442 3 жыл бұрын

@@MaxOakland He has a few videos but they're unlisted, I'll try to post them in some time MacSEReloaded is what his project name is? Right now he got some wonky checkerboard or something?

@Ragnar8504 3 жыл бұрын

Actually it seems someone (a company called Bomarc Services) reverse-engineered quite a few Macs way back in the 90s and now all the schematics are available online.

@Ragnar8504 3 жыл бұрын

Never mind, I found that thread! He's doing an SE board, and only the board itself in order to save broken SEs, mainly boards that have battery damage. The board has quite a few custom chips that have to be harvested from an existing board, so no new SEs to come anytime soon. The thread is in the "Hacks & Development" section and it's called "Reverse Engineering the Macintosh SE PCB & Custom Chips for 1:1 reproduction".

@koztech 3 жыл бұрын

That case is awesome! The use of rubber bands in place of springs is very creative. Yes, it's rubber which will break down eventually, but still! It just needs a tiny internal ZIP drive (COUGH COUGH SD CARD reader...)

@Rune2650 3 жыл бұрын

i did this on purpese when i designed the case, since i thought, that not everyone might have acces to springs, but rubberbands are everywhere

@Comm0ut 7 ай бұрын

You can buy durable EPDM synthetic rubber bands, and where suitable length/diameter O-rings can replace bands use that even higher end but cheap option and with some color choice.

@marcbrie4879 3 жыл бұрын

This is really good ! I don't know who impresses me the most - the "Craft Dude" who did the case - and he has done many other projects at the Thingverse - or what you've done to make the "RaspIntosh" work. Well done both ! And kudos to Taylor !

@BradR86 3 жыл бұрын

Just a heads up to anyone wanting to print the STL file, there's almost no tolerances to interconnect each components. There's also a lot of components to print. You'll a bit of sanding (or scaling) of parts to do to make it all fit together. My Dremel is getting a good workout from this project!

@DFlashbackPM 3 жыл бұрын

I laughed when i saw that it looks soo cool

@ActionRetro 3 жыл бұрын

Haha thanks!!

@blakelogan40 3 ай бұрын

This is amazing, thank you for the image as well. I'm going to try this out myself!

@Ragnar8504 3 жыл бұрын

I'll have to try that at work! I've been wanting some kind of classic Mac emulation for years, so I can show kids Mouse Intro and all that cool stuff! Thanks for giving us the image file!

@GraemeWoller 3 жыл бұрын

That is brilliant all around!!

@SpaceSaver2000 2 жыл бұрын

It's amazing how much graphics acceleration makes a difference. Love your videos!

@retroguy7649 3 жыл бұрын

Simply amazing, as always!! Loved it!!

@donbedwell2322 3 жыл бұрын

This is fantastic! Thank you for posting this!

@Dan-TechAndMusic 3 жыл бұрын

"All of Mac Yak hates the puck mouse", dang, doing Jay dirty there, given he's the number one Puck Connoisseur! :P

@ActionRetro 3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@comsictrippers 3 жыл бұрын

Totally awesome 🤩. Well done.

@JohnVance 3 жыл бұрын

That print is crazy good holy cow

@gvgkftjd 3 жыл бұрын

I need to see this with a pi 4 what a great project. Great vid as always.

@phgodts 3 жыл бұрын

The only thing missing is a clear case for the display. Maybe can be produced using vacuum forming method

@TheMalMeninga 3 жыл бұрын

What an adorable little thing!

@BillyTheKidCENTURION 3 жыл бұрын

I don't know how I did it, but somehow ended up at your archive for your modified OS, and completely missed this video. This is absolutely FANTASTIC!!!!! I'm still experimenting with your OS tweak, hopefully I can get it working for the PowerBook modification that I hope to get out this weekend. Once again, a great video!!!

@ActionRetro 3 жыл бұрын

Oh nice, looking forward to it!

@stephenbruce8320 3 жыл бұрын

I am not a MAC person but I have to say that's wicked cool. There is something about putting a Pi in a custom case and having it emulate what the case represents. I did download the files and will get around to printing a MAC Case although it going to take a long long long time to print one of those puppies.

@retrogamer33 3 жыл бұрын

That case is so cool, being 3D printed is even more cool.

@ZeroWalker26 3 жыл бұрын

That just realy neat and cute. Awesome idea and great video

@32bitrant 3 жыл бұрын

I would love to buy one of those little cases!

@gameboyexe303 3 жыл бұрын

it would be really cool if you put a mainboard from a macmini in this case and have a real mini Powermac

@MaxOakland 3 жыл бұрын

Nice idea!

@bronwynecg 3 жыл бұрын

Hah! I JUST found the STL files for this the other day. 😂 I’ll keep this video in mind when I decide to finally do something with it. Thanks, man! ✌🏽

@bakedboarder34 3 жыл бұрын

This was so rad! I need a mini g3 tower now! Sooo cool

@richardbrobeck2384 3 жыл бұрын

what a incredible build !That would be a cool addition to go with my PowerMac G3.....

@appleman76 3 жыл бұрын

This is so cool. Always loved that case design, and the blue and white colors of the G3 version in particular. Very nice how you got it to boot straight into OS 9 with no intervention. Makes me wish my Dual 450 G4 still worked. I was always impressed with how responsive and usable those old dual processor Macs were, even a decade later. Systems these days are so hilariously powerful yet feel bogged down all the time thanks to bloated, poorly optimized software. Early versions of OS X were just so futuristic feeling back in the day, and such an improvement over classic Mac OS in virtually every way. Great video, and a very well executed mini G3.

@antonydick6057 3 жыл бұрын

Wow... This video great... Thanks for the insight and upload...

@WelcomeToMarkintosh Ай бұрын

That is SO cool!

@mancavehobbies6213 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome gunna print this off thanks

@MrVolksbeetle 2 жыл бұрын

That’s really really cool.

@LaskyLabs 3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you have the patience to setup QEMU, because I honestly have no patience for it. Maybe if it had a worthwhile Windows frontend then I'd use it more...

@DanielBartholomew 3 жыл бұрын

It's so cute!

@JeffWaynee 3 жыл бұрын

Your channel is truly incredible.

@ActionRetro 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jeff!!

@invictus0x0 3 жыл бұрын

ok, I am so gonna print one of those cases.. that's awesome

@masterchief349 3 жыл бұрын

This is so cool!

@qwer7018 3 жыл бұрын

It's GREAT!!!. I hope the G3 case fits for STX board. I'm looking for the STX case like this.

@polerix 2 жыл бұрын

Dude. DUDE. D U D E. I'm back to 2000 when I was working in a print shop. FINALLY I can put my MacOS sound themes, and run QuarkXPress again.

@zackareehutton9541 3 жыл бұрын

That’s really cool.

@jlj945 3 жыл бұрын

This is super cool. It will probably run a lot better on a newer Pi too. It would also be pretty cool to do something like this with a Mac Mini G4 logicboard...

@kaigamble5609 5 ай бұрын

I printed a g5 case and stuck a raspberry pi 4 in it, also stuck a case fan if you could say that, the slider to remove the pi works as an air oath towards the front vent which is pretty cool.

@X150t 3 жыл бұрын

This is so cool

@joeylo2365 3 жыл бұрын

This is so cool !! Really want to build a Macintosh Classic.

@AlejandroRodolfoMendez 3 жыл бұрын

Cool project to make a old Mac for those who don't have it and cannot afford it. Maybe there's a better distro for this so can run better. Or something like with batocera that's just for the task need. I love this project. I wish I had so many raspberry pies, I just have old x86 pc

@ham_sanga7 3 жыл бұрын

Downloading the image now!

@GalenlevyPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Sweet! Love it. 😃

@1030eev 3 жыл бұрын

Man thats pretty neat.

@MaverickTheDemonWolf 3 жыл бұрын

Definitely gives me a reason to buy a raspberry pi now though. Might even become my daily use pc. Haha. Especially with Michael MJD just posting a video recently on his channel about the old net content, including a proxy that can be set so you can browse the web like back in the G3s day. 😁

@the_holy_forestfairy 3 жыл бұрын

Soooo sweet and cute!!

@msthalamus2172 3 жыл бұрын

This is really cool! Some well-intentioned constructive feedback: rubber bands degrade over time, lose their elasticity, and eventually break down into a sticky mess. Small springs, though harder to implement, will last forever. Also, it's been shown that acetone vapor baths can smooth the striations from 3D printing. This also leaves some shine to the plastic, which IIRC, was present on the actual case. Again, I think this is awesome and could truly be a well-received early prototype of a retail product, even (if licensing could be obtained).

@ActionRetro 3 жыл бұрын

Oh thanks for those suggestions! Springs are such a good idea!

@Rune2650 3 жыл бұрын

Hey Thalamus, the reason i designed it with rubberbands, was to simplefy the construction of it, since more or less everyone has acces to them, compared to springs, but i dont think it might be imposible for me, to redesign the mechanism, to use springs instead ^^

@itsmebillo 3 жыл бұрын

this is so great

@GiuseppeGalli 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful, I want one too...

@JamesnLollify 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome!

@dkehrerproductions 3 жыл бұрын

That is awesome

@mietekpropshighfive1970 3 жыл бұрын

Great project ! You have to add a G3 logo on the sides

@GabbyMoore13 3 жыл бұрын

I’d be curious to see the performance on a Rasp Pi 4. I have a 3B laying around and am considering using your disk image. I was literally looking for an image like this. Thanks for your hard work

@ethanlittle776 3 жыл бұрын

I’d buy that! Would love a G4. Painted mine black and white back in the day

@nathanaelhood7699 3 жыл бұрын

Man that is awesome! Would be cool to reprint the access panel so it could fit a 1st gen PowerPC G4 MacMini motherboard. Then it would really be a PowerMac!

@JosephBall 3 жыл бұрын

I would love a 3d printed Bondiblue iMac. I miss those so much.

@another3997 2 жыл бұрын

What a beautiful little case. The level of detail and ingenuity behind it is top notch. Whilst it wouldn't be 'period correct' the RasPi is capable of emulating the 68K Macs at real 68K speeds using Basilisk 2 and Mini Vmac. It would certainly be much more usable than PPC emulation under Qemu. 🙂

@Xenotypal 10 ай бұрын

Yeah and from what I know you could get nearly the same experience. (I did not grow up with macs so it's possible I'm wrong here.) You couldn't get system 9 but you can get system 8.

@masterkamen371 3 жыл бұрын

A later Power Mac G4 running Mac OS 9 is probably one of the best performing and easiest to setup retro gaming machines. I do have a Windows 98 rig but it was a huge pain to set up without all kinds of errors and other crap. Compare that to the Mac, which was just install Mac OS, install games, run games and have fun.

@user-xr3rb6pn9m 3 жыл бұрын

Great video! Very impressive, seamless experience! I tried to run Mac OS X for PPC on a modern Intel Core i5 laptop, and it was just as slow as on RPi. I suppose this is because QEMU cannot provide hardware acceleration for Mac OS X interface, due to which it has to use software rendering of the interface - which is not going to be fast even on a Core i9 :) One suggestion: have you tried to use Sheepshaver instead of Qemu? It can only emulate Mac OS 9, but it seems to be doing it quite a bit faster than QEMU.

@moebiuseight7977 3 жыл бұрын

that is very slick, i kind of wonder what sort of performance a pi4/8gb model would give in os10

@dricci 3 жыл бұрын

Best Pi case ever! If the creator decides to take orders I will buy one today!

@hardrivethrutown 3 жыл бұрын

I've always wanted a B&W PowerMac G3

@doalwa 3 жыл бұрын

Damn, this is the coolest thing I’ve seen in a looong time!

@ale6242 3 жыл бұрын

Oh man! I've been making a Mini Mac Plus with a RPI 3+!! This couldnt have come at a better time! Gonna snag your image and switch out the ppc emulation with 68K! Thank you so much!

@ActionRetro 3 жыл бұрын

Oh woah, I'd love to see it when it's done!

@ale6242 3 жыл бұрын

@@ActionRetro Absolutely! I'll post some pictures when its ready! :D

@ale6242 3 жыл бұрын

@@ActionRetro Hey So i cannot seem to get that image to boot. Just sits at the happy mac forever :( Any ideas?

@ale6242 3 жыл бұрын

fixed it. win32diskimager was not writing the image correctly. BalenaEtcher works!

@ActionRetro 3 жыл бұрын

@@ale6242 Woohoo!

@sebastianruedac 3 жыл бұрын

I love the Raspintosh name!!!

@CipherDiaz 4 ай бұрын

Noctua fan - problem solved. Sloves this setup -- i want one!

@idontplugthingsinprofessio9612 3 жыл бұрын

If this was mass-produced and sold, i would buy it right away, this is cool

@zenmaster24 3 жыл бұрын

add a potentiometer inline to the heatsink fan and increase resistence until its quiet enough

@rascalwind 2 жыл бұрын

Thats cool.

@Goigigandfriends 3 жыл бұрын

Wow this mini monitor is so cool lol

@JerryTheVeganRockstar 2 жыл бұрын

So cool. Very impressive. I’d consider doing it to run Talking Moose and Baby Smash!

@brandnaqua 3 жыл бұрын

how cuteeee!

@Matbombardier6985 3 жыл бұрын

I'd get a printer just for this... making me think now... also that is amazing work

@Pressbutan 3 жыл бұрын

This is super cute. I'm extremely fond of that case print, it came out beautiful! Though I can't help but feel a little cheated that it's a Pi, and not some crazy "Honey I shrunk a real G3 into here" :(

@andresbravo2003 3 жыл бұрын

What a Sleek! it is so small!

@plastibuilt 3 жыл бұрын

Man, this took me back to my B&W with the ol' blue cold cathode tubes. Now I'm gonna dust that poor thing off.

@bland9876 3 жыл бұрын

Back in the day all fans were really whiny so this is perfect.

@MichaelAStanhope 3 жыл бұрын

Light up G3 (Mini) tower. Jay will be proud of you!

@ActionRetro 3 жыл бұрын

🤣

@doitaljosh 3 жыл бұрын

You should put an HDD and power led on the front. Connect the power LED to the pi's 3.3V through a resistor and the HDD led can be configured with a gpio in the device tree.

@xero110 3 жыл бұрын

Finding the best cheap(ish) SBC for a Mac emulator would be a great project. Have you tried it with the Pi4?

@CrystalizedSun1998x 3 жыл бұрын

Really good times that I used iMac since Kindergarten when I was around 7.

@MacintoshMen 3 жыл бұрын

Haha that's amazing. I'd love to put that one next to my real full size G3 Power Mac! Will now somebody please make a mini cube or iMac G3??

@electriccomics 2 жыл бұрын

Man sometimes I'm tempted to get a pixel book since it's closer to a 4:3 screen. Premium laptops that had a 4:3 display just felt so professional for some reason. That 12" PowerBook there is amazing, I would love to get a hold of another one.

@kittyztigerz 3 жыл бұрын

i saw this i do remember one thing u just missed heatsink called ice tower it make for rpi 3 or 4 remember rpi run on 5volt so have find fan that can run 5volt i do love that case n that is awesome n i do remember few board i forgot to recommend ssd m.4 to USB 3.0

@adamsfusion 3 жыл бұрын

You might want to put a flyback diode on the fan circuit. When those fans stop spinning on power down, they'll throw power back onto the line when the magnetic field on the coils of those fans collapses, causing a sudden spike that stresses the power circuitry of the Pi. It's okay for a while, but it does wear it down overall.

@ActionRetro 3 жыл бұрын

oh thanks!

@easlern 3 жыл бұрын

One minor correction, we used crt monitors in the 90s except when they were attached to laptops. LCD desktop monitors weren’t really common until they became more cost effective in the 2000s.

@brendanhoffmann8402 2 жыл бұрын

No way!! I've got to try emulating powerPC on my raspberry pi 4!

@CACOE_ 3 жыл бұрын

I've been wanting to play around with MacOS 9 for years now, last time I had a mac was 2005, the last G4 Powerbook but I never bothered with OS9 at the time. Are there many limitations to running emulated on the Pi? What is the performance comparable to on the PI3b?