I Built a WORKING Mini PowerMac G3!
3,773It 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! https://archive.org/details/raspberry-mac
If your Pi has trouble booting it, open the boot/config.txt and turn down the overclocking options.
🔨 Thingiverse link: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3895747
💎 Here's the switch that fits perfectly in the power button space: https://amzn.to/36tOia6
💎 Here's the fan I used in the bottom case: https://amzn.to/3ajuabO
💎 My adorable little LCD screen: https://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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