Testing a 1998 Apple Macintosh PowerBook G3

This lovely M7109LL/A machine was very kindly donated to LGR recently. 233MHz PowerPC 750 CPU, 32MB PC100 RAM, 4MB of video memory, and a whopping 2GB hard drive. Let's see what it can do!

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  • @LGRBlerbs
    @LGRBlerbs3 жыл бұрын

    Seems the power adapters for these were recalled, so that's fun www.macworld.com/article/1018310/adapter.html

  • @jorno1994

    @jorno1994

    3 жыл бұрын

    put it in one of those fire proof bags for lipo batteries and call it good enough :)

  • @JohnMiller-mmuldoor

    @JohnMiller-mmuldoor

    3 жыл бұрын

    🤔

  • @JohnSmith-xq1pz

    @JohnSmith-xq1pz

    3 жыл бұрын

    Naturally it has a recall it is a apple product after all 😉

  • @laptop006

    @laptop006

    3 жыл бұрын

    Repeatedly, the iBook UFO chargers were a thing for a while but got recalled too.

  • @Finallybianca

    @Finallybianca

    3 жыл бұрын

    Consider it a space heater not a defect

  • @CodyShell
    @CodyShell3 жыл бұрын

    Clint! I was the one who donated you this laptop! Glad to see it go to a new home and getting the attention it rightfully deserves!

  • @temporaryscars

    @temporaryscars

    3 жыл бұрын

    Nicely done, Cody.

  • @RickSanchez-rc1rg

    @RickSanchez-rc1rg

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thats really cool dude!

  • @kevindie

    @kevindie

    3 жыл бұрын

    *_Ignored._*

  • @TylerScottMillawa

    @TylerScottMillawa

    3 жыл бұрын

    Liar! Im the one who sent in the laptop!

  • @randombrokeperson

    @randombrokeperson

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@TylerScottMillawa So who is telling the truth? Who is the imposter?

  • @kefkafloyd
    @kefkafloyd3 жыл бұрын

    This machine is what we call a "Wallstreet," I have one of them in my collection. The hotswap bays originated with the Powerbook 500 as dual battery bays, which you could swap out a PC Card cage for a battery. They improved them a lot since then. These machines had CD-ROMs, batteries, floppies, ZIP, and LS-120 drives that you could swap into the bays. And yeah, the backlights on these screens weren't great back in the day, and age has only made them dimmer.

  • @SuperTed.

    @SuperTed.

    3 жыл бұрын

    Dumass question maybe but Why were they called a wallstreet?

  • @kefkafloyd

    @kefkafloyd

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@SuperTed. Apple products had internal code names until the mid-aughts, Wallstreet is the code name for this model. It was preceded by the Kanga (PowerBook G3 Series) and replaced by the Lombard (PowerBook G3 Bronze Keyboard). Even within the Wallstreets the revision B speedbump versions are named PDQ (Pretty Damn Quick) whose differentiation is having a 66MHz bus speed.

  • @joeconti2396

    @joeconti2396

    3 жыл бұрын

    I must've owned four of these things back in the early 2000's. They were so cheap. Lombard and Pismos to this day are difficult to find at a good price though.

  • @LGRBlerbs

    @LGRBlerbs

    3 жыл бұрын

    More specifically, this is a M7109LL/A, which I believe is a late 1998 PDQ machine :)

  • @donfurioso3566

    @donfurioso3566

    3 жыл бұрын

    Wasn’t it called Pismo ¿

  • @MyMyMicah32
    @MyMyMicah323 жыл бұрын

    This exact model got me interested in old computers. It was the first laptop I ever got to play with as a kid. So many memories flooding back watching this

  • @BrokenCircus
    @BrokenCircus3 жыл бұрын

    You may have spotted this in the edit, but when you tried to change resolution on Quake, it said "Not enough memory for video mode".

  • @LGRBlerbs

    @LGRBlerbs

    3 жыл бұрын

    Welp, that answers that. Thank you! I wrongly assumed 4MB would be enough to at least _attempt_ running Quake at 256-color XGA resolution, even if it performed badly.

  • @TheTurnipKing

    @TheTurnipKing

    3 жыл бұрын

    Also fairly accurate. the original 4mb voodoos were designed to tie the resolution to about 640 x 480 IIRC, and we can probably assume whatever passes for an accelerator in this thing is about that ballpark. Unfortunately also it's got that early 2000's laptop LCD panel behavior of not scaling up. Run on an external LCD, you should be able to get full screen 640x480 out of it, I guess.

  • @LGRBlerbs

    @LGRBlerbs

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@TheTurnipKing Good point. I think my 3dfx experience is what's throwing me off actually, since I can play Quake at higher resolutions on a Voodoo 1 card no problem. Although mine was a 6MB card now that I think about it, so there'd be a bit more to play with for frame buffering and textures.

  • @92greenz34

    @92greenz34

    3 жыл бұрын

    Interestingly I have a very similar but a bit later, PowerBook G3 mine is the 333mhz the Lombard model with an 8mb rage pro lt. It runs quake very well although there’s actually an issue with the quake Mac soft 1.0 where it doesn’t fully support all of the resolutions you need to install a patch to make it work properly. Once you do that it actually becomes a quite enjoyable way to play the game

  • @TheTurnipKing

    @TheTurnipKing

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@LGRBlerbs Perhaps I should say that 640 x 480 was the normal default for the voodoo 1 with the Glide API, and since that was about double what you'd realistically be able to get with software rendering, many were happy to leave it at that.

  • @Poopie420
    @Poopie4203 жыл бұрын

    In 1998 I picked up one of these for my CEO boss at my first job from a local Mac shop in NYC. I set it up for him, etc. Was the only time I got to handle it and I was blown away how fast it was. The company paid $3899 for that laptop.

  • @NotJustBikes
    @NotJustBikes3 жыл бұрын

    This definitely brings back memories! I had one of these "Wallstreet" laptops, the first Mac I ever bought (but I bought it used in 2000). I used this to design rave flyers and do all sorts of other fun Photoshop stuff. I also remember installing the first early betas of OS X on this machine. It was also the last Apple laptop I ever bought that didn't have a tonne of hardware issues that made me switch back to PCs. This was either the last, or one of the last, to have the Apple logo "upside down" when it's open. Anyhow, these were really great machines. And I believe the screen brightness issue you were having was related to age, because I rmemeber the screen being brighter than most other laptops at the time.

  • @desther7975

    @desther7975

    3 жыл бұрын

    I took one of these old things with me when I studied abroad... in 2008! I ended up buying an iBook while I was there and I still have both machines hanging around. Since I bought the iBook overseas, it has a foreign keyboard!

  • @erikt211

    @erikt211

    11 ай бұрын

    What program did you use to design the rave posters? I was a DJ at the time and always wondered what people were using to make those cool 3D looking designs!

  • @souta95
    @souta953 жыл бұрын

    That machine could probably render the RAVE hardware acceleration of Quake

  • @desther7975

    @desther7975

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@slightlyevolved nVidia or not, RAVE works on ATI GPUs. It was the API to use before OpenGL took over. Unreal Tournament for Mac also uses RAVE, and it would be fun to see that running on that PowerBook.

  • @Scioneer

    @Scioneer

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@desther7975 It will run fine. I have a Clamshell iBook 366mhz with the same amount of vram and a Rage Mobility, likely the same GPU as this Powerbook. It runs UT 99 with RAVE quite well.

  • @desepticon4

    @desepticon4

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@desther7975 UT ran very nicely on the Lombard and Pismo on highest settings so I think the WallStreet could handle it ok.

  • @vatsalgupta4557
    @vatsalgupta45573 жыл бұрын

    BTW,liked the Eye Bee M 😀 Great work Clint!

  • @ZONEsama
    @ZONEsama3 жыл бұрын

    I was able to install Rhapsody on one of these as they are from that era where Apple was starting to ship out developer previews of Rhapsody & OS X. Might be a fun idea for you!

  • @nonsensicalfox

    @nonsensicalfox

    3 жыл бұрын

    Wow I didn't expect you to be here, but that's pretty neat

  • @Alf_Pacino

    @Alf_Pacino

    3 жыл бұрын

    LGR now understands he is more famous than he thought he was

  • @Gadgetman1989

    @Gadgetman1989

    3 жыл бұрын

    Glad to see you here 😊

  • @Pheonixco

    @Pheonixco

    3 жыл бұрын

    Oh the people you'll see on LGR.

  • @eccremocarpusscaber5159

    @eccremocarpusscaber5159

    3 жыл бұрын

    ZONE TOONS if it’s the model I had, which I think it is, even then it was too low in power to run it.

  • @iCarlyfan4534
    @iCarlyfan45343 жыл бұрын

    Im so glad you made this channel, I love these laid back type videos

  • @snethss
    @snethss3 жыл бұрын

    This is my absolutely favorite laptop series if all time. it deserves a full LGR. I'm still getting utility from it, though parts are getting harder to find.

  • @BoyAditya
    @BoyAditya3 жыл бұрын

    Yo Clint. Don't forget to upload LGR food... We need that new sandwich videos 😜🤤

  • @wasteddesign1396
    @wasteddesign13963 жыл бұрын

    I have to second the comment you responded to on the Ars thing about your videos being nicely calming. Thanks!

  • @darrennorniron
    @darrennorniron3 жыл бұрын

    Hey Clint. Love your work!

  • @EposVox
    @EposVox3 жыл бұрын

    I ordered the Quake vinyl but got sent the vinyl for The Social Network. Still waiting to hear from their store support...

  • @o_o-_-8639
    @o_o-_-86393 жыл бұрын

    It’s been a while that you didn’t review a Mac. Lovely ☺️

  • @arladds
    @arladds3 жыл бұрын

    It's really great seeing this - I grew up using Macs of this era (my Dad worked in publishing), and it's really interesting to see someone "new" to the classic Mac OS system using it and being like "What's this for?" the same way I was 25-ish years ago! Btw the recalled adaptors were just replaced with iBook yoyo-style ones - they certainly used to be super easy to find on eBay.

  • @rawstarmusic
    @rawstarmusic3 жыл бұрын

    I had one of these babies. 10 years from 1997 to 2007 when the light was weak. 6 GB HD music production, lot’s of CD’s. Software Cubase 3.5

  • @domdecosa
    @domdecosa3 жыл бұрын

    That laptop should have an ATI chipset that supports RAVE 3D acceleration.

  • @AnonymousFreakYT

    @AnonymousFreakYT

    3 жыл бұрын

    ^^^ "RAVE" was ATI's early 3d accelerator API, much like how Glide was 3dfx's. Since Apple used ATI for a long time in the early 3d era, nearly all Mac games supported RAVE (until Mac OS X made OpenGL standard.) Many *ALSO* supported 3dfx for desktop Macs with add-in Voodoo cards.

  • @domdecosa

    @domdecosa

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@AnonymousFreakYT RAVE was part of QuickDraw 3D, which was made by Apple.

  • @AnonymousFreakYT

    @AnonymousFreakYT

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@domdecosa D-oh! What's the ATI one I'm thinking of?!

  • @jackedup447

    @jackedup447

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@AnonymousFreakYT ATI's CIF render? Dunno the actual name ive only ever seen it in a few videos.

  • @domdecosa

    @domdecosa

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Alyxx Parke Clint's model (PDQ) has the ATI Rage Pro LT. The later Pismo models had the Rage Pro 128.

  • @Carboxylated
    @Carboxylated3 жыл бұрын

    I love these videos man, excellent work.

  • @thefagpunk
    @thefagpunk3 жыл бұрын

    Great vid Clint! Bringing back the memories!

  • @little_forest
    @little_forest3 жыл бұрын

    Well, here is as good a place as any to mention it: I was watching some very old videos of LGR these days and it was quite nostalgic to hear Clint say things like „So, should you buy this old computer? The beard says yes!“ or „Woopdeedoo for nerdiness.“ ;) Not complaining about the professionalism of LGR nowadays, but still... nostalgia... and the progress of time, I guess... :)

  • @Richard.Linder
    @Richard.Linder3 жыл бұрын

    That sound is surprisingly loud and full, for a laptop. Try Quake with 512 x 384 and with "Double Pixels" checked. This is exactly half the width and height of 1024 x 768, so it should scale perfectly and fit that screen's XGA native resolution. Also maybe try doing the "Easy" install option and see if it detects and utilises the laptop's 3D capabilities. Or choose "Custom" and check "Quake with 3D Hardware Acceleration". Maybe it supports RAVE. Would love to see how it looks, even if it's just double scaled 512 x 384 in software. That would fill the entire screen with perfect 2:1 integer scaling, and should look really good. :)

  • @crylune

    @crylune

    Жыл бұрын

    Even modern MacBooks have such good speakers...

  • @Richard.Linder

    @Richard.Linder

    Жыл бұрын

    @@crylune Yes, they do have really good sound for laptops.

  • @EnjoySynthSounds

    @EnjoySynthSounds

    Жыл бұрын

    Arrghh. Joy! Powermac computing and a brilliantly efficient operating system unlike today's bloated behemoths. I used to play Dark Forces on powermac, a doom style Star Wars game, Quake 2 and others. It's a strange thing- in England full powermac desktops of the G3 era are harder to source with keyboard, monitor, mouse. And don't get me started on sourcing the VGA adaptors. Dang! So expensive. I love the Powermac 6100 Dos but again it's incredibly hard to source in a complete package. I feel Apple messed up going to Os X. They can never replace the genius of these slimline operating systems. My modern iMac needs 8 gig ram for it to run smoothly, but back in the day less than 1 gig could have you in retro heaven. Dang. The only issue for me was the ADB port, which really was useless. Macintosh Garden here we come ;)

  • @MaxOakland
    @MaxOakland3 жыл бұрын

    I love the way these look. They’re gorgeous

  • @da_homunculus
    @da_homunculus3 жыл бұрын

    Awesome to see this, thanks! First computer I ever played around on was my dad's PowerBook G3 500 Pismo. Translucent keyboard, upgraded to OS 9, good stuff.

  • @bustedbenz
    @bustedbenz3 жыл бұрын

    I was 9 in ‘98 and man did I want one of these. It might have been a year or two later when I really got into them because I wanted the Pismo which is a bit newer, but still. The 90’s and early 00’s generation of Macs will always be special to me. Computers were exciting then. They weren’t just slightly tweaked variations on a tired theme... every new generation was really “different”. Our family didn’t choose to spend money on tech upgrades very often but I would go through the Macmall catalog for hours thinking about what I’d get if I could. Thanks for the memory trip.

  • @rebibotic
    @rebibotic3 жыл бұрын

    I have 2 of these, they were top of the line in thier day, only the rich account executives had these. I had to recreate the PRAM battery an make a new one from scratch because I couldnt find one. also if you put in a bigger hard drive the magnetic pull will put the computer in sleep mode and not wake up. it is a cool vintage machine.thanks for the share

  • @saimanhussaini2010
    @saimanhussaini20106 ай бұрын

    Wow! I didn’t have vintage laptops like this before, the MacBook Air 2013 was the very first laptop I got to store documents and play games and do my homework on it. So many memories flooding back watching this

  • @camotech1314
    @camotech1314 Жыл бұрын

    Never ever owned a Macintosh, so these videos are amazing thank you!!

  • @munnsie100
    @munnsie1003 жыл бұрын

    What a great Wallstreet you have there! I was given one by a school friend’s parents when I was about 10 years old, he worked for a school and it was his old work laptop. I remember he also had a //e Platinum (with colour monitor), packed back into their original boxes in his garage.

  • @connorPiper0
    @connorPiper03 жыл бұрын

    As a kid I loved playing with KidPix. It was an art software that included some pretty strange sound effects. I know it was often free through Macintosh magazines in the 90s.

  • @Jagerbomber

    @Jagerbomber

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yup, our school had KidPix and SimTower.... until they banned SimTower after 9/11 due to the bomb threat in it. They threw out the iMacs after 1 year anyways.

  • @z3r0slugfm
    @z3r0slugfm3 жыл бұрын

    Good stuff. I missed out on the PowerBook G3’s but I have fond memories of working on my two G4’s back in the early 2000s.

  • @staticfanatic
    @staticfanatic3 жыл бұрын

    i love how you arrange the software in the background as a teaser.

  • @lewislauricella1416
    @lewislauricella14162 жыл бұрын

    I just picked a 12.1 inch Mainstreet G3 PowerBook out of my works eWaste dumpster Yesterday ( had been sitting out in rain, hail and +30°c weather over the Christmas break), and against all odds, it booted first try (after a good teardown and clean that is). Downgraded from 10.2 to 9.2.2, and it's working unbelievably well - So glad to have saved it from landfill 👍

  • @kathrynradonich3982
    @kathrynradonich39823 жыл бұрын

    I love this design so much I miss my PowerBook pismo

  • @AlexanderSiracusa
    @AlexanderSiracusa3 жыл бұрын

    I just got the exact same PowerBook G3 (a base model PDQ series) running OS 8.6 a couple of weeks ago. I find that it’s a good machine for transferring old Mac stuff to newer Macs. And I love how easy it is to take apart. Remove the optical drive/superdrive/battery/ and pull open the latches. The keyboard pops up and it can just be moved out of the way (but mind the ribbon cable). Get a screwdriver and remove the shield covering everything and, well, everything’s there.

  • @porkwilliam
    @porkwilliam3 жыл бұрын

    I bought an Apple PowerBook G3 Pismo for £75 ($96) from eBay last week. Absolutely immaculate condition and fully working. I wanted one back in 2000 but couldn’t afford it at the time, so I’m so glad that after 20 years, I finally get to own one! These were outstanding laptops for the time, and everything (ram, processor, hard drive) except for the video card were upgradeable. I think the Pismo can run OSX Tiger, but I’m sticking with OS 9.2.2; brings back memories!

  • @connors3356
    @connors33563 жыл бұрын

    I remember these being referred to as the blackbird powerbook. My dad used this exact model of laptop while he was a graphic designer, I don’t remember him using it, since it was upgraded to a powermac g4 sawtooth by the time i was old enough to write to memory. But i found this computer in storage, and he mentioned how nice it was compared to other laptops at the time. He always spoke of fond memories playing quake after work. I’ll always love macs- just upgraded my mac pro to dual radeon rx 580s. I’m excited for what the switch to ARM processors will bring.

  • @Nymunariya
    @Nymunariya3 жыл бұрын

    Apple used to bundle games and software with their macs. My 6500 (1997) came with Descent II and Mechwarrior 2. Both had little sticker art on the cds that there were supercharged for the 6500!

  • @wosko
    @wosko3 жыл бұрын

    i love this shit old powerbooks are the coolest keep up the good work clint grats on 100k

  • @Ryodakun
    @Ryodakun3 жыл бұрын

    LGR and Druaga1 had a baby, and out came LGR Blerbs.

  • @Damaniel3

    @Damaniel3

    3 жыл бұрын

    "Hey smokers, LGR here..."

  • @thepirategamerboy12

    @thepirategamerboy12

    3 жыл бұрын

    LGR Blerbs actually kinda reminds me of some of his older main channel videos, and that's not a bad thing at all.

  • @Dukefazon
    @Dukefazon3 жыл бұрын

    10:21 - YES! I got the vinyl ordered, I saw your tweet about it. Later I saw John Romero tweeting it was sold out 2 hours later. I have all the main albums on CD but I'd love to have them on vinyl, I love NIN.

  • @Vlad-1986
    @Vlad-19863 жыл бұрын

    I got the same laptop! some of your questions answered -That one is a Wallstreet G3 -I have the same washed out screen, so unless we got the same problems it is just a bit of a crappy screen. -It does support "tap to click", if you don't have the option under mouse options, you can just install standard 8.6 -It has some sort of Radeon graphics

  • @ActionRetro
    @ActionRetro3 жыл бұрын

    Now THAT'S a heckin' purdy machine!

  • @michaelthompson7217
    @michaelthompson72173 жыл бұрын

    Thank You Clint, Very Cool!

  • @RGInquisitor
    @RGInquisitor3 жыл бұрын

    Oh man! Seeing that Project Eden box in the background brings backs many memories! It was one of my first ever PS2 games besides MGS2, Kinetica and MX vs ATV.

  • @HannahFortalezza

    @HannahFortalezza

    3 жыл бұрын

    Such a good game! The puzzles were fantastic

  • @RGInquisitor

    @RGInquisitor

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@HannahFortalezza Yes it was! It was frustrating for me at first because it was such a long game and I didn't have a memory card at that time, so turning off the Ps2 or swapping games meant I had to start over..

  • @HannahFortalezza

    @HannahFortalezza

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@RGInquisitor PC for me so i didn't have such memory issues!

  • @cleanycloth
    @cleanycloth3 жыл бұрын

    The autoplaying Quake soundtrack instantly gave me nostalgia flashbacks to your 3DFX Voodoo card on a Macintosh video. Gooood times.

  • @tombarber8929
    @tombarber89293 жыл бұрын

    some of the Macs did come bundled with trials of games. When I got my iMac G3 350mhz back in '99, it came with a trial of Bugdom and a couple of other games. There may be stuff in the OS or software discs that came with your machine. I believe OS8 also included a music video to The Old Apartment by Barenaked Ladies(and OS9 came with One Week by BNL). 90's Quicktime multimedia goodness man!

  • @dos4gwexe
    @dos4gwexe3 жыл бұрын

    Wow, Wasteland in a sealed box! I just searched and found you did a review of the game all the way back in 2013, lol. That was the most important game in my life until Doom came along.

  • @aytviewer2421
    @aytviewer24213 жыл бұрын

    I so wanted one of these back in the day!

  • @rogero8443
    @rogero84433 жыл бұрын

    Seeing Jazz Jackrabbit 2 with such good animations in the intro really took me back to the old mac days. I would have been blown away by that, but somehow that game eluded me. Quake sure, Starcraft sure, but never heard of Jazz till way later. Nice.

  • @kladewilson598
    @kladewilson5983 жыл бұрын

    That friggin Mac power up sound is awesome

  • @CaveyMoth
    @CaveyMoth3 жыл бұрын

    Oh, yeah, playing Quake with just the keyboard like an OG. Lol, Jazz Jackrabbit is one of your "fur-vorites." Of course.

  • @rich1051414

    @rich1051414

    3 жыл бұрын

    Quake was designed for mouse input. Gamers didn't know how to use mice in games yet, though. (That and mice were unreliable and always skipping around).

  • @NoobixCube

    @NoobixCube

    3 жыл бұрын

    Richard Smith Even Doom was designed with mouse input in mind. Just they hadn’t worked out, then, that we only wanted to look and turn with the mouse, not move with it. If you watch any of the demos play back in a vanilla compatible source port, like Chocolate, you can definitely see the variable turn speed and fine grained motion only possible with a mouse.

  • @rich1051414

    @rich1051414

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@NoobixCube Vertical mouse look was definitely not 'a thing' yet, with 'mouse look' moved to a button you had to hold. That can be seen with the perspective abnormalities if you modify the game to force mouse look always on.

  • @NoobixCube

    @NoobixCube

    3 жыл бұрын

    Richard Smith I assume you mean in Quake when you say that, because vertical aiming isn’t something that can be done in vanilla Doom at all. The game compensates for you if you’re in line horizontally and far enough back. Doom looks 3D, but it’s impossible for things to overlap in the vanilla game. I meant turning horizontally with the mouse was part of the originally intended control scheme, but the way mouse input works in Doom, forward and backward movement of the mouse moves the player forward and backward, too.

  • @rich1051414

    @rich1051414

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@NoobixCube Actually I think I am thinking of Duke3d now that I really think about it. Getting it all mixed up :) The 'fake 3d' a lot of the early first person shooters did, however, was subject to perspective distortion when looking up and down though. That game also did the up/down aiming for you, but you could still look up and down, but it was never intended for you to move and look up and down at the same time. Doing this will make you go cross eyed on the original game.

  • @koshi6505
    @koshi65053 жыл бұрын

    Such a nostalgic computer. I remember playing so much Starcraft and snes roms on one of these.

  • @BilisNegra
    @BilisNegra3 жыл бұрын

    50K views in like 19-20 hours? Not shabby for a "little insignificant" side-channel at all! Would like to see that happen with the LGR Foods one, which I dearly wish you have not abandoned.

  • @EriolGaurhoth
    @EriolGaurhoth11 ай бұрын

    It's fun watching the absolute master of everything Windows and DOS amused by the OS 8 Control Strip. Classic macs are great to use; I still use my G3 Pismo with some regularity for my retro fix.

  • @PashPaw
    @PashPaw3 жыл бұрын

    It's Happy Mac time! Also: That PowerBook G3 is a very early one. It still has the Rainbow Apple. Since you have a MBP according to your statements, use Mactracker to determine the exact model. And my iMacs came with Bugdom!

  • @JoseYuri
    @JoseYuri2 жыл бұрын

    I drooled over this computer after seeing in on Sex and The City with the glowing logo! This is still a beautiful device! I hope they bring it back - an updated design would easily fit into Apple's design family this decade.

  • @helloSanders
    @helloSanders3 жыл бұрын

    I still have my wallstreet model ^-^ My favourite part of laptops from that era was the modular bays. You can stick batteries in both sides, or drives in either one while plugged into the wall. It's so cool.

  • @JohnMiller-mmuldoor
    @JohnMiller-mmuldoor3 жыл бұрын

    Gotta love the “booooooooong!” Boot chime. Much feels

  • @julien2983
    @julien29833 жыл бұрын

    This takes me back to highschool playing Bugdom, Nanosaur, and Cro-mag Racing.

  • @connors3356

    @connors3356

    3 жыл бұрын

    Julien i loved cro mag racing! No one ever talks about how fun that game was

  • @desepticon4

    @desepticon4

    3 жыл бұрын

    My highscool was all about Reckless Drivin' (and Kaleidescope themes)

  • @azershotgun
    @azershotgun3 жыл бұрын

    This is quality content, definitely should be on main channel.

  • @MudPuppit
    @MudPuppit3 жыл бұрын

    As for Macintosh software bundles, yes! There was lots. Super maze wars, descent, Eric's solitaire, casualty kid, peter pan and lemmings if u where lucky! Soo many good memories, be sure to check out Macintosh Garden as well :v

  • @TwoToTheSix

    @TwoToTheSix

    3 жыл бұрын

    I remember the Performa (probably a few years before this) we had when I was a kid came with a big plastic book/wallet thing full of CD-ROM games and art programs. I still remember the distinct smell of that wallet, and the feeling of peeling its pages apart to get the Kid Pix CD out

  • @MudPuppit

    @MudPuppit

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@TwoToTheSix yes, yes and yes! Other games to mention. Crystal Caliburn pinball, marathon trilogy, spectre challenge, oxyd and spin doctor. Bonus's: prime target and damage incorporated.

  • @Crow47
    @Crow473 жыл бұрын

    I had one of these exact '98 powerbooks as my first hand-me-down computer ages ago. From experience, it will also play Unreal Tournament 99 very well, in addition to Starcraft.

  • @StevenSmyth
    @StevenSmyth3 жыл бұрын

    PowerBook WallStreet, 2nd generation G3. The first gen was housed in a 3400 case, this was part of the new design language at Apple. You don’t have enough VRAM to run Quake at 1024x768, but I think it’ll run in 800x600 full screen. This Mac has both S-Video and VGA out on video mirroring, so you should be able to do your own capture of Yoot Tower and it will run no problem. I have a copy and it runs very well on my Strawberry iMac (333) and my Beige G3 Desktop (266). Apple says you can only put 192 MB of RAM in these, unofficially, you can install 512 no problem. Nice pickup.

  • @PriestsandParamedics
    @PriestsandParamedics3 жыл бұрын

    The reason it wouldn't display in full screen at the higher resolution is because it says at 14:58 "Not enough memory for video mode".

  • @unnamedchannel1237

    @unnamedchannel1237

    3 жыл бұрын

    He should just plug in a USB then instant memory to save to

  • @JohnSmith-xq1pz

    @JohnSmith-xq1pz

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@unnamedchannel1237 🤣🤣🤣 I thought that was a PC only life hack?

  • @JohnSmith-xq1pz

    @JohnSmith-xq1pz

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@blitzwing1 🤣🤣🤣

  • @desepticon4

    @desepticon4

    3 жыл бұрын

    Back then you had to manually allocate extra memory to it from the "Get Info..." panel. This laptop should have no problem running quake (or QIII Arena for that matter.)

  • @christurcotte4035
    @christurcotte40353 жыл бұрын

    Picked up a 1999 g3 clamshell from the school I work at with the yoyo charger and it runs like a dream.

  • @adamweb
    @adamweb3 жыл бұрын

    Dude I thought those white specs were on my monitor and it was freaking me out when you finally got them!

  • @sunnohh
    @sunnohh3 жыл бұрын

    That screen is spot on Clint

  • @djkoelkast
    @djkoelkast3 жыл бұрын

    I've got one of them too, love it to bits.

  • @bexrayspex
    @bexrayspex3 жыл бұрын

    Great blurb! I haven’t been exposed to macs until later in life... how accessible (in terms of the hardware) everything used to be compared to now. And swappable bays? MWAH! 👩‍🍳 💋

  • @ReverendLinc
    @ReverendLinc3 жыл бұрын

    That is a G3 Wallstreet. Great little laptops the were! Good looking machines.

  • @andyrichter2714
    @andyrichter27143 жыл бұрын

    I’ve had that quake soundtrack on vinyl release notification set up for like 2 years... And I get notified by a LGR video.

  • @muttBunch
    @muttBunch3 жыл бұрын

    I can’t stop staring at the big boxed games in the background. Last ones I found that I had were the original Police Quest series, 1 and 2 were on 5-1/4s, the TGA version. I regret throwing them out 20 years ago. I wanna go back :(

  • @MaximilienNoal
    @MaximilienNoal3 жыл бұрын

    Quake in the background, so good !

  • @Exelius
    @Exelius3 жыл бұрын

    I had a PowerBook G3 WallStreet when I was in college, very nice machine

  • @madinfects
    @madinfects3 жыл бұрын

    Damn, thanks for the heads up on the Quake soundtrack.

  • @_hypedad
    @_hypedad3 жыл бұрын

    I've got a working one of these and absolutely love it. The subtly transparent keyboard is so cool. Mine has the weird UFO shaped power supply

  • @cwaldrip
    @cwaldrip3 жыл бұрын

    The PB3400 and the PBG3 were good little machines. I fondly remember mine...

  • @guspaz
    @guspaz3 жыл бұрын

    They're quite upgradable, these things. CPU can go up to a G4, RAM can go up to 512MB, HDD can be replaced with an SSD. Sadly there doesn't seem to be an upgrade option for the videocard.

  • @zxcvb_bvcxz
    @zxcvb_bvcxz3 жыл бұрын

    I used machines of this era in primary school - would love to see Thinkin' Things et-al running. And oh man, S3M and Impulse Tracker music with Jazz Jackrabbit 2!

  • @wdavid4
    @wdavid43 жыл бұрын

    Came for the old tech, but then I saw that copy of Sentinel Worlds I in the background... oh man, I loved that game. Also loved how presumptuous it was to put a "I" in the title.

  • @TheSykoRC
    @TheSykoRC3 жыл бұрын

    Great. I wanted to See this After I saw your unpacking.

  • @TopHatJackStudios
    @TopHatJackStudios3 жыл бұрын

    Oh, that startup ding brings back such memories. My first "modern" computer was a friend's Mac. I was so confused the first time I used a Windows machine.

  • @SimonQuigley

    @SimonQuigley

    3 жыл бұрын

    Memories from 1984? :-) I was given a macbook to use when I started a new job back in 2012, and found it ridiculous that it still had that sound on it. The macbook didn't last long, they are terrible for trying to run Linux on.

  • @TopHatJackStudios

    @TopHatJackStudios

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@SimonQuigley Well, my specific memories are from the late 90's, but I hear that sound has been a Mac staple for some time. Also, always nice to meet a fellow Linux aficionado.!

  • @QUANTUMJOKER
    @QUANTUMJOKER3 жыл бұрын

    Apple definitely bundled games with their Macs in the nineties and early 2000s. My family's grey iMac and my various Powerbooks and iBooks all came pre-installed with Nanosaur, Bugdom and Cro-Mag Rally, with developer Pangea Software being a long-time Apple partner and Mac game developer. You can actually download several of Pangea's Mac OS games for free from Pangea's website. If you haven't played Bugdom yet, I strongly recommend it, as it's an endlessly imaginative, charming action-adventure and an iconic game for the Mac platform. Our LC 575, which was our first computer, came pre-installed with classics such as Sim City 2000, Spectre Challenger, Super Maze Wars and Spin Doctor. My Nana's Performa came with these games as well, but also had Glider Pro and ShadowWraith, which is an awesome top-down cyberpunk-themed arcade shooter. Our eMac came pre-installed with Deimos Rising (developed by Ambrosia Softworks, which was also a long-time Mac game developer) and - oddly enough - Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4.

  • @stillnotscaredofspiders

    @stillnotscaredofspiders

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ah, Super Maze Wars and Spin Doctor. I wish they did Mac OS 8 emulators like DOSBox.

  • @MaddTheSane

    @MaddTheSane

    3 жыл бұрын

    StillNotScaredOfSpiders MACE and Executor are the closest, I’d say. Problem is, Executor is pretty much abandoned, and MACE is closed-source and VERY early in development.

  • @stillnotscaredofspiders

    @stillnotscaredofspiders

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@MaddTheSane The ones I've tried so far are SheepShaver and Basilisk, and both are an absolute pain to get working on a Windows system.

  • @MaddTheSane

    @MaddTheSane

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@stillnotscaredofspiders SheepShaver and Basilisk II are difficult to get working on _any_ OS.

  • @joeblow5214
    @joeblow52143 жыл бұрын

    Man that OS splash screen takes me back. My elementary school had one Mac and two Win98 machines and the Mac was the only one with SimCity 2000 on it so during recess it became my Mac lol.

  • @twocvbloke
    @twocvbloke3 жыл бұрын

    "Proto-Siri", just as useful as ever, guess it runs in the family... :P

  • @ThatConfused1
    @ThatConfused13 жыл бұрын

    I just like how the preview video for this on the list is nothing but you cleaning the keyboard and screen over and over again.

  • @NowUndefined
    @NowUndefined3 жыл бұрын

    Great look at this one. Thanks for blerbing it

  • @21dazzer
    @21dazzer3 жыл бұрын

    Had one of these. WAY ahead of its time - the hot-swap design is unsurpassed even now.

  • @andrewmattera6205
    @andrewmattera62053 жыл бұрын

    I feel like the things you post to blerbs would make for really fun and interesting livestreams

  • @squid11160
    @squid111603 жыл бұрын

    Holy shit, had no idea about the Q1 vinyl. Ordered 2 for myself and my friend. Thank you!

  • @NathanChisholm041

    @NathanChisholm041

    3 жыл бұрын

    He did a video on it!

  • @mrb692

    @mrb692

    3 жыл бұрын

    NATH C I thought that was a DOOM bootleg vinyl and not Quake? Or did he cover more game vinyl that I missed?

  • @CryMoar_
    @CryMoar_3 жыл бұрын

    oh man hearing JJ2 again...!

  • @icey_matty
    @icey_matty3 жыл бұрын

    My fave MacBook design

  • @monosagitario
    @monosagitario3 жыл бұрын

    This was the first Powerbook that you can work in multimedia field. I have mine still working with the apple power adapter replacement.

  • @ladyjaye27
    @ladyjaye273 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for reminding me of the existence of Game Sprocket. :) Or how to configure controllers on a pre-OS X Mac.

  • @spokehedz
    @spokehedz3 жыл бұрын

    There was some kind of air hockey game that I loved on the mac...

  • @pineapplebob06
    @pineapplebob063 жыл бұрын

    Just ordered the Quake soundtrack thanks for the tidbit about that

  • @livvy94
    @livvy943 жыл бұрын

    My dad had one of these for his job at the local library, it was one of the first computers I ever used. Lots of memories of dialing into the library's collection of useful links, going to PBS Kids' website for the ZOOM community (anyone remember that?) and Cyberchase, and playing that crappy Magic School Bus shockwave game where you're driving around a map and it's totally not pacman 😂 EDIT: Oh, and going to Apple's website and checking out the brand-new QuickTime VR panoramas of various famous locations!

  • @scruffythejanitor1969

    @scruffythejanitor1969

    3 жыл бұрын

    Believe it or not, Cyberchase is still being made.

  • @SimonQuigley

    @SimonQuigley

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@scruffythejanitor1969 I had completely forgotten about cyberchase, and I don't remember hearing about it since about 1995

  • @xsychoreese9877

    @xsychoreese9877

    3 жыл бұрын

    cyberchase premiered in 2002

  • @desepticon4

    @desepticon4

    3 жыл бұрын

    Quicktime VR was an amazing tech. I had the Encarta CD-ROM, and would spend hours looking at all the different locations.