Re: Sim City - Mac or PC?

On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:19:27 +0100, wildrover.andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(Andy Hewitt) wrote:

I'm having some enjoyment out of rebuilding these old machines, although
three of them will have Ubuntu on them. I've done two with Ubuntu
already, and I have to wonder why anyone with modest software needs
would ever pay for software.

I take that back.

;-)

I had been trying to reconfigure three old PC boxes to
make them more usable this afternoon.

One needed to have dual monitor support (to run Easy Worship on a
projector in the church).

One needs to be basic with Office for a chap who's laptop failed.

The last is just a spare for the church to make use of somewhere.

Between them I had all the hardware I needed. Graphics cards, RAM hard
drives, etc.

Or you thought you did. ;-)

I got the hardware configured how I needed it, expept, the Radeon 7200
doesn't support VGA and TV out at the same time, it's one or the other.

Similar to this Radeon 9600 except I think that's VGA +TV not DVI + TV
(or summat).

OK, one box has built in SiS graphics, so I'll bung the card in there.
Except it doesn't get fully recognised by the ATI Drivers.

Hmmm, dissimilar cards in that age box can be a bit tricky. I have do
so with a similar setup and it's worked first time.

Of course I forgot I couldn't move an XP hard drive to another machine
(I wanted that hard drive in a more compact box).

Did you try out of interest .. again, that *can* work? if you can
start it in Safe Mode it will then often sort itself out?

I actually got to the point of almost launching one of these out through
the back door into the garden. I have done similar jobs in the past with
Macs, and they just worked.

Of course, because you are putting a Mac specific graphics card in a
Mac computer running Mac OS. A nice luxury if you have the money or a
heap of spare Macs and Mac hardware to give away eh?

I'm basically back to square one again, having wasted most of the day
doing this.

Not square one in that you now know what you have and what doesn't
work. ;-) The XP moving drive problem probably wouldn't be if you had
used 98 or ME (and probably much faster on that hardware. The lady
across the road is still running 98 on an old K6-2/400 and it flys).
And it's not a waste if you are doing the work freely and for the
Church in any case is it (especially without better funds for any
other options)?

Maybe keep an eye out on Freecycle for some complete units that you
can add to?

Here's another option, would some older Macs be any good .. I have a
pair of LC475's and a Performer 6800 (or summat) you can have?

All the best ..

T i m







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