In Hindsight Mac OS
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- After wiping it and reinstalling the operating system from scratch, and updating to the latest version of Mac OS, I used it as my “that person on TV looks familiar” IMDB-lookup machine. The battery life isn’t an issue, as it’s now always plugged in. For reasons I’ll explain another day, I then decided to experiment with something else.
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Hell Yes !
Tried the 'Classic' version of Quake 1.30 under OS X.1,
threw my monitor into an unuseable mode as well.
Ok -> I got drastic; after a re-install of 10.1 didn't fix the issue
(esp. after trying all the original 'tricks' to restore a useable monitor)
SO - I did a TOTAL clean install. Reformatted the drive, 10.0.4 all the way to 10.1
That fixed it & took plenty of time to do.
And killed my address book/user prefs/dock apps & totchkes
Sigh.
Great tip - tho. Thanks in hindsight.
p.s. Hey Apple, how bout a key combo that 'unconditionally quits the frontmost app
and returns the user to the Finder (ideally in a safe monitor resolution)' for OS X ?
Keying blind really sucks serious ass.
Just as a note, I am having this problem as well and am searching for whether there is a fix or not. Here is some info in case it helps us figure out the real fix:
G4/400 AGP
16MB Rage Pro
704MBs RAM
OS X 10.1 (obviously :^) )
Sony 17' trinitron monitor (and, yes, I need a new one anyway)
--set usually at 1280x768, millions of colors, 75Hz
I have found that the Display panel doesn't show all of the resolutions OS 9.1 shows, and the Hz ratings certainly aren't the same. The odd thing is that the Display menu in the top menubar does seem to show the proper resolutions and refresh rates except that it is still missing 640x480.
When in the Display panel, waiting a short time seems to return the display to its prior settings (probably because of the timed save request). However, a game I ran does not do this. Luckily a CMD-Q took me out of the game and back to the prior screen resolution and desktop, but I'm worried something will leave me hanging like the author of this thread had. I'm glad I can go in through 9.1 and delete that file at least, but it'd be nice to have a bit better display handling.
I look forward to other info others might be able to find or figure out!
If you hold the shift key down at startup, OS X will reset the monitor configuration to a default value. I've added this tip to the main body of this hint, along with the reference to the MacNN forum where it was first discussed. Adding this comment just to move the hint to the top of the 'What's New?' box. :-)
I ran into the 'out ot scan range' problem on my new G4 733 which is hooked up to my old Apple 20' monitor. It took me three hours of researching on the net and trying all sorts of things until I found the trick about deleting the com.apple.windowserver.plist trick. The 'boot with shift key down' solution seems the most elegant solution, but here are two other things I discovered that may help in other scenarios:
1. you can hold dowm command-S on startup to get into console mode before the screen resolution settings are applied.
2. of all the CDs that came with my G4, only the OS 9 Install CD allowed me to get to the desktop where I was able to move the com.apple.windowserver.plist file to another location.
besides
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver.plist
I also needed to trash
/Users/[yourusername]/Library/Preferences/ByHost/
com.apple.windowserver.biguglynumber.plist
then it worked fine.
Otherwise the resolution changed back to the invalid just before the
finder finished loading...maybe because of Jaguar, or because I had
auto-logon enabled.
cheers
I have a G3 with unkown speed, ram, HD etc. IT Department just put 10.3.1 on it and after I did security updates, isntalled IE 5.3, Mozilla 1.7.x and the machine restarted itselft the display has never come back up. i've tried to ctrl-s on startup, holding down shift as well to no avail. does anyone have any ideas ? Thanks
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In Hindsight Mac Os 11
Monday, 28 January 2019
In Hindsight Mac Os X
Adam Engst, writing for TidBITS from Macworld Expo 25 years ago:
RAM Doubler is a single small extension that literally doublesyour RAM. It’s not guessing at a 2:1 compression ratio, likeSalient’s AutoDoubler and DiskDoubler (now owned by Symantec) —you actually see your total memory being twice your built-inmemory. Since RAM Doubler is an extension, there are no controls,no configuration. You just install it and it doubles the amount ofapplication RAM you have available.
A number of people have expressed disbelief that such a feat ispossible, saying that they’d avoid anything like RAM Doublerbecause it’s obviously doing strange things to memory, which isn’tsafe. […] >Needless to say, since RAM Doubler has only been out for a fewdays, we haven’t been testing for long, but I can honestly saythat neither of us have noticed anything out of the ordinaryduring this time.
This is the start of a series TidBITS is running, looking back at old articles from their archive.
I couldn’t use RAM Doubler on my Mac LC, because it required a 68030 processor and the LC only had a 68020. But I used it on other Macs, and it really did work as advertised — it doubled your RAM in exchange for a negligible cost in performance. The most amazing thing, in hindsight, isn’t that compression and clever virtual memory techniques could double your memory — it’s that Mac OS was so open that something as low-level as RAM Doubler was even possible. Effectively, a Mac running RAM Doubler was running a fork of the OS — not just a subtle fork but a fork where the entire memory manager was written by a third party.
In hindsight, the lack of protected memory and disk permissions in classic Mac OS are generally only looked back upon as severe deficiencies. And there certainly were deep problems with that architecture — one app or extension crashing often resulted in the entire machine going down. But that anything goes openness also resulted in tremendous opportunities for third-party software.
From a low-level computer science operating systems perspective, the classic Mac OS was dangerously primitive. But from a high-level user interface perspective, it remains amazing. To install RAM Doubler — software that radically changed the way the OS worked — all you had to do was copy one file to the Extensions folder in your System folder. To uninstall, you just moved it out of that folder. That’s it. One file in one special folder and then restart the machine.
Mac Os Catalina
Third-party extensions could be exasperating, yes, but they could also be amazing and just plain fun in ways that aren’t possible today.