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stoo
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Join Date: May 2004
 
2007-08-07, 19:09

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Does anyone remember MacTell? They used to have some awesome FireWire 400 products, and a nice Voodoo 2 (or was it a Voodoo Banshee?) -based graphics card. They were selling "G3 Macs!" which were actually Tanzania-based 603 Macs with the G3 upgrade card reinstalled...
Alchemey based clones (6400 / 6500) had ZIF CPU sockets and can (I think) run Mac OS X once upgraded to G3, with a little help from XPostFacto. Unfortunately the Sonnet L2 G3 upgrade for 6500s doesn't work in Mac OS X, but it does make them usuably fast in Mac OS 9.

IIRC Voodoo 1 / 2 cards were platform independent. For Voodoo 3 drivers there was a ROM flash utility and universal drivers. I have a Mac-flashed Voodoo 3 around somewhere, but the 6500 ran out of slots.
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