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＂… something with FreeBSD in September 2012 … probably toying with 9.0 on a PowerPC iMac with failing graphics hardware. Not because I was a glutton for punishment (like, the horror of a command-line loader, and the certainty that hardware was failing) – because there was nothing good to be done with the Mac, and I was curious about non-Apple alternatives to Microsoft Windows. …＂
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Currently trying to make my wife’s iMac work again by doing a DFU revive
Modern Macs remind me of brittle CONFIG.SYS edits in the early 90s

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116144776295217687
Well tomorrow will be the absolutely last resort to fix that iMac Pro, trying to install macOS from thumb drive
Internet recovery is failing, possibly because the SSD isn’t partitioned right (which is hinted at that while it boots into target disk mode I don’t see any disk when connected to it).
We shall see…

Display-Schaden beim iMac M1: Nutzer fordern Austauschprogramm
Beim ersten Apple-Silicon-Modell des All-in-one-Rechners kann es zu merkwürdigen Darstellungsproblemen kommen. Apple reagiert nur fallweise.
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Super Mario World: lost in chocolate
I have got further than ever before, but that's not saying much. I own Super Mario World on multiple systems - SNES, GBA, Wii, Wii U, 3DS - as well as having emulated it on the Raspberry Pi, the iMac, and (shh) my work laptop. I have played the start of it many times over, knowing to go left at the first map screen and turn on the yellow switch, then progressing right up the map to Donut Plains.

These cameras are pretty cool, Kodak released them a little while after the OG iMacs launched and they had the same colors… (I have the purple and the orange one) I really wonder if they got an angry call from Steve Jobs lol.

The iMac Pro wouldn’t boot anything including recovery/internet recovery even after a T2 restore.
Hardware test claimed everything is fine. Because hardware test ran fine but it can’t boot and won’t see SSDs even in target disk mode, I’m suspecting one of the SSDs (the iMac Pro has two in a RAID) to be defective (hardware test doesn’t really look into those).
I’m replacing the SSDs and blowing the air ducts out and redo the thermal paste just in case.
Fingers crossed that that will fix it. 🫣
#Marchintosh

iMac Pro hosed itself so bad that normal recovery boot doesn’t work, so using Internet recovery 🥴

For those following at home, the iMac Pro saga continues—I've pulled the trigger on a replacement SSD kit [basically from another iMac Pro that was gutted for parts] for it and will replace it myself.
(It's the most likely culprit and I if it doesn't work I can return the kit.)

Something to think about is that the most fondly remembered computers from Apple are those with specific custom highly sophisticated mechanical engineering in their cases—as opposed to electronics.
Examples:
- the monitor arm on the iMac G4
- the door on the PowerMac G4
- the screen hinge on the alumin(i)um unibody laptops
- the locking handle on the G4 Cube
- even the motorized PowerBook Duo dock