[MacDV] Re: iLife - Blue and White G3

[Thubten Kunga]

Yes G4 too. I have a copy of iDVD2 that runs on the B&W with a 500 MHz 
G3 (bumped up from 450). But an updated 2.1 version won't run. And I 
haven't tried to burn anything with the 2.0 version that does run yet. 
I managed to hack both the original DVD-RAM drive and a new Pioneer 
DVR-105 inside my Blue & White. It required Tin Snips, pliers and brute 
force. Not a pretty sight any more. But they're both in there running 
on that optical bus.

Next I'm adding one of the last PowerLogix 550-650 G4 upgrades 
(discontinued-soon to be only a 500MHz G4 upgrade) to it. Then I'm 
adding iLife and stirring. I'll let the list know how it goes when I 
get that far.

I also have a Cube. My fallback position is to connect the DVR-105 
directly to the optical connectors of the pulled raw Cube running 
outside it's plastic case. The cables are long enough. Bottom line, the 
Cube thinks the 105 is inside it when it's really outside. I call this 
the inside/outside Cube hack. I know that one works for sure. It was 
first reported to work by another Cube owner last Summer on 
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com with a DVR-104.

As we all know, 10.2.3 adds support for the DVR-105.

Kunga

On Friday, January 17, 2003, at 10:30  AM, Dwayne Bradley wrote:

> Doesn't iDVD have to have a G4 processor as well?  I think that I read 
> that somewhere.
>
> Dwayne
>
>
> On Friday, January 17, 2003, at 12:25PM, Michael Winter 
> <winter at mac.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Friday, January 17, 2003, at 10:32  AM, finalcutpro8 at netscape.net
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone know if iMovie 3 and iDVD 3 will work on a Blue G3 350?
>>> Does iDVD 3 work with the LaCie DVD-R drives?
>>
>> AFAIK, iMovie 3 should still work, but iDVD won't since I don't think
>> any of the Blue G3's came with a superdrive and iDVD will only work
>> with internal superdrives (there are hacks to get around that, but I
>> don't know if they work with a B/W).
>>
>> -Mike