Re: Sweet16 and G3 Macs

[Sheppy <the.sheppy@gmail.com>]

On Aug 5, 10:18 am, Steven Nelson <steven-nel...@uiowa.edu> wrote:
> This slightly off topic, but the issues are relevant.  I have a couple
> iMac G3 machines running 10.3.9.  They won't read my 10.4 Tiger DVD.
> How do I install 10.4 Tiger on a iMacG3?  2nd question:  Why won't
> Sweet16 work with 10.3?  I think version 1.73 and earlier ran under
> 10.3.


First dumb question: Does your iMac have a DVD-ROM drive in it?

As for why Sweet16 requires 10.4 or later, there are some new system
routines in 10.4 that made various things much easier to do more
efficiently, so I dropped 10.3 support. In addition, I have no way to
test on anything earlier than 10.4, as none of my systems will run
anything earlier.

In related Sweet16 news, I have a new version coming out hopefully
later today (or tomorrow) that vastly reduces CPU usage on the Mac,
making it play much nicer with other machines. It's always been a bit
of a CPU hog when you tell it to run all-out (which is what it's
supposed to do), but it had quit letting go of CPU resources when in
speed controlled mode a while back, and I didn't realize it. Found and
fixed that problem yesterday. It works much, much better now.

Sheppy