Oh, don't worry, I drop the ball on looking back at topics every now and then, too.

QEMU + a dying external drive totally crapped out on me, however, so my progress on that (plus terabytes of not-too-important files) are gone, but right then, I also got my paycheck, and completely burned it on PPC Mac stuff. I don't regret it even one bit.

Now I own 3 minis, 2 MDDs, 1 PowerBook G4 1.67Ghz DLSD 15" and 1 G5 Quad (cheaper + easier + safer than bringing my stuff from Brazil, ironically, but eventually I'll bring them back here, too). Think I went a bit too wild there?

2nd MDD was an "accident", because what I really wanted was the Ti4600 Mac Edition card that came with it as part of the sale (I have already put that 2nd MDD to use, however, nonetheless. MDDs are a keeper for me as the ultimate best-performing most-expandable Mac OS machines, at least until the unlikely day I see native OS9 on G5s).

The 3rd mini, a 1.25Ghz mini, was also an "accident" in the sense it came bundled with a 1.5Ghz mini sale. The 3rd mini reeks of smoke (1.5GHz mini not as much), has a damaged GPU that displays faulty graphics, has a broken CD/DVD drive, no hard disk and its case gets dangerously stuck, but it is still useful: I took off its modem and modem port for the 1.5GHz mini, it can still be run as a server without a screen (i.e. FTP, AFP), or be remotely accessed for control from another Mac. I'll also subject it to CPU overclocking, GPU overclocking and soldering/cooling tests to give myself some knowhow, knowledge and experience for (safely) doing the same to other machines, potentially/eventually. I may also hack at the drive bay to see how successful it can be to fit certain SATA/IDE adapters that otherwise wouldn't fit. All for the knowledge gathering. Much better than discarding or throwing away the machine, as most people would.

My other mini is also 1.25Ghz, and is in excellent condition, and I'll take care of it so it remains that way.

Of course, to go along with all this, I also got myself a cheap 85Hz CRT for gaming & demoscene, and a huge high-quality LCD monitor which I intend to use for everything else. (Particularly coding.)

In any case, no more QEMU! Maybe as some odd playground for Rhapsody ~ Puma dev. tools, but even then only on PPC and, if possible, in virtualization mode (no CPU emulation). I'm just not a happy QEMU user, personally. At least not until the day it becomes the "BSNES of the Macintosh", but I fear that day might never come.

Anyway, sorry for the long update. But since I was asked, I felt compelled to reply adequately!

(And people reading this, who may be interested in buying old Macs, don't worry, I'm done purchasing. I plan to exclusively stick with these for life. The only exception I maybe may make is if I see an undamaged 2.7GHz DP G5, which is as rare as unicorns anyway, since most of them died from faulty cooling or improper care, or are still partially-damaged otherwise, unlike its superior dual-core cousin.)

That's really damn awesome. One issue I had, though, was that I used QEMU via USB 2.0. Had I had access to an internal SSD with at least SATA III, it would have been an entirely different experience for me. I can imagine QEMU + OS 9 + CodeWarrior being an epic combination if done right.

Hearing that makes me get more excited about setting up specific QEMU dev. environments for Rhapsody ~ Puma. I'll definitely not make the "USB mistake" again.

...especially with the latest builds of 5 with the FPU hack.

Lol, just thought of something really crazy: wouldn't it be something if MacGarden peeps were to submit how-to vids of all of the amazingly crazy and mission-impossible level hacks and mods to Cornica on hot-rodding all of our Macs? I know it be way easier to do on YouTube, but I think it'd still be more fun to do it with our own combined resources. Heck, even if it was through YouTube, it would be sweet for sure!