This one has me stumped. I have been trying to resurrect an old lime green iMac. It only has 160MB of RAM and the processor is 266Mhz. My kids can still play Age of Empires II on this computer. I think that’s pretty amazing with only 160MB of RAM. However, when they attempt to play OS 9 (Classic) games like Bugdom or Nanosaur, the game plays impossibly slow and choppy or I get the following message:
“Sorry but you don’t seem to have enough VRAM installed on this 3D accelerator card. This version of Nanosaur requires 4 megs of VRAM.”
The card in this computer has 6 megs of VRAM.
I clean installed OS 9 onto this computer and the Classic games once again work fine so I am certain that there is nothing wrong with the accelerator card.
I then load Panther onto this computer and the Classic games once again don’t play. It doesn’t matter if Panther is loaded onto the same partition or a different partition, the Classic games will not play.
Prior to upgrading to Panther, I had Jaguar and OS9 on this computer and all of the games worked fine. I have not gone back and tried this combination-I think I’ll do that now after I send out this inquiry.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to make the Classic games work with Panther on this old iMac?
I cross posted this in the iMac forum, but I think it's more appropriate here. Hope thats OK.
Thanks for the help,
Lou
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