Brown stumbled upon the image while using a hex editor tool called Hex Fiend with Eric Harmon's Mac ROM template to explore ...

A favourite thing for the developers behind a complex software project is to embed an Easter egg: something unexpected that can be revealed only by those in the know. Apple certainly had their ...

The activation method for an Easter egg, hidden deep within the ROMs of ancient beige Apple Power Mac G3 computers, has been uncovered.

A side panel of a retired Apple Power Mac G3 has been turned into a clock and sold on Etsy, the online shop for hand-made and one-off crafted goods.

Apple calls the DVD-R/CD-RW optical drives installed on its latter-day Power Mac systems “SuperDrives” because of their flexible format support. Now Mac upgrade and replace service MacResQ is ...

The board has to be able to support a G3 333 MHz ZIFF processor.<BR><BR>If you want to include some RAM with it, I'd be interested as well.

You can use the newly released firmware and loader to test running Windows NT on your Power Macintosh.

Power Macs were introduced in 1994 and superseded the Motorola-based models, the first Mac platform. Power Mac models were designated first with numbers from 5200 to 9700 and then G3, G4 and G5.

It’s difficult to believe then, that the first Apple Mac to be designed with a USB interface was shipped without it; but that’s the case with 1997’s grey Power Mac G3.

The Mac, formerly the more austere Macintosh, turns 40 today, putting Apple’s longest-running product squarely in middle age.

But the iMac G3 — followed by its offshoots, the Clamshell iBook laptop and Power Mac G3 tower — ruled as a visual icon of ’90s tech, which saw everything from gaming consoles to point-and ...