Comments on: iLife 06 on G3s

By: G3 iBook 600MHz PowerPC

G3 iBook 600MHz PowerPC — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:57:54 +0000

I can run iMovie and Garage Band, but I get the same “Hardware can’t be found” thing for iDVD.

By: Tupring

Tupring — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:36:57 +0000

@ G3iBook900:

I had to delete that other part too.

By: webmonkey44

webmonkey44 — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 08:53:12 +0000

what is the point, why not just use ilife 05.

By: G3iBook900

G3iBook900 — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 21:31:08 +0000

I had to delete the following lines as well. Not sure why no one else did.

function hasAcceptableHardware()
{                                                                                                                   
    return (system.sysctl('hw.vectorunit') == 1);
}

By: john erik madsen

john erik madsen — Fri, 26 May 2006 09:38:14 +0000

this is great information but with one issue

apple removed the distrubution file out of the installer now in ilife o6 but by using pacifist i found some neat tricks

1.you can use the instruments and jams that are ilife 06 in the garageband installation in garageband 2 in life 05

2.idvd works on g3 but needs a piece of hardware??? to run even though i have a dvd burner installed weird??

3.itunes and quicktime screwup your machine if you extract them with pacifist

4.iphoto works but with some things disabled due to procesor restricktions.

someone needs to figure out how to get garageband working on the g3 and get passed apples dumb idea for software because if i photo in ilife 06 runs on a g3 then it tells you that apple just wants to sell people new computers at 1300 dollers a piece and dont give a flying %^&^%& about the 1 million customers that have a g3

By: AuntFlora

AuntFlora — Sat, 06 May 2006 23:35:21 +0000

How do I show the package contents? No matter what I do, it sez ‘bad hardware, bad, bad’

By: Kuro

Kuro — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 18:18:23 +0000

Actually, iPhoto, installed using Pacifist, did work… somewhat, after I renamed it to something else. I don’t understand why.
But it’s very fragile. I aborts itself when I double-click on a photo, or when I tried to load a book (which I don’t remember creating one). I feel it is too fragile to keep my only collection of photos. I’m backing up to the older version.

By: Kuro

Kuro — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 05:00:01 +0000

I copied the enitire DVD contents to the internal hard disk of my iBook (G3, OS X 10.3.9)
and edited iLife 06.mpkg/Contents/Distribution.dist to comment out the block
of code. Then I double clikced the iLife 06.mpkgs icon. The installer, after
running a script, still says it cannot install the software to this computer. (No
specific reason given.)
I even commented out the line calling installationCheck() function, but the
result is the same.

What else should I check?

(I also tried installing the iPhoto package only using Pacifist but the iPhoto didn’t run. OS claims some files are damaged. Pacifist could not find any files damaged.)

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 13:29:04 +0000

Try using pacifist to extract the iPhoto 6 installer. (look it up on versiontracker, too busy now)

By: Sherlock H.

Sherlock H. — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 00:47:45 +0000

I want to try installing iPhoto 6 on my fathers G3 iMac 700, he only wants access to the calendar building tool as an extra to the iPhoto version he currently has.

does anyone know if this tool is available if i hack the instal code and get iPhoto 06 running?

thanks

Rich