the apple Pippin

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the apple Pippin

I just bought an old apple pippin off of ebay but i cant seem to find any games or anything. I know that supposedly less that 5000 were ever sold but does anyone know a good way of getting games for they system. This is illeagal but could you burn cd images to a disk and then play it on the pippin?

Also, are there some manuals or something on it as right now im really, really confused.

I wish i could get it to work right.

macbook pro, 2.4, Mac OS X (10.4.9), all top end

Posted on Jun 20, 2007 4:42 PM

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Answer 1

varjak paw

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Jun 21, 2007 1:57 PM in response to mrpiddly1

Just to clarify, it's not an "Apple Pippin". Apple created the technology, but it was made and sold by Bandai. Details can be found here, among other places.

There were very few games ever released for the Pippin, and I don't know of any good source for those few. You could try eBay and see if anything turns up. I haven't been able to find anybody elsewhere selling any.

Good luck.

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Answer 2

Jun 21, 2007 11:53 PM in response to varjak paw

There is a major problem with the Pippin: the ROM of this machine just allows to boot off a CD. This CD always was encryted in a very special way and this encryption can not be reproduced today because the encryption keys were splitted into two parts: one owned by Apple and one owned by special CD burning houses.
But there seems to be some sort of work around. You can connect a hard disk and a Iomega Zip drive to the Pippin if You are connecting a SCSI controller to the Pippin's PCI slot. Without the Zip drive the Pippin won't boot but if there is one You can install an appropiate Mac OS to the Zip or hard drive and You will be ready to boot into a regular Mac OS. Then You could install games of that time.
Of course You will have to modify the system folder quite a bit in order not to mess up with the Pippin's ROM or other hardware components. To do so, You will need a special Apple Pippin SDK CD which provides several software and information about modifying system folders, the Pippin's finder etc. This SDK CD also provides some information about the encryption process of Pippin CDs.

I also own a Pippin, just with some internet software in japanese versions and I want to try the procedure I mentioned some time...

J

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