Supported Hardware

| Supported CPUs Bernie ][ The Rescue runs on the following hardware: any Power Macintosh iMac Power Performa PowerBook 1x00, 2x00, 5x00 PowerBook G3 any 680x0-based Macintosh with PowerPC upgrade card Limitations Communications support is not available on more recent systems: blue & white Power Macintosh G3 graphite Power Macintosh G4s and later models iMac 3rd-generation PowerBook G3 (with semi-translucent keys) This is due to the lack of serial ports. Bernie is designed to support PCI serial cards, we cannot guarantee compatibility with a specific model, though. USB-to-serial converters do reportedly work fine on any of the above mentioned systems. Direct floppy support is not available on floppy-less systems even with the addition of external floppy drives. You may still use floppies via Bernie's volume sharing mechanism. Please note that external USB floppy drives do not support 800kB disks no matter what your dealer says.
| Supported Serial Devices Bernie supports all serial devices that meets the requirements of the Macintosh serial ports. This includes: serial modems most PCMCIA modems for PowerBooks serial printers Modems implementing Rockwell Protocol Interface (RPI) are not supported. These modems require additional processing in software which is platform-dependant. Please do not confuse RPI with the Rockwell chip set - the Rockwell chip set works fine. If you own a Macintosh without built-in serial ports, a USB-to-serial converter (from Keyspan for example) will add serial connectivity to your system.
| Networking AppleTalk is not supported at this time. Networking via Marinetti PPP/SLIP dial-up fully supported.
| Storage Devices Bernie supports all SCSI storage devices and built-in floppy drives. Media not formatted on the Macintosh may require third-party driver software (e.g. FWB's Hard Disk Toolkit) for proper operation. FireWire/USB support is untested at this time. We expect this to work flawlessly, though.
| Printing Bernie supports the following printers: All printers for which a MacOS printer driver exists. Some QuickDraw features in InkMeister are not supported. Please refer to the InkMeister documentation for details. Direct-connect serial printers via InkDirect. Limited handshaking support.
| Input Devices Bernie supports all joystick-style devices that support keypad mapping (i.e. translate movement into keypresses). Dedicated Gravis MouseStick and GamePad support.