Bit of a long shot but I’m looking (again!) for a Mac OS9 driver for the FW iSight webcam.
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Bit of a long shot but I’m looking (again!) for a Mac OS9 driver for the FW iSight webcam. It was not supported until OSX by Apple. But IOXperts did a beta driver that I'm guessing does support it (I think!). Unfortunately archive.org does not archive FTP and that's the only links I can find. I've been through all the other drivers and it's just “iSight1.1b26.sit” that I cannot find. I've just spent an hour trawling through Hotline servers with no luck! https://web.archive.org/web/20080623093642/http://lists.ioxperts.com/pipermail/video-beta-discuss/2003-October/000015.html
@fergycool maybe you can contact the original source? https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevesisak/
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@fergycool I had one of these back in the day and it supported FireWire and Mac OS 9. (Sorry I don't have the driver CD.)
@fergycool oh, here's a link.
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@fergycool maybe you can contact the original source? https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevesisak/
@sethmarinello Great idea! I will do that. Cheers.
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@fergycool oh, here's a link.
https://archive.org/details/i-bot-cd-rom@Eggfreckles Thanks. It says it supports the IIDC specification (which supposedly the iSight does too! So I downloaded and installed. But no luck I’m afraid!
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Bit of a long shot but I’m looking (again!) for a Mac OS9 driver for the FW iSight webcam. It was not supported until OSX by Apple. But IOXperts did a beta driver that I'm guessing does support it (I think!). Unfortunately archive.org does not archive FTP and that's the only links I can find. I've been through all the other drivers and it's just “iSight1.1b26.sit” that I cannot find. I've just spent an hour trawling through Hotline servers with no luck! https://web.archive.org/web/20080623093642/http://lists.ioxperts.com/pipermail/video-beta-discuss/2003-October/000015.html
@fergycool I believe I have an original driver in my OS9 stuff, I'll look when I get home Friday afternoon.
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@fergycool I believe I have an original driver in my OS9 stuff, I'll look when I get home Friday afternoon.
@VW_Guy nice one. Thank you!
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Bit of a long shot but I’m looking (again!) for a Mac OS9 driver for the FW iSight webcam. It was not supported until OSX by Apple. But IOXperts did a beta driver that I'm guessing does support it (I think!). Unfortunately archive.org does not archive FTP and that's the only links I can find. I've been through all the other drivers and it's just “iSight1.1b26.sit” that I cannot find. I've just spent an hour trawling through Hotline servers with no luck! https://web.archive.org/web/20080623093642/http://lists.ioxperts.com/pipermail/video-beta-discuss/2003-October/000015.html
@fergycool I wrote drivers for Mac OS8. I think OS9 had a similar driver setup, but I don't have an environment to build that code, or I might offer to write it for you. Perhaps someone here can find it. Good luck!
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Bit of a long shot but I’m looking (again!) for a Mac OS9 driver for the FW iSight webcam. It was not supported until OSX by Apple. But IOXperts did a beta driver that I'm guessing does support it (I think!). Unfortunately archive.org does not archive FTP and that's the only links I can find. I've been through all the other drivers and it's just “iSight1.1b26.sit” that I cannot find. I've just spent an hour trawling through Hotline servers with no luck! https://web.archive.org/web/20080623093642/http://lists.ioxperts.com/pipermail/video-beta-discuss/2003-October/000015.html
@fergycool I don't have an answer, but I *am* surprised to find out their mailing list is still up even after the rest of their web presence went down! Wonder who's keeping that up.
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@fergycool I don't have an answer, but I *am* surprised to find out their mailing list is still up even after the rest of their web presence went down! Wonder who's keeping that up.
@fergycool Looks like at least some of their HTTP downloads were archived, which makes me wonder if you could guess the URL of where the iSight driver could have been and find an archived file there? https://web.archive.org/web/20170202203505/http://ioxperts.com/products/dcam_os89.html
Unfortunately I can't get the wayback machine's filter site by file thing to work right now, otherwise that could have been a useful way to find it. https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.ioxperts.com/downloads/*
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@fergycool Looks like at least some of their HTTP downloads were archived, which makes me wonder if you could guess the URL of where the iSight driver could have been and find an archived file there? https://web.archive.org/web/20170202203505/http://ioxperts.com/products/dcam_os89.html
Unfortunately I can't get the wayback machine's filter site by file thing to work right now, otherwise that could have been a useful way to find it. https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.ioxperts.com/downloads/*
@misty @fergycool unfortunately, I was able to search the WBM using the filename filter earlier today and the file is most definitely not archived.
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Bit of a long shot but I’m looking (again!) for a Mac OS9 driver for the FW iSight webcam. It was not supported until OSX by Apple. But IOXperts did a beta driver that I'm guessing does support it (I think!). Unfortunately archive.org does not archive FTP and that's the only links I can find. I've been through all the other drivers and it's just “iSight1.1b26.sit” that I cannot find. I've just spent an hour trawling through Hotline servers with no luck! https://web.archive.org/web/20080623093642/http://lists.ioxperts.com/pipermail/video-beta-discuss/2003-October/000015.html
@fergycool what Mac are you running it on? From what I recall (I was working on QuickTime Video capture at the time) the FireWire DMA was tricky to get right and the autofocus noise supression would leave sync gaps in the audio.
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@fergycool I don't have an answer, but I *am* surprised to find out their mailing list is still up even after the rest of their web presence went down! Wonder who's keeping that up.
@misty That did surprise me too! Which makes me think there's hope to find the driver!
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@misty @fergycool unfortunately, I was able to search the WBM using the filename filter earlier today and the file is most definitely not archived.
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@fergycool what Mac are you running it on? From what I recall (I was working on QuickTime Video capture at the time) the FireWire DMA was tricky to get right and the autofocus noise supression would leave sync gaps in the audio.
@KevinMarks Thanks. For me a G4 Mac Mini primarily. Mac OS9 is installed from the MacOS9lives installer that uses the G4 Cube rom to trick the installer.
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@fergycool I wrote drivers for Mac OS8. I think OS9 had a similar driver setup, but I don't have an environment to build that code, or I might offer to write it for you. Perhaps someone here can find it. Good luck!
@steter Thanks!
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@fergycool would the IIDC OS9 driver be of any help to you? I *did* manage to find that one yesterday:
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@fergycool would the IIDC OS9 driver be of any help to you? I *did* manage to find that one yesterday:
@vga256 Nice one! I looked, but failed, to find that one! You have better “finding obscure stuff” skills than me! I will give it a go now!
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@vga256 Nice one! I looked, but failed, to find that one! You have better “finding obscure stuff” skills than me! I will give it a go now!
@vga256 So no video but progress! I've been testing video from the webcam with BTV 5.4.1. Up to now it immediately complains there's no video hardware. Even with all the other drivers I have tried. But now it shows a white box! If I unplug the iSight then it instead complains there's no video hardware. Secondly I'm now getting “shareware nags" from the IOXperts driver saying it’s unlicensed. If I unplug the iSight then I get no reminders. So I’m sure it's recognising the iSight.
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@vga256 So no video but progress! I've been testing video from the webcam with BTV 5.4.1. Up to now it immediately complains there's no video hardware. Even with all the other drivers I have tried. But now it shows a white box! If I unplug the iSight then it instead complains there's no video hardware. Secondly I'm now getting “shareware nags" from the IOXperts driver saying it’s unlicensed. If I unplug the iSight then I get no reminders. So I’m sure it's recognising the iSight.
@fergycool Haha wow. well, that's a step in the right direction
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@fergycool Haha wow. well, that's a step in the right direction
@vga256 ...and now you are going to properly Roll about On the Floor Laughing! - I had the aperture shut on the iSight! Opened it up and ….Tadaaa! Video.
