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  1. J

    Comprehensive PowerPC USB boot guide and more

    Hello all! There's lots of lovely resources here and elsewhere on the internet, but I wanted to take a crack at making a guide for installing OSX to a PowerPC Mac. The biggest hole in many guides I saw was making the bootable drive, which I included here. (However, even now it still technically...
    • jojo2k
    • Thread
    • 10.4 tiger osx powerpc usb boot
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: PowerPC Macs
  2. zoricspsol

    Can I install OSX without apple ID verification ?

    I got an old iMac 2008 and I want to ease everything, split it into two partitions. One for the latest possible (and best performance) OSX and the other for Linux. Now, my problem is that I already partitioned the disk, eased OSX, installed Linux Mint and sat up everything. BUT... I cant...
    • zoricspsol
    • Thread
    • cleaninstall dual boot imac linux osx
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: iMac
  3. J

    How to Remove Large "Screen Mirroring" Button from Menu Bar

    A few weeks ago, this gigantic "Screen Mirroring" button appeared at the top of my screen on the menu bar. How do I remove this?
  4. R

    MBP 1,1-10,2 Can't install any OS X

    Hi all, I have a MacBook Pro mid 2010 13", with C2D 2,4 GHz, 1+4GB RAM (1333MHz and 1600MHz), nVidia 320M integrated VGA. I would like to install OSX to my blank internal SSD. I tried Internet Recovery, Boot pendrie, both wont work. The loading bar stops in halfway, and the notebook freezes...
  5. P

    Display issues: Change size on Finder and Music/iTunes sidebar?

    OS: OSX Catalina 10.15.7 Computer: MBP Retina 13" Late 2012 Monitor/Display: U2518D 25” 1440p DELL UltraSharp 25 Monitor. 59,88hz. Cable: mDP to DP cable Other: Disabled MBP display with small magnet above left USB-port. ----------------------------------------------- Question 1: Resizing...
    • peite
    • Thread
    • display finder app music app osx screen area resize
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: macOS
  6. bjlawrence11

    5K Studio Display and 4K Monitor Scaling on a Mac...

    Do people ever scale down their 5K Studio Displays, so that their second monitor has a matching resolution? Moving between two different resolutions is my worry. Can someone advise me on the best setup? I want to get a Studio Display for my primary and my other monitor as a heavily used...
  7. T

    Usability of Mac OS 10.10 in 2023?

    Hello, I’m wondering how usable the Mac OS Yosemite is in 2023. I run thease apps, Minecraft Java iMovie Garage band Adobe PREMIER ELEMENTS & Adobe photo elements Obs studio Wine hq Cross over Microsoft word Rar extracter pro Better net vpn Google chrome How usable are thease...
  8. TheBeeDev

    How can i restore my 2006 iMac (A1208) back to running either Tiger or leopard?

    I am in an interesting situation, i am a younger collector of older Apple hardware, and do not have the resources to purchace...an actual OSX disk I have tried internet recovery and the internet archive Internet recovert kept saying my password was wrong though it was not, and all the images...
  9. macpro5

    OSX 10.4.12 Shuriken

    18 days until the release of OSX 10.4.12 Shuriken. https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/shuriken This page is dedicated to the intial and future releases of the newest z970 project.
    • macpro5
    • Thread
    • 10.4.12 osx powerpc shuriken z970
    • Replies: 102
    • Forum: PowerPC Macs
  10. M

    Updating to newer OS from Mavericks

    I have a 2007 imac. I've been kinda stuck on Mavericks because I only have an old version of Photoshop. However the client I do most of my work with now has signed up to the Adobe suite and got me a login, so I can finally ditch my old CS6 & update my Operating system. Also, I have a lot of...
  11. dev232

    macOS I cannot compile on OS X (won't link, object code compiles). 4chan/g deletes my Question (Thus I came here).

    Installed Mac Ports on OSX High Sierra > sudo port install gcc11 libsdl2 openssl glfw libsdl2_gfx libsdl2_image libsdl2_mixer libsdl2_net libsdl2_ttf and added the libs to the compile options: and that made the object code finally compile and not error out: > CPUOPTIMIZATIONS?=-fcommon...
  12. filmgeek

    PMSet - out of control; launches, relaunches; Monterey Current - can't figure out how to diagnose

    MBP late 2018. i9 + eGPU.Monterey, 12.3.1 I'm stumped here. PMset (power management) is off the charts for the last 3+ months. At random times (and OFTEN) it's running at 90%+ of the CPU. It'll launch, run high, terminate and relaunch. I've removed everything, did an SMC and the PRAM resets...
  13. T

    macOS x64 Assembly syscall

    Does anyone know how I can convert the following code so I can Assemble it using MASM mov ax, 0x13 int 10h The above is changing the screen mode but if I add a syscall function I get a Segmentation Fault 11 i am not sure which call i should be using: mov rax, 0x2000004 exit mov rax...
  14. flatjuba

    Dual boot OSX and MintPPC, any success?

    I would like to know whether anyone able to dual booting OSX (especially Sorbet Leopard) with MintPPC... Any success story?
  15. C

    UK-based Collectors?

    I have used Macs since the mid 90s and have a large number of items that would be appreciated by a select few. I was actually Apple certified from the dark days when you sat exams for configuration and printers up to the era of the Apple Store. I am having to sell up and relocate abroad. I am...
  16. M

    OS X Tiger on Early-2009 Macs

    Back then, I asked the MacRumors users if i can hack a OS X Intel Tiger disc to work on an early 2009 iMac. So I would like to ask if there is a way to hack an OS X Tiger install to work on Legacy GPUs like kexts, etc. like, you know that patchers like the Catalina Patcher does graphics...
  17. M

    MinecraftC on PPC

    Hi everyone, I recently saw a post on reddit about the original Minecraft 0.30 ported from Java to C (https://github.com/johnpayne-dev/MinecraftC) and after trying it on Windows I realized that it was indeed really lightweight in comparison to the Java version even without any optimizations...
  18. M

    (Followup) OS X Tiger on an Early-2009 Mac

    Back then, I asked the MacRumors users if i can hack a OS X Intel Tiger disc to work on an early 2009 iMac. So I would like to ask if there is a way to hack an OS X Tiger install to work on Legacy GPUs like kexts, etc. like, you know that patchers like the Catalina Patcher does graphics...
  19. L

    Apple Photos, Face Scanning and iCloud

    hey - a multi part question I want to upload a bunch of historic photos into my iCloud account, and have the OSX Photos app run face recognition on them. Why? Because I'd like these photos to appear in the Memories / recaps / videos that appear on my iPhone, but also be able to search for a...
  20. SCavndrF

    Can't boot from SSD due to Yosemite Recovery

    I have 3 MacBook Pros that I updating and installing SSDs. Two are 2015 and one 2014. All 3 are using the same 3rd-party SSD. Two are all running Catalina. One keeps coming up with Yosemite. It will NOT see the SSD during installation. So I created a USB installation drive with Catalina on...
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