I have read your concerns.
I would like to share my vantage, my perspective of how your concerns have parsed.
The wikipost, to which I referred previously as a starting point, is for a project involving a little bit of rolling back one’s sleeves to tinker. It is a do-it-yourself project — not a do-it-all-for-you one.
When I edited the wikipost, I took great pains to not only make it apparent to newcomers how this is a project requiring that self-initiative, but also the pointers, links, and resources to get one on their way toward their personal goals with their getting involved in the project. In the clearest, most concise language I could, I strove to answer the most common questions asked of the project, with supporting links to the large thread, where needed. For the most part, this has helped most people either a tiny bit or even a great deal.
What
should be clear to every reader of the wikipost is thus:
Running the early developer builds of Snow Leopard, for which carryover elements from Leopard make possible the ability to run it on a PowerPC system,
involves specific workarounds to make it work well.
In fact, one generous user, way back at the beginning in May 2020, made a pre-installed image of
Build 10A190 available to anyone who wanted to test-drive this work in progress by Apple, but who didn’t have the time, means, or know-how to troubleshoot the installation process itself. That pre-installed build is linked for download as one of the file sources in the wikipost itself.
This is all to say: the resources are there, even for folks with limited time to set it up on their PowerPC Mac.
Then you arrived here.
You are a new member.
Your first post was not one of curiosity or thanks or anything in good faith. It was to complain about this project, to the people who have volunteered on this project.
There was no hint of your having carefully read (or even browsed) the wikipost, or to consider what was probably required of both your hardware and you (as a user-tester), before diving into it.
Instead, your grievance was unfocussed, scattershot. It was, frankly, unhelpful — especially to the many folks who’ve donated their time, knowledge, desire to learn, and hardware to collect together everything this thread covers.
You also didn’t disclose
which PowerPC Mac model on which you were thinking of trying SL-PPC. This is a relevant factor, some of which is covered in one of the wikipost’s tables.
You didn’t volunteer anything to indicate your efforts
to try other than a tacit expectation that installing SL-PPC would be as autopilot-simple as popping in a grey, OEM DVD from Apple and letting the whole thing set it up for you as if it’s a final, consumer product — easy enough for one’s grandparents to set up, if following the on-screen instructions.
After that complaint, and after my response to that complaint (which went without a reply until today, almost one month later), what this emoted — conveyed — was an insincere desire on your end to try out, say, Build 10A190 (whether as a pre-installed image tested by folks like
Action Retro, or the version involving a bit of hacking on the user’s end to set up on a PowerPC system).
Instead, you’ve come back to complain some more. This is unhelpful and, frankly, mildly offensive toward everyone who has donated their efforts and shared what they’ve uncovered. Whether this was your intent or not, it amounts to a borderline trolling, and
no one needs that in their lives.
If you want to try out SL-PPC because it’s truly interesting,
do the work. This isn’t a big ask.
To set up the first time, to get it running, if buggy, that’s a weekend afternoon or evening to invest and to have the patience and due diligence to read and process what this community has learnt, step by step along the way.
But…
If you want to complain or expect this to be as hands-off as some final consumer product by Apple, then I submit this was never the project for you to begin with.
And if that’s the case, then best of luck with your future endeavours. Stick to Leopard 10.5.8 on your PowerPC and stick to whatever
officially supported build of macOS your Intel Mac can run, because any tinkering beyond that risks of unfounded complaining no one needs to hear.
)… if it boots like G4’s do then that could be a clue. The only iMac I have is a G3 lol and that is only lucky enough to have a few 10.5 betas running.
