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galgot

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OroboOSX
It's a modified Oroborus window manager for XDarwin (same as Apple's X11) that mimics the Aqua look for better integration in the OXS system. Gives some other options , like hiding menubar and dock, themes... ect.
 
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G4fanboy

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Now you can use PPC Media Center https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...ownloader-for-mac-os-x-10-3-9-10-6-8.2224743/

Also iTheater https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/front-row-alternative-for-older-macs.2215046/

Opera Mini Browser thru MicroEmulator




MPlayer never got mentioned? At least the 2004 version should work.





Can someone port the latest lastic SMtube PPC version with modern MPlayer to Panther?

Or a more modern mplayer?
 

G4fanboy

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XMeeting http://xmeeting.sourceforge.net/pages/about.php

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The goal of the XMeeting project is to develop a set of powerful and free Open Source videoconferencing applications for Mac OS X. By implementing the H.323 and SIP protocol stacks, these applications offer full compatibility with well-known videoconferencing clients running on other platforms such as “NetMeeting” on Microsoft Windows, Ekiga (aka GnomeMeeting) on Linux as well as other commercial clients available. H.323 or SIP compliant standalone solutions (e.g. Polycom) are also compatible. This project is based on the work of the Openh323 project, which provides the powerful Open Source libraries that implement the H.323 and SIP protocol stacks.

Two applications have so far been developed by the XMeeting project: ohphoneX and XMeeting.

XMeeting is the main videoconferencing client developed by the XMeeting project. This application has evolved from ohphoneX and provides more videoconferencing features and a much nicer GUI. You will find more information about XMeeting in the XMeeting section on this website. XMeeting 0.3.1 has been released on July 31, 2006.

OhphoneX is an older H.323-compatible video conferencing client for Mac OS X. There is no active development on ohphoneX but users of Mac OS X 10.3 "Panther" will still need ohphoneX as XMeeting requires Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger". You will find more information about ohphoneX in the ohphoneX section on this website."

 
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YouTube live streams on Panther
 
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LightBulbFun

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I'd love to see Jag on an imac g5 (970fx) :)

need to either figure out how to patch out the "halt on unknown CPU" check

or back port 970FX support from 10.3.x/10.4.x etc

the main issue is trying to figure out how to setup a build environment so you can compile the kernel!

was surprisingly difficult even with Tiger (not helped by me chasing my tail, because it turns out it was just terminally broken on intel, and you had to setup and compile on a PPC mac, I was trying at first to do it in an intel VM for maximum power)
 

LightBulbFun

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Is it not possible/enough to present a known cpu via OF hacking?

nah as the OS X kernel almost directly queries the CPU PVR ignoring whats set in OF

although the PowerLogix NVRAMRC patch somehow does it to allow OS X to boot on a 7448 (as OS X does not have native 7448 support)

in theory it might be adaptable to a 970FX system but its low level stuff that could easily brick a system
 
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Project Alice

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Panther boots on a 2005 1.42GHz eMac G4.
Everything seems to work, but I didn't do very in depth testing, I just wanted to see if it would work.

Graphics acceleration works, and audio works. There were no graphic anomalies like Jaguar with it's weird boxed display.
 

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vorob

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Guys can you recommend tool to control fan speed on Panther? The one from Tiger doesn’t work here :( Need to cool-down my iBook.
 

barracuda156

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The first MacPorts is for Tiger https://www.macports.org/install.php#installing

The wgetsolution is Tiger + only.

TigerBrew is Tiger only. https://twitter.com/mactigerbrew https://github.com/mistydemeo/tigerbrew

We need another solution more elegant than clicking the 65 certificates one by one. That wget solution proposed is not for Jaguar+Panther users.

This is certainly inaccurate: https://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2008-January/004084.html

It may be true though that using Macports on Panther gonna be a challenge presently (Tiger is, after all). But why won’t it work? Anyone having some time and motivation can probably fix a large number of modern software for Panther.
 
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