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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
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MPlayer never got mentioned? At least the 2004 version should work.
www.mplayerhq.hu
Can someone port the latest lastic SMtube PPC version with modern MPlayer to Panther?
Or a more modern mplayer?
Also iTheater https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/front-row-alternative-for-older-macs.2215046/
Opera Mini Browser thru MicroEmulator
Opera Mini Browser On PowerPC
This is largely a rehash of the work of @Amethyst1 here who discovered the java emulator/player of sergiolopes but what I've done is slimmed down the required files and rewritten the script, preconfigured the settings and made a launch-able applet. So, what you have is an instance of Opera Mini...
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MPlayer never got mentioned? At least the 2004 version should work.
MPlayer - The Movie Player
www.mplayerhq.hu
Can someone port the latest lastic SMtube PPC version with modern MPlayer to Panther?
Or a more modern mplayer?
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."
en.wikipedia.org
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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."
H.323 - Wikipedia
YouTube live streams on Panther
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neat! trying to remember if I put 10.3.9 on my 2.7Ghz G5, should work in theory as none of the major specs changed for the Early 05 G5's just BootROM updates and faster speeds/GPUs
will have to give it a bash at some point and grab some screenshots
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)
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
I see, thanks for enlightening me
I would recommend a 7,2 yeah as while 970 equipped 7,3's will boot Jag, Jag never takes proper control of the fans so they ramp to max as a fail safe
"WHAT DID YOU SAY? I CAN'T HEAR A THING!"
Just installed Panther on iBook G3 non-FireWire. Is there a VNC client that is not written for Mac OS 9?
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.
This is what happens when I get board
Years late to this, but I second @AphoticD: What were the steps that were required to get the ultimate, final PowerBook G4 DLSD model to boot Panther, @LightBulbFun? Just trying to boot off an existing 10.3.9 install? Or did you have to remove any kexts, configure something in Open Firmware etc.?
From what I understand from another message you wrote, it wasn't very stable, but I'd still like to know the steps and reproduce it on my PowerBook. It might (or not) be helpful in getting us to boot Jaguar on it later on, as well.
In my experience, booting an existing install of a "too old" version sometimes works. I have Jaguar working on the last of the eMacs, 1.42GHz model. I just installed 10.2.8 using another Mac, and it booted up on the eMac. So that might be the case for this too.
What are the "macports" for ? Is it a layer to install software that normally requires a newer os? thx for a short explenation.
A build system and package manager: https://www.macports.org
Presently only 10.4+ are supported, but 10.3 was supported at some point and can be supported in principle now (likely with severe limitations on what can build or it will require a lot of work).
Assuming someone is interested to use 10.3 and have third-party software working on it, it may still be easier to fix MacPorts for it rather than build everything needed “by hand” (that won’t be me though: I mostly deal with 10.6 on powerpc and to some, very limited, extent 10.5).