What have you done with a PowerPC today?

[Tratkazir_the_1st]

I wonder if it'll be possible with ppc64 .

Introducing NVK

Say hello to a brand new, open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware in Mesa.

www.collabora.com

 

[tensixturtle]

You might have better luck hopping on the Creators Program and grabbing their mp3s; at least the ones available for download-- it looks like 24 of the 26 tracks are available to creators. Interestingly, there's a track on the CD that isn't in the release compilation on YouTube. Your mention of the Pro Speakers has given me the idea of popping it in to the Six Dollar eMac.

I'm mad I didn't pick up Winter 2020's; that one's my all-time favourite.

Sorry to deviate from the thread again, just wanted to say thank you for the suggestion. I hadn't heard of that program before but it is perfect for this purpose. I listened to Winter 2020 on the PM G4, and you are right, it is one of their best ever. The Pro Speakers also make it pop; it's great.

I have one more question, because I am not well versed at all with Mac OS 9, which I assume is running on your Ti Book. How do you get the dock with the applications on it? Is it a setting, or is it something you installed separately? Sherlock works, but it is slow and it drives me crazy to have a bunch of aliases sitting on the desktop.

Thanks

 

[Certificate of Excellence]

Decided to fire up my Quicksilver dual 1ghz and stream some JRB vids in tenfivetube.

 

[originaldotexe]

I got it! No more https crashes! Man is it fast too (on sites that aren't TLS 1.3 enabled). Rendering is still surprisingly good for as old as it is. I'm going to give it another night of tests, then i'll upload it for testing. I want to make sure it doesn't require macports libs relinked, however i can't test that as all my installs have macports installed. In theory it *might* run on 10.2 and up if i did it right. Anyway, more screenshots for now.

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Old Reddit still renders great too.
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do you think this could compile for os9?

 

[wicknix]

That i dont know. There is code in the source tree that looks pre-osx however. Its code base is also very close to classillas, so it might be possible. I just don't have any os9 machines or knowledge of codewarrior, so it's nothing I would be able to attempt.

Cheers

 

[m1maverick]

I have one more question, because I am not well versed at all with Mac OS 9, which I assume is running on your Ti Book. How do you get the dock with the applications on it? Is it a setting, or is it something you installed separately? Sherlock works, but it is slow and it drives me crazy to have a bunch of aliases sitting on the desktop.

The Dock was introduced with OS X and did not exist for legacy MacOS. Ironically the Dock was something legacy MacOS users disliked and wanted a way to do away with it.

 

[Doq]

I have one more question, because I am not well versed at all with Mac OS 9, which I assume is running on your Ti Book. How do you get the dock with the applications on it? Is it a setting, or is it something you installed separately? Sherlock works, but it is slow and it drives me crazy to have a bunch of aliases sitting on the desktop.

A-Dock! It's on the Garden and it's an absolute essential tool for all of my OS 9 installs.

 

[sos_nz]

What have I done? Just fired up the MDD G4 with my newly arrived TinkerBOY ADB-to-USB adapter (https://www.tinkerboy.xyz/product/tinkerboy-adb-to-usb-keyboard-mouse-converter/), so I can try my Apple Extended Keyboard II. Worked as expected

I prefer it to the Drakware which I also recently purchased (https://www.drakware.com/shop/p/adb2usb) for two reasons. First, the Drakware needs an extra microUSB-to-USB cable and second, it's a little bulkier. Both work well though, if you're yearning to use a decent quality Apple mechanical keyboard, since they don't make 'em like they used to.

 

[eyoungren]

As I mentioned last weekend, I went down to Mesa to get a freebie 20" Cinema Display. That's my next project, swapping it out for the 20" ACD.

As my focus has been rearranging things in the garage to get two Mac Minis back up, the Cinema Display has been sitting.

Here it is though. I intend to swap it some time this weekend.

 

[Certificate of Excellence]

As I mentioned last weekend, I went down to Mesa to get a freebie 20" Cinema Display. That's my next project, swapping it out for the 20" ACD.

As my focus has been rearranging things in the garage to get two Mac Minis back up, the Cinema Display has been sitting.

Here it is though. I intend to swap it some time this weekend.

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Love that it came w/ box. They are a pain to transport without.

 

[eyoungren]

Love that it came w/ box. They are a pain to transport without.

Yeah, I have one 23" display from eBay that came in the box too. But both my 30" displays did not.

My intent is to hook the 20" ACD up to the 17" PowerBook G4 in the garage. The aluminum display should look nicer and clear more space on my desk.

 

[MacFoxG4]

Finally got my dream iMac, a tangerine tray loading iMac G3. It has a 266mhz CPU and a 6 GB HDD. When it arrived, the CD-ROM bezel had fallen off during shipping, so I am looking into ways of reattaching the bezel as double sided tape doesn't work for long. I erased the HDD and did a fresh install of OS 9 and I also removed the PRAM battery. The Mac came with 288 MB of RAM, but after digging around in my bag of RAM sticks, I found a compatible 256 MB module and now the Mac has 512 MB of RAM. I think its ridiculous that Apple made it so that you have to remove the CPU heat sink in order to get at the lower RAM slot. I may or may not end up putting 10.2 or 10.3 on here alongside OS 9.

 

[sambow23]

I got a couple of "for parts" Aluminum 15" PowerBook G4's to make a complete one as I've been dreaming to have a early 2000s workstation-esque laptop. All of the logic boards have the famous dead lower ram slot so I unfortunately have to deal with 1GB of RAM, though its pefectly fine when using Sorbet Leopard. I use mine daily for learning graphic design, listening to music, and browsing the internet. I chose to forgo the usual route for web browsers (like InterWebPPC) and opted to use Browservice (CEF proxy running on host PC) with Safari. I find it to be much smoother on heavier sites like Discord as I'm nowhere close to hitting RAM limits or stressing the CPU as much. The keyboard on this laptop is so much better than my M1 MBP, I could type on it forever.

 

[Amethyst1]

All of the logic boards have the famous dead lower ram slot so I unfortunately have to deal with 1GB of RAM […]

The last revision (DLSD) logic board can take a single 2GB DDR2 module, solving this issue.

 

[Romain_H]

Tried to install OS X 10.5.4 on my Powerbook G4 1.5. Its weird, it won't install any OS whose install medium is a DVD. No Tiger, no Leopard, no Leopard Server.

Tiger installed from CDs just fine.

It won't recognize media from an USB DVD drive. The Powerbook denies booting from (burned) Leopard DVDs, it boots from the Leopard Server DVD, but install fails claiming a faulty DVD (which is fine, it installed without issues on a 17" Macbook Pro late 2008)

Anyone an idea what might be the issue? Perhaps a faulty DVD drive?

 

[sambow23]

The last revision (DLSD) logic board can take a single 2GB DDR2 module, solving this issue.

is the DLSD logic board compatible with the A1095 model chassis?

 

[MacMaverick855]

What you see below is a picture of my final product. A G5 desktop with 4 GB RAM, two,250 GB hard drives, with a Radeon ATY128 GPU, running Adelie for ppc64 and a monitor running off of the DVI port. I could not get the Apple Studio Monitor/Port to work. Maybe later. You can see a Wintel Machine running Lubuntu MATE (latest distro) driving the big TV off of an HDMI cable. In the middle top are two monitors, one VGA, the other DVI being driven by an MDD G4 with 2 GB Ram. The MDD has the ability to boot OS 9, OS 10 Tiger, OS 10 Sorbet Leopard and Lubuntu 16.04 (shown) It’s the only Mac G4 I could get to drive two monitors. IT too has a Radeon GPU. In the upper right you can see an Apple Cinema Display being driven by an Nvidia GeForce4 MX GPU installed in a Quicksilver G4 with 1 GB RAM. It’s running Slackintosh 12. Finally, on the lower shelf you’ll see a little Intel MacBook running Linux Mint. I also have a Older. Intel MacBook Pro running Catalina thanks to a DosDude1 patch, and an iMac G5 running both windows and High Sierra. I’m seriously thinking of dumping the windows partition for a nice Linux distro.

None of this would have been possible with out the help I received from numerous people on this forum. I will keep adding posts to this forum as details of the computers’ uses and additions. My projects will includes getting the G5 to drive two monitors, and the WiFI to work as well. The MacBook and the Wintell Machine are using WiFi, the G5 and G4’s are hard wired via Ethernet.

I will update my signature at a later time with the above information.

MacMaverick855

 

[Romain_H]

iMac G5 running windows? I‘m curious..?

 

[theMarble]

iMac G5 running windows? I‘m curious..?

Probably a 2006 iMac, they look very similar to the G5 iMac (near identical if it's an iSight model) but they can run Windows.

 

[Amethyst1]

In the upper right you can see an Apple Cinema Display being driven by an Nvidia GeForce4 MX GPU installed in a Quicksilver G4 with 1 GB RAM. It’s running Slackintosh 12.

...and good old KDE 3.5.

iMac G5 running windows? I‘m curious..?

Probably a 2006 iMac, they look very similar to the G5 iMac (near identical if it's an iSight model) but they can run Windows.

Neither G5 nor a 2006 will run High Sierra though, so it has to be a later model.

 

[TheShortTimer]

iMac G5 running windows? I‘m curious..?

It's possible...

Microsoft Virtual PC 7.0​

 

[theMarble]

It's possible...

Microsoft Virtual PC 7.0​

I've done Windows 98 on an A1046 and XP on my G5 before, but I'd doubt Windows 7+ would run very well on any but a Quad G5.

 

[TheShortTimer]

I've done Windows 98 on an A1046 and XP on my G5 before, but I'd doubt Windows 7+ would run very well on any but a Quad G5.

One of my relatives ran 98 on an iMac G3. That was before I became savvy with Macs and initially I was confused as to what was happening and how.

I've run XP via VMware and the live XP session available on earlier Hiren's BootCD's when I've needed to flash a MB/MBP's optical drive to RPC-1 and for a while I used Windows 7 for running VideoReDo with a Bootcamp set up but I could count on one hand how many times I've needed to run Windows on my Macs in the past five years and I think that's probably a good sign.

 

[Tratkazir_the_1st]

iMac G5 running both windows and High Sierra.

I wonder if you confused G5 iMac with early Intel one .

BTW, for fire safety I't recommend to set up fire extinguisher nearby - too much hardware in one place .

 

[sos_nz]

What you see below is a picture of my final product.


MacMaverick855

Love the photo! I'm going to save it, to show my wife when she complains I have too many orphaned Macs