What have you done with a PowerPC today?

[mmphosis]

Today, I went through devlog. Thank you cellularmitosis

sed "s/^ */$(printf "\x09")/g" > Makefile​

And, my firewire drive is failing — no surprise there.

disk1s10: I/O error​

bummer​

 

[Dronecatcher]

I'm writing some new sample based material....back to basics in the (no longer available) rewrite of Protracker....

 

[Eriamjh1138@DAN]

Attempted to repaste CPUs (G5 Quad). First half completed (pair of screws undoecumented or I didn't read manuals well). Second part - reassembly - is large PiA, incompleted for now (take quite entire day, not to mention some family activities). This is hell - to unscrew all this screws of different kind, and to operate inside... (m.b. I'm doing something entirely wrong.)

My other quad has this cooling system. I'm only going to repaste it. It cools well and doesn't leak. It will likely never leak. At best, I'll flush the system. I dread doing it.

 

[cellularmitosis]

Today, I went through devlog. Thank you cellularmitosis

sed "s/^ */$(printf "\x09")/g" > Makefile​

Ah nice trick to fix the Makefiles!

 

[Tratkazir_the_1st]

I'm only going to repaste it.

Can you please document it with pictures? When you decide to do it, of course . And how anybody have to access that 2 screws, under big heathink (left, if we look after cover removed) ?

 

[mectojic]

Today, after having enough frustration with my 2 Blue and Whites, I found a solution that seems to be satisfactory for now.
I decided to make one only boot Mac OS 9, while the other only boots OS X. For whatever reason, my B&Ws always have kernel panics and require many restarts whenever swapping between 9 and X. By completely separating them, I seem to have a much stabler experience.
Since OSX doesn't like PCI graphics being accelerated, and as the games I want to play on here are in OS9 anyway, I've put my Radeon 9200LE in the OS9 machine. 400MHz G4 and 128mb Vram is plenty to tackle pretty much any game for that OS.

 

[Tratkazir_the_1st]

Today all my purchases from avito.ru arrived & I've got them right now at home. The Canister got it's first hardware upgrade . Pics included. (G4 non-FW800 with FW800 - Easy . Didn't connected additional power cable, not planning to connect something power-hungry. External DVD has 1 good feature - cable can be detached & replaced). It works OOB . Even Network Preferences added new FW800 PCI network adapter . (BTW, In 10.3 it works also OOB.)

 

[Alexis Trinquet]

Threw the CHAMPON2'Turbo card into my 7500 now I'm just waiting for a DB25-HD50 SCSI cable to hook up an external HDD (read: an iomega Jaz 2GB drive) for an experiment..

I'm very nervous to try this card in the 7500, knowing the trouble it gave me with my testbench PC (although it may be that my test motherboard is going bad). I noticed a unlabeled jumper near the IDE connectors, I've opened it, thinking it disables the IDE ROM or the IDE controller.. We'll see...

 

[mmphosis]

Today, I was messing around with OpenGL.

Also, yesterday my monitor failed. Today, I plugged in a spare.

 

[Tratkazir_the_1st]

Tested external FW800 Drive with installed in Canister controller. It seems I have to attach Y-CABLE for additional power on ports. Drive didn't started.

 

[Tratkazir_the_1st]

Downloaded InterWebPPC latest, for all supported platforms to home fileserver. Dropped to browser Applications on Canister, freshly restored Sorbet Leopard (R15) (wow, no it looks like real apple OS with welcome music & first start wizard ). After first run & setting InterWeb as default browser - it crashes, even if no pages opened (can't even open our beloved forums.macrumors.com ). What can I do to fix this bug?

 

[Dronecatcher]

What can I do to fix this bug?

Did you repair permissions before installing it? Remember Sorbet is a disk image of someone else's computer.

 

[Tratkazir_the_1st]

@Dronecatcher
No. M.b. first start made me think it is unneeded. Can it really help?

 

[Amethyst1]

After first run & setting InterWeb as default browser - it crashes, even if no pages opened (can't even open our beloved forums.macrumors.com ). What can I do to fix this bug?

Do you get any logs?

 

[Tratkazir_the_1st]

any logs?

Not right now, m.b. later.

 

[Dronecatcher]

Can it really help?

Yes - it's a recommended procedure with Sorbet as far as I know.

 

[theMarble]

Yes - it's a recommended procedure with Sorbet as far as I know.

Last time I checked it was in the official installation instructions over on MG.

 

[Dronecatcher]

Track 2 in the bag today on Powerbook/Tiger/Protracker 2.3

 

[cellularmitosis]

I got XMMS to build (along with gtk 1.2), but unfortunately it can't load any of its own plugins so it can't play anything

This is of course anachronistic but who says you can't mix and match your nostalgia trips?

 

[lepidotós]

Why not just use Audacious? It has the exact same UI and takes the same skins and still has a wide plugin system including support for mods and SID tunes. Here's an image I took of it running on top of Trinity recently. Unless it's not available for Leopard...​

 

[galgot]

If it is just using these skins on OS X or OS 9/8, SoundJam MP can use these WinAmp/Audacious/XMMS skins, there is a converter in the download.
Some years ago found this pack of 494 WinAmp skins:

WeTransfer | Send Large Files Fast

The simple, quick and secure way to send your files around the world without an account. Share your files, photos, and videos today for free.

we.tl

Never had time to test all of them, but most I've tried worked when converted for SoundJam MP.

 

[wicknix]

Today i made a small app based on neofetch to display some system info. You can get it on the garden here:
https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/infoppc

Cheers

 

[galgot]

Today i made a small app based on neofetch to display some system info. You can get it on the garden here:
https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/infoppc

View attachment 2178802

Cheers

That cool !
In relation with Neofetch and system infos :
I’ve just installed OpenBSD 7.2 on a Ti 1Ghz, dual boot with Leopard.
All fine. But displaying Neofetch I get a CPU speed of 667 Mhz :



Now, I’ve read that « Ti downclock cpu when the battery is dead »… I suppose that is PRAM battery right ? Cause the main one on this machine seems Ok.
Anyway, so I’ve tried InfoPPC on the leopard side As well as Neofetch (installed via Leopard.sh) :



Fine, but alas no PCU infos, tho InfoPPC gives more infos than Neofetch.
And Mac OS X system infos just says the CPU is 1Ghz of course …
Is there an util to get the exact CPU max speed on the Mac OS X side ?

(note Neofetch in OpenBSD gives the GPU as "softpipe" )

 

[Amethyst1]

Now, I’ve read that « Ti downclock cpu when the battery is dead »… I suppose that is PRAM battery right ? Cause the main one on this machine seems Ok.

The forced downclocking to 667 MHz and disabling of the L3 cache is “connected” to the main battery being dead or missing AFAIK. But maybe some power management feature is causing it? I remember that Mac OS 9 on my 800 MHz TiBook reported the CPU speed as “667–800 MHz” in System Profiler.

You can try sysctl -a | grep machdep.cpu and see if that reports anything of interest, or run e.g. Geekbench 2 and see if the results are as high as expected for a 1 GHz G4.

 

[galgot]

The forced downclocking to 667 MHz and disabling of the L3 cache is “connected” to the main battery being dead or missing AFAIK. But maybe some power management feature is causing it? I remember that Mac OS 9 on my 800 MHz TiBook reported the CPU speed as “667–800 MHz” in System Profiler.

You can try sysctl -a | grep machdep.cpu and see if that reports anything of interest, or run e.g. Geekbench 2 and see if the results are as high as expected for a 1 GHz G4.

Ahh Thanks !
sysctl -a | grep machdep.cpu gives me : kern.exec: unknown type returned.
But just sysctl -a , I can find : hw.cpufrequency: 100000000.
Then Geekbench 2 gives me 1Ghz with L3 cache 1.00 MB, So all fine on leopard side.

So the problem is in OpenBSD...