Or, install Dark Web. Works great on my Powerbook, is now my go to PPC browser of choice. I'm really shocked by how much of my regular internet browsing works in Dark Web.
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It's unlikely I'll install it on this PowerBook as I do not have any plans to use it. However I think I'll give it a try on my G5.
Lol..don't go around telling nonPPC users that...they might get the wrong impression about you.
Had me thinking that would look not outta place if seen some where in the back ground of the movie 'Alien'. Be a great one for the movie 'Mac spotters'.
Well yesterday being a rainy day and good for computer tinkering, I was gonna have a crack at installing T2 - sde on my iBook. But in doing a backup discovered it was going to take longer than simply re-installing Sorbet, etc from scratch. So canceled the backup.
However I got distracted from proceeding further ..with an adventure game 'Orion Burger'.
No - not so much with the playing of it but the installation ie getting the required system 9 set up. (I'd not done that before.) the instruction I found in a thread in here was still current so went well.
Actually I may have caused some of this 'delay'. Keep getting the feeling that in the install of Shuriken there was a 'do you want system 9' option and unthinkingly I selected no.
However I got distracted from proceeding further ..with an adventure game 'Orion Burger'.
No - not so much with the playing of it but the installation ie getting the required system 9 set up. (I'd not done that before.) the instruction I found in a thread in here was still current so went well.
Actually I may have caused some of this 'delay'. Keep getting the feeling that in the install of Shuriken there was a 'do you want system 9' option and unthinkingly I selected no.
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Not nearly enough, so I'm gonna pull my iMac G5 and my iBook G3 out of storage, my two machines that I feel like I've gotten the least use out of, both to try again with these new OSes that I've been finding. Probably BonSlack 14.2 (which will be a nice trip down memory lane) on the G3 and Arch or CRUX on the G5.
Someone (quite rightly, I think) pointed out a while back (maybe wick??) that Linux will work on PPC macs, but it still isn't as fast (or good) as leopard or tiger.
Got me thinking - the range of old software is quite capable but wots really needed is accessing the web with an up to date browser. A light weight Linux could provide just that and be for that purpose alone. Then fall back to leopard for all non-web based stuff. Then when reading about T2 - SDE, there's mention it could be used as a base for other systems -and Haiku was listed as one.
Very likely way beyond my ability but that's wot I'm gonna be looking into..just as soon as I stop fooling around with 'Orion Burger'.
I think @wicknix has already taken that as far as can be done with his Lubuntu 12.04 remix.
I agree very much so.
That's why I've been thinking or wondering..is that as far as we can go (future wise)?
Just as we have seen Linux distros dropping 32 bit, we have also seen PPC support becoming even more rare...to a few core ones. So for now, we are future proof..just as long as we have someone like wick who can pick up the pieces and put things together. But those 'bits' seem destined to get bigger and bigger.
So my thinking was - wot if we take just a working OS shell, and whack a browser on it...and then found its already been done.
There's a download of T2-SDE for PPC ..with Firefox. Nope - dunno wot version..last years, maybe??
Problem I'm having is my DVD burner keeps failing to burn a working boot up DVD...but hey, I'm working on that..just as soon as I get frustrated or bored with this adventure game I'm playing. Then I'll wipe the HD.
I know, I know..foolish move..starting a game.!!
I think the problem is, a modern, fully functional browser is far heavier than most PowerPC Macs have hardware to cope with.
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Yes..Tis the way of the web I'm afraid.
Did ya want extra 'bells n whistles' with ya web page? Make it stand out more.
Well right now I have Bedrock configured on THE KING with Debian and Gentoo strata, and it does work well as is currently. I'm not running into any new major issues; the only one really being the brightness issue, an already known issue with Debian on DLSDs.
It's definitely more of an advanced tinkerer kind of system rather than a primetime mainstream solution, so take that as you will.
I found a radio stream for Radio 1 and I got it working in iTunes today, which is a big deal for me, since I've been looking for a .pls link that still streams on my Powerbook G4...
I also am making an archive of links/ files of radio streams I can try and use on Coreplayer, VLC, FStream and iTunes
I also am making an archive of links/ files of radio streams I can try and use on Coreplayer, VLC, FStream and iTunes
These are my BBC links that are working ok:
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R1 http://stream.live.vc.bbcmedia.co.uk/bbc_radio_one
R2 http://stream.live.vc.bbcmedia.co.uk/bbc_radio_two
R3 http://stream.live.vc.bbcmedia.co.uk/bbc_radio_three
R4 http://stream.live.vc.bbcmedia.co.uk/bbc_radio_fourfm
R5 http://stream.live.vc.bbcmedia.co.uk/bbc_radio_five_live
R6 http://stream.live.vc.bbcmedia.co.uk/bbc_6music
BBC World http://stream.live.vc.bbcmedia.co.uk/bbc_world_service
Humberside http://stream.live.vc.bbcmedia.co.uk/bbc_radio_humberside
Lincolnshire http://stream.live.vc.bbcmedia.co.uk/bbc_radio_lincolnshire
Sheffield http://stream.live.vc.bbcmedia.co.uk/bbc_radio_sheffieldiTunes but have used FStream and MPlayer in the past.
This one may not interest you guys..old skool, old music and weekends only board casts.. by mainly old jokers.
www.radioferrymead.co.nz
theres a streaming link from that page but I don't know if it works within your requirements.
News • Radio Ferrymead
CELEBRATING TWENTY FIVE YEARS IN CHRISTCHURCH On February 3rd 1991 some members of the Radio Preservation Society gathered together broadcasting equipment and erected a mast so that Sunday afternoon prgrammes could go to air from a studio created in the...
theres a streaming link from that page but I don't know if it works within your requirements.
I know what I haven't done yet, and that's install Arch. I'm not sure why, but the USB drive isn't getting recognized by my iBook G3, despite it being USB 2.0 (and thus 1.1 power draw) compatible and even booting into Leopard 9A303 to verify that yeah, the drive is being read just fine. But in OF, it gives one single flash of activity and then might as well not exist.
If it helps, I dded the image from Fedora on my SL3, not from a Mac. If that makes it incompatible with Open Firmware, that would make sense...I can try dding from the iMac instead. That ended up not being it. I flashed it and then later on also tried booting it on the iMac G5 and it doesn't want to boot it either.
If it helps, I dded the image from Fedora on my SL3, not from a Mac. If that makes it incompatible with Open Firmware, that would make sense...
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Tinkering with Amiga emulation on my underclocked Powerbook using E-UAE...
OctaMED: my introduction to the world of sample playback. 