What have you done with a PowerPC today?

[Ataman Honcho Honchev]

Ha ha. You should have kept that name and tried to convince you bosses that with "z" it "sounds better".
(For example, someone at Mackie gave their control surface the name "HUI").

Back to drivers. Who did FireWire drivers at or for Apple? Also you?

1) No FireWire unfortunately. Otherwise the FW800 G4 problem with MacOs "9" would be solved.
I have no idea how FWIM (FireWire Interface Module) looks and now it's not as important as UIM (USB Interface Module) for "9". Anyone with some info please come forward: would love to utilize the USB 2.0 ports of that "German" card. Eventually will try to study by myself, but it's an uphill battle.

2) That "PisMO" is the opposite thing (see: Ying vs. Yang) to that printshop.

But the worst English, German or Slavonic vocabulary is very timid and innocent compared to what you may hear on Hungarian or Romanian streets.

 

[Ataman Honcho Honchev]

Now we got the "Artisea4" nee "SeriTek/1V4" alias "Vitamin4" alias Vitesse 7174 tests.
Here the new driver nicely improved the transaction number - but otherwise the performance of the SeriTek/1V4 and "Artisea4" / "Vitamin4" is essentially the same.

Except: I did not optimized the register access yet.

The main advantage of the new driver will be (hopefully) that it can break the 2TB barrier.

 

[Tratkazir_the_1st]

the poor PisMO drive deserved that nick.

I've got it's nick name . Was it really so bad?

 

[Ataman Honcho Honchev]

I've got it's nick name . Was it really so bad?

Fujitsu and Apple tried to squeeze things to ATA what ATA wasn't designed for (device hot-swap).
In addition it was in the time of beginning of ATA.
In addition it was the first incarnation of Apple's IDE manager.

So "they" let us suffer: inadequate documentation, bad IDE manager and drive hardware fully loaded with early design bugs.

But if you constantly watch eBay, for few quadrillion of Dollars you may get that... PisMO drive for early PowerBooks.

 

[paardenkapper]

I just upgraded my 12'' PowerBook G4 with an SSD and installed 10.4 Tiger on it.
Now I'm looking forward to installing Adobe Creative Suite and some games

 

[Amethyst1]

Treated myself to my first aluminium Cinema Display, a 20". I gotta say, this little thing is kind of cute. Better yet, it works with the ATI Rage 128 Pro in my Sawtooth.

As I've discovered, 1600×1024 is the highest resolution Mac OS will output via the Rage 128 Pro's DVI... even though the GPU can do higher resolutions (2048×1536 confirmed). A hardware EDID override dongle is necessary to force 1600×1024@60Hz since the ACD's EDID only contains its native mode. It's nice to see the ACD handle the situation reasonably (it lacks a built-in scaler, i.e. behaviour at lower-than-native resolutions is, uh, "undefined"). I get some random but static garbage across the last 80 pixels on the right and the last 26 lines at the bottom simply repeat the first 26 lines.

I tried some other lower-than-native resolutions and also confirmed the native 1680×1050 to go down to 51 Hz refresh rate (lower not tested yet).

1600×1000: same behaviour as 1600×1024
1440×900: garbage
1280×800: garbage
1280×1024: garbage
1024×768: black
800×600: black
640×480: black

 

[pipetogrep]

For a second, I thought you were running an OS X preview.

OS X “Classy Lassy”

 

[ojfd]

Two menubars?

 

[Amethyst1]

Two menubars?

Yes, because the display starts repeating the image at the bottom.

 

[MultiFinder17]

Two menubars?

MMaaccOOSS 88.66

 

[MultiFinder17]

Treated myself to my first aluminium Cinema Display, a 20". I gotta say, this little thing is kind of cute. Better yet, it works with the ATI Rage 128 Pro in my Sawtooth.

View attachment 2210431

As I've discovered, 1600×1024 is the highest resolution Mac OS will output via the Rage 128 Pro's DVI... even though the GPU can do higher resolutions (2048×1536 confirmed). A hardware EDID override dongle is necessary to force 1600×1024@60Hz since the ACD's EDID only contains its native mode. It's nice to see the ACD handle the situation reasonably (it lacks a built-in scaler, i.e. behaviour at lower-than-native resolutions is, uh, "undefined"). I get some random but static garbage across the last 80 pixels on the right and the last 26 lines at the bottom simply repeat the first 26 lines.

I tried some other lower-than-native resolutions and also confirmed the native 1680×1050 to go down to 51 Hz refresh rate (lower not tested yet).

1600×1000: same behaviour as 1600×1024
1440×900: garbage
1280×800: garbage
1280×1024: garbage
1024×768: black
800×600: black
640×480: black

Those 20" ACDs are lovely displays. I got one years and years ago (2009 apparently, JFC) for my birthday and I've used it ever since! I ended with a second one to pair it with around 2015 or so, both of which are still in daily use at school on my main rig. Half of me wants to replace them some day, but the other half is quite attached to them and never wants to get rid of them.

Paired back in the day with my just-purchased 2009 mini!


Paired today with my main iMac in my classroom!

 

[Tratkazir_the_1st]

Treated myself to my first aluminium Cinema Display, a 20". I gotta say, this little thing is kind of cute. Better yet, it works with the ATI Rage 128 Pro in my Sawtooth.

View attachment 2210431

Japanese layout detected .

 

[Amethyst1]

Those 20" ACDs are lovely displays.

I got an acrylic 20" back in 2003 and the large bezel made it look much bigger than it actually was, so when I first saw the alu 20" I thought it was tiny in comparison despite the panel being the same size.

Paired back in the day with my just-purchased 2009 mini!

That Samsung monitor next to it...

Paired today with my main iMac in my classroom!

That's a lot of screens. Two iMacs, right?

@Tratkazir_the_1st: Correct. I'm not Japanese though.

 

[ojfd]

Paired today with my main iMac in my classroom!

Magnets?

 

[MultiFinder17]

I got an acrylic 20" back in 2003 and the large bezel made it look much bigger than it actually was, so when I first saw the alu 20" I thought it was tiny in comparison despite the panel being the same size.


That Samsung monitor next to it...


That's a lot of screens. Two iMacs, right?

@Tratkazir_the_1st: Correct. I'm not Japanese though.

iMac with the two ACDs, mini on the other two.

 

[MultiFinder17]

Magnets?

Sticky tac! Been holding my iMac chin decorations for as long as I've been teaching.

 

[mode32]

Hi all! This is my first question on your forum. How to make the utility work? USB (DSU)

Apple Power Mac G4 733 (Digital Audio) 21" Studio Display (Graphite - CRT)​

 

[lepidotós]

Not much. Moved Aleister Crowley into my closet now that I have one, for storage until I get the money for the total conversion. The plan is still to mount it in a Micro ATX case (ideally Fractal Design Core 1000), get it a new PSU, a SATA card, a bus overclock, some RAM, all that. Then see if I can use it as a web server without the ISP getting mad at me.​

 

[Ryan Bremer]

Watching WWDC23 on Mac OS X 10.5 with TenFourFox.

 

[VirtuallyInsane]

Threatened to kill the iBook that keeps turning itself on. 😆

Took out the battery instead. And off, and on.

Maybe the power button is stuck along with the hard drive being an issue.

iBook G4s do not seem to like my bedroom or being stored in it.

 

[chaosbunny]

Wait, no one made Vision Pro work with PowerPC yet?

 

[Ryan Bremer]

who knows, you can try it

 

[Amethyst1]

Wait, no one made Vision Pro work with PowerPC yet?

I wanna see full macOS on it!

 

[chaosbunny]

who knows, you can try it

Good catch!

I would, if I could, but I can't, so I won't.

 

[barracuda156]

Recent PowerPC news: last several days and past ~40 hrs rebuilding SBCL infinite number of times with incremental fixes. As of right now, 2.3.4 has built. (Latest version is 2.3.5, macOS ppc code was removed in 2.2.3 and did not work already for ages.)
Macports is at 2.2.5 at the moment with our fix-ups. Likely to be at 2.3.5 soon.

Then some bad news: after multiple attempts I have managed to install FreeBSD 13.2 on the G5, but turned out it is totally broken on multiprocessor systems To a point of being unusable at all. And it super-buggy, fragile and slow. Quite a bit of a disappointment.