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What have you done with a PowerPC today?
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I actually have Word 5.1 on the MDD too, but...Real men use Word 5 on a Mac with OS9
Realistically, what's the minimum OS for Word 5.1a? I don't even know if it requires System 7... if it doesn't, then I would say you should be running Word 5.1a on 6.0.8 on a IIci or IIsi
Who needs that PPC emulation!
This is why I've stopped using InterWebPPC in favor of using Browservice with Leopard WebKit. Most of my G4 machines can now browse any site without major slowdowns due to offloading all of the processing to another machine on my network. The only caveats is not being able to watch video as there is no way to stream audio, and Wi-Fi being much slower than Ethernet.
If you can find one that doesn't suffer from Dead Bottom RAM Slot Syndrome. Or at least if it does, make sure there's still a performance benefit anyway.If you must run OSX, get yourself a 15" Al PowerBook G4 that can take 2 GB of RAM. TiBooks are OS9 species, don't torture them!
Old Companion had this but nonetheless ran Tiger no problem on the single gig it had, but as it's a base model A1046, didn't see much of a performance improvement over my A1025.
(I wrote a bit of an editorial-type post on these two machines a while back. The relationship of these two is rather fascinating.)
I have two A1095 without this syndrome and one A1095 with, so the statistics aren't that bad.
And, speaking of 15" Al G4s - about 10 minutes ago I conducted an experiment and connected a high-res display from dead 1.67GHz 15" machine to one of my A1095. It works! 1440 x 960 looks a lot better on 15"!
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Tiger seems perfectly snappy on my 1GHz and 1.42GHz G4 iMac and iBook respectively - G4s covered a broad range of speeds, I'm not sure "if you must run OSX" for a G4 captures the fact that later ones were shipped without even OS9 native support. I can say Sorbet Leopard is noticeably more of a slug than Tiger on the iMac (since I have both on it). It takes a full 5 seconds longer to load interweb PPC, and that's on an SSD...
Updated the RAM on my new iBook, and installed the Shuriken optimizations and customizations. Next I'm going to try to set it up as a little Python coding box
I wonder if I should try Leopard on my two G4s (an 867MHz PowerBook and the dual 1GHz MDD). After crazy troubles trying to download/burn it (the need for a dual-layer disk doesn't help), I actually bought a real copy of Leopard from eBay that should be on its way... but maybe it's wiser to stick to Tiger...
This thread has given me a lot of great ideas for my G4 iMac (circa 2003)running 10.3.2 and OS 9.2! As it is right now, it's only being used as a music box and to play old Mac games.
Coming from a windows background, leopard on the g4 reminds me a bit of the switch to Vista (ok, maybe not THAT bad), it looks nicer and has more features but it's awfully sluggish compared to tiger, even with the Sorbet optimizations.
But for what it's worth, you can use a FireWire cable to use one Mac to install Leopard (or Tiger) on the other without burning a disk!
But for what it's worth, you can use a FireWire cable to use one Mac to install Leopard (or Tiger) on the other without burning a disk!
Hmmmmmmm. The interesting thing is, I have Snow Leopard on the 2010 Mac Pro, which is obviously screaming fast... so... hmmm... is Leopard best skipped?
I've never used Snow Leopard, can only speak to my newbie experience with these two computers! Leopard is free, at least, so not much harm other than a wasted couple of hours if it turns out it's too sluggish on your machine. I definitely gravitate back to Tiger already on mine
Where did you get the blue X graphic in About this Mac? Is that part of Shuriken? That would go quite nicely with my Jaguar theme for Tiger.
Yes! The "pinstripe" theme in Shuriken subtly tweaks some things to look more "classic OS" including that
It depends on what your intended use is going to be - I'd say keep to Tiger if you're not going online and using period correct software, otherwise....
How did you get youtube to run so well? My 1GHz iMac can only do it smoothly using tenfivetube at 240p and that's over wired network. What am I doing wrong?
Use a mobile device user agent and go to iteroni.com (but at 1Ghz m.youtube should be ok) - click Embed Link for best results. TenFiveTube is convenient but requires more CPU.
Had a little time this morning, so...
Tossed an old 1TB 7200 rpm laptop drive in the 11,2 (to not disrupt my other OS's) and installed Fienix 6 "Evo". Then added the debian ports repo so i could grab the latest kernel, and while i was at it i gave IceWM a nice Win10 look.
Tossed an old 1TB 7200 rpm laptop drive in the 11,2 (to not disrupt my other OS's) and installed Fienix 6 "Evo". Then added the debian ports repo so i could grab the latest kernel, and while i was at it i gave IceWM a nice Win10 look.
My latest eBay flurry was a copy of Civ IV. Although it said a 1.8Ghz G5 (or intel) was a minimum requirement, it’s running great on my 1.67Ghz PowerBook G4!
The extra long video is purely so you can enjoy the epic soundtrack 🗺️
The extra long video is purely so you can enjoy the epic soundtrack 🗺️
Win look can't be nice. Also, putting a trash can on a top shelf is what we usually do in real life
You are more brave than me - I would probably try CivIV on one of the more modern systems. I know there's a version on Steam for Mac and I know it has some compatibility challenges with modern systems but I can't remember if it's 32-bit Intel-only and that's the issue?
I have the App Store version too (it was something like £5 on a special offer many years ago), which still works on High Sierra on a 2010 MacBook but is *not* compatible with Catalina, having just checked.
By 50 BC my lap was burning, but the fans weren’t screaming horrendously, so I guess the G4 was quite happy to use my legs as a heat sink.
Had fun though!
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