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Just for kicks, calibrated (sort of) my newly fitted to A1095 PowerBook G4 1440x960 display, while in OS9 :cool:
Boy, are these early CCFL LCD displays rubbish, compared to what I'm used to work with these days. Delta E is all over the place and so is the brightness across the screen. They won't pass UGRA tests either and are useless for serious Photoshop or color correction work.

EDIT. For the average user they will look 'just marvelous' :D

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This is the best I could do with non-functioning Brightness control in OS9 Monitors CP.

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Code:
 No. | Lab              | dE94
-----+------------------+------
  0  | 57.4 -27.3 -39.6 | 14.6
  1  | 63.8 -26.5 -32.9 | 10.8
  2  | 74.0 -16.9 -20.1 | 6.4
  3  | 84.0  -8.7  -9.4 | 4.3
  4  | 48.6  66.8  -2.3 | 7.3
  5  | 56.4  53.0  -3.6 | 8.9
  6  | 69.0  32.2  -2.5 | 8.1
  7  | 82.7  14.0  -1.0 | 4.8
  8  | 88.0  -4.5  76.1 | 5.4
  9  | 89.4  -3.9  60.3 | 3.8
 10  | 90.4  -3.7  38.1 | 3.4
 11  | 91.9  -2.1  19.9 | 2.8
 12  | 20.8   0.7   2.4 | 4.5
 13  | 38.2  -0.1  -0.4 | 7.5
 14  | 56.9  -0.4  -0.7 | 6.5
 15  | 71.8  -0.7  -0.4 | 5.1
 16  | 48.3  62.6  37.3 | 6.5
 17  | 55.5  50.3  32.4 | 7.8
 18  | 67.5  30.7  24.4 | 6.4
 19  | 81.3  11.4  15.0 | 4.6
 20  | 52.3 -56.5  24.2 | 10.7
 21  | 59.8 -42.6  18.3 | 6.2
 22  | 72.1 -24.3  13.2 | 3.7
 23  | 83.3 -11.8   8.1 | 2.9
 24  | 27.4  12.9 -42.9 | 7.5
 25  | 36.9  16.0 -35.4 | 10.7
 26  | 54.5  12.9 -22.3 | 9.7
 27  | 74.3   5.2 -11.7 | 6.2
 28  | 92.8   0.3   2.0 | 1.7

Average deviation     6.5 dE94
Maximum deviation     14.6 dE94

The systems does not comply to the SWOP(r) standards.
 
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Well I have gotten Spotify working on PowerPC again, technically. I used a combination of Browservice to load the web spotify app to control my PC client, then used VLC to stream the audio back to my PowerBook G4 12". It works surprisingly well and there isnt a horrible delay clicking the media controls. The audio itself is pretty stable, even when using the slow Wi-Fi card.
 

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Little update, since I wanted a slimmer way to control spotify at home I came up with this small client/server script (thank you ChatGPT) that handles controlling media via playback button emulation and grabbing song info from the Spotify window title. Its all very hacky and I have no idea if I'm going to turn it into a more robust application
Here is a live demo:
(no idea why its a YT Short)
 
Well I have gotten Spotify working on PowerPC again, technically. I used a combination of Browservice to load the web spotify app to control my PC client, then used VLC to stream the audio back to my PowerBook G4 12". It works surprisingly well and there isnt a horrible delay clicking the media controls. The audio itself is pretty stable, even when using the slow Wi-Fi card.
yeah of course, browservice doesn't count, it's like using a vnc viewer to use your modern mac from your old one 🤣
 
Little update, since I wanted a slimmer way to control spotify at home I came up with this small client/server script (thank you ChatGPT) that handles controlling media via playback button emulation and grabbing song info from the Spotify window title. Its all very hacky and I have no idea if I'm going to turn it into a more robust application
Here is a live demo:
(no idea why its a YT Short)
Nice work here. I've been working on a native Spotify experience for PowerPC these past several weeks, but running into lots of obstacles as you might expect. I like your novel approach here, haven't thought about using Browservice on a PPC Mac (thanks for the idea).

Some unsolicited information: I know you've started on a control script, I will point out that if you want to skip the browser bit altogether (and having to issue text commands to your script), you can use the Python-based Spotify Terminal app. Spotify Terminal is a full-on text-based Spotify frontend that allows you to use Spotify Connect to control your "host" Spotify app from elsewhere. Since this is what you are doing and piping the audio back via VLC, it might be worth checking out:



Note you need to authorize Spotify Terminal for use in Spotify, this presents a bit of a conundrum for PowerPC browsers which can't handle the internal redirect. You'll need to proxy this bit to another machine or connect from another machine to make this happen. But one you do, you will have a full Spotify client running semi-locally on your PPC machine. With any luck, I'll have a way to do this all natively soon (and if I can't, I will probably just end up using your method!)

Hope this helps, cheers and keep up the good work.
 
Nice work here. I've been working on a native Spotify experience for PowerPC these past several weeks, but running into lots of obstacles as you might expect. I like your novel approach here, haven't thought about using Browservice on a PPC Mac (thanks for the idea).

Some unsolicited information: I know you've started on a control script, I will point out that if you want to skip the browser bit altogether (and having to issue text commands to your script), you can use the Python-based Spotify Terminal app. Spotify Terminal is a full-on text-based Spotify frontend that allows you to use Spotify Connect to control your "host" Spotify app from elsewhere. Since this is what you are doing and piping the audio back via VLC, it might be worth checking out:



Note you need to authorize Spotify Terminal for use in Spotify, this presents a bit of a conundrum for PowerPC browsers which can't handle the internal redirect. You'll need to proxy this bit to another machine or connect from another machine to make this happen. But one you do, you will have a full Spotify client running semi-locally on your PPC machine. With any luck, I'll have a way to do this all natively soon (and if I can't, I will probably just end up using your method!)

Hope this helps, cheers and keep up the good work.
InterWebPPC worked for me authorizing spotify-terminal, and spotify-terminal does indeed work but the rendering is really buggy
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That's awesome, glad you got it to work. Bonus points for the SOAD 🤘

I also have that bug, but sometimes it can be avoided by restarting the client and crossing your fingers.

There's an open ticket that looks related on GitHub, but seems like the project might not be active anymore (no updates in 2 years).


There are some other python-based Spotify clients out there I haven't yet tried, it might be worth a look to see if we can't find a less buggy one. For example, there's this one, though it doesn't appear as full featured.


Either way, thanks for testing this out and proving that it works!
 
I put an mSATA SSD in a Titanium G4... now I need to reinstall everything... (okay, I could probably have transferred stuff but really, I hadn't done much on the hard drive)

Interestingly there was a handwritten taped label on the 40GB drive. Makes me think this laptop may have had a more colourful history than I originally thought...
 
I put an mSATA SSD in a Titanium G4... now I need to reinstall everything... (okay, I could probably have transferred stuff but really, I hadn't done much on the hard drive)
And I thought I could directly install Tiger, but now the software restore app on the DVD with OS 9 on it isn't happy. Time to go hunting for hidden DMG files...
 
Fair enough! Back in the days I was daily driving 68k macs I preferred to have nothing from Redmond on my system but I guess that was just youthful prejudice. Word 5.1a is a good piece of software
 
Bought a Cardbus USB Card. My PowerBook has now USB, I got it to the 21st century!

It will be easier to use now with a mouse (Apple Pro Mouse) than with that trackpad.
 
Pulled out the beast (17-inch Powerbook) and installed a pile of programs onto it.

I am actually typing from it right now, but will probably use it more as an offline machine, unless I NEED to go online. So far, it's running fine but a little hot.

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Your 17" 1.33MHz PB is much better at running OS9 ;)

Lol 1.33 MHz? You mean GHz? xD I have a 1.07 GHz iBook G4 and it runs alright but a bit slow on Tiger. But it only has one job, literally. To type documents. So that's fine.

I put in a 256GB SSD into the 17 inch and it's running a lot better than it did before on Leopard lol. And oh yeah, classic mode. Forgot about that. My iBook G4 has that, and my iBook G3 is running 9.2.2. at the moment.

You can load OS9 natively but it doesn't seem to be all there, according to a thread at Mac OS 9 Lives. If I get another one, I am gonna try it out though.
 
Spent the morning watching YouTube through iteroni and did some writing and email for school using office and tenfourbird…Ohhhh and can’t forget played some super mario bros advance using retro arch.
 
I got shown wrong too-- I thought it was only the first gen 17 (the 1GHz A1013) that could do it.

What voodoo wizardry needed to be done to make this work? Old Companion is similar enough to the second gen 17 (it being a second gen 15) and I couldn't ever get OS 9 to even boot on it.
 
Just fired up my bedroom iMac for some chill tunes.
Totall ghetto setup. Just opened a drawer and put the keyboard there I brought just in for a little appreciation session.

 
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