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What have you done with a PowerPC today?
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Opinion piece you might appreciate. Despite the title, it's basically a eulogy to how great Classic MacOS (and Macs) were, and how OS X, despite being great in its own way, doesn't have any of the same spirit.
I'm trying to integrate my G4 Mac Mini into my day job setup to give it a new lease of life but it seems to be having trouble with my USB switcher, and isn't detecting my Keychron keyboard or mouse. It isn't really practical to switch to a powered hub for the switcher due to available ports. Does anyone know of any decent keyboard/mouse switchers that work on USB with Mac Minis?
I also have NT dualbooting with OS9, just like in the CHRP days (although that would have been 7.6 or so!)
This is so cool... Do you have info/resources available for what's needed to accomplish this?
Release soon(tm), there's a couple of showstopper bugs in the HAL that I want to fix first.
Awesome, will definitely stay on the lookout for your release!
thats seriously Awesome! I both look forward to trying it on my own Grackle machines, and also reading about your journey to it! a post somewhere of sorts going over how ya got it all working etc would be awesome
Working very well on my end! This is just so cool! I never thought I would ever see this happen. Huge props for the work you’ve put into this.
Couple days ago, but it still hurts a little.
After the death of Surcouf I've gone and dismantled her and distributed parts to machines as needed.
Maybe I put her back together if I figure out how to do BGA reballing or (more likely) just source another logic board.
After the death of Surcouf I've gone and dismantled her and distributed parts to machines as needed.
Maybe I put her back together if I figure out how to do BGA reballing or (more likely) just source another logic board.
For a while, I've been grabbing junked tech whenever the opportunity arises so that I have enough PCBs to practice surface-mounted soldering on before I tackle projects. Perhaps that could be a route for you to practice BGA reballing work?
Trying to flash OpenBSD 7.5 to a known bootable USB drive to put on my iBook G4, but Rufus is not being cooperative. NetBSD it is I guess...
Before you throw in the towel, have you tried using DD from the Terminal to create a bootable USB drive?
I honestly don't know - I've never tried either of those BSDs.
I wouldn't use rufus to write powerpc images to USB. I've always just used win32diskimager and it's beeen fine every time.
This is impressive! Congratulations on this feat. Maybe now Windows NT for PowerPC will get some love, and maybe some applications ported, since NCommander's exploration showed that it was very much ignored by vendors.
it already got ports of doom and Neko Project II, although i don't think anybody's tried either on real hardware yet, and my Lombard is currently out of action until the used industrial IDE SSD I ordered from ebay arrives...
I got OpenBSD installed and... I don't know that I'll be sticking with it. Too many packages are just broken on it, and speaking of I can't install too many because they're on their own partition that fills up fast, just trying to install KDE Plasma already fills it up.
I did end up DDing, since NetBSD would have required a whole process to get booting.
Can you elaborate about if this process please?
I tried Linux on one of my iBook G3's and it wasn't compatible with the GPU. After that I stuck with Tiger and optimising it as much as possible.