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What have you done with a PowerPC today?
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So I couldn't help giving this a try.
It works and is very cool but also very slow (5th-gen 3.1 GHz Core i5).
Thanks for the link! That's cool you got it working, I wonder if it would perform any better on my 9th Gen i7.So I couldn't help giving this a try.
There isn't much to getting it working - you only need to download MAME, SDL2 and the preinstalled disk image which conveniently includes the ROMs. Follow the readme and that's it.
This place is so nice that you won't get killed for being off topic.
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Ok, good to know! Once I get some free time, I should be able to try it out then.There isn't much to getting it working - you only need to download MAME, SDL2 and the preinstalled disk image which conveniently includes the ROMs. Follow the readme and that's it.
BTW that was the exact free clone I used. I just edited the console to show the blue background, with the Jurassic Park System Alpha whatever version it showed. I also had the processor/RAM/HDD activity graphs (forget the name) but I was sadly unable to get the EarthWatch and the 3D file manager seen in the movie to run, not even the freeware alternative supposedly supported by Linux would work (the app was called 3D File Explorer)So I couldn't help giving this a try.
EarthWatch
3D File Explorer:
(that frame rate though!)
Partially completed setup of Linux Mint on my SLSD. Looks good enough to show, so I decided to post a screenshot here
Tossed MorphOS 3.14 on a spare G4 mini to play around with again.
Casualties... One of SAS-drives got 0Mb value (I've removed entire sas enclosure & connected it to unused PC + LSI 9240-8i to determine what's the trouble I've got - mac couldn't detect all HDDs). This card (9240) clearly showed - disk is non-functional. Dead drive contained Debian, which I used for some diags of other linuxes. Now my quad boots OK, but I wonder, if I will be able to somehow change dead drive (got all 4 cheap at second-hand market).
Updated my site today to go along with some yt videos I have in the works.
Epic! Would you say it's worth checking out?
I know I'm beating a dead horse but I wish their licensing was a little less restricted.Epic! Would you say it's worth checking out?
I shall look, thanks
Ah, yea, I remember now they do have an odd licensing system >.>
Yeah. It's fun to mess with. It boots insanely fast. I don't know about daily use, but as a secondary OS it's fine for most basic tasks. I haven't yet found an office suite, Pandora radio player, or the ability to stream Twitch, but it browses the modern web ok, it has audio/video players, image editors/viewers, games/emulators, cd/dvd burning software, etc. On supported hardware everything seems to work out of the box, and if you aren't familiar with Amiga there might be a slight learning curve. The 30 minute trial timer is kind of annoying (unless you unlock it with a paid key), but overall it's a neat OS. There are new betas of iris and wayfarer (email client / web browser) that look promising. Once those reach maturity, i may finally actually buy a key.
Cheers
I want to try it. I'm looking for the PPC machine but here a good G4/1.5 GHz Mac Mini sometimes a “LoL” price category. A nice one 15” DLSD = big LoL. And with key, it may not be worth it for me (and for most people, I think). But it is a very promising and nice OS.
Wallpaper?Partially completed setup of Linux Mint on my SLSD. Looks good enough to show, so I decided to post a screenshot here
I managed, after extensive struggling, to install Debian-sid on an iBook G3 clamshell and get xfce installed on it, but it seems a bit sluggish and I’m not sure how to write to nvram from it in order to get Debian to recognize the LCD modification running an XGA display. I have the commands needed for Open Firmware to be tricked into treating the LCD as an XGA and using all pixels, but I’ve only ever done this from Terminal on OS X.