Got my PowerBook 1400 networked today at long last 
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I played doom 3 at 1280x 1024 on ultra at 60fps and yesterday I talked to my buddy over bonjour and a vpn.
I'm on day 3 of compiling libgcc7 and gcc7 in Macports. They are dependencies for x2goclient and some other stuff I want to run. Hopefully I'll only have to do this once.
Got it networked... sorta.Got my PowerBook 1400 networked today at long last
It works somewhat, but also works unreliably.
Networking a PowerBook 1400
Ok, so an update: Bought a WaveLAN Silver card that showed itself working on a PowerBook G3 in the eBay listing. It worked great initially. I left it running for about an hour and went to shovel snow. When I got back, it refused to connect to anything and so I restarted it. It then started doing...
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Four hours later, this is still installing. https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...ller-for-mac-os-x-10-4-tiger-powerpc.2271615/
I got Leopard onto my PowerBook G4 12. I've also started learning to use XCode.
Used iMac G4 as a distraction-free environment to write a long e-mail to a Japanese friend while listening to an internet radio channel in Audion.
I can't believe I haven't realized the power of the Dictionary before: The English-Japanese dictionary extension is so useful because it shows examples of the words as they are used in sentences, giving me a much more accurate way to find the words with the right nuances that fit the context. Sure, those Dictionary features are available on my main Mac too but it's only on the G4 that I fully became aware of it because I couldn't use the usual third-party Japanese dictionary or online dictionaries that I'm so used to. Furthermore, I wasn't aware of the fact that the Dictionary occasionally contains pictures! I was searching for "airport" and the Japanese entry came up with a drawn schematic of what an airport consists of, with all the elements of the airport named; It was incredibly useful because otherwise, I wouldn't have even known which English words to search by in order to talk about a specific aspect of an airport! But so far, the airport entry has been the only one that I've found with a picture in it; I wonder how many pictures there really are in the Dictionary, and is there any global way to show those entries or is it just by pure serendipity that you stumble upon them?
I can't believe I haven't realized the power of the Dictionary before: The English-Japanese dictionary extension is so useful because it shows examples of the words as they are used in sentences, giving me a much more accurate way to find the words with the right nuances that fit the context. Sure, those Dictionary features are available on my main Mac too but it's only on the G4 that I fully became aware of it because I couldn't use the usual third-party Japanese dictionary or online dictionaries that I'm so used to. Furthermore, I wasn't aware of the fact that the Dictionary occasionally contains pictures! I was searching for "airport" and the Japanese entry came up with a drawn schematic of what an airport consists of, with all the elements of the airport named; It was incredibly useful because otherwise, I wouldn't have even known which English words to search by in order to talk about a specific aspect of an airport! But so far, the airport entry has been the only one that I've found with a picture in it; I wonder how many pictures there really are in the Dictionary, and is there any global way to show those entries or is it just by pure serendipity that you stumble upon them?
I compiled OpenSSL 1.1.1i, OpenSSH 8.4, and made Leopard G5 homebrew bottles of Python3 and GCC last weekend.
Got the new wireless card for my PowerBook 1400 and installed it, worked and am very happy now.
Tried compiling a new program I’ve been working on with Macintosh Programmer’s Workshop on Mac OS 9 and it worked on the first try! C89 is quite amazing.
Made a post to System7Today from my PowerBook 1400, which was recently revived by the Macintosh Garden
I know its really slow, but at least it's not 48 hours for a build from source. It did work, right?
Ah, Mac OS 7, now that really takes me back. OS 7.5 was the goto for the emulator Basilisk II, as Apple had made it fully available for free off their site, and it just plain worked better than the likes of 8.1. I even have it installed on my PS Vita, that emulator really does get around.Made a post to System7Today from my PowerBook 1400, which was recently revived by the Macintosh Garden
Shame my only 68k Mac doesn't boot, and my only beige PPC Mac has always been a pain to work with.
Ah, that's a shame. I like 8.1 on my PowerBook, but there are some stability issues I'm experiencing. Do you think that would be solved at least somewhat by switching to 7.6?
My 68k Mac never even shows a sad Mac icon, I have to assume there are some dead caps inside it, and my beige Mac needs to be plugged in a while in order to boot. My assumption there is that the PSU isn't healthy. Basilisk II and Sheepshaver can do the duties of those Macs, fortunately, even if the latter is kind of jank. Besides, that's what having much newer PPC Macs is for.
Basilisk, in particular, tends to favor 7 over 8, in matters of speed, stability, and especially resolution changing. It also runs on just about anything, givin it is a 68k Mac emulator, and the requirements are quite low.
All of this is why I like having an OS 9 system, especially one that has specs that are an order of magnitude more powerful than my old main Mac.
Ah, ok! Thanks for the info
Yea, that would suggest maybe the PSU is bad in the 68k Mac and the beige G3 might have bad caps or a bad PRAM battery.
Oh, it's not a G3. Much has been said about my 75Mhz Performa 6205CD, but it's most definitely not a G3.
Of course, this may be overly harsh, but it was never a particularly fun machine. It was, however, affordable, at the time.
Oh! Sorry, for some reason I read it was a G3 >.>
I crashed excel 2004 by pasting too many charts at once... Just like good old times.
Now write a macro that does it for you and automatically triggers document recovery on restart and you'll have yourself a nice little macro virus :^)
I wish it had been! But no, it's a 603 from the bad old days, running OS 8.5 on the original 1gb hard drive it came with. I very much like using my G4 MDD while thinking about that old machine.
What was the issue do you think? My 1400 runs a 603e without much issue, so I'm not sure it could have been the processor alone xDI wish it had been! But no, it's a 603 from the bad old days, running OS 8.5 on the original 1gb hard drive it came with. I very much like using my G4 MDD while thinking about that old machine.
It sort of depends on who you ask, but importantly, this is a legendarily bad Mac. Also, at the very least, the 603 is worse than the 603e, and the Performa 6200 and its variants were the slowest PowerPC Macs ever released. So, depending on who you believe, it really could be down to the cpu. There are certainly other issues, but that's the most painful one.