Today my iBook finished the render of the 1080p video and I also started participating in #MARCHintosh 
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What have you done with a PowerPC today?
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Not productive. I just finished working and I'm trying to beat the hammer fall level in starcraft (I'm rusty and thats a notoriously hard level). After that maybe a bit of diablo 2 and making a beat with Renoise (the productive part ahah). To anyone that love music production, Renoise is absolutely amazing and thanks the Lord it run on ppc mac.
Can you elaborate? I don't get it.Found a way to control the biological clock using G4 and research
I made my first PPC Time Machine backup:
iMac G4, regular USB hard disk, about 60GB of data from an internal SSD = 25 hours or so.
So do those Firewire hard disks or docks or whatever still exist, or...?
I also installed Photoshop CS4 Extended from a DVD. It's funny because that's the version I still run and prefer on my main machine. Runs very smoothly on the G4 even though I still haven't maxed out the RAM. For starters I was just trying to do some OS icon design (simply imported all the styles and gradients from my main machine's collections!), and I designed individual print-out labels for all my physical paper document folders. Really enjoyed using typographical choices (from a comfortably limited collection of fonts) to represent the nature of what each folder contains, and for the first time in my entire life, I used dingbat fonts! I mean how many people have ever done anything else than skipped Webdings when looking for the right font? But this was the right time for dingbats, to add a simple symbol to the bottom part of each vertical label to further illustrate what the folder contains. Now the folder backs kind of feel like an extension of a computer environment, because you're seeing a title and a simple icon of some sort, like you do on a computer. An open book dingbat symbolises Manuals, a musical clef with a hand holding a pen symbolises Transcription, and so on. This is also when I realised for the first time that the symbols that became our current emojis are actually largely based on the original dingbat designs: in many cases, the emoji is just a coloured-in, more three dimensional version of its original dingbat, while others were clearly redesigned from scratch. And dingbats representing technological objects get outdated, so they get redesigned a lot. (Nobody knows why the real life street sign for camera surveillance still features a foldable camera though; they were popular in the 1930s, so in no way is it a common representation of a familiar object to the people alive today.)
iMac G4, regular USB hard disk, about 60GB of data from an internal SSD = 25 hours or so.
So do those Firewire hard disks or docks or whatever still exist, or...?
I also installed Photoshop CS4 Extended from a DVD. It's funny because that's the version I still run and prefer on my main machine. Runs very smoothly on the G4 even though I still haven't maxed out the RAM. For starters I was just trying to do some OS icon design (simply imported all the styles and gradients from my main machine's collections!), and I designed individual print-out labels for all my physical paper document folders. Really enjoyed using typographical choices (from a comfortably limited collection of fonts) to represent the nature of what each folder contains, and for the first time in my entire life, I used dingbat fonts! I mean how many people have ever done anything else than skipped Webdings when looking for the right font? But this was the right time for dingbats, to add a simple symbol to the bottom part of each vertical label to further illustrate what the folder contains. Now the folder backs kind of feel like an extension of a computer environment, because you're seeing a title and a simple icon of some sort, like you do on a computer. An open book dingbat symbolises Manuals, a musical clef with a hand holding a pen symbolises Transcription, and so on. This is also when I realised for the first time that the symbols that became our current emojis are actually largely based on the original dingbat designs: in many cases, the emoji is just a coloured-in, more three dimensional version of its original dingbat, while others were clearly redesigned from scratch. And dingbats representing technological objects get outdated, so they get redesigned a lot. (Nobody knows why the real life street sign for camera surveillance still features a foldable camera though; they were popular in the 1930s, so in no way is it a common representation of a familiar object to the people alive today.)
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Last Friday: Made a whole podcast episode! Audio chat, recording, editing, all of it!
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My buddy and I made a podcast episode about PowerPC history and Macs
Hi all, Shameless plug: My buddy @Melchieor and I have a podcast called Forkbomb where we talk about (usually) retro tech related stuff. We just finished an episode about PowerPC processors and Macs. I figured I'd share. I hope y'all enjoy it and thanks for listening...
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I recently put Panther on my 1.5ghz Sawtooth, giving me a quadruple boot of Leopard, Tiger, Panther and OS 9. Leo and Tiger each have their own partition while Panther and OS 9 share a partition. Panther runs really well on here. I installed Panther because I heard that the G4 version of Minecraft ran on it. I was also curious to see how Panther would perfrom on a fast G4 with an SSD. I had Panther on my Sawtooth for a brief period of time back when I was still using mechanical HDDs on my Sawtooth and I also have Panther on my iBook G3, so I have some experience with Panther. I tried out Minecraft G4 edition on Panther, but it didn't work. What I did get to work was the latest PPCMC. I downloaded the Panther specific version and got great performance playing back a video using ffplay. I then rebooted into Leopard and installed the Leopard specific version of PPCMC and it works great too.
PPCMC 7 is still the only YouTube/Twitch/SoundCloud solution on 10.3.9! For hopefully many more years to come...
I love Jaguar, I just don't have the space for it.
Basically this, though I technically could hook up one of the old mechanical drives to the IDE cable formerly used by a broken zip drive, and install Jaguar on that HDD. I removed the broken zip drive awhile back and have one of the Sawtooth's old mechanical HDDs plugging up the hole where the zip drive used to be. The HDD isn't hooked up to power or data though and I can't remember if it still works or not.Out of free HDDs, may be?
Tried to install a 1GB RAM stick in my Mac Mini G4 that arrived from eBay today. Unfortunately when I unwrapped it I immediately noticed it had “NG” written on the sticker in pen. Of course it didn’t work.
On the upside, I’ve got my “PowerMac G4 Titanium” up and running now. Seems it’s not smart enough to realize the built in display isn’t connected and still defaults it as the main display with the external monitor running mirrored. I have to stick a magnet on the trackpad to trick it into thinking I’ve closed the clamshell and then wake it back up to force it to default to the external monitor. Anyone know a better way?
On the upside, I’ve got my “PowerMac G4 Titanium” up and running now. Seems it’s not smart enough to realize the built in display isn’t connected and still defaults it as the main display with the external monitor running mirrored. I have to stick a magnet on the trackpad to trick it into thinking I’ve closed the clamshell and then wake it back up to force it to default to the external monitor. Anyone know a better way?
Try booting without the magnet, disabling mirroring and making the external monitor the default.
That works as far as making the external the main display, but the GPU is still driving the internal display even though it isn’t there. That means the mouse cursor doesn’t stop on one side and it’s wasting VRAM drawing pixels that aren’t there.
The only way I’ve found to actually disable the internal display is to do the magnet trick every time I want to use it.
Don't know where to drop. But this pack is just "Wow..!"
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Дуже цікавий сайт в Московії. а ці G4 комп'ютери хіба в доброму, робочому стані ? Я в Львові, a можна приймати доставку до України ? Тобто, можна придбати оскілъки я розташований там ? Буду тобі дуже вдячний за відповідь. So, I am in Lviv, and it possible to send to Ukraine this computers ?Don't know where to drop. But this pack is just "Wow..!"
Купить ноутбук ? Apple в Москве с доставкой | Компьютеры по доступным ценам | Авито
6 769 объявлений о продаже ноутбуков ? Apple по доступным ценам в Москве с доставкой. На Авито вы можете недорого купить новый или б/у ноутбук Apple с экраном нужной диагонали для работы и дом. Выбирайте среди предложений магазинов и частных объявлений о продаже ноутбуков и компьютеров на Авито.
@Macbookprodude Спросите продавцов. Ну и пишите или на русском или на английском, я украинский не знаю.
I stumbled across this simple utility a few years ago;
GitHub - Eun/DisableMonitor: Easily disable or enable a monitor on your Mac.
Easily disable or enable a monitor on your Mac. Contribute to Eun/DisableMonitor development by creating an account on GitHub.
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There was a very early CLI version (v1.1) which runs on PowerPC Leopard I have attached it here.
Just tested now on my PBG4 17-inch, here is the output I see;
Code:
DisableMonitor 1.1 - http://github.com/Eun/DisableMonitor
usage: DisableMonitor <display id>
Name | Display ID | Metrics | Main Display? | Active?
Color LCD | 69667584 | 1440x900 | Yes | YesThe more recent version (v1.92) works well as a simple menu bar utility on Intel Macs.