Not quite Tiger though... an early beta version of Leopard (9A241) that works on my G3.
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Not quite Tiger though... an early beta version of Leopard (9A241) that works on my G3.
Oh well, then If that is case, then try to install LWK(leopard WebKit). So, the beta of Leopard was designed to run on G3 ? Never knew that, then again I never played with a G3.. my Mac experience is with G4 and G5.
Can someone post a pic of OS 9 running a YouTube video without any mods in 2000-2014 ? I know that YouTube in early 2000s played horribly in OS 9.
As was pointed out to you in another thread, YouTube was established in 2005. It did not exist in 2000.
YouTube did not play at all on OS 9 - or anything else for that matter in the early 2000s because it did not exist.
A Brief History of YouTube.
Not sure if this counts but came to the realization that I am never going to get to all the projects I have so getting rid of a lot of my older Mac stuff. Things such as my IIgs and Mac LC III along with a few PowerPC G3 systems. Hate to see it go but need to clean out the basement as this stuff has just been sitting for years with no to little attention. Best to find a home for it where it will get use.
I'll be holding on to a single G5 system and a couple of IIc systems but everything else prior to Intel is headed out the door. Tough decision but having it sit here unused isn't doing it any favors.
I'll be holding on to a single G5 system and a couple of IIc systems but everything else prior to Intel is headed out the door. Tough decision but having it sit here unused isn't doing it any favors.
Tonight I have:
Found a leaked copy of "Dreamcast Movie Creator" circa 1999, which is supposed to be used to create those videos in Dreamcast Games... But unintentionally are actually the most efficient and highest quality way to play video on the console. Blows every homebrew and even VCD out of the water in bitrate, quality, and av sync which is flawless with this...
Found the old "Dreamcast Video Suite" software which allows you to turn one of those converted Dreamcast Movie Creator videos into a disc that will play on the Dreamcast.
Converted a MP4 to VCD-NTSC (out of just trying to get this to work, can go higher quality then this bitrate wise) with FFMPEG.
Split that VCD into MPEG-1 with no sound and .WAV audio.
Threw that into Dreamcast Movie Creator, actually worked.
Burned an old Utopia Boot Disc from Warez circa 2000 so I don't have to bother making my movie CD-R bootable and can just burn it with standard software.
Booted up Utopia, swapped in my CD-R, and I couldn't ask for more.
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OWC: https://www.amazon.com/OWC-Mercury-Go-0GB-enclosure/dp/B00AR9ZYYQ
super speed: https://www.amazon.com/SuperSpeed-Firewire-Mobile-External-Enclosure/dp/B00CMBLP6I
acomdata: https://www.amazon.com/Acomdata-Firewire-2-5-Inch-Enclosure-TNGXXXUFBE-BLK/dp/B002JTX8Y0
From the post you can infer it's the latter, especially since I mention "swappable disks" within a single external FW device, and that it "accepts any 2.5" SATA drive", but the exact proper term indeed didn't come to me at that moment, and I just wanted to get the basic message out. More than just "enclosures", they are specifically "external SATA drive adapters".
Strange, but great, that it worked for you. Which Macs did you use it on? Regardless, the product is flawed, or my specific unit has come with defective FW-related components, as per my previous posting. I also never dropped or otherwise damaged the product, being careful with impact, static electricity, and never forced anything physically when mounting it up.
Sadly, I ordered these back in December, but only could test them now, so it's no longer eligible for a return. Still, I'm glad I got vastly superior alternatives even if OWC's offer was working properly: I did buy three precisely with the hopes at least one of them would do the job right, and luckily it's precisely the two best ones among the three that work right.
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Thanks for the links. And now I understand you were looking for hot-swappable disk enclosures which, indeed, the OWC solution would not accommodate for that.
As for the OWC enclosure I purchased (same as the model you posted in the above link, albeit purchased elsewhere), most of its usage time over the past year has occurred whilst connected to a 2011 MBP running Snow Leopard. I’ve had it running in mostly read mode (music library for deejaying, which depends in part on the iTunes library database). Touch wood, I have experienced no issues with read/write errors throughout.
Editing to add: the initial write to the SSD (actually a RAID-SSD using two m.2 SATA drives in a 2.5-inch form factor enclosure) inside the OWC enclosure was done whilst connected to a Power Mac G5.
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Oh, just swappable, as in, turn device off, take it apart, pull out SATA drive, insert in another SATA drive, mount it back up. Sorry for the confusion.
Hm, G5. I will give it a try on my Quad, as well, just for good measure.
Exactly, so this is my proposal - if we take out the videos, the YouTube and all that, we should still have the right to access light web browsing on our PowerPC Macs, namely OS 9. I am going to dive into the source code for Classila and add TLS 1.2 which if successful, it then should allow us to at least browse simple internet pages such as Wikipedia.
for Leopard to speed things up with webpage loading, IS THERE A WAY TO BLOCK all embedded videos in websites ? Example, cnet.com - embedded, wasteful videos and ads play which slow down webpage loading.. actually, if we can block all ads and embedded videos when we browse the web in leopard, then this will greatly help with using the web under Leopard, but light browsing is to be restricted to OS 9 without the stuff we do under Leopard.. just an opinion after rethinking the several posts from before.
Yes. It’s called uBlock Origin.
Ok good.. problem ? I can’t find it - do you have a link for it ? And it works on 104fox ?? Oh, here is some good news - TLS 1.2 will stick around till 15 years from now then it will be TLS 1.4 - by then, I don’t think I will be around who knows.
I used to think that CD-R write speed, brand, and drive did not matter, that it was all a myth. Then I bought a Dreamcast and discovered that at least the drive did matter.
You can’t buy some cheap USB DVD burner from some retail store and expect it to burn something a Dreamcast can read, it won’t work.
Then I bought a October 1995 SCPH 1001 PlayStation, which is among the oldest in existence. Anything but the Verbatim brand (the best brand) won’t work, and this thing really only likes CD-Rs burned at 8x speed in the Mac mini G4 (my oldest CD burner with the slowest minimum speed that I own, so useful!). Also turning the PlayStation console to the left side (vertically) is not a meme. The theory with doing this is the early Playstations had plastic movable parts right next to the PSU which would overtime generate so much heat it would warp the plastic the laser moved along. Anyways it makes burned CD-Rs from the mini actually read and boot. In the proper orientation it reads legit games fine but struggles and has only booted a CD-R once, and I cannot make it do it again. Tried turning it to the left after the swap though, and it really does work pretty well.
You can’t buy some cheap USB DVD burner from some retail store and expect it to burn something a Dreamcast can read, it won’t work.
Then I bought a October 1995 SCPH 1001 PlayStation, which is among the oldest in existence. Anything but the Verbatim brand (the best brand) won’t work, and this thing really only likes CD-Rs burned at 8x speed in the Mac mini G4 (my oldest CD burner with the slowest minimum speed that I own, so useful!). Also turning the PlayStation console to the left side (vertically) is not a meme. The theory with doing this is the early Playstations had plastic movable parts right next to the PSU which would overtime generate so much heat it would warp the plastic the laser moved along. Anyways it makes burned CD-Rs from the mini actually read and boot. In the proper orientation it reads legit games fine but struggles and has only booted a CD-R once, and I cannot make it do it again. Tried turning it to the left after the swap though, and it really does work pretty well.
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Got a new ADATA 512GB M2SATA drive.. it’s been awhile since I backed up abs restored my drive.. so here is the situation - I have 2 partitions - OS 9 at 128GB, the rest is for leopard - can I use CCC to copy from my 128GB drive both OS 9 partition and Leopard, or can I just drag and drop OS 9 into its own partition ?
Yesterday I built BasiliskII 68k emulator on that Wallstreet running Debian Sid Remix.
All compiled fine, but when I try to launch BasiliskII I get an error :
« LLVM ERROR: Reocation type not implemented yet ! »
Ok…
So I grabbed a BasiliskII binary I had built before on another G3 running Debian Wheezy. And it works :
Network works through Slirp, I would have to install Sid Headers and all to compile a new Sheep_net ethernet driver.
It’s quite responsive , if you don’t try something like loading a web page in a browser. Tried loading the MacGarden page in iCab, but it was just too long.
But it’s fun , here is Timbuktu screen sharing with another BasiliskII VM running on my R-Pi :
Tho it takes a lot of memory on that poor Wallstreet (only has 256Mb Ram, I think...). So if I try launching it more than two times during the same session, it seg fault . Have to purge memory or reboot...
All compiled fine, but when I try to launch BasiliskII I get an error :
« LLVM ERROR: Reocation type not implemented yet ! »
Ok…
So I grabbed a BasiliskII binary I had built before on another G3 running Debian Wheezy. And it works :
Network works through Slirp, I would have to install Sid Headers and all to compile a new Sheep_net ethernet driver.
It’s quite responsive , if you don’t try something like loading a web page in a browser. Tried loading the MacGarden page in iCab, but it was just too long.
But it’s fun , here is Timbuktu screen sharing with another BasiliskII VM running on my R-Pi :
Tho it takes a lot of memory on that poor Wallstreet (only has 256Mb Ram, I think...). So if I try launching it more than two times during the same session, it seg fault . Have to purge memory or reboot...
@galgot Have you tried http://macintosh.garden ? They have been testing a new theme under this domain
Thanks for the idea. Here:
System7today works too :
No... I'll not try Youtube
Anyway, browsing on this stuff is really if you are not in a hurry, takes 15 to 20 sec to load a page, with the pcu going 100%...
Good decisionNo... I'll not try Youtube
Not worth the disappointment.I think it’s time for a Linux wiki - I know Jack about Linux, if my Mac was Intel I am sure all distros would work, someone needs to make a Linux wiki with the CORRECT distros that will run on PowerPC - nice job getting BassillIIX to work - my experience with PowerPC ends at G5, began with G4.. G3 has nothing to offer me, though my Pismo was a G3 500, that was long replaced by my G4 550 from wegenner media. Nonetheless, please don’t try to run YouTube on that
I think it’s time for a Linux wiki - I know Jack about Linux, if my Mac was Intel I am sure all distros would work, someone needs to make a Linux wiki with the CORRECT distros that will run on PowerPC - nice job getting BassillIIX to work - my experience with PowerPC ends at G5, began with G4.. G3 has nothing to offer me, though my Pismo was a G3 500, that was long replaced by my G4 550 from wegenner media. Nonetheless, please don’t try to run YouTube on that
There's already been one for 2 years....
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While my Macbook Pro was away being repaired for 2 weeks (kudos to Apple for replacing the battery in a four year old MBP free of charge thanks to a recall) I set myself the challenge of making a track using my G4 Cube and Cubase SE. I hadn't touched Cubase for 15 years, so it took a long time to remember how to use it, plus the obvious slowness of using Virtual Instruments on a 450MHz G4! In fact I couldn't even preview some instruments at all as the processing power wasn't up to it, so could only hear them in the exported mixdown (which took about 10 minutes, not too bad considering tracks I make in Logic now take a couple of minutes to bounce.)
Today I finished the track! I don't think I will put myself through this pain again for a while now that I have my MBP and Logic back, but I enjoyed doing something meaningful on the old Cube
Today I finished the track! I don't think I will put myself through this pain again for a while now that I have my MBP and Logic back, but I enjoyed doing something meaningful on the old Cube
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That's the spirit!I enjoyed doing something meaningful on the old Cube
What Dell monitor is that?