IDK, haven't had much issue with that and we've been here over 20 years now.
However, every year we have an epidemic of people forgetting their kids in cars. That's bad anyplace, but in Phoenix during summer it can go very bad instantly.
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However, every year we have an epidemic of people forgetting their kids in cars. That's bad anyplace, but in Phoenix during summer it can go very bad instantly.
Speaking of the Phoenix area, I hope no one you know got caught up in the shooting incident yesterday.
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Over here in London (UK) after several days of heat it's currently a very welcome 14 degrees with a nice breeze. 
I had to do some Googling to understand what this is about. Can we infer that a PPC port is the pipeline?
Nope. Family is in other states, and while the shootings were in the same region of the city I live in all of that happened much farther north of us. Thanks for that though!
We left California in 2000 because of jobs and because I liked the heat. Having grown up in a house that froze in winter and was hot in summer I was okay with PHX heat because the house we moved into had central air (which is a necessity out here, not a luxury).
Now I'm 50+, the central air is broken (we have portable A/C) and I no longer care for the heat. Climate change is a big factor too. 2020 saw every heat record broken last summer.
I've remebered old music player, Cog. It's still not too difficult to find it. (Yes, I'm not fan of iTunes & it's habit to store music in own library ). Downloaded Cog, now I'm listening some of my ancient audiofiles (Onmyo-Za) .
). Downloaded Cog, now I'm listening some of my ancient audiofiles (Onmyo-Za) .
Yup! I’m so close to getting half life to work, it’s currently stuck at the title screen. Then I’ll see what I can do with this. Here’s the steps to port something like this:I had to do some Googling to understand what this is about. Can we infer that a PPC port is the pipeline?
1) Game gets decompiled (source code is created by reverse engineering the binary itself)
2) Decompiled code is altered to work on Operating systems like windows and Linux (decomp port).
3) Someone with a PowerPC Mac modifies the decomp port to work on old OS X.
I'm kind of partial to SongBird myself. Nightingale replaced it for Intel but because Songbird and Nightingale share code I can have pretty much the same set up between my PowerPC and Intel Macs.I've remebered old music player, Cog. It's still not too difficult to find it. (Yes, I'm not fan of iTunes & it's habit to store music in own library
WOW!! I'm all upset when we hit the 90's over hear in the east coast.
Yeah, I'm not happy either!
Like I said, this is August temps. In June we should be averaging 100, 101, 102º. Maybe sometimes 104º. July runs around 108 to 112º, but August it's no less than 110º every day.
For two days running now the mornings have only cooled off to 90º. This is so messed up!
That would be absolutely unbearable with humidity over here.
Before I ever used PPCMC 6, I had never written a single line of applescript. I literally learned it from PPCMC 6, now PPCMC 7 is 967 lines of applescript, including whitespace https://github.com/alex-free/powerpc-media-center/blob/master/PPCMC.applescript
https://github.com/alex-free/powerpc-media-center/blob/master/PPCMC.applescript
What is yalls AC bills 🤣 luckily I live kinda north of the equator.
We have two power companies out here, APS (Arizona Public Service) and SRP (Salt River Project). Which one you have depends on where you live, but typically APS is East Valley and SRP is West Valley. I live in the West Valley, so SRP. Which, as far as utilities go is preferable to APS. APS charges more and cares less about the customer.
Last month's power bill was ~$200. This month's will probably be around $250. July is usually around $300 and August tends to be around $400-$450. August is the hottest month, so SRP/APS charge the most.
During the winter months we can usually get the bill down under $100 before the summer shows up.
SRP has a deal where you can spread all 12 months out evenly so you pay the same price each month, but I'm not interested in spreading out summer pricing into the winter months.
EDIT: Oh yeah, during the summer months both APS and SRP have committed to not shutting off power if your bill is overdue. An elderly lady died last summer when APS shut off her power during high temperatures.
So I just found out there is an open source Half life game engine called Xash3D. And someone saw the same thing I saw in the changelog about partial big endian support for MIPS processors. I’ve found two links from this guy who got it running somewhat on Leopard PPC:
That was almost 2 years ago and with no download ever available.
I’m really curious if Panther SDL2 could get this to work on Tiger and 10.3.9. Even if I only got it running as well as this guy. I could break the half life Mac OS PPC curse and actually release a download for PPC Macs.
For those who don’t know, a half life port (classic Mac OS?) was started then cancelled. A few years later, a port was started again (for Mac OS X?) and then cancelled. Then radomly it was released like a decade later in 2013 for Intel Macs. Then this guy shows off this video and it never see the light of day.
I‘m blown away how dedicated and ridiculously skilled you guys are. Unreal! (pun intended)
I don't really have any reason to need PPC emulation specifically, but the Sheepshaver install came on a microSD 'ready to use'... except not so much! If I could get the USB ports functional, it would really be good for what I want though.
The suggestion to use BasiliskII instead is helpful, but I'm a rather slow learner - hence trying the ready made solution first. I don't particularly need PPC emulation, and if it's more cooperative for getting files on and off it, that would almost certainly serve my purpose rather better.
I don't know what is the host system on these ready to use microSD, but it should usually be a Linux anyway.
Sheepshaver (like BasiliskII) usually can mount a shared folder called "Unix" from the host on the MacOS desktop.
It's an handy way to share files, if your host is reachable from your network of course.
You can define that shared folder in the SheepShaver preference file that is in your host user home folder,
it's called ".sheepshaver_prefs" (the dot makes it invisible in files browsers...).
you can open it with any editor, like: nano .sheepshaver_prefs
and check if there is a line starting with :
extfs
if not, just add a new line in that pref file like so :
extfs /home/YourUserName/
Then your host user home folder should mount on the MacOS desktop as "Unix" folder next time you start Sheepshaver.
About using USB ports in SheepShaver, some infos :
There is a precompiled BasiliskII in RetroPi according to this thread :
But didn't tried it myself.
I've built my own using this guide :
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This is the “old” version of Xash3D from 2018 with the new HalfLife SDK that seemed easier to port. It looks like the new newer version fully supports MIPS processors on Linux, unlike the partial support of the old version. Also this was very hackily thrown together basically as a POC so it’s not surprising it runs at 1FPS. Hopefully the newer port will be better, but I have to learn an entirely new build system again to compile it.
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