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What have you done with a PowerPC today?

We won't support OSX/iOS anymore because of destructive decisions Apple make.

Yesterday they removed 32-bit and ok, it's was kinda understandable.
Today they will remove OpenGL for no reason.
Tomorrow they will remove possibility of running native code.

Originally, OSX/iOS support was added because it was easy to maintain, but when it rеquires more action from us, I don't think we can support it without a dedicated maintainer for this platforms.

Platform code will not be removed, so someone can take it and continue support but I will remove OSX/iOS ports from autobuilds, will not provide them in releases, close all rеlated issues as WONTFIX and finally remove it from list of supported ports.

So, Apple, f*ck you.
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Drop of OSX/iOS support · Issue #61 · FWGS/xash3d-fwgs

We won't support OSX/iOS anymore because of destructive decisions Apple make. Yesterday they removed 32-bit and ok, it's was kinda understandable. Today they will remove OpenGL for no reason. Tomor...
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Interesting, I wonder if they will merge any PPC changes since none of the above applies (this is the Half Life open source engine). By the way, I agree.
 
MoerBoer said:
Opened my iMac G5 20" iSight and cleaned it properly and re-applied thermal paste to the CPU, GPU and bridge controller.

Was a fun exercise and the temperature results after the fact was amazing.
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I need to get around to doing the same thing... I've been procrastinating because it looks like a pain, and I also haven't gotten around to ordering an SSD yet.
 
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Project Alice said:
I need to get around to doing the same thing... I've been procrastinating because it looks like a pain, and I also haven't gotten around to ordering an SSD yet.
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Yeah, this is the 3rd time I've opened it up. First was to replace the super drive with a better one, 2nd time was to put in a SSD and this one was the big daddy.

If I can give one tip, is to follow the iFixit steps and be VERY careful with all the tiny connectors. I actually broke one, but could luckily save it with superglue.

The thing I always struggle the most with is the credit card trick at the back top get the screen off.

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Guys, please have a look at this :).
Video is in russian, but I suppose you'll get the idea, may be subtitles could be of some use (here I see them in Russian). BTW, similar links from your countries are welcome :).
 
Answered @MoerBoer question on MorphOS Forum regarding firmware for screen spanning after I did install it on my iBook G4 12" which was hooked up to a SVGA projector yesterday running Leopard / Eclipse / Atari800Mac for a large 140 High x180 Width (in centimeters) screen :) and today installed Wayfarer 2.0 on MorphOS on the same iBook.

For some reason I'm in my iBook phase (probably spending too much time mucking around in MorphOS)
 
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MoerBoer said:
Yeah, this is the 3rd time I've opened it up. First was to replace the super drive with a better one, 2nd time was to put in a SSD and this one was the big daddy.
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Me too. Waiting for summer vacation for this. It's my first service with a iMac G5 iSight. I was given this with a dead HDD diagnosis. It very well could be only that. I've got the SSD ready. It seems like a pain of a task in my opinion too, allthough I think I am quite seasoned opening iMacs at this time. This one looks tricky.
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iFixit has been a good source for many repairs through time. That's why I buy stuff from them too, to support the site.

And Thanks for the tips.
 
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Finally - Gentoo upgrade was finished after around 48 hours of compiling (I wonder what temperature CPUs had) :D. But this is not all. Now I have run the build of LibreWolf browser (FireFox clone). It will be nice if it ever finishes this task, because all my attempts to builf FireFox failed. It's a pity that LibreWolf got in it's dependencies clang - it is installed but LW requires a bit another version in other slot (gentoo feature :D ). Hope it's work.
 
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It seems that one of HDD's in quad got troubles (SAS, with GPT & clone of Leopard on it). I hear sound of spinup & spindown. Neither OS can access it. Will try to connect it to some other PC & check if it can be fixed with sg_format or I'll need one more drive...
 
Tratkazir_the_1st said:
Guys, if you're in infernal temperature like here in Moscow and around - what is your favorite DRINK? :D
Mine is kvass :)
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Cold beer, one bottle when I'm back home after work. Works well when it's 25-35C outside :)

I shamefully admit that I did nothing with my PowerPC today, but I have some plans for tomorrow.
 
Yesterday (27.06) my Quad stopped detecting SAS drives. It just hangs when I press OPT at startup (primary boot drive is set to Gentoo, which is not always OS I want to boot). Even when I leave it to autoboot - it just hangs at GRUB. Quick fixes like reconnect cables to SAS enclosure didn't work. (Why such things always happens with me..? Am I too curious at always looking for alternate ways of working with hardware..?)
 
Received today (for possible future repairs). Hope this model fits G5 Quad. (At least it has C-19 power connector). Photography is not among my talents but it is readable, I hope :D.
 

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alex_free said:
Was it my Quake 3 port?
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It was what is up on the garden. My copy of Q3A is a bigbox Windows version, so I use that Mac port and my Windows version PW. Works everytime :apple: :apple:

Where can I DL your port?

Oh wait, Inet is down at home and won’t be fixed until Monday at the earliest (POS centurylink- think I’ll switch to xfinity). Welp, guess this gives me something to do next week :D
 
Got a bit of a shock today comparing video playback efficiency between my 1.67Ghz DLSD Powerbook and my Thinkpad X40 that has a 1.2Ghz Pentium M.

These are the CPU values playing back the same h264, 1.5 mbits/s, 30FPS, 1000X562 video:

Powerbook
Coreplayer 57%
FFPlay 61%
MPlayer 52%

Thinkpad
PotPlayer 39%
MPlayer 45%

This is with de-blocking turned off in Coreplayer, hard frame dropping in FFPlay/Mplayer and standard frame dropping in PotPlayer/MPlayer on the Thinkpad.

Really does illustrate what a leap forward the M was compared to G4 and the steady progress of optimised X86 software through the years.
 
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