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What have you done with a PowerPC today?

Alex_K said:
Been playing as Brandenberg in Europa Universalis 3 on my 2.3GHz dual-core PowerMac G5.

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Haha, excellent! I love the Europa Universalis games, 2 being the one I sank the most time into. I have a recorded 3,358 saves for EU2 on my current hard drive, mostly between 2002-2006.

How does EU3 work on the PPC version? I've only ever tried the Intel version since I bought it from Steam.
 
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Studied music for hours with a PowerPC Mac or two. 🎧🥁

I used a clamshell iBook to extract all the music loops from a 1993 music game from childhood.
Then I took them to an iMac G4 (which is quieter) and opened one file at a time in Audacity to play the short clips on a loop. Sure, I started with Amazing Slow Downer but at some point it just stopped working as it should, and didn't let me loop the entire clip (which would be about 10 seconds long) but insisted on just looping the first 1-2 seconds. So I gave up, and luckily Audacity could still do pretty much the same.
So I did some listening exercises by transcribing the drums off all of them. Different genres and all, what a blast. Just one keyboard shortcut to play the loop at normal speed, and another shortcut to play it at a slower speed. Simple and non-intrusive! I don't like transcribing drums to a staff because I think staves make more sense for tonal instruments, so I have created this printable 16th grid that pretty much looks like a sequencer; I made the blocks the exact width of a standard Stabilo Boss marker, so transcribing drum beats by coloring those blocks on paper becomes a really fun activity. If I'm transcribing a drum that has different articulations, for example a conga, I can do the whole conga pattern on the same row but use different colors to indicate the different articulations.
I truly hope I'll be able to silence that clamshell eventually so I can enjoy audio stuff with it too!

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alex_free said:
Slightly off topic, but this book has been invaluable to me since I first started reading it over PDF. I figure a first edition (‘78-‘88) physical copy is long over due…View attachment 1830791
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Hmm, it looks like it's in mint condition. I still have my copy, which I would have bought in about 1981, and which shows the signs of a couple of decades of use, along with a nearly mint condition 2nd edition.

I used them when playing with MPW, a very long time ago...
 
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Tested Fienix (Deb-based?) from USB flash. At first - it forced me to install & run fienix-gpu-bandage, which is described in trouble shooting list. Second - when I've realised it is 32bit powerpc arch, said "Thanks, not buying this" :D. Will continue to configure Debian to operational state. (Any experts in systemd replacement here? :D )
 
(Colors are heavily inverced in Debian's Firefox :D ).
Configuring system & software (Got a bunch of Display managers, because lightdm flickers really hard, using slim now). Just a screenshot from OpenTTD :). (Btw, no troubles with sound at all - after XFCE install pulseaudio, it works OOB, both of cards, built-in & external USB, C-Media based).

Need browser without color inversion & existing in deb ppc64 repos. Anyone..?
 

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Tratkazir_the_1st said:
(Colors are heavily inverced in Debian's Firefox :D ).
Configuring system & software (Got a bunch of Display managers, because lightdm flickers really hard, using slim now). Just a screenshot from OpenTTD :). (Btw, no troubles with sound at all - after XFCE install pulseaudio, it works OOB, both of cards, built-in & external USB, C-Media based).

Need browser without color inversion & existing in deb ppc64 repos. Anyone..?
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i dont believe there is one, the color bugs are an issue with the graphics driver or something rather than the browser itself. certain other (non-browser) applications have the same color issues, and all of the browsers i've tried have that issue as well.
 
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DaveFromCampbelltown said:
Hmm, it looks like it's in mint condition. I still have my copy, which I would have bought in about 1981, and which shows the signs of a couple of decades of use, along with a nearly mint condition 2nd edition.

I used them when playing with MPW, a very long time ago...
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That’s awesome! K&R C is still soo useful today, I hate when people discount it. It teaches the basics, by the people that created the language itself.

Here is the rest of the eBay listing pictures. I bought this one because of how good it looks and the coolness factor of the first edition:
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Installed ArcticFox from deb package (it has dependency - libatomic1). Well., MacRumors looks quite OK, but when I visited github (redirected in search of uBlockOrigin for Firefox-legacy) - it's ugly, hard to understand the page. I wonder if there are some more modern browsers for ppc64 Deb :D.
 

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From what I remember, Arctic Fox is Pale Moon-based, as is New Moon (which is a rebadged Pale Moon due to licensing)-- though the versions it's built on are different.

There might be legitimate Firefox (or ESR) on ppc64, though I've yet to be able to check (my Quad is in shipping limbo).



As an aside, I watched the Apple Event on my Titanium using 2yxa's video converter and QuickTime 6 on OS 9.
 
Strange. Again, it could be how those unofficial 64-bit versions are built, or i'm still leaning towards some missing font packages in your system. Looks fine on Linux here (official 32-bit build), just like it did on Lion. It's not a problem with the browser. Something else must causing that for you.

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Cheers
 
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Did this several years ago with my APG G4 as well, only with Windows 2000 (this looks like ME 😬) - and a period-correct Apple Studio Display like all the cool kids had 😎

As for what I did today - loaded up a website to do something using my iBook G4 instead of a newer Mac just for the heck of it. Not nearly as cool as all of you using PPC Macs on a regular basis anymore though, the oldest Mac I use regularly is a 2009 mini repurposed as a server.
 
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