What have you done with a PowerPC today?

[wicknix]

Today i tested discord on my powerbook g4. Oddly (and amazingly) it works reasonably well (better than on snow leopard). Switching the appearance to compact mode (displays less eye candy) really sped it up.

@Tratkazir_the_1st Yes, debian/ubuntu mostly. Here's the output for you.

 

[Tratkazir_the_1st]

Someone knows, where names of drives stored? Something like default "Macintosh HD"? It's hard to guess, which distribution of Linux where installed, badge-icons are quite same (Penguin or GNU). Is it some config file or partition name\label?

 

[Tratkazir_the_1st]

@wicknix
Can you please show, how your fonts configuration looks in Arcticfox?

 

[B S Magnet]

Today i tested discord on my powerbook g4. Oddly (and amazingly) it works reasonably well (better than on snow leopard). Switching the appearance to compact mode (displays less eye candy) really sped it up.

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@Tratkazir_the_1st Yes, debian/ubuntu mostly. Here's the output for you.
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I did “wow”-react to this before realizing this was all happening on a Linux kernel.

Then I paused to think about this, then still did a second “wow”-react in my brain given how resource-intensive discord is and given how well you’re finding it to work on a modern OS — even on a single-core PowerPC architecture which, far and beyond, precedes the Intel C2Ds running Snow Leopard without a hitch.

This is pretty amazing.

 

[alex_free]

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To finally end this saga, I finally swapped out the drive and this 26 year old console runs probably better then it ever did reading burned CD-Rs (since it now uses the later reproduction PSone slim drive which are considered the best).

First drive pictured above was supposed to be a 1:1 compatible drop in replacement. It was DOA after modding it since that plastic on the top of the laser assembly was the wrong size for my ancient Playstation with a different lid design then all the other ones. I decided since the PSone slim unit should work, and that the only reason I got the 1:1 compatible drop in replacement is so that the lid would fit, I'd just get the best of the best

It's kind of understandable, as 90+% of all Playstations probably fit it right. But the old style is just soo slightly tighter at the angles it wont work. So you have to unscrew the reproduction laser assembly's top plastic casing, very carefully hover it above the laser (well you don't have to risk that but I'm too lazy to move it with a tool I probably don't have or a hard power off in the middle of reading the end edge of a disc since it's otherwise locked in position). Then do the same to the old original laser assembly and swap lids. Once the old lid is on the new assembly, you have to REALLY press that sucker towards the motor and down at the same time after clipping it on the sides, and screw back in the two screws while doing so.

10 minutes maybe on total replacement, couldn't be happier. No more vertical Playstation that would still have disc read fails and game crashes even when it failed to read burned CD-Rs.

 

[pochopsp]

Today i tested discord on my powerbook g4. Oddly (and amazingly) it works reasonably well (better than on snow leopard). Switching the appearance to compact mode (displays less eye candy) really sped it up.

Are audio calls possible?

 

[wicknix]

No. Webrtc is disabled in all my ppc linux browser builds. If someone wanted to compile their own with webrtc enabled it might be possible.

Cheers

 

[B S Magnet]

I’m monitoring federal election returns on my PowerBook G4 running Snow Leopard 10A96, using InterwebPPC. I can’t watch video on it (because the code running that portion of the CBC’s video portal is too new), but it does auto-refresh with continuing results. That’s good enough.

(Mysteriously, this same page insta-crashed every time I tried to load it on Interweb on an Intel box running 10.6.8.)

EDIT: And an end-of-night refresh. The asynchronous javascript is using a lot of CPU cycles, but it’s been rock-stable otherwise:

 

[Tratkazir_the_1st]

Started Gentoo upgrade (around an hour ago). 540+ packages. It seems that it'll be busy fr a day or two .

 

[Amethyst1]

Started Gentoo upgrade (around an hour ago). 540+ packages. It seems that it'll be busy fr a day or two .

The joy of Gentoo - and, for me, the paranoid fear of some package failing to compile and me having to fix stuff I have no clue about LOL.

 

[Tratkazir_the_1st]

The joy of Gentoo - and, for me, the paranoid fear of some package failing to compile and me having to fix stuff I have no clue about LOL.

Btw - I never succeeded in FireFox build, don't know why. Nothing in log what could get me some hints.

 

[Tratkazir_the_1st]

Have any firmware updates been released for Quads?
(And where on logic board this thing lives? )

 

[dextructor]

Btw - I never succeeded in FireFox build, don't know why. Nothing in log what could get me some hints.

I never installed Gentoo on a PowerPC machine (some day, that I could have many days or months to spend on such huge project) but on my T430 with an quad core i7 and I installed Gentoo to "learn" something about Linux and LFS, I must say that I could compile Firefox "from Gentoo sources" (because I wanna to play with some flags). It took I would say about 4 hours. But I didn't have any problems back then, what problems did you encountered?

 

[Tratkazir_the_1st]

My primary AMD64-system (Z8PE-D12X, 2xX5675, 24Gb RAM) is Gentoo-driven. There are quite NO troubles to build Firefox (personally I moved to LibreWolf) or Chromium (ungoogled, again ) or any other package. But there are not so much packages in Gentoo overlays which confirmed for PPC64. That's where I'm catching troubles. BTW, before some kind man taught me to use tmpfs for portage - my compile time for Firefox was around 3 hours too . It's a pity than that same trick has hardly any acceleration for chromium - that one builds much longer.

 

[eyoungren]

Not today, but April 25, 2012…

17" PowerBook G4 1.67Ghz DLSD-HD running iTunes. Connected to TV with iTunes visualizer on. I am controlling iTunes using the app (forget the name, but it's stock Apple) on the iPhone 3GS.

This particular 3GS was the original given to me by my sister for Christmas 2011. It's the one I passed on to a forum member here.

Photo taken with my then HTC Touch Pro.

This was about five months before I got the iPhone 5.

PS. That iBook on the table would have been the one with the bad Airport antenna that my son used to take to Starbucks when we went.

 

[Tratkazir_the_1st]

(Gentoo upgrade is still running, restarted about 3 times . After all that package emerging I'll need to build newer kernel, 5.14 I suppose.)

 

[Tratkazir_the_1st]

Upgrade completed.
Time taken: 2104m6s - packages; 102m43s - kernel.

 

[Amethyst1]

Upgrade completed.
Time taken: 2104m6s - packages; 102m43s - kernel.

Just 36 hours. Not bad.

 

[Tratkazir_the_1st]

Summary - around 37 (with kernel).
I wish I could have at least 16Gb ram - it could help to move /var/tmp/portage to tmpfs, which greatly helps with package emerging...

 

[Tratkazir_the_1st]

Now upgrading Debian . This will be far more faster & only 380+ packages to install .

 

[Certificate of Excellence]

Not today, but April 25, 2012…

17" PowerBook G4 1.67Ghz DLSD-HD running iTunes. Connected to TV with iTunes visualizer on. I am controlling iTunes using the app (forget the name, but it's stock Apple) on the iPhone 3GS.

This particular 3GS was the original given to me by my sister for Christmas 2011. It's the one I passed on to a forum member here.

Photo taken with my then HTC Touch Pro.

This was about five months before I got the iPhone 5.

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PS. That iBook on the table would have been the one with the bad Airport antenna that my son used to take to Starbucks when we went.

Glad to see we utilize[d] the same crayon solution. After a point I get tired of impailing my feet with crayons and cleaning that out of carpet is not how I like spending my afternoons. Anyhow, today, I grabbed some desktop tiffs, pulled all of my quicksilvers out to double check lobo revisions and just in general, reminded myself how much I like my Powermac G4 Quicksilver. Snappy, usable and utterly surfable 20 years (give or take a few months) after its release.

Such an awesome box from a time when macs really were cool.

 

[eyoungren]

Glad to see we utilize[d] the same crayon solution. After a point I get tired of impailing my feet with crayons and cleaning that out of carpet is not how I like spending my afternoons. Anyhow, today, I grabbed some desktop tiffs, pulled all of my quicksilvers out to double check lobo revisions and just in general, reminded myself how much I like my Powermac G4 Quicksilver. Snappy, usable and utterly surfable 20 years (give or take a few months) after its release.

Such an awesome box from a time when macs really were cool.

The Quicksilver was the first (and only) G4 design I truly like. I have another G4 tower (AGP Graphics) which has been a very nice G4 but I've never cared for the designs of these towers (except the QS). I will eventually get an MDD, but those (to me) are the ugliest of the entire bunch. Getting one will solely be for the power and interior design of the case.

I do like my G3 B&W but that's because of the big 'G3' on the sides.

The crayon keeper would have been my wife's idea. We didn't have much issue with them on the floor, but the kids tended to color on the couch so THAT is where we found them a lot - especially when furniture got moved.

My daughter had the habit of breaking them which pissed my wife off no end. Eventually a moratorium on crayon purchases was enacted because my wife didn't like them all getting broken. My daughter had to use up all the broken ones before we bought any more.

She's 13 now and my son turns 18 in October so we're a ways beyond that now. My son is about an hour away from completing the driving hours Arizona requires to get your license. So…yeah.

 

[Tratkazir_the_1st]

The Quicksilver was the first (and only) G4 design I truly like

G4 design long ago in Russia was known as "Canister" .

 

[wicknix]

Fired up the mini G4 and updated a few apps on MorphOS and played around with MUI settings and themes. Finally got the look i really like.

 

[alex_free]

To finally end this saga, I finally swapped out the drive and this 26 year old console runs probably better then it ever did reading burned CD-Rs (since it now uses the later reproduction PSone slim drive which are considered the best).

First drive pictured above was supposed to be a 1:1 compatible drop in replacement. It was DOA after modding it since that plastic on the top of the laser assembly was the wrong size for my ancient Playstation with a different lid design then all the other ones. I decided since the PSone slim unit should work, and that the only reason I got the 1:1 compatible drop in replacement is so that the lid would fit, I'd just get the best of the best

It's kind of understandable, as 90+% of all Playstations probably fit it right. But the old style is just soo slightly tighter at the angles it wont work. So you have to unscrew the reproduction laser assembly's top plastic casing, very carefully hover it above the laser (well you don't have to risk that but I'm too lazy to move it with a tool I probably don't have or a hard power off in the middle of reading the end edge of a disc since it's otherwise locked in position). Then do the same to the old original laser assembly and swap lids. Once the old lid is on the new assembly, you have to REALLY press that sucker towards the motor and down at the same time after clipping it on the sides, and screw back in the two screws while doing so.

10 minutes maybe on total replacement, couldn't be happier. No more vertical Playstation that would still have disc read fails and game crashes even when it failed to read burned CD-Rs.

New (literally) legit PSX game came in today. New and best available model reproduction CD Drive, ancient rare PS1 with the CD Player swap trick exploit, brand new PS1 game I bought solely for swapping to the TonyHAX boot CD I came up with, and new verbatim CD-Rs burned with PPCMC7