Otter browser should be ok for most sites. Its certainly better than netsurf or dillo. I havent messed with openbsd on ppc in years, but i believe otter is available to install.
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What have you done with a PowerPC today?
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It looks nice, and has many features but kept crashing all the time for me, in 6.9 it wasn't there anymore. My guess is that there's a lot of things that will be gone for the powerpc, since they changed both compiler and linker
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Installed New Moon in my Windows 2000 VM under Virtual PC 6 running in OS 9.2.2 on my 1ghz TiBook (phew). No speed demon, but works well enough for some light browsing when I need to hit certain sites that require TLS 1.2. Attempted to install ExKernel (Win2k’s version of Kernel EX) but got nowhere with it so far. My TiBook has become my business machine, as it has all I need under OS 9.2.2.
Pictures later.
Pictures later.
Kudos, and props for the Dreamcast. My favorite console to write code for ?
New Moon 26.5.0 running in Windows 2000 under Virtual PC 6. The experience is like running TenFourFox on a G3, but is good for hitting sites in OS 9 that require TLS 1.2. I don't know if there's a version of Ublock Origin that is compatible with New Moon, but I found something called TrueBlock Plus 2.0.2 that works for blocking ads just fine. I tried a hosts file, but it was just too big and blogged down services.exe for almost 30 minutes while it parsed the file on boot up, so I gave up on it.
K-Meleon 74 is even faster.
My "office"
K-Meleon 74 is even faster.
My "office"
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I only recently discovered that Napster (the name and logo at least) had been resurrected some years ago as a streaming service similar to Spotify and was amazed to find that going to the site and searching their music catalogue, tracks played back in TFF on my Powerbook!
Excited, I signed up for an account, made a FoxBox, setup some playlists and clicked play.....
Although the interface goes through the motions of playing the track and the CPU is crunching on something there is no audio - after much config tweaking nothing fixed this.
Definitive info on the web is hard to find regarding Napster's use of DRM/audio delivery mechanism - I've sent a query to customer support but I don't have any faith in any resolution there - it's quite silly that the 30 second preview tracks I browsed before signing up do work on PowerPC but the full ones don't!
Excited, I signed up for an account, made a FoxBox, setup some playlists and clicked play.....
Although the interface goes through the motions of playing the track and the CPU is crunching on something there is no audio - after much config tweaking nothing fixed this.
Definitive info on the web is hard to find regarding Napster's use of DRM/audio delivery mechanism - I've sent a query to customer support but I don't have any faith in any resolution there - it's quite silly that the 30 second preview tracks I browsed before signing up do work on PowerPC but the full ones don't!
Thanks but that was one of the first things I tried, along with InterWeb - no luck unfortunately
I messaged customer support asking what DRM they used and why could I play preview tracks but not full ones - this is the answer I received:
"Dear Customer,
Thank you for contacting Napster Customer Support.
I understand your query and issue. I apologize for any inconvenience caused. Sure, I'll help you with this.
I see an Active Napster account.
I'm sorry to inform you that Microsoft has removed DRM content since July 14, 2017. So none of the downloaded tracks will work with the Napster application due to the removal of the DRM and the MP3 player will not work either because Removing the WMDRM feature from Windows 7, 8, 8.1, and Windows 10 (1507) version for the Napster V6 PC client.
The detailed analysis of the data showed that this functionality has very little success and it doesn't merit keeping it running. So we made the difficult decision to withdraw it. However, Napster plans to focus more on other great features and integrations that will be added in future updates.
However, you can upgrade your Windows to the latest version, and download the PC application from Windows 10 that allows you to download songs for offline use. But downloaded songs can only be played in the application.
You can also use the Napster app on Android, iPhone, and Windows phones to download songs for offline use.
And regarding the Browser issue,
As of now, the Napster website can be accessed on Firefox, Chrome, and Edge. safari. And we are working with our development team to make the Napster website work on all the browsers.
I hope this helps you.
If the issue still exists, please write back to us with the status of the issue to assist you further.
If you have any other questions or clarifications, please reply to this email, we will be glad to assist you."
"Dear Customer,
Thank you for contacting Napster Customer Support.
I understand your query and issue. I apologize for any inconvenience caused. Sure, I'll help you with this.
I see an Active Napster account.
I'm sorry to inform you that Microsoft has removed DRM content since July 14, 2017. So none of the downloaded tracks will work with the Napster application due to the removal of the DRM and the MP3 player will not work either because Removing the WMDRM feature from Windows 7, 8, 8.1, and Windows 10 (1507) version for the Napster V6 PC client.
The detailed analysis of the data showed that this functionality has very little success and it doesn't merit keeping it running. So we made the difficult decision to withdraw it. However, Napster plans to focus more on other great features and integrations that will be added in future updates.
However, you can upgrade your Windows to the latest version, and download the PC application from Windows 10 that allows you to download songs for offline use. But downloaded songs can only be played in the application.
You can also use the Napster app on Android, iPhone, and Windows phones to download songs for offline use.
And regarding the Browser issue,
As of now, the Napster website can be accessed on Firefox, Chrome, and Edge. safari. And we are working with our development team to make the Napster website work on all the browsers.
I hope this helps you.
If the issue still exists, please write back to us with the status of the issue to assist you further.
If you have any other questions or clarifications, please reply to this email, we will be glad to assist you."
Yesss, Windows... Windows 10.5.8...
I assume you didn't say what computer you're using, so I guess it was a good guess on their part.
I assume you didn't say what computer you're using, so I guess it was a good guess on their part.
If I'd said I was using TFF that would have made it far too easy for them...at least they didn't tell me to turn my 'pc' off and on....
Used my iBook G4 to lust after a pair of 15" DLSDs. I can't afford all 7 PowerBooks however, even if I had the room to store them all.
When Windows was my chief OS, I often dreaded phone calls to supposed tech support departments because it was likely that the assistance would be provided by a Script Monkey who'd ask me to carry out pointless tasks simply because they were mandated to do so and would refer me to the manufacturer of my computer for further assistance if the issue was beyond the scope of their pre-written instructions.
'Customer Support' is just one of the many indicators that western civilisation is in it's death throes
Found a 7,2 1.6 G5 at Goodwill Electronics for 75$ 4GB ram and a 5200. Never had a G5. Will spend all weekend planning of ways to max and use this PowerMac.
That's the original entry-level G5. Nice find. I'd probably slap the accompanying Jaguar build on it just to see what that's like on a G5
I have some sata ssds lying around, I was thinking of doing a Raid 0 and maybe a Tiger setup or I also have a pile of 1TB spinners and a quad boot across some partitions of Jag to Leo would be cool to setup too.That's the original entry-level G5. Nice find. I'd probably slap the accompanying Jaguar build on it just to see what that's like on a G5
I was lucky enough to win a first generation Apple TV advertised as being a 40GB model but it turned out to have been upgraded to a 750GB Scorpio Blue SATA HDD connected via a SATA/IDE adaptor.
Following an excellent post on Tinkerdifferent I was able to restore a custom Leopard image to it by removing the HDD and slotting it into a USB/SATA enclosure - an additional step was to inject the original boot.efi without which it wouldn’t boot.
With the meagre 256Mb RAM and 1Ghz Pentium M it isn’t half as bad as I expected and after running my normal Leopard speed-ups I gained an extra 23 points in Geekbench! (It's about on a par with the 1.42Ghz Mac Mini.)
Screenshots also show MPlayer doing 720P with ease!
EDIT: Just realised...why am I posting this in a PowerPC forum? Sorry, force of habit
Following an excellent post on Tinkerdifferent I was able to restore a custom Leopard image to it by removing the HDD and slotting it into a USB/SATA enclosure - an additional step was to inject the original boot.efi without which it wouldn’t boot.
With the meagre 256Mb RAM and 1Ghz Pentium M it isn’t half as bad as I expected and after running my normal Leopard speed-ups I gained an extra 23 points in Geekbench! (It's about on a par with the 1.42Ghz Mac Mini.)
Screenshots also show MPlayer doing 720P with ease!
EDIT: Just realised...why am I posting this in a PowerPC forum? Sorry, force of habit
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That was my original intention but apparently there's no GPU support in Tiger (it must be beyond inclusion of the necessary kexts) which makes it unbearably slow.Slap Tiger on it
Oh hey I have one of those; though mine was advertised as a 120 GB model but only came with the 40. I wasn't gonna bother with the logistical nightmare of trying to explain this though. It currently sits in the server hallway running Debian and the RIPnet KDX server.
that was case for 10.4.8 when they first ran tiger on the AppleTV, however by 10.4.11 there was definitely GPU support, the issue I have run into is finding a 10.4.11 Kernel that actually has a working SSE2 emulator (you can use the 10.4.8 kernel in 10.4.11 but its something I still need to try)
I could also in theory pinch the 10.4.11 GeForce kexts and try them in 10.4.8, thats an idea, but id like to get 10.4.11 going
fun fact the CPU in the AppleTV is a Fully enabled 2MB Dothan Pentium M core on an Intel BGA663 package, the same as used on intels Ultra Mobile A110 CPUs (which only run at 800Mhz with 512K L2)The only Pentium M-based “Mac”
(The Core Solo Mini doesn’t count!)
so I have often wondered if you could pinch one of these CPUs off an AppleTV and slap it into an A110 machine like a Samsung Q1 Ultra, for nice little performance boost
(and then Finally grab a bare metal CPU Z validation of an AppleTV CPU LOL)
I also wonder if you can BGA upgrade the RAM on an AppleTV, I have heard rumours of it being done but nothing concrete, its fun to note the AppleTV does a phantom second RAM slot if you go to RAM in system profiler
its such a shame the GeForce Go 7300 was not used in the Intel Mac Mini of the time, always amused me how the AppleTV had a far better GPU then the Mac Mini!
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The A110… that brings back memories! I'd rather have a Fujitsu U810 tho
(I owned a Fujitsu UH900 a few years ago but that was an Atom machine.)
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