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The official minimum system requirements for Hedon: Bloodrite -- the popular new indie retro-FPS built on the GZDoom engine -- call for a dedicated GPU supporting OpenGL 4. Screw that! I'm going to play it on my 2009 A1181! After all, if it uses GZDoom, it should be able to run on a potato, shouldn't it?

The game is eminently playable with both the graphics settings and the resolution ratcheted down -- the key was to use LZDoom, a fork of GZDoom targeting legacy hardware.
 

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Slowly realized how much of a pain it is to boot into a Linux USB on the exact MacBook I own and none of the ones before or after it. Really boosts the morale at 3:40 in the morning.​
 
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I did this a few days ago, actually, so it's not instant, but I installed an SSD into my MacBook and WOW, the improvement in smoothness was instant. Boot time cut in half (11 seconds vs. 19 seconds -- I'm genuinely caught off guard every time it boots), apps open almost instantly... I'm really excited to shove one into my PowerPC Macs now. I was a bit wary of SATA-I, but it's honestly rivalling the M.2 in my hand-me-down 6600K that I don't really care about. Donatello does have solid-state storage, but it's a CF to IDE over UATA/66, not UATA/100 or even SATA-I, over a PCI card or the G5's native bus.

Also, I found a custom repack of Ubuntu MATE 18.04 with a 32-bit EFI, and it's been an exercize in frustration rivalling getting 10.2.8 onto Donatello; the download just fails 3 hours in out of 9 hours every single time, and I've tried about 15 times now. For a 2.2GB download. Phone wifi hotspot sure is something.
And yes, I'm using the 5GHz band. Literally no difference at all -- I'm still getting ~70KB/s either way, with just the occasional bump up to 75KB/s.​
 
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Don't have Windows installed, downloading Fedora would have the exact same issues that Ubuntu has except I'd imagine I also have to install rEFInd (which this repack with a 32-bit EFI claims I don't have to), and this is a MacBook so I'm not sure where the mini comes into play, since it seems it has a 64-bit EFI on the earliest C2D models.​
 
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lepidotós said:
Don't have Windows installed, downloading Fedora would have the exact same issues that Ubuntu has except I'd imagine I also have to install rEFInd (which this repack with a 32-bit EFI claims I don't have to), and this is a MacBook so I'm not sure where the mini comes into play, since it seems it has a 64-bit EFI on the earliest C2D models.​
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Are you sure? I got the dreaded 32-bit EFI error with the latest Debian until I used isomacprog.
 
It happened AGAIN and I'm seriously considering just selling the MacBook. Maybe I'll turn a slight profit with the 240GB SSD. It downloads just fine and then starts sputtering out at 2.16GB. So glad that I've wasted almost a whole week on this.
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It happened AGAIN and I'm seriously considering just selling the MacBook. Maybe I'll turn a slight profit with the 240GB SSD. It downloads just fine and then starts sputtering out at 2.16GB. So glad that I've wasted almost a whole week on this.
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Use Jdownloader instead: its never failed me through the years. Or download the ISO via a torrent client. ;)
 
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TheShortTimer said:
Use Jdownloader instead: its never failed me through the years. Or download the ISO via a torrent client. ;)
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Torrent is the only way for any large files. I use the archive.org torrents for various Mac OS X and other OS images, as well as the official Linux distro's torrent files.

Torrenting is one of the best things to ever happen to the web. I can torrent anything on even PowerPC Tiger using: https://macintoshgarden.org/sites/macintoshgarden.org/files/apps/Transmission-Qt_2.31.dmg
 
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Torrent is the only way for any large files. I use the archive.org torrents for various Mac OS X and other OS images, as well as the official Linux distro's torrent files.
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When I finally ditched dial-up around 2005 and switched to a DSL account, I soon saw how limited Gnutella clients were and never looked back after discovering the marvels of torrenting. Lately I've been lucky enough to have a fibre-optic connection that enables me to download large files within a few minutes from a site or using torrents which means I can enjoy the best of both worlds.

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Torrenting is one of the best things to ever happen to the web.
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Absolutely! :)

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I can torrent anything on even PowerPC Tiger using: https://macintoshgarden.org/sites/macintoshgarden.org/files/apps/Transmission-Qt_2.31.dmg
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When my 2006 MBP was out of action, I used Transmission on my Sawtooth G4 under Tiger to grab whatever I needed from the cybersphere. :D
 
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When I finally ditched dial-up around 2005 and switched to a DSL account, I soon saw how limited Gnutella clients were and never looked back after discovering the marvels of torrenting. Lately I've been lucky enough to have a fibre-optic connection that enables me to download large files within a few minutes from a site or using torrents which means I can enjoy the best of both worlds.



Absolutely! :)



When my 2006 MBP was out of action, I used Transmission on my Sawtooth G4 under Tiger to grab whatever I needed from the cybersphere. :D
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I finally have 2 2TB drives connected to my Mac mini G4 with an ethernet to WiFi adapter (that is actually quite fast for what it is). After all these years it is still my main data/backup server via SSH, sky's the limit.
 
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Aaaand Jdownloader is locked behind a Mega page I can't open, because I'm on Tiger, and so can't upgrade my browser. I'm installing Void on my iBook G4, so maybe I'll try downloading it on that.​
 
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Here's my 2011 11" MacBook Air - with help from a Thunderbolt eGPU connected to my TV, happily playing 4K UHD video files in VLC from an external HDD (because I'd very quickly run out of space on the SSD with large video files.)

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Once again thanks to @Amethyst1 for guiding me through the process to get this all working. :)
 
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Welllll…

Last weekend is really when this happened, but I'm only posting about it now. I have a 4TB HD in bay 2 on my MP. I use it as a media/download/burn drive. I got the idea last weekend to start moving things off of it to make it solely a media drive. I have to be careful because I have a backup to a 3TB drive and I don't want to run out of drive space on that 3TB.

But I also had some old disk images stored there and one in particular was giving me issues in copying. So, I finally resorted to trying a CCC copy of that particular disk image while moving other stuff off the drive.

The copy got almost to the end and then the Mac kernel panicked. So, I force-rebooted, only to discover that the 4TB drive no longer mounts to the desktop. Fortunately, everything else had already been pulled off, either to another drive or to my 6TB network NAS.

The MP sees the drive, but it will not partition it. It errors when trying to write. I'm not happy about the drive failing, but for once all of this happened AFTER I pulled all the data off! And the fact that I tend to make backups meant a loss of only one recently downloaded media file. Easily re-downloaded.

My network NAS and G4 NAS handled the copy over ethernet of 2.04TB TWICE ('cause I'm an idiot) without a hitch, without an issue and no errors. THAT made me very happy because it means these two things are stable and I can count on them.

So, I went looking for a replacement. My rule in replacement is the same or larger. I can't afford a 4TB SSD and an 8TB SSD is approaching $900!

So, for now, I stick with spinners. I've got an 8TB WD NAS drive on my eBay watchlist - $109.

PS. It takes about 2 days to copy 2.04TB over gigabit ethernet. :D
 
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Well, it still isn't Linux, but here's what I'm doing right now.​
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I wonder if this would work with my MacBook 4,1. I never liked the look of Leopard / Snow Leopard on it - didn’t match the case.
OTOH, Tiger won’t work properly on it due to the GMAX3100. A beta release of 10.5 with release GPU drivers would theoretically work though...
 
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