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    I Book G3 Tangerine Model With upside down apple logo - Getting the best possible upgrades and finding the best selling price in central united states

    hello, so i have an I Book Tangerine model with the upside apple logo when Steve job made it the wrong way before he fixed it. its still got the working screen before the rotting has even thought about started even thought about started to yellow the screen its self. none of the plastics are...
    • thataquidicmacuser
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    • battery battery capacity clamshell ibook ibook g3 powerpc powerpc g3 ssd tangerine wifi & bluetooth
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: PowerPC Macs
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    Locking the cache for a memory region in OSX/ppc

    Hello, I'm aware this question might be very specific. I would like to use the PPC capabilities to lock the cache for a particular memory region (this involves supervisor-only ppc instructions). Do you know of any interface ever made for that in usermode that doesn't require me to use kexts?
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    Bobcat: modern terminal emulator on macOS PowerPC

    I got this working, finally. Installable from PPCPorts, as usual. Likely 10.6-only.
  4. Appleuser201

    S60tube YouTube Method no longer working at all

    This is the primary way I watched YT on low end G4s and it was easily the best way. Id go to s60tube website and search for a video and click watch online or copy and paste the link into VLC and bam, I could stream 360p YouTube on a 700mhz eMac running Panther (and on other Macs running Tiger or...
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    How to get an official key from iStat Menus 3

    Hello everyone (sorry if my English is not very clear, because I use a translator) Many of us are familiar with IStat menu 3 Which allows you to see the temperature and other information on the health of our PowerMacs. It is quite easy to find for download, but is not yet 15 days without a key...
  6. jktwice

    PowerPC Hardware Survey

    Hello! I decided to put together a survey to determine what kind of hardware active users of PowerPC machines use. It should only take a minute to complete and goes through some basic questions about what machine you mostly use and why. Hopefully with this info the community can have a clearer...
    • jktwice
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    • mac mac 10.4 mac 10.5 powerpc survey
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: PowerPC Macs
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    I have fixed Rust for powerpc (via mrustc, but it works with real apps now)

    Looks like I got it working (beyond a toy example). This is still via mrustc, but it serves the purpose. Here is as-tree port:
  8. eitanharlev

    My theories on why Apple's software quality has degraded so much.

    The Haus of Apple OS: How a Thousand Paper cuts killed “It Just Works” There’s an old saying: Apple has money. They have more than enough money. But what money cannot buy—at least not directly—is time, discipline, and humility. And those are exactly what Apple’s operating systems are missing...
  9. smnbldwn

    Outlook/Office on PPC Macs

    I am still using my PBG4 running Leopard quite a lot and it is a lovely computer to use. I am still able to access my gmail-based emails quite easily but the outlook based ones (Hotmail - I am old) don't work anymore either in Mail LepWK or the last PPC version of TBird or in Aquafox as webmail...
  10. victor.muc

    PowerBook G4 Titanium – both hinges suddenly seized up, can’t open display

    Hi everyone, I’m running into a really strange problem with my PowerBook G4 Titanium (Mercury, 2001) and I haven’t found anything quite like it. The machine has been working perfectly for months. I’ve always opened the display very carefully, slowly and with both hands. 4 days ago, while I...
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    • hinge hinges mac macintosh powerbook powerbook g4 powerpc stiff hinge
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: PowerPC Macs
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    Mac mini g4 thermal pad size?

    Hi, I need to service my mac mini g4. I was going to replace the thermal pad. Does anyone a) know the size needed b) recommend any particular brand? Thanks!
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    PPCPorts: the only ports you ever need on a PowerPC

    I think it is about time to make this more explicit: if you use 10.5.8 or 10.6.8 on some PowerPC hardware, consider switching to PPCPorts. Compatibility with MacPorts is retained, but more stuff actually works (not only development tools, but also GUI apps, multimedia etc.). Basic info is on...
  13. kahunalx

    A small victory for my PowerMac G4 MDD and Linux - Acceleration!

    Hello everyone, I've been working on getting decent hardware 2D/3D acceleration and video decoding on my PowerMac G4 MDD. My goal is to keep the stock Radeon 9000 PRO AGP card for OS 9, macOS X, and MorphOS, while using a newer PCI card for Linux. After testing several NVIDIA cards with little...
    • kahunalx
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    • arch debian graphics acceleration linux powermac powerpc ppc
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: PowerPC Macs
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    How did they make the change between processors without a hitch?

    Here's a quote from an Apple Insider article: "They both pulled off an immensely complex move of processors — with Jobs taking Apple from PowerPC to Intel — and both did it so well that it's easy to forget what a task it was." What would this task entail? How did they do it so well?
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    How to log in from iPhone onto a PowerMac

    This is something I found to be fun, though may not be of great utility, unless you have a keyboard for iPhone. Procedure allows to have a command-line access to a PowerPC Mac from an iOS device (or in fact any device with a Unix-like OS) and vice versa, including logging in as root with full...
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    Poll for G5 owners about ppc/ppc64 preference

    This is a practically relevant poll which is meant for anyone having a G5 machine in a working condition. Let me make it explicit: this is not about expressing support for development for macOS on PowerPC. I am interested to know whether it makes sense to allocate some resources for ppc64 or...
  17. featherwhisker

    Grub doesn't work on PowerBook6,5 (2004 iBook G4s)

    I've been trying to find information on this but I can't find *anything* except for a few abandoned webpages and fixes that don't work Grub does NOT work for installation CDs on the PowerBook6,5. This means that anything using Grub for its installation image will not boot. This may also affect...
  18. InAWhiteRoom

    LegacyAi

    Hi all, The latest LegacyAi software update link doesn't seem to work - does anyone have a copy they can share here, or knowledge of a working link elsewhere? Link to Manticore (works): https://manticore.nz/legacyai Link to the universal binary (doesn't work)...
  19. Gabryx86_64

    Resolved Can't find a way to boot from USB or CD on iBook G3/600 4,1

    I have recently bought a 600MHz iBook G3, the 14,1" 8MB VRam kind, and I have tried everything to put a fresh install of Tiger, or even something older, on it, from flashing the 4 Tiger CDs directly from the iBook (which i can't do anymore because updating to 10.2.8 with the Combo updater...
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    • 10.2.8 ibook g3 powerpc powerpc g3 tiger tiger 10.4.11
    • Replies: 19
    • Forum: PowerPC Macs
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    macOS Developing for PowerPC: what languages you use or want to use?

    This is a practical question: I am interested to know if some languages are being used but not available via MacPorts, or just broken, but there are potential users of those (i.e. it makes sense to try fixing those). P. S. No requests to fix clang, rust and go are currently accepted LOL
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