AuroraTrimcelerator - Snow Leopard Comes To PowerPC

[z970]

Well, it's finally here. After twelve months+ of development, TenFiveTrim is now well and truly ready for action.

The NEW AuroraTrimcelerator is an automated script that will optimize Mac OS X Leopard, removing redundant extensions along with disabling BeamSync that results in a faster and more responsive system. There are additional scripts included for disabling Spotlight and enabling QuartzGL and Quartz 2D Extreme, plus a script to optimize network transfer rates for high throughput, accompanied by a new and improved AuroraTips backported from AuroraSuite, which details more steps the user can take to manually tune the system further. Monolingual and ShadowKiller have also been bundled as recommended follow-up utilities.

It will probably be the closest to Snow Leopard G4 machines will ever get, bar none. And theoretically, it should also run on Intel machines without issue.

However, a reverse script called 'Undo AuroraTrimcelerator' is also included that will restore all changes AuroraTrimcelerator has made back to the default, besides scripts to re-enable Spotlight and disable QuartzGL and Quartz 2D Extreme back to the system default.

The new AuroraTrimcelerator is available @ Macintosh Garden.

https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/auroratrim-auroraaccelerator

 

[Hrududu]

I'm probably just behind, but I don't know much about the project. It definitely sounds interesting to me, but what sort of risk does this have of trashing my system? Would there be any adverse effects of running this on an "unsupported" system like a 667MHz VGA G4?

 

[Appleuser201]

Well, it's finally here. After two months+ of development, TenFiveTrim is ready for action.

AuroraTrim fills the same role as TenFourTrim, while the new AuroraAccelerator enables advanced graphics APIs like QuartzGL for faster graphical performance, being especially noticeable if your GPU is Core Image-enabled.

Together, it will very likely be the closest Leopard ever comes to 10.6's speeds and optimizations, bar none.

AuroraTrim / AuroraAccelerator is available from both here and on Macintosh Garden.

AuroraTrim / AuroraAccelerator - Macintosh Garden

AuroraTrim is an automated script that will slim down and optimize Mac OS X Leopard, removing redundant extensions, frameworks, fonts, and libraries that result in a faster and more responsive system. It, combined with AuroraAccelerator, will probably be the closest to Snow Leopard PowerPC...

macintoshgarden.org

Does this mean... faster YouTube performance?
1080p video playing better?

 

[z970]

I'm probably just behind, but I don't know much about the project. It definitely sounds interesting to me, but what sort of risk does this have of trashing my system? Would there be any adverse effects of running this on an "unsupported" system like a 667MHz VGA G4?

They come with Read Mes, which should answer several of your questions.

The risk of trashing your system? Maybe 5% in some wild scenario. Otherwise, it's all been tested on multiple machines with positive effects. Plus, AuroraTrim has been built from the ground-up to be safer than its predecessor. Though for whatever reason if you still do not like how your system turns out, just run the undoer.

As far as I'm concerned, these trim scripts are half-intended for especially low-end and unsupported hardware. So, don't hold back.

Now, it has not been tested with Leopard Server however... So your mileage may vary on that.
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Does this mean... faster YouTube performance?
1080p video playing better?

Maybe 480p will be a little less choppy, and webpages render slightly faster...

I'm not a miracle worker.

 

[Appleuser201]

They come with Read Mes, which should answer several of your questions.

The risk of trashing your system? Maybe 5% in some wild scenario. Otherwise, it's all been tested on multiple machines with positive effects. Plus, AuroraTrim has been built from the ground-up to be safer than its predecessor. Though for whatever reason if you still do not like how your system turns out, just run the undoer.

As far as I'm concerned, these trim scripts are half-intended for especially low-end and unsupported hardware. So, don't hold back.

Now, it has not been tested with Leopard Server however... So your mileage may vary on that.
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Maybe 480p will be a little less choppy, and webpages render slightly faster...

I'm not a miracle worker.

You kind of are already a miracle worker with this new project. Been waiting for a TenFiveTrim since TenFourTrim was released.

 

[z970]

You kind of are already a miracle worker with this new project. Been waiting for a TenFiveTrim since TenFourTrim was released.

Just give it a shot...

They were certainly a lot of work, and research, although I figured it was inevitable considering the sheer will of our community.

If you were wondering, this is what it's like to make a TenFiveTrim:

 

[Amethyst1]

Apart from the topic's vastly inaccurate/misleading title - great work!

 

[z970]

Apart from the topic's vastly inaccurate/misleading title - great work!

It's without question the closest we'll ever come to turning a 12-year-old OS into a 10-year-old one running on 15-year-old+ machines.

I figure it's fine. If SL became open-sourced and somebody recompiles it, we can use the caption:

Snow Leopard Literally Comes to PowerPC

 

[Amethyst1]

It's without question the closest we'll ever come to turning a 12-year-old OS into a 10-year-old one running on 15-year-old+ machines.

I figure it's fine. If SL became open-sourced and somebody recompiles it, we can use the caption:

Snow Leopard Literally Comes to PowerPC

Hey, just teasin' ya, it's all good

 

[ScreenSavers]

Well Apple isn’t big into open sourcing their OS’s... and if they did people would probably go for something a little newer than SL

 

[Imixmuan]

.... and if they did people would probably go for something a little newer than SL

ahh, but then we wouldn't have any PowerPC support. I honestly think Snow Leopard was the high water mark for Apple....Lion et al...its been all downhill from there.

 

[z970]

ahh, but then we wouldn't have any PowerPC support. I honestly think Snow Leopard was the high water mark for Apple....Lion et al...its been all downhill from there.

I don't think Mountain Lion was too bad. I think they tried to do another Snow Leopard and optimize / improve directly upon Lion than do much else, and I think it showed. It also combined just the right amount from iOS with the (yet) unchanged OS X structure, plus introduced a bunch of cool stuff on its own.

It was also the last release you could feel Jobs in. The true skeumorphisism, name, themes, speed...

Really, Mavericks was still better than Yosemite, but that was when OS X truly started falling. California, slowness, more iOS apps, more cloud integration, etc...

Yosemite and up... Well, you know the forum consensus.

 

[ScreenSavers]

Both El Capitan and High Sierra were performance and stability improvement focused.

 

[z970]

Both El Capitan and High Sierra were performance and stability improvement focused.

Yes, but they're still post-Yosemite.

 

[weckart]

Both El Capitan and High Sierra were performance and stability improvement focused.

El Capitan made a mess of USB and wasn't patched until Sierra

 

[ScreenSavers]

I don’t want to change the subject of the OP’s thread by in my opinion Mojave has been the best recent release. I can think of bugs in every other version that are pretty serious.

Anyway, can’t wait to try the Leopard mod when I get back this week.

 

[retta283]

I don't think Mountain Lion was too bad. I think they tried to do another Snow Leopard and optimize / improve directly upon Lion than do much else, and I think it showed. It also combined just the right amount from iOS with the (yet) unchanged OS X structure, plus introduced a bunch of cool stuff on its own.

It was also the last release you could feel Jobs in. The true skeumorphisism, name, themes, speed...

Really, Mavericks was still better than Yosemite, but that was when OS X truly started falling. California, slowness, more iOS apps, more cloud integration, etc...

Yosemite and up... Well, you know the forum consensus.

I agree with this post. Snow Leopard was the peak of Mac OS X, one of the best desktop OSes ever made. Smooth, efficient, and quick. Aqua was still a part of the UI, without it looking overly gray.

Lion was awkward, but Mountain Lion straightened things out. It still felt like Mac OS X, maybe not as much as Snow Leopard, but more than newer versions. Mavericks was a bit awkward too, but not terrible. Everything since then has been mediocre, not nearly as stable as before.

I personally found El Cap to be stable, but besides that everything since ML has had strange issues. But Snow Leopard will always be the best. UI wise it was excellent, I miss the glossy dock, Aqua elements, and colored sidebar icons. I cannot stand the scroll bars now, I miss having the up-down arrows, and with the fluid windows in Lion I would often resize the window if I tried to manually move the bar. The dumbing down of Expose and Spaces to Mission Control was also a major blow.

 

[z970]

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[z970]

Made the script description a little more descriptive and straightforward (which probably should have been done from day one).

By the way, what kind of a difference is everyone noticing after these are run?

 

[andloph]

what kind of a difference is everyone noticing after these are run?

i have always seen this as a "setup tuner" that removes crap you surely won´t need and to enable stuff you will probably need. I cant say i have noticed any difference ( nor would i know how to messure it), maybe the UI is a bit snappier but i do believe that this is certainly something eveyone should use once they have understood what it does.
Thanks again for your efforts !

 

[andloph]

by the way, what about some other things that can also be modified or does anyone have more ideas to fine tune some things ? I mean for example :

- disable ( or completely remove) dashboard
- disable spotlight
- disable dns prefetching
- disable IPV6 by default
- disable bonjour and / or SPS
etc ...

sure, i know this isnt for everyone but -depending on your usage- it certainly can fit into the "disable things i wont use" category.

thanks

 

[z970]

Essentially, the payoff for doing all those things wouldn't exceed the consequence. Many people make use of Dashboard, Spotlight, and the others (myself included). If the script disabled them, the usual reaction would just be to undo the changes, in the process bypassing everything else being offered.

And Dashboard isn't even using any resources at all if you simply do not open it. If you do, the widget DashQuit is very useful for actually quitting back out of it.

Believe me, I've already pondered this road during development...

 

[timidpimpin]

Does this mean... faster YouTube performance?
1080p video playing better?

You need to download more RAM first.

 

[Amethyst1]

You need to download more RAM first.

I thought Connectix' RAM Doubler was enough?

 

[Imixmuan]

I thought Connectix' RAM Doubler was enough?

Connectix was a great company. Mode 32, RAM doubler, Virtual Game Station, VPC...now those really were the days. Don't miss the extension conflicts though. Oh, and I also flipping loved the iconfactory. Made all of my Windows "friends" super jealous how easily I could mod my mac (s).