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tigerintank

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Jun 16, 2013
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Am unclear what this is for sorry.

Will it help me with my iMac G5 running Leopard as well or is to get Leopard onto unsupported machines only?
 

gavinstubbs09

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Feb 17, 2013
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NorCal boonies ~~~by Reno sorta
Glad to see a update! I am one to look at an old project I worked on years back and decide to pull it out and make it so much better then the previous.

Nice work!

Also it looks like I need to make a tutorial about installing Leopard with a 800MHz iMac G4 soon :D
 
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tigerintank

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Jun 16, 2013
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Unsupported machines.

ah right suspected, but wasn't sure - thanks for confirming.

In that case full credit where credits due - not many people around who would put that effort in for the love of it and to the benefit the apple PPC community - much respect :cool:
 

Anonymous Freak

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Dec 12, 2002
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I can say from my testing that it's a rock-solid version.

Other than:

1. Doesn't work on Jaguar (although you already know that now.)
2. Certain systems require being on their latest firmware first. I don't know if there's any way for you to procedurally check for that, or if that would be a royal pain in the @$$ to implement... But a warning would be good. (I found this out on my Cube.)

On a Panther-or-later system on its latest firmware, it works great!
 

DaKKs

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Aug 15, 2012
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And how well does it run on unsupported machines? I mean, Leopard runs well enough on my maxed 1.67Ghz PBG4, and even there, its just barely fast enough for normal use.

Don't get me wrong, its an amazing piece of software, I just don't get the point of it if say, my iBG4 (800) is too slow do use afterwards.
 

Anonymous Freak

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Dec 12, 2002
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And how well does it run on unsupported machines? I mean, Leopard runs well enough on my maxed 1.67Ghz PBG4, and even there, its just barely fast enough for normal use.

Don't get me wrong, its an amazing piece of software, I just don't get the point of it if say, my iBG4 (800) is too slow do use afterwards.

On my iMac G4 - 800 MHz, Leopard is just as usable as Tiger.

On my G4 Cube - 450 MHz, Leopard is slightly slower, but since it can run newer software, it becomes "more usable."
 
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