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Open Firmware Pong?
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This might be what you're looking for:
I didn't try to run any of the downloads (don't have a PPC Mac handy at the moment), but the links on that archived page seem to work.I clicked on this this thinking the thread title related to a stench on booting into OF just like the keyboards on G3 iBooks, when those have warmed up. I feel mildly disappointed now.
I wasn't aware of that particular meaning of "pong", so thanks for enlightening me and making me smile
He though I said bong.......I wasn't aware of that particular meaning of "pong", so thanks for enlightening me and making me smile
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I can't answer that, but considering the amount of software that runs directly from open firmware can probably be counted on one hand, every bit helps!Do video games really do anything useful?
Pong - Wikipedia
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Well, OF is, by definition, a firmware environment.
You can do a lot in that context, way more than you could ever do with Bios, because you have a command line and a higher level Forth interpreter.
I often muse myself by thinking one day, when I know how to use the Forth like a Sith overlord should, I'll write a small OS that can browse primitive HTTP pages, do primitive email, and use a primitive text editor, and maybe add a tokenizer.
That's the basic building blocks of anyone building a full featured OS on top of Open Firmware, without a lot of overhead or abstraction.
Tho it would be fundamentally insecure with it running this way.