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Post Your "About This Mac" Screenshots (PowerPC)!

eyoungren said:
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Pretty accurate depiction... :D
 
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So here's taking on AmazingHenry's suggestions for modding "About This Mac".

Here's a bit of dark humor for "Shock and Blaaaah":
(Putting on my asbestos flame-suit since it will no doubt proved to be unpopular)

Desktop_ATM_Ballmer.png

Anyone have a suggestion for a different statement for Steve Ballmer ? ;P
Maybe I should upload the PSD.

And here, on a lighter, more aesthetic note:
(Which really has nothing to do with OS X historically)

ATM_1984_Jobs_Mac.png
ATM_1984_Mac_Hello.png


If wanted, all three About This Mac tifs are zipped together @ Mega:
https://mega.nz/#!UNFXQDgQ!Kgt0nDSH4Oxswoza0fZgiMABk6NSgEvsqVuj9dex8io

They are actually pngs with the extension changed to tif.
Originally PSD then to png via "Saved for Web and Devices..."
I went this route since merged PSD Layers saved to Tif were bigger in size.
Probably could have done it differently but I don't have eyoungren's Photoshop expertise ;)
They did work in my Quicksilver's Leopard install.

Caveat: Use at your own risk. Use Duplicate command for backups.
I copied/backed-upped the original About This Mac (MasOSX.tif) by copy/pasting it to the desktop,
and using the Duplicate command for an additional copy.

This is the route I took for Leopard:
Drive > System > Library > CoreServices > loginwindow.app --> Right Click: Show Package Contents >
Contents > Resources > MacOSX.tif <-- Copy/Paste to desktop for backup.
Rename the chosen modded tif: "MacOSX.tif". Replace Original MacOSX.tif with modded tif by drag & drop,
[Authenticate], [Replace], type your account password. RESTART.

EDIT: If Mega gives your older browser problems, here are the modded About This Mac tifs.
They are originally pngs so as pngs I should be able to upload them here.
Once downloaded, change the .png extension to .tif & the name to MacOSX so they'll work in the Resources folder.

MacOSX_1984_Jobs_Mac.png
MacOSX_Ballmer_Why_Cant_I_ .png
MacOSX_macintosh_1984.png
 
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QSDP-User said:
Anyone have a suggestion for a different statement for Steve Ballmer ? ;P
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Steve Ballmer:
500 dollars? Fully subsidized? With a plan? I said that is the most expensive phone in the world. And it doesn't appeal to business customers because it doesn't have a keyboard. Which makes it not a very good email machine. ... Right now, we're selling millions and millions and millions of phones a year. Apple is selling zero phones a year. In six months, they'll have the most expensive phone by far ever in the marketplace.
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Now we'll get a chance to go through this again in phones and music players. There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. It's a $500 subsidized item. They may make a lot of money. But if you actually take a look at the 1.3 billion phones that get sold, I'd prefer to have our software in 60% or 70% or 80% of them, than I would to have 2% or 3%, which is what Apple might get.
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Great job, @QSDP-User! The images look great. However, I've never been able to download things with MEGA... gives me all sorts of crazy errors and tell me to upgrade my browser. Could you upload the images right here?
 
pochopsp said:
Mega does work with Tenfourfox. At least three weeks ago it worked. You have to wait a bit but the file will download fine.
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If the file is over a certain size, you'll have to download the FireFox extension for MEGA to allow for larger downloads. MEGA works well on PPC
 
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Something Different --> (Non-Apple About This Mac)
Can't say that I'm a hard-core fan of anime,
but this 1984 Studio Ghibi/Miyazaki production made an impression on me enough to post this:

Nausicca.png


I've seen both the dubbed & subtitled versions. Dubbed is OK, but subtitled rules.
 
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Here's a screen grab of Tiger running on my 12" PowerBook. Finally maxed out the RAM on this thing, and I'm surprised at how fast this thing still is, especially it only being a 1.33 GHz model. I can only imagine how much faster the 1.5 Ghz model is!

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And here's a screen grab of Windows Vista Ultimate running on my very first computer: a Pentium 4 w/ 896 MB of RAM! I know this isn't at all related to PPC or PPC Macs, but I felt inclined to share it. Ever since I got my 12" PB, I really wanted to travel back in time to around 2006-07, when I really longed for the best of both worlds. And let me tell you: despite how much of a downgrade both computers are from my main system (Windows 10 running on a Haswell i3 w/ 8 GB of RAM), I'm really enjoying the trip down memory lane.

EditedDesktop.jpg

Good times, good times. :)
 
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foxlet said:
Talking About This Mac, my CPU-Z clone works on PowerPC too!

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that looks pretty cool :)

I have to ask tho how your gathering that information? by the looks of it looks like its an output from sysctl?

I noticed that it reports 7450 which is usually whats reported generically by OS X on all G4 Macs running 7450-7448 CPUs, its what id expect from such outputs as uname -a, arch, machine, sysctl and hostinfo. the proper way to ID a PowerPC CPU is to read its PVR (processor version register) Value with that infomation you can acuratly tell most of the time what CPU a PPC machine has, (but do note that it can be temporarily or permanently changed, for example some CPU upgrade firmware patches for G4 PowerMacs mask the 7447/As PVR as that of a 7455 to maintain compatibility with OS9)

(the TiBook in the photo for example uses a 7455A CPU not a 7450) CHUD Tools has a neat CLI utility called hwprefs that tells you a lot about a system as well as the CPU preference pane perhaps you could look into utilising those or parts of those for your CPU Z :)
 
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LightBulbFun said:
that looks pretty cool :)

I have to ask tho how your gathering that information? by the looks of it looks like its an output from sysctl?

I noticed that it reports 7450 which is usually whats reported generically by OS X on all G4 Macs running 7450-7448 CPUs, its what id expect from such outputs as uname -a, arch, machine, sysctl and hostinfo. the proper way to ID a PowerPC CPU is to read its PVR (processor version register) Value with that infomation you can acuratly tell most of the time what CPU a PPC machine has, (but do note that it can be temporarily or permanently changed, for example some CPU upgrade firmware patches for G4 PowerMacs mask the 7447/As PVR as that of a 7455 to maintain compatibility with OS9)

(the TiBook in the photo for example uses a 7455A CPU not a 7450) CHUD Tools has a neat CLI utility called hwprefs that tells you a lot about a system as well as the CPU preference pane perhaps you could look into utilising those or parts of those for your CPU Z :)
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I'm well aware it just uses a 7455. :) It was a quick port since the tool was originally meant to ID Intel processors, so it'll be a while before I look into getting beyond the general family.
 
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"About This Mac" Leopard PowerPC Edition.

LeopardPPC-AboutThisMac.jpg


Firstly, props to @SourceSunTom for his excellent work in generating interest in the PowerPC community with Leopard Rebirth.

Since using Leopard Rebirth on my little PowerBook for the past few months, I had gotten used to the streamlined Sierra look and didn't think much about how it was before. It was nice to have this change, but once I replaced the HDD with an SSD and installed a fresh copy of Leopard, I think I have come to admire the look of "Classic Leopard" above all.

In saying this, I liked my Leopard Retail DVD inspired About This Mac design, which I prepared for my own instances of Rebirth and decided to use the image against the original "unthemed" Leopard

The ATM window is mostly unchanged except for being slightly taller to accommodate the round image.

To show my respect for the platform, I've included a little PowerPC badge.


Instructions:

1. Download and unzip LeopardPPC-AboutThisMac.zip

2. Backup your existing system resources, before replacing them. You could pull these files out using Finder and keep them safe elsewhere, or use Terminal to create a backup in place.

Code: 
sudo mv /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/Resources/MacOSX.tif /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/Resources/MacOSX-backup.tif
sudo mv /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/AboutThisMac.nib /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/AboutThisMac-backup.nib

(Replacing 'English.lproj' with your localized equivalent)

3. Use Terminal or authenticate via the Finder to copy the files from the unzipped folder into place at:

/System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/Resources/MacOSX.tif

and

/System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/AboutThisMac.nib

(Again, replacing English.lproj with your localization).

4. Log Out or Restart your Mac.

I have only included the English localization, but changing this is easy enough. Just open the .nib file in Interface Builder and click the labels to change them as desired.

-AphoticD
 

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AphoticD said:
Brilliant! It's great to see a real, working 20yo 68k in the wild.

Just curiously, what kind of tasks do you put the 1400c to work on?
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I never said I use it in the wild; and it's apparent that it wasn't used a huge amount back in the day either, as there is almost zero wear on the keyboard, trackpad, and display. Other then some light stress cracking on the lid (which is obviously due to the aged brittle plastic and would likely get worse if I open/close the lid many times), and degraded speakers, it is in almost perfect condition.

I do enjoy booting it up once in a while, using AppleTalk via the Ethernet expansion card to communicate with newer Macs and installing software from the Macintosh Garden, and I also picked up an old boxed version of Adobe Pagemaker I intend to try on it soon.
 
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Pismo G3 400Mhz in all it's glory. The white Apple logo on the hood was too irresistible, I had to get a photo of it for the ATM image :apple:
 
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