The iPhone 4 is my favorite phone. I daily drove it on iOS 7 back in the iOS 8 days. I had always dreamed of an unteathered, completely offline iOS 4 downgrade with hacktivation back then because iOS 7 destroyed it performance wise.
Since the above is now possible (the future rocks!) I took the plunge. Early serial number, so it can go down to as low as iOS 4.1. That's where it is now. Youtube is a no-go on such an old iOS. There is that russion youtube front end you can use, but it was pretty slow and janky.
Then I remembered, the PowerPC Media Center 7 Web Interface! Not everyone might remember this, since it was from 2020 and got accidentally broken in later PPCMC7 updates. What it did was incredible. It is a way to interact with PPCMC7 using the most ancient web browsers ever. It supports Netscape on Mac OS 9 and the latest Firefox on Linux. What it was originally designed to do was to provide an automated download/conversion to QuickTime 6 (Mac OS 9) compatible file formats, so that you could essentially use PPCMC7 from Mac OS 9 via a web browser and ancient PHP. To this day, the web interface is the entire sum of my web dev knowledge.
So I thought, why not add an option to download H.264 360p? That requires no conversion (super fast), and....
(Yes, you can just tap the video and stream it from your PowerPC Mac)
Notes:
-Multiple downloads at one time should now work (unlike before). Multiple concurrent downloads will be extremely slow though unless you have a beefy G5. I recommend only one connection to the web interface at a time.
- This is a PANTHER optimized build. The TIGER optimized build will be even faster.
- If you get a timeout message in Safari, your download will eventually complete (just keep checking the downloads, give it some time).
- It seems that disabling/enabling personal web sharing in System Preferences is more reliable to bring up the PPCMC Web Interface after updating it.
- The web interface could be at i.e. 10.0.0.72/ppcmcw (look at what System Preferences says).
Below is PPCMC 7.2.7 BETA 2 Panther build with this functionality:
filetransfer.io
Another thing related to old IOS, did you know you can take a folder of tons of .IPA application files and make it into a cydia deb repo that can be hosted locally? https://github.com/alex-free/ipa2deb
I have very much considered getting a VPS and hosting an abondonware appstore this way (which may still happen IDK).
Since the above is now possible (the future rocks!) I took the plunge. Early serial number, so it can go down to as low as iOS 4.1. That's where it is now. Youtube is a no-go on such an old iOS. There is that russion youtube front end you can use, but it was pretty slow and janky.
Then I remembered, the PowerPC Media Center 7 Web Interface! Not everyone might remember this, since it was from 2020 and got accidentally broken in later PPCMC7 updates. What it did was incredible. It is a way to interact with PPCMC7 using the most ancient web browsers ever. It supports Netscape on Mac OS 9 and the latest Firefox on Linux. What it was originally designed to do was to provide an automated download/conversion to QuickTime 6 (Mac OS 9) compatible file formats, so that you could essentially use PPCMC7 from Mac OS 9 via a web browser and ancient PHP. To this day, the web interface is the entire sum of my web dev knowledge.
So I thought, why not add an option to download H.264 360p? That requires no conversion (super fast), and....
(Yes, you can just tap the video and stream it from your PowerPC Mac)
Notes:
-Multiple downloads at one time should now work (unlike before). Multiple concurrent downloads will be extremely slow though unless you have a beefy G5. I recommend only one connection to the web interface at a time.
- This is a PANTHER optimized build. The TIGER optimized build will be even faster.
- If you get a timeout message in Safari, your download will eventually complete (just keep checking the downloads, give it some time).
- It seems that disabling/enabling personal web sharing in System Preferences is more reliable to bring up the PPCMC Web Interface after updating it.
- The web interface could be at i.e. 10.0.0.72/ppcmcw (look at what System Preferences says).
Below is PPCMC 7.2.7 BETA 2 Panther build with this functionality:
Fast & Simple File Transfers
Free transfer of up to 6 GB of photos, videos and documents. Send large files via email or a link to share. No registration, no ads, just simple file sharing!
filetransfer.io
Another thing related to old IOS, did you know you can take a folder of tons of .IPA application files and make it into a cydia deb repo that can be hosted locally? https://github.com/alex-free/ipa2deb
I have very much considered getting a VPS and hosting an abondonware appstore this way (which may still happen IDK).
