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What have you done with a PowerPC today?

alex_free said:
New you say?
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Yep, new. 🙂

alex_free said:
I’d be very wary, like did they find abandoned warehouse full of Dreamcast Ethernet adapters?
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New old stock has always existed and can present a great opportunity to grab discontinued items, provided that the price is right. In this instance, £212 GBP is not the right price!

alex_free said:
one site you might enjoy @TheShortTimer is this http://mc.pp.se/dc/. One of the OG Dreamcast hacking websites which inspired Dreamcast cdi burner, http://mc.pp.se/dc/cdr.html for example. 100% bet my life that this would render perfectly with a web browser cd on the Dreamcast to get real meta.

SSL is a scam for text only info heavy websites. SSL makes sense for account required type things but is been overhyped for over a decade and does nothing to make you more secure when browsing just information
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Thanks, that's a nice little site - created in the days when you could comfortably surf the Net with a PII, or a Dreamcast for that matter. 😀
 
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TheShortTimer said:
Yep, new. 🙂



New old stock has always existed and can present a great opportunity to grab discontinued items, provided that the price is right. In this instance, £212 GBP is not the right price!



Thanks, that's a nice little site - created in the days when you could comfortably surf the Net with a PII, or a Dreamcast for that matter. 😀
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I mean it’s possible there’s new old stock somewhere, but these things have been worth their weight in gold for years. For a while it was the only way to rip discs. And I got once scammed trying to buy one of these because they were not the correct adapter so I’d be careful.

It’s also not AI slop which has accurate information from one of the original “leakers” of how to accomplish self-boot CDIs, I wish the internet never changed from that point 😥
 
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barracuda156 said:
The latest OpenCV 4.13.0: https://github.com/macos-powerpc/powerpc-ports/commit/900e220e90fa6df7240d0246b2064b103de83e83

At least with waifu2x image upscaler it works. I have nothing else to test with at the moment.
Crash on launch in two executables has been fixed in this update.
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Works for me works for thee, if there is anyone interested for other projects it’s on them! That’s how I did panther sdl 2.0.3, there’s only so much you can ask of people doing this as a hobby. Great work
 
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I added support for NVIDIA GameStream protocol through the Moonlight library. I built `moonlight-common-c` for Leopard and plugged it into AquaPlex as an addon:

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I'm still optimizing for latency but I can connect to my host computer (hosted with Sunshine, open source GameStream protocol) and control my PC with pretty decent performance.

The target is 60FPS and right now I can consistently stream about 25-45 FPS. Once I finish optimizing our h264 stream and packet decoding I hope to be able to keep a comfortable 55-60 FPS on a 1080p stream.

Right now I can pass through keyboard and mouse input with the control protocol and I want to implement basic controller support through SDL2. Even with the current framerate, I could totally play a game of Civ 5 like this!

Aside from gaming this is also a useful low latency desktop streaming tool. Okay, now I need to stop implementing new features and actually get this update finished. Lol.
 
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Going to be on the train most of the day, so I packed my 1.67GHz PBG4 to get some tinkering done on the way! The "Relink" included with Leopard WebKit is still very helpful for getting apps like Mail to connect (in lieu of one of the available ports like claws-mail).
 

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Not today, but tomorrow: going to boot up Photoshop 5 in Mac OS 9 for a lot of screenshots I need to take. The image itself being created doesn't really matter much.​
 
DisraeliGears said:
Dude, if you can get OpenMW running on PPC, you are an absolute legend.
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I hope I’ll be able to! Right now, I’m able to cruise through the menus and change graphical settings but getting into game causes a crash related to the virtual memory ceiling being reached - this is a 32 bit limitation so the solution is either to heavily compress textures (and possibly disable components like the map), or build for ppc64 and limit the build to G5s.

The sane thing to do is get a working ppc64 build - if I can get into game from there, then maybe I can optimize the 32 bit build later on.

I get about 27FPS in the menu, no idea what I’ll get in game. All of the rendering is fixed function - no shaders or anything so if it does work, it’ll probably be a very vanilla experience.

And yes, once I get it working, I’m absolutely gonna try loading the Skyrim map with it. Lol.
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srp said:
The sane thing to do is get a working ppc64 build - if I can get into game from there, then maybe I can optimize the 32 bit build later on.
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If you use SDL2, that may not be an easier thing; at least on ATI cards it seems to be broken if Cocoa is used. (No guarantees here, it just did not work on my end last time I tried.)
 
barracuda156 said:
If you use SDL2, that may not be an easier thing; at least on ATI cards it seems to be broken if Cocoa is used. (No guarantees here, it just did not work on my end last time I tried.)
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Thanks for the heads up. I've got an NVIDIA card so I'll be interested to see if I can reproduce the issue.
 
I reinstalled Tiger as my primary version of Mac OS on Shiratsuyu because despite there being so much development of modern ports to the Leopards I couldn't stand Ableton Live crashing randomly every between a few minutes and an hour.
 
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Doq said:
I reinstalled Tiger as my primary version of Mac OS on Shiratsuyu because despite there being so much development of modern ports to the Leopards I couldn't stand Ableton Live crashing randomly every between a few minutes and an hour.
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Can’t do anything about a buggy proprietary software, sadly. Any open-source alternative for it?

Did you try LMMS?
 
Doq said:
I reinstalled Tiger as my primary version of Mac OS on Shiratsuyu because despite there being so much development of modern ports to the Leopards I couldn't stand Ableton Live crashing randomly every between a few minutes and an hour.
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Which version of Ableton Live were you using? I assume Live 7 cause it works on PPC and Tiger.
 
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barracuda156 said:
Can’t do anything about a buggy proprietary software, sadly. Any open-source alternative for it?

Did you try LMMS?
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LMMS is not the correct software for my use case. Well actually, it might work, but having to relearn a whole different workflow to put episodes of Mixtown together is not really something I'm keen on. Would rather continue using what works rather than lose time on something else.

jktwice said:
Which version of Ableton Live were you using? I assume Live 7 cause it works on PPC and Tiger.
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Yes, correct.
 
Doq said:
LMMS is not the correct software for my use case. Well actually, it might work, but having to relearn a whole different workflow to put episodes of Mixtown together is not really something I'm keen on. Would rather continue using what works rather than lose time on something else.
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Fair enough. This won’t do either? https://github.com/Ardour/ardour

There is also zrythm which seems similar, but QML is a trouble (and I am not motivated enough to port that to Qt4 even with claude assistance, forget by hand, lol).
 
Lost my preconceived notion that the GeForce 2 MX sucks. It's actually pretty great, though I did give it the best chance it could have by giving it a 15 inch CRT to put its picture on, so I was perfectly happy with 640x480 in the games I tested (American McGee's Alice and Return to Castle Wolfenstein). Either way locked 70 at 480 and mid-30s at 768.
 
Found a dual G4 867MHz cpu card from a 2002 MDD. I am considering installing it overclocked to my 2003 MDD single 1.25GHz machine. I am not 100% sure if they are compatible but maybe...?

I was just looking at the overclocking options and it seems that after changing the bus speed on the card to match my 2003 MDD (133MHz -> 167MHz) the stock resistor config on the card would end up to cpu clock speed of 1.08GHz. I wonder if I could further pump it up to 1.25GHz or even 1.33GHz successfully?

Also, I haven't taken the machine apart yet but I wonder if the single cpu heat sink would fit the DP card too? Or do I need to source an actual DP heatsink from somewhere. Looking at it the heat sink externally it is identical to my MDD FW800 dual 1.25GHz heatsink. Dunno if there is something different on cpu contact side?
 
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