What have you done with a PowerPC today?

[RogerWilco6502]

Power Mac 6200 (Performa 6200)

The 75 MHz Power Macintosh 6200 (a.k.a. Performa 6200, 6205, 6210, 6214, 6216, 6218, 6220, and 6230!) was one of the first Macs to use the PowerPC 603 processor. Although the CPU was superior to th…

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It sort of depends on who you ask, but importantly, this is a legendarily bad Mac. Also, at the very least, the 603 is worse than the 603e, and the Performa 6200 and its variants were the slowest PowerPC Macs ever released. So, depending on who you believe, it really could be down to the cpu. There are certainly other issues, but that's the most painful one.

Ah, ok. That would makes sense. That's interesting.

 

[Macbookprodude]

Trying to use OF to get the TI G4 1GHZ to recognize 2GB of memory since this model came out when MDD did and that supports 2GB.

 

[Project Alice]

Trying to use OF to get the TI G4 1GHZ to recognize 2GB of memory since this model came out when MDD did and that supports 2GB.

It won’t. It’s standard SD memory, not DDR. They don’t make any 1GB SD sticks.

 

[Macbookprodude]

Well that sucks.

 

[sparty411]

I'm using my iBook G3 to download Windows XP device drivers for my Asus A7V600. A little slow on the web with TFF, but with some patience, it is usable. I'm posting from it right now while Disk Utility Erases my flash drive.

 

[Tratkazir_the_1st]

Made upgrade of Void Linux (I found why it couldn't boot with kernels higher than 5.9.13). Currently - building KDE packages in Gentoo. XFCE is a backup DE as for me .

 

[alex_free]

I finally got the only program I've ever written in C89 which does not work on Big Endian architectures to work on Big Endian Architectures! Well, at least Mac OS X. Finally feel like I really understand endian stuff in programming. No more NUXI problems in the program, I'm no longer "part of the problem".

Also made substantial progress on PPCMC 7.2.2 Final , thinking of just posting it on the 1 year anniversary...

Also, why have the Mods not pinned this thread?

 

[Strategia]

Also, why have the Mods not pinned this thread?

The old "FAQ for PowerPC Macs" should be taken down, it seems unused and the knowledge could be transferred to the starter thread. In its place we should have this thread pinned.

 

[alex_free]

The old "FAQ for PowerPC Macs" should be taken down, it seems unused and the knowledge could be transferred to the starter thread. In its place we should have this thread pinned.

Agreed, is there a limit of how many threads can be pinned? I only joined here about a year ago and have never used any of the other forums.

 

[Strategia]

Agreed, is there a limit of how many threads can be pinned? I only joined here about a year ago and have never used any of the other forums.

You'll have to ask the mods that, but we seem to have a disproportionate amount of pinned threads compared to other forums. Not necessarily a bad thing though...

 

[alex_free]

You'll have to ask the mods that, but we seem to have a disproportionate amount of pinned threads compared to other forums. Not necessarily a bad thing though...

How would I do that? On a side note this place is one of the best I go on, if this place didn’t exist I would’ve probably started macosxlives.com but as of now there really is no need.

There have been times I’ve had to search for this thread to post in it, but it is usually on the front page due to popularity.

 

[Strategia]

How would I do that?

I think this might be it? I'm sure they lurk here anyways.

 

[Macbookprodude]

Trying to figure out how to make OS 9 great again, but programming new TLS's to accept new security under Classila.

 

[Project Alice]

I did something weird

This is the earliest known build of Leopard and it's basically Tiger. Except for Time Machine and no classic. But still kinda cool I guess.

TenFourFox runs, but then it crashes. It does that on a G5 too so it isn't related to altivec. I think this build actually predates 10.4.11 so that's probably why. I tried installing QuickTime 7.6.4 and then Finder wouldn't launch so I had to reinstall. So I think this is like.. 10.4.7 with some Leopard preview in it basically.

 

[Amethyst1]

This is the earliest known build of Leopard and it's basically Tiger

If only final Leo included an option to fully switch to Tiger's UI...

 

[wicknix]

I set up a bitlbee server on my DP G5 using the bitblee-discord plugin to access Discord. Currently connected to mac garden's general, and mac yak's general-chat and linux-yak.

 

[Hughmac]

Upgraded the RAM to 2GB in my iMac G4 1.25GHz, and replaced the clock battery which was dated 2003, and very dead.

Cheers

Hugh

 

[wicknix]

I built the SeaMonkey Suite for 32-bit powerpc Linux today. I missed having an "all-in-one" browser, email, rss, news, composer, irc client". It's not the latest, but it's new enough. I did patch up oauth2 though for better mail support. Info and download here at the bottom of the page.

Cheers

 

[sparty411]

I built the SeaMonkey Suite for 32-bit powerpc Linux today. I missed having an "all-in-one" browser, email, rss, news, composer, irc client". It's not the latest, but it's new enough. I did patch up oauth2 though for better mail support. Info and download here at the bottom of the page.

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Is it built with an older version of GCC? I reinstalled Macbuntu on the iBook G3 today, and would love to give it a try.

 

[wicknix]

Yep. Should work out of the box on MacBuntu/12 Remix and above. The theme i'm using is found here:

SeaMonkey Gray Modern Revived

The Classic Gray Modern Theme.

addons.thunderbird.net

Cheers

 

[Macbookprodude]

Ok, can someone provide me steps how to install Linux on G4 Titanium 1ghz ? I want to experiment with it as I may leave Leopard behind.

 

[wicknix]

I'd suggest start with something easy like MacBuntu or 12.04 Remix. Just burn the .iso, and boot the dvd. If that works, then boot back to Leopard, open disk util and shrink your Leopard partition down to give Ubuntu at least 10gb or more of space. Leave that space unformatted. Boot the dvd again and choose install. It will automatically find the blank partition and install to it. I build all my browsers on 12.04 for greater distro support, so don't worry about it being older. It's better suited for sub 1ghz machines than newer distros anyway. Don't forget to check this page if you run in to issues.



Cheers

 

[Tratkazir_the_1st]

Sitting in Leopard, waiting for main PC finishes system upgrade (Gentoo, 120+ packages ). It may be funny, but Mac OS is not preferred system as for me . (Even changed boot order for Gentoo first).

 

[Tratkazir_the_1st]

Primary system: upgrade complete .

 

[xeno74]

I built the SeaMonkey Suite for 32-bit powerpc Linux today. I missed having an "all-in-one" browser, email, rss, news, composer, irc client". It's not the latest, but it's new enough. I did patch up oauth2 though for better mail support. Info and download here at the bottom of the page.

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Many thanks for the Linux PPC version of SeaMonkey! It works on AmigaOnes too.

Link: forum.hyperion-entertainment.com