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What have you done with a PowerPC today?

alex_free said:
I have at least 2 music videos downloaded at 480p H.264 for playback on my PowerPC Macs that have since been DELETED by the artists. Archive things you care about! Pretty sure no one else has any backups of these videos as I can’t find them anymore, these downloads are my only copies rn.
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I have run across the same thing when a message board I liked changed the software used by the forum and the old forum (and posts) went away. Or when a company shuts down their forum.

And since most / all of the posts in these cases had dynamic URLs, web.archive.org couldn't help.

So now I save as much as possible for future reference.
 
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Tried out Photoshop 6 on the iBook G3. Never used that version before. It runs well on the G3 and it has the same UI as PS 7, so I decided to use 6 instead of 5.5 or 7 on my G3.

Decided to put the Geforce 6200 back into my Sawtooth. I go back and forth over this a lot, but with PS 6 on the iBook and a Mac Mini G4 on the way, I think I can more easily give up 2D/3D acceleration in OS 9 on my Sawtooth than in the past. The difference between the Radeon 9000 that was in here before and the 6200 isn't night and day on Leopard, but I do think there is a slight performance improvement in Leopard on here. I also ran AuroraTrimCelerator on here too, when the 9000 was still in here.
 
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Borrowed some OS9 folder windows via screengrabs from my Sawtooth and after some Photoshop trickery, applied them to my Lone Gunmen t-shirt design....

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What did I do today on a PowerPC?

I flatbed-scanned a bunch of documents with the final UB of VueScan and used Acrobat 9 Pro to assemble the documents into a single-PDF dossier.

Oh… did I mention that I managed to do all of this without a hitch or hiccup from Build 10A96 of Snow Leopard for PowerPC? I hadn’t? Well, ok. Now I have.

Big flex.
 
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I played with a little gem I found on MacGui, called ServerScreenCapture :
https://macgui.com/downloads/?file_id=13234
It’s a CGI script to be used in a http server, if you point your browser to that script URL, it makes a screenshot of the server’s desktop in GIF, and displays it on your web browser.

So I used NetPresenz on my BasiliskII R-Pi virtual machine, which already runs a Gopher server, so setup a HTTP server. Placed the CGI script renamed « screen.cgi » at the root of the server directory.

And when I point Classilla to my BasilliskII web server at http://localAddressOfTheBII.vm/screen.cgi, I get the Desktop displayed :

Jane-Henderson-040621-01.jpg

cool.
Even cooler I find, if I use MacLynx to get to that address, it works too, and automatically opens the screenshot in GraphicConverter :

Jane-Henderson-040621-02.jpg

Now what I’m trying to do is doing a link in the BasiliskII Gopher server « !gopher links» file (this is some kind of equivalent of the .html file on a HTTP server) to that CGI script. It has to be a link to the HTTP side to work cause Gopher itself can’t trigger the script. Would look like this :

Jane-Henderson-040621-04.jpg

But NetPresenz « !Gopher Links » syntax is very strange and different from Bucktooth server for example.

Jane-Henderson-040621-03.jpg

Tried different syntax , but it never works. I get « URL can't be reached », or it displays the text of the !Gopher Links file…
Even tho I know it can do links to http URLs, as I can point to external servers… Anyway, work in progress.
 
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M.b. it's old news for local inhabitants. But as for me - it's proven, that PowerMac G5 Quad CAN be started from GPT-partitioned drive :D. Got unused HDD (SAS), cloned my Leopard installation to it with CCC 3.4.7. But drive was partitioned not as APM, but as GPT. Booted without a hitch :D. (Pics attached.)
 

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Interesting thing...
Any low-level experts here? :)

sh-3.2# bless --info
Can't get device for /ht@0,f2000000/pci@9/k2-sata-root@c/@-1/@0:4,\grub\powerpc-ieee1275\core.elf: 3
Can't interpet OpenFirmware boot device
sh-3.2# bless --info /
finderinfo[0]: 149 => Blessed System Folder is /System/Library/CoreServices
finderinfo[1]: 1123302 => Blessed System File is /System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi
finderinfo[2]: 0 => Open-folder linked list empty
finderinfo[3]: 0 => No OS 9 + X blessed 9 folder
finderinfo[4]: 0 => Unused field unset
finderinfo[5]: 149 => OS X blessed folder is /System/Library/CoreServices
64-bit VSDB volume id: 0xB89DF8F46183CAA8
sh-3.2# bless --info /Volumes/LeoGPT/
finderinfo[0]: 776593 => Blessed System Folder is /Volumes/LeoGPT/System/Library/CoreServices
finderinfo[1]: 0 => No Blessed System File
finderinfo[2]: 0 => Open-folder linked list empty
finderinfo[3]: 0 => No OS 9 + X blessed 9 folder
finderinfo[4]: 0 => Unused field unset
finderinfo[5]: 776593 => OS X blessed folder is /Volumes/LeoGPT/System/Library/CoreServices
64-bit VSDB volume id: 0x90889B45B79AB969
sh-3.2# bless --info /Volumes/
LeoGPT/ LeoSAS/ LeoServSAS/ Tiger-X/ TigerServ-X/ omv/
sh-3.2# bless --info /Volumes/LeoServSAS/
finderinfo[0]: 103595 => Blessed System Folder is /Volumes/LeoServSAS/System/Library/CoreServices
finderinfo[1]: 0 => No Blessed System File
finderinfo[2]: 0 => Open-folder linked list empty
finderinfo[3]: 0 => No OS 9 + X blessed 9 folder
finderinfo[4]: 0 => Unused field unset
finderinfo[5]: 103595 => OS X blessed folder is /Volumes/LeoServSAS/System/Library/CoreServices
64-bit VSDB volume id: 0xBB6EB38C8A7B3F9F
sh-3.2# bless --info /Volumes/Tiger-X/
finderinfo[0]: 3321 => Blessed System Folder is /Volumes/Tiger-X/System/Library/CoreServices
finderinfo[1]: 0 => No Blessed System File
finderinfo[2]: 0 => Open-folder linked list empty
finderinfo[3]: 469372 => OS 9 blessed folder is /Volumes/Tiger-X/Applications/Utilities/System Folder
finderinfo[4]: 0 => Unused field unset
finderinfo[5]: 3321 => OS X blessed folder is /Volumes/Tiger-X/System/Library/CoreServices
64-bit VSDB volume id: 0x9168363BCCBD2E96
sh-3.2# bless --info /Volumes/TigerServ-X/
finderinfo[0]: 1707 => Blessed System Folder is /Volumes/TigerServ-X/System/Library/CoreServices
finderinfo[1]: 280476 => Blessed System File is /Volumes/TigerServ-X/System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi
finderinfo[2]: 0 => Open-folder linked list empty
finderinfo[3]: 0 => No OS 9 + X blessed 9 folder
finderinfo[4]: 0 => Unused field unset
finderinfo[5]: 1707 => OS X blessed folder is /Volumes/TigerServ-X/System/Library/CoreServices
64-bit VSDB volume id: 0xCD351E8B70609054

As you can see - there are no blessed file, except 1 (& it's .efi :D ). I always thought that BootX have to be blessed for MacOS startup? Where I can read a bit more details about blessed files & Powermac startup sequence? (I need better understanding, planning some linux reinstallations & so on...)
 
Tested Doom3 with 2 videocards, GeForce 7800Gt & Radeon x1900gt (both - "reprogrammed" :D PC versions, Geforce from Asus & Radeon - Sapphire). Well, performance set to max details & resolution 1920x1080 - quite similar, sometime drops to 45 FPS, but mostly around 60 (completed first 3 level, don't remember skill level, but not the first :) ). My main box is currently is upgrading (gentoo, around 565 packages). While it is dual-Xeonx5675, some packages take several hours to build. So, I've decided to try Leopard as primary OS for some time :D. As far as I understood, you guys using some external app for youtube? Right now righting this from InterWebPPC (thanks to everyone involved in development of this fork :) ). As I'm not really a mac guy, m.b. some advices of useful apps, just in case? For home computer experience :). (Already installed MplayerOSX - it handles even BDRips OK, a pair of programs for unarchiving).
 
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@Tratkazir_the_1st - Here is another Youtube app I just ran across while looking for other PPC software: TenFiveTube.

Here is the MacRumors page for it - it looks like it as least can run on OS X 10.5 as far as PowerPC Macs are concerned, I can't tell TenFiveTube will run on older OS X versions. There may be more info about that in the linked conversation, I didn't read through all of it.
 
Funny thing I think most people don’t realize, PPCMC 7 is compiled with Xcode v2.5, which was released on October 30th, 2007. That’s almost 14 years old, and this is what is compiled using it:

Unless otherwise noted, each program is the newest version and up to date as of the PPCMC 7.2.5 release from 6/2/2021. Check out the build script to see how it works.
 
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MacFoxG4 said:
Tried out Photoshop 6 on the iBook G3. Never used that version before. It runs well on the G3 and it has the same UI as PS 7, so I decided to use 6 instead of 5.5 or 7 on my G3.
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I came in around Photoshop 2.5. That would have been 1992-1993 when I first started design school. Photoshop 3 and 4 became a big deal shortly before I got my design certificate.

But I didn't actually start getting paid to use Photoshop until 1999. At the newspaper I worked for then, I think they were still on version 4 something. I can recall having to duplicate layers if you wanted to create an effect because effects were destructive at that time. You had to save the original layer if you want to revert changes. A lot has changed over the years!
 
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eyoungren said:
I came in around Photoshop 2.5. That would have been 1992-1993 when I first started design school. Photoshop 3 and 4 became a big deal shortly before I got my design certificate.
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We have similar early histories when it comes to our exposure. I began using Photoshop 2.5.1 and 3.0 simultaneously, working in desktop publishing services at a now-gone copy centre chain. I think I got the job because I already had experience using, like, MacWrite and other basic stuff from when I threw together a short-lived zine in high school. This was also my gateway to being thrown into the fire of making ends meet by quickly DIY-learning all the software on our production Quadra 840AV and, later, Power Mac 8100/80 (like QuarkXpress 3.1, Illustrator 5.5, Freehand 3, 4, and 5, and so on). By 1998, I was contracting for various ad agencies and service bureaus in town, but I still didn’t have a computer at home.

eyoungren said:
But I didn't actually start getting paid to use Photoshop until 1999. At the newspaper I worked for then, I think they were still on version 4 something. I can recall having to duplicate layers if you wanted to create an effect because effects were destructive at that time. You had to save the original layer if you want to revert changes. A lot has changed over the years!
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The first version of Photoshop I owned was 4.0, which I bought alongside that PCI G4. Lacking history steps was the biggest bane of going head-long into anything major, unless you very consciously saved intermediate copies along the way (which, honestly, was something I forgot to do often).
 
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B S Magnet said:
We have similar early histories when it comes to our exposure. I began using Photoshop 2.5.1 and 3.0 simultaneously, working in desktop publishing services at a now-gone copy centre chain. I think I got the job because I already had experience using, like, MacWrite and other basic stuff from when I threw together a short-lived zine in high school. This was also my gateway to being thrown into the fire of making ends meet by quickly DIY-learning all the software on our production Quadra 840AV and, later, Power Mac 8100/80 (like QuarkXpress 3.1, Illustrator 5.5, Freehand 3, 4, and 5, and so on). By 1998, I was contracting for various ad agencies and service bureaus in town, but I still didn’t have a computer at home.



The first version of Photoshop I owned was 4.0, which I bought alongside that PCI G4. Lacking history steps was the biggest bane of going head-long into anything major, unless you very consciously saved intermediate copies along the way (which, honestly, was something I forgot to do often).
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I was quite a bit lazy (still am). Out of high school (1989), I had zero idea of what I wanted to do. After three years (1992) of futzing around and being told to 'get a job!' I ended up at UPS while getting started in design school. By around '94 I was making $12/hr (part-time) at UPS and shortly before earning my certificate I got told the industry standard at the time was $10/hr.

What, are you f*ing kidding me? That led to a five year gap where my dedication was entirely to UPS and trying to get selected as a mule-shifter (I was on the list). By '99 I was married and it was obvious mule-shifting wasn't going to happen at any sort of quick time frame (there was still a two year seniority wait on the list). So, I went back to the same school to get my AA degree in design.

We (my wife and I) left UPS in late 1999 and I got my first job at the Desert Sun. $10 an hour (a $2.75 less per hour job), but full time with benefits. Dan 'the man' was the resident 'old guy' designer with the habitually unwashed coffee cup that everyone consulted regarding Photoshop. He was pretty much a guru with it.

Anyway, that led to a career at small papers until late 2019, when the business I worked 14.5 years for got sold. Now, I'm designing golf scorecards and yardbooks and I work with a guy who has forgotten more than I've ever learned. Near as I can tell he got involved in design some time in 1984 during high school, back when the Mac was new and everything was learned in the same way you describe.
 
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alex_free said:
I know this is offtopic, but it just shows how far apple has changed since the PowerPC days.

I just upgraded to an iPhone 6S Plus 128GB that I plan on riding into the sunset with (from a newer iPhone model). Updated to iOS 14.6 and now I’m getting notifications that my headphone volume is too loud. I have a USA 6S Plus which is supposed to allow you to turn that off as this an EU thing. But the option is missing!

Option missing or not, this is not acceptable. Like what if this was an aux cord?

Since this iPhone is permanently jailbreakable due to exploits I just disabled the health launch daemon which apparently prevents these notifications. Are you the user or the used? This is exactly why I can’t use Windows anymore and luckily Fedora Linux is good enough now for my needs.

Edit: It works, used iCleaner Pro to disable the health daemon!
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I can't belive this phone lives for another iOS version. 6 years of new OSes, the equivalent of Lion on PPC. IDK if i will update yet tho.
 
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