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Today I benchmarked the two #Powerbook 12" against each other. My original companion from 2003 against the newly purchased one from 2005.

The 1GHz with 768MB & 100GB HDD - 10.4:
- Geekbench 2 score: 530
- Xbench 1.3 score: 37.15

The 1.5GHz with 1280MB RAM & 128GB SSD - 10.5:
- Geekbench 2 Score: 635
- Xbench 1.3 score: 53.69
- Xbench 1.3 score with old HDD: 44.37

#VintageMac #Retrocomputing #Apple #Geekbench #Xbench #PowerPC #PPC #Tiger #Leopard #OSX #Macintosh

This brings back memories: #Diablo2

Though I prefer #Diablo 1 and I've already installed #DevilutionX, it's been so long since i've played D2.

And everything is so snappy on #OSX #Leopard with an #SSD so I've spent hours installing stuff in general just as an excuse to play with the machine.

Time to play on this portable mac gaming powerhouse:

#PowerbookG4 12" 1.5GHz
#Nvidia GeForce FX Go 5200
128GB SSD
1.25GB RAM
64MB VRAM

#Apple #Macintosh #VintageMac #PowerPC #PPC #Retrocomputing #mac

Spent the entire day building a modern *nix ecosystem for the 12" 1.5GHz #PowerbookG4 with the new #SSD drive.

#MacPorts is such a great tool and community with archives for atleast some prebuilt packages.
Thanks!

In total 266 packages installed today. Not done yet though but managed to get the essentials including:
- bash 5.3.9_0
- gcc14 14.3.0_0
- openssh 10.3p1_0
- openssl3 3.6.1_0
- python314 3.14.5_0
- zsh 5.9_3

#VintageMac #PowerPC #Macintosh #Retrocomputing #PPC #Apple #OSX

Bought an #SSD Upgrade to the #Powerbook G4 12" 1.5GHz

- chenyang mSATA Mini SATA SSD to IDE 44Pin
- Transcend MSA230 128GB mSATA SSD

Opening up this computer takes some commitment. And while I was in there I also lubricated the CPU fan to fix some noise. Then booted the computer from an external #Firewire disk and restored the #Sorbert Leopard image.

#VintageMac #Retrocomputing #PPC #PowerbookG4 #G4 #msata #Macintosh #PowerPC #osx

Test7800 – an experimental emulator for the Atari 7800. It’s not complete and is missing some important features but it plays many of the 7800 ROM files that are available. https://archivegame.org/test7800/ #game #emulator #atari #linux #osx #windows

Kate (KDE Advanced Text Editor) to edytor kodu źródłowego opracowany przez społeczność wolnego oprogramowania KDE. Kate to edytor kodu źródłowego z podświetlaniem składni dla ponad 300 formatów plików i regułami składania kodu. https://biznes.linuxiarze.pl/kate/ #linux #osx #windows #texteditor

Chessmaster – a series of computer chess programs created by the Software Toolworks, later developed by several other manufacturers, currently owned by... https://archivegame.org/chessmaster/ #game #chess #apple #atari #dos #amiga #amstrad #zxspectrum #msx #osx #nintendo #sega #windows #playstation #android #blackberry #xbox

Opera Air – an innovative web browser that will improve the well-being of users. Opera Air provides the lion’s share of features found in the basic Opera One, with a few exceptions – the new version will not feature tab islands or screen splitting. https://archiveapp.org/opera-air/ #webbrowser #windows #osx

Instead (INterpreter of Simple TExt ADventure) – designed to make the textographic games. https://archivegame.org/instead/ #game #linux #osx #windows #android

Nylas Mail to klient poczty e-mail o otwartym kodzie źródłowym, stworzony przez firmę Nylas, znany z nacisku na rozszerzenia tworzone przez użytkowników. Ostatnia wersja Nylas Mail została wydana w 2017 roku. https://biznes.linuxiarze.pl/nylas-mail/ #email #linux #osx #windows

Wagtail – an open source content management system built on Django, with a strong community and commercial support. It’s focused on user experience, and offers precise control for designers and developers. https://archiveapp.org/wagtail/ #cms #linux #osx #windows #solaris #bsd

SuperSNES9X – a portable Super Nintendo Entertainment System (TM) emulator based on Snes9x. It has added a lot of quality of life improvements good for people that like retroachievements and playing online. https://archivegame.org/supersnes9x/ #game #emulator #nintendo #linux #osx #windows #bsd

OnlyOffice (formerly TeamLab Office) – an open-source office suite that lets you view, edit, and collaborate on documents, spreadsheets, presentations, PDFs, and much more. The suite empowers you to create, edit, save, and export text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, PDFs, fill out PDF forms, open diagrams, all while offering additional advanced features. https://archiveapp.org/onlyoffice/ #office #linux #osx #windows #android #ios

Happy 21st Birthday Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger"
#Apple #Mac #macOS #MacOSX #OSX #X #Birthday #Tiger #21st

PDF Arranger to darmowa i otwartoźródłowa aplikacja graficzna do edycji dokumentów PDF. Umożliwia użytkownikom scalanie, dzielenie, obracanie, przycinanie i zmianę kolejności stron plików PDF za pośrednictwem interaktywnego interfejsu. https://biznes.linuxiarze.pl/pdf-arranger/ #pdf #linux #osx #windows #ios #android

Opera Mail (formerly: M2) – an email client, newsgroup client, IRC client, and RSS and Atom feed reader from Opera Software ASA. Originally integrated with the Opera web browser, then Opera Mail was distributed exclusively as a standalone product for Mac OS and Windows. https://archiveapp.org/opera-mail/ #email #osx #windows

#osx nae mehr! I was actually wondering whatever happened to x windows and if I could run my imac as a mac mini monitor that way. #linux #sunos

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:fvxecvdtoy5zjdw2bhin7uh4/post/3mkiupbgpmc2k

Hercules – an open source software implementation of the mainframe System/370 and ESA/390 architectures, in addition to the new 64-bit z/Architecture. Hercules runs under Linux, Windows, Solaris, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X, on most modern desktop or laptop computers. https://archivegame.org/hercules/ #ibm #game #emulator #linux #solaris #bsd #dos #windows #osx

🔗 Porting Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii
https://bryankeller.github.io/2026/04/08/porting-mac-os-x-nintendo-wii.html
#hardware #osx #deepdive #kernel #drivers

Is there an explainer somewhere about why #Apple no longer supports perfectly functional #imac s with new #OSX, and won't even allow you to use them for monitors for new mac minis? Are they likely to at some point remember their ecological commitment and reverse this policy? cc @appleinsider.com @cocoadog @theapplehub @WIRED

Is there an explainer somewhere about why #Apple no longer supports perfectly functional #imac s with new #OSX, and won't even allow you to use them for monitors for new mac minis? Are they likely to at some point remember their ecological commitment and reverse this policy? @[email protected]

I have a 2009 MacBook.

I want to dual boot Snow leopard (os x) and Linux - possibly KDE but I haven't settled on that yet.

Is dual boot possible or am I just heading for a world of pain?

Also I'm familiar with KDE Plasma but is there a better Distro better suited for this ?

#Macbook #OSX #DualBoot #Linux

IceBreaker – an action/arcade game availabale to many platforms, been started developed in 2000. https://archivegame.org/icebreaker/ #game #arcade #linux #windows #bsd #beos #solaris #osx

@GlitchGhost

Because the 12" Powerbooks uses Nvidia GPU they are a bit more complicated than the 15" and 17" with ATI/AMD. But it can be done. During the 6 years it was my main computer back in the days it was popular to run OpenBSD on them.

Though I plan to use #macports to compile/install a modern *nix ecosystem onto #OSX 10.5 Leopard. WIth a modern GCC, OpenSSL, OpenSSH, Rust, Python etc.

There's a modern browser #Powerfox that works great.

Uporządkuj pliki i łącz PDF jak profesjonalista. Zarządzanie dokumentami w pracy biurowej bywa czasochłonne, szczególnie gdy trzeba zebrać kilka plików w jeden spójny dokument. Łącz PDF to czynność, którą wykonuje się codziennie w wielu branżach, od księgowości po prawo i administrację publiczną. https://linuxiarze.pl/uporzadkuj-pliki-i-lacz-pdf-jak-profesjonalista/ #pdf #linux #osx #windows #bsd

XNU – the kernel of the Darwin operating system, the Unix-like foundation of Apple Inc.’s macOS operating system and derivatives for other Apple devices (iOS, watchOS, tvOS, and audioOS). Released as open source, XNU is an acronym for X is Not Unix. https://archiveos.org/xnu/ #apple #osx #darwin #unix

!!!! The latest Chrome upgrade reboot actually put the correct windows on the correct OS X desktops!!! THANK YOU GOOGLE !!!! (Though like thanking god, you have to wonder why we had the bad thing for so long anyway.) #OSX #devOps

TYPO3 – an open source PHP based web content management system (CMS) released under the GNU GPL. It is written in PHP, the default database is MySQL, but other database systems can be used. https://archiveapp.org/typo3/ #cms #linux #osx #windows #bsd #os2

Gearcoleco – a cross-platform ColecoVision emulator written in C++ that runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD and RetroArch. This is an open source project with its ongoing development made possible thanks to the support by these awesome backers. https://archivegame.org/gearcoleco/ #game #emulator #colecovision #linux #osx #windows