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Wayfarer 11.9 Update Improves JavaScript Performance on MorphOS
#Wayfarer #MorphOS #Amiga #PowerPC #WebKit #WebAssembly #RetroComputing #AmigaNews
https://theoasisbbs.com/wayfarer-11-9-update-improves-javascript-performance-on-morphos/?fsp_sid=11874 -
I have a PowerMacintosh G3 Desktop (this one: https://everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g3/specs/powermac_g3_300_dt.html) here, running MacOS 9.2.2. I received it from a relative, after it sat dormant for at least 20 years. It uses IDE optical drives.
The (aftermarket) optical drive it came with didn't recognize discs at all. I've since tried four other IDE optical drives, and none of those will work, either. I drop in a CD, the disc spins, then nothing. System Profiler says "No mounted media inserted."
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Happy #InternationalTigerDay! 🐅
Fierce, fast, and highly adaptable to almost any environment—sounds a lot like NetBSD, doesn't it? Whether you're firing up a modern server or breathing life back into your vintage Mac OS X "Tiger" era #PowerPC, NetBSD🚩 brings that agile power to your hardware.
Let's celebrate and support the conservation of these magnificent creatures today! 🐾💻
#NetBSD #TigerDay #OpenSource #UNIX #RetroComputing #TechCommunity #runbsd -
🎉🎮 BREAKING NEWS: "Half-Life" finally graces Mac OS 9, 28 years fashionably late! Because nothing screams cutting-edge technology like a '90s power PC gaming experience. 🦖⌛️ Enjoy reliving your low-res pixel nightmares as you dodge polygons in the distant past!
https://mac-classic.com/news/half-life-ported-to-mac-os-9/ #HalfLife #MacOS9 #RetroGaming #90sNostalgia #PowerPC #GamingNews #HackerNews #ngated -
Nessuno era mai arrivato a un desktop funzionante di Haiku su PowerPC: il kernel si fermava su "Cannot find any boot partitions", i driver dell'host PCI non esistevano.
Tra il 22 e il 27 luglio omgmonsters (@ActionRetro li ha scritti, ha aggiunto un driver ATA per il mac-io, sistemato atomiche e page table, e ha portato un Power Mac vero al desktop interattivo e a NetSurf.
Probabilmente sarà rilasciato come una distribuzione a sé.
https://www.desktoponfire.com/haikuos/hardware/947/haiku-powerpc-port/
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Has anyone done any serious speculation about the alternate universe where _Halo_ was released “Mac-first, Mac-only” as originally announced? How would the fortunes of the various companies changed?
Development forces on PowerPC chips might have played out way differently, for example.
(You can see the original 1999 announcement/demo searching for “Macworld Halo” on various video sites. At the time, state of the art for Macs was a 500 MHz G4 chip)
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Apples support for iPods is incredible. This #iPod mini (128GB upgraded) released in early 2005. It's support ranges from #OSX 10.2 Jaguar up until today with MacOS.
And it syncs and plays modern format like Apple Lossless (ALAC) and AAC 320kbit on it's original firmware. Though the Apple Music app on modern #MacOS seems to lack the feature to remove songs so I used the #Powerbook for music management via #iTunes instead.
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Forgotten how nice it is to use a single purpose device like the #iPod.
Having this 128GB iPod Mini with a new battery that lasts more than a day's use is such a great experience from this Apple #PowerPC-era.
Load it up with music and just keep listening. No interruptions, no just checking the news etc.
It's become a bit of a digital detox during this vacation.#iPod #retrocomputing #DigitalDetox #Apple #Macintosh #Sailboat #Sailing
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New blog post! 🏳️🌈
I ported @foone's VGAPride, a lovely, MS-DOS program whose whole job is drawing pride flags — to run natively on Mac OS 9 on PowerPC.
The flags turned out to be *data*, not code, so most of the port was one wee QuickDraw shim. Built with Retro68, complete with a flag selector, and it runs on my actual G3 iBook. Alice's sunglasses-wearing crab made it across intact. 🦀
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Alt nua ar eim.ie! 🏳️🌈
D'aistrigh mé VGAPride - clár DOS le @foone a thaispeánann bratacha bróid - go Mac OS 9 ar PowerPC.
D'úsáid mé Retro68 agus QuickDraw chun é a dhéanamh. Tá roghnóir bratacha ann anois, agus oibríonn sé ar mo iBook G3 féin. Agus tháinig an portán slán! 🦀
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Just tried out #SevenTTY on #MacOS9 on the #iBook G3 and wow!!!! It's not just a fork of ssheven, it's almost a complete shell with lots of utilities too.
Having the greatest internet experience this Friday evening with #IRC and #Gopher!
#retrocomputing #ppc #macintosh #apple #VintageMac #powerpc #gopher #irc #ibook #MacOS9 #seventty
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Having a great time on my vacation trying out new #MacOS9 applications on my #iBook #G3.
Today I installed:
#OS9Map - #OpenStreetMap
#Palaeomastodon - A mastodon client
#MacSurf - Updated the browser to 1.4 and it works much better than the earlier release I tried out.Together with the Power #MachTen terminal MacOS9 feels like a modern OS and much better looking!
#PowerPC #VintageMac #Apple #Macintosh #PPC #Apple #Retrocomputing
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#NetBSD booting on the ACube Systems Sam460ex!
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Will x86 Become a “Big Iron” Server-Only Chip? https://lowendbox.com/blog/will-x86-become-a-big-iron-server-only-chip/ #Editorial&News #powerpc #tadpole #windows #alpha #linux #sparc #arm
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After some searching I found one of my old #iPods. The 3rd gen iPod nano. Could not find my older 4th gen iPod (ClickWheel).
I could load new music from my Mac Studio with MacOS Tahoe directly to the iPod with the #apple music app and then manage the library on #iTunes on #OSX 10.5 Leopard on my 12" #Powerbook G4
With a bad battery and even worse display I loaded up the #iPod with some #PowerMetal and headed out on a sunday walk.
#VintageMac #Retrocomputing
#PowerPC #PPC #Leopard #ipodnano -
Well I didn’t end up schlepping to the VCF east swap meet, but I made up for it by grabbing this G4 iMac nearby for $50. Got it from the original owner, and it fired right up.
I spent WAY too long cleaning up the keyboard, but it turned out great.
#G4 #powerPC #mac #2000s #retroComputing -
I spotted a bug in getgroups() function call in #MorphOS shared POSIX compatibility libc ixemul. In short: The function misbehaves when passed (0, NULL) and returns -1 with errno EFAULT rather than the number of groups. While I will fix the bug for the future, I also needed to figure out a way to mitigate this issue for installations that do not have the update.
Patching every single app that uses getgroups(0, NULL) would of course work, but it would be terrible amount of manual labor. One hack would be to create a define for the getgroups() that'd magically handle the situation. Rather than going for these, I figured out rather neat way to handle this instead:
Since ixemul function calls are calling a shared library functions via stubs, I instead patched the stub generation code for getgroups function. When the stub assembly is generated it now injects the following code before the actual branch to the function code:
cmp 3,0
bne 0,.L1
cmp 4,0
bne 0,.L1
li 4,1
.L1:Effectively the above is #powerpc assembly for:
if (size == 0 && list == NULL) list = (gid_t *) 1;This ensures that the function will always be called with non-zero list parameter, effectively working around the issue.
Is it a hack? Oh yes. Did I spend a huge amount of time actually patching other code manually before figuring out this hack? Oh yes.
It's still rather neat hack, even if a bit late to the game!
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Just happen to see this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48283099
https://github.com/mplsllc/macsurf"MacSurf, a web browser port of Netsurf for Mac OS 9 with native TLS"
Downloaded it to the #iBook running #MacOS9 and started MacSurf. I could browse sites like #osnews pretty well actually.
#PowerPC #G3 #Retrocomputing #VintageMac #Apple #Macintosh #PPC #MacSurf #Netsurf
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@wyatt At least from 2005 through 2016, Microsoft had 360 reasons to care about big endian. Xbox 360's Xenon CPU uses a customized PowerPC instruction set.
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🖥️ iMac G3 sur internet !
On ira pas jusqu'à dire que c'est une bonne idée...
https://video.neliger.com/w/tmXYoWUGkUGxsnur8HgeFF
#Apple #G3 #PowerPC #iMac #retroComputing #retro #retroTech #vintage #vintageTech #oldTech #PeerTube
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#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogfind #PowerPC #PowerFox #MacosX #Macos #apple
Catch of the Day: PowerFox on PowerPC – The community never gives up! 🦊⚡
Hey Retro Fans!
Many believe that old architecture eventually just becomes useless for the modern web. But our bouncer fished a browser out of the FrogFind pond today that proves the exact opposite:
PowerFox 128.0 on Mac OS X (PowerPC)!
For those who might not know: PowerFox (similar to TenFourFox or InterWebPPC) is a passionate community project. It's based on modern Mozilla engines but is painstakingly ported, tweaked, and compiled to run on old PowerPC processors (like the G4 or G5). Seeing a version number like "128.0" on a PowerPC is almost paradoxical—it's an attempt to squeeze current web standards onto hardware that Apple buried almost 20 years ago.
The fact that someone takes the time to boot up a G4 Mac, compile (or install) PowerFox, and use it to browse FrogFind is a wonderful sign of how dedicated the retro Mac community is.
Long live the PowerPC!
Your FrogFind Team 🐸