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  1. Insolite : certaines apps modernes supportent encore les processeurs PowerPC grâce aux Universal Binary dlvr.it/TNxbSm #AppleSilicon #UniversalBinary

  2. Just in case anyone was wondering how a PowerPC Mac reacts to Apple Silicon... surprisingly well. macOS 10.4 sees some code marked as "cputype 16777228 cpusubtype 0", and whatever that is, it ignores it.

    Yes, I've managed to compile code for new Apple Silicon, a decade's worth of Intel CPUs, and 30-year-old PowerPC processors, and stick them all into the same file. In theory, any version of macOS ever written could run my dumb little app.

    #macOS #retrocomputing #PowerPC #AppleSilicon #UniversalBinary #Macintosh #MacOSX #MacOSXTiger #qemu #SoftwareDevelopment #APRS #APRSWeatherSubmit

  3. It's one of those days where I had to recompile a version of #FFMPEG (v4.4.4) on #intel and #arm64 - then lipo them into #universalbinary

    Weird that some MP4's that *I* ripped will not encode using FFMPEG v6.0.0 but *will* on v4.4.4! (didn't try v5.1.2...)

    Don't ask... 😳

  4. Google Chrome is available as an Apple M1 native app today - Enlarge / Chrome isn't available in the App Store—you'll need to download it using Safari. When you... - arstechnica.com/?p=1724415 #universalbinary #googlechrome #m1native #applem1 #google #apple #tech #arm #m1