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Games That I Missed<p>I'm currently installing OS X 10.4 on the Sawtooth Mac, using CDs.</p><p>And the computer just rebooted as I was typing this -- heard the tone and turned around to see the screen had gone black, then restarted. I really hope that was supposed to happen.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Macintosh</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PowerPC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PowerPC</span></a></p>
Dr. Brian Callahan<p>I am building gcc-15.1.0 on my iMac G4 (Tiger) machine. It is on stage2, which is a good sign.</p><p>It will include C, C++, Fortran, Modula-2, Objective C, and Objective C++ compilers.</p><p>It will depend on my new PowerPC Mac OS X modernization library, libpcc: <a href="https://github.com/ibara/libppc" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">github.com/ibara/libppc</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>I'll write a blog post about how to use it once it is all compiled; my goal is to produce a turnkey solution that just works(TM), including assembler, linker, and other utilities, as recent as possible for PowerPC.</p><p>And libppc can be instantly extendable to incorporate more C11 and later features. Hopefully others in the retro Mac community are interested in building that up with me.</p><p>My ultimate goal is to build some flavor of WebKit some day and have a modern web experience (even if slow, and possibly using X11). But in the meantime we will probably build a lot of excellent modern software to keep these machines going.</p><p><a href="https://bsd.network/tags/gcc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gcc</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/compiler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>compiler</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/compilers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>compilers</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/c" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>c</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>unix</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/macos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macos</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/macosx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macosx</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/osx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>osx</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>apple</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/powerpc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>powerpc</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/retro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retro</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/bsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bsd</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/mac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mac</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macintosh</span></a></p>
Kroc Camen<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://freeradical.zone/@babble_endanger" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>babble_endanger</span></a></span> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/FreePascal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreePascal</span></a> runs on <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/MSDOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MSDOS</span></a>, 9x, XP and up, <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/PowerPC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PowerPC</span></a> MacOS and lots more. Heck, VisualBasic 6 <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/VB6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VB6</span></a> runs on 9x thru Win11 and is more stable an ABI on <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> via Wine than Linux apps have. <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Rust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rust</span></a> ’s problem is a matter of will; a turning up of the nose of anything that isn’t “current” — a moniker they haven’t realised they don’t control; that’s in the hands of Microsoft, Apple, Google etc.</p>
Games That I Missed<p>A week ago (<a href="https://mastodon.social/@GamesMissed/114530343518610810" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@GamesMissed/1</span><span class="invisible">14530343518610810</span></a>), I failed to resist the temptation to bring home a lovely Power Macintosh G4 tower. Today, with the rains over and some quiet time, I finally took it back out of its box to give the insides a better inspection and blow out the dust bunnies.</p><p>(My brain is rebelling against tagging this with "Retrocomputing." The G3 desktop from my relative didn't have that effect, but this absolutely does. Interesting.)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Macintosh</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PowerPC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PowerPC</span></a></p>
R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou:<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://snac.smithies.me.uk/justine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>justine</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@gumnos" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>gumnos</span></a></span></p><p>It's still so wild to me that almost all modern CPUs have hardware virtualization baked-in.</p><p>As you well know, home CPUs (especially Intel ones) were not very capable years ago. I recall specifically that VMWare was viewed as something of a miracle, as Intel CPUs weren't even supposed to be capable of real emulation/virtualization. That's something that <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/powerpc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PowerPC</span></a> excelled at.</p><p>Now almost every dinky netbook is basically a mainframe. It's amazing, especially when we are smart enough not to give the likes of microsoft even a second of time on our machines! XD</p><p>(Life's too short for bloated and user-hostile software!)</p>
Harry Sintonen<p>Frank Mariak got our operating system <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/MorphOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MorphOS</span></a> running on <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Mirari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mirari</span></a> T1042 board in no time. My home is so full of <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/PowerPC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PowerPC</span></a> gear already I doubt I'll get one of these boards.</p>
Games That I Missed<p>In what is practically blinding speed for me, I have already started poking at the Power Macintosh G3 desktop that was delivered by relatives over Mother's Day weekend (<a href="https://mastodon.social/@GamesMissed/114492147791660882" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@GamesMissed/1</span><span class="invisible">14492147791660882</span></a>).</p><p>It's this lovely example of beige right here. Note the correct Apple case badge in the upper right corner of the front bezel (even my kids, who were born well into this century, feel strongly about this).</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PowerPC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PowerPC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a></p>
Games That I Missed<p>Relatives who showed up today delivered unannounced devices!</p><p>This <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PowerMacintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PowerMacintosh</span></a> G3 desktop looks, from the outside, to be in good shape. It even came with a keyboard and two mice, and the "getting started" box. No idea where the optical drive went, though.</p><p>Update: there's a DVD drive! It's just pitch black and recessed far back into the case.</p><p>I'm not going to even connect a power lead until I open it up and check the motherboard. Fingers crossed.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Macintosh</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PowerPC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PowerPC</span></a></p>
Scott Small 🇨🇦<p>The new Power Mac 6500, "Miracle" has been moved onto the Tower of Power 😁</p><p>The internal hard drive is truly dead - Apple System Profiler is the only thing that is able to see it. So I connected the 4 GB LaCie SCSI drive up and formatted that to use for now, until I can pop in a new internal drive or a CF to IDE adapter.</p><p>There's still a weird problem with the video. Sometimes when I boot the machine, there's no video at all, and I have to power it off and back on again a few times before the video returns. But when it does have a picture, it's stable, and not flickering like it did on the TV or the monitor that it came with.</p><p>Finding an install disc to boot this from is troublesome. Most of my classic Mac OS install discs I burned 25 years ago, and turns out they don't work properly any more and just make the CD drive spin up and down a lot (like the 8.6 disc in the attached pic).</p><p>Eventually I found the original Mac OS 8.1 install disc from my Dad's old G3, which works, so I'm going to install that for now and see if I can upgrade the OS either to 8.6 or 9.1 later, once I have the machine on the network and can install from there.</p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/MARCHintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MARCHintosh</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/VintageMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VintageMac</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/PowerPC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PowerPC</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Mac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mac</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/MacOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MacOS</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/ClassicMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClassicMac</span></a></p>
Scott Small 🇨🇦<p>So this morning, I was laying in bed and doomscrolling, when I got a Facebook Marketplace notification that someone in the next town over was selling a Power Mac 6500/275, with a bunch of peripherals, for an _unbelievably_ low price.</p><p>90 minutes later I was loading it into my car. 😅 It's a <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/MARCHintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MARCHintosh</span></a> miracle!</p><p>Anyway, presenting the newest member of my Tower of Power:<br> - Power Mac 6500/275<br> - 128 MB RAM<br> - 60GB internal IDE hard drive (might be dead)<br> - 4GB external SCSI hard drive, working (the smaller one in the pic)<br> - ?GB external SCSI hard drive, condition unknown (the gigantic one in the pic)<br> - internal ZIP drive<br> - includes a 10/100 ethernet PCI card<br> - includes a USB PCI card (probably USB 1.x)<br> - includes a modem (lol)<br> - includes an Acer AL1716 monitor</p><p>It does have some quirks:<br> 1. I'm not sure what the condition of the internal IDE hard drive is. Apple System Profiler recognizes that there is one installed, but doesn't recognize any volumes, and I can't hear it spin up. Not sure if it's dead or just needs to be formatted. Also the serial number is showing up in ASP as garbage characters?</p><p>2. I can't connect the second external SCSI drive because I need to connect the first one to boot right now. Later on I'll see if I can find a bootable CD to get around that.</p><p>3. It came with two VGA cables and two VGA-DB15 adapters. One of them didn't work with the monitor at all. The other one worked but the screen would flicker on and off every couple of seconds. So I hooked it up to my TV instead (which has a VGA port). The adapter that "worked" with the monitor didn't work with the TV, but the one that didn't work with the monitor worked fine with the TV. The screen flickered a couple times on the TV, but otherwise worked.</p><p>4. One of the plastic tabs on the back used to slide out the logic board was broken off. I was able to get the board out to inspect it using a flat head screwdriver but it was annoying.</p><p>5. The case needs a real good cleaning.</p><p>6. ASP says that there's no modem installed... but there's definitely a modem installed in the machine. I'm guessing it's just missing a driver or something? The OS install doesn't look complete.</p><p>7. Battery is dead and needs replacing. It's a Rayovac 840 so not as simple as swapping one of my MeowToast CR2032 adapters in. Hmm.</p><p>Anyway, I guess I have a second project for Marchintosh now. 😂</p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/VintageMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VintageMac</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/PowerPC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PowerPC</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Mac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mac</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/MacOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MacOS</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/ClassicMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClassicMac</span></a></p>
N95 subnet mask 😷<p>EDIT: It has found a home.<br><a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/Free" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Free</span></a> to a good home: A Power Macintosh 9500 motherboard from 1995 with five sticks of RAM. Untested, but I cleared out old hardware a few years ago and wouldn't have held onto anything that wasn't working at the time. :apple_inc: <br><a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/Macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Macintosh</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/VintageComputers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VintageComputers</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/PowerPC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PowerPC</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/ASPD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ASPD</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/PowerMacintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PowerMacintosh</span></a></p>
XtoF<p>I wrote an extensive article about the Mac Mini G4 as a retro-gaming machine.</p><p>For me it is near perfect as it is able to run almost anything from the late 80s up to early 2000s. And it has a very reduced footprint and can be easily plugged into modern display 🙂 </p><p>This article also expose some technical aspects such as the way PowerPC Mac OS machines could ran 680x0 software and delves into the history of PowerPC until the G4.</p><p><a href="https://www.xtof.info/MacMiniG4-the-best-classic-macintosh-for-retrogaming.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">xtof.info/MacMiniG4-the-best-c</span><span class="invisible">lassic-macintosh-for-retrogaming.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://shelter.moe/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrogaming</span></a> <a href="https://shelter.moe/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://shelter.moe/tags/apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>apple</span></a> <a href="https://shelter.moe/tags/mac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mac</span></a> <a href="https://shelter.moe/tags/powerpc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>powerpc</span></a></p>
DesertFOX<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@BasicAppleGuy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>BasicAppleGuy</span></a></span> Aqua was so beautiful at the time! I'm still missing my iMac G4!</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Design</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/iMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iMac</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/G4" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>G4</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/PowerPC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PowerPC</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://uwu.social/@koakuma" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>koakuma</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://woof.tech/@techokami" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>techokami</span></a></span> also <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/UltraSparcT2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UltraSparcT2</span></a> as cool as it was at release (including dual 10Gbit-NICs and hardware RNG on die) has a lot of things noone would want to deal with in 2024 (i.e. DDR2-FBDIMMs).</p><ul><li>Plus <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/RISCv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RISCv</span></a> unlike <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SPARCv9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SPARCv9</span></a> amd <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpenPOWER" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenPOWER</span></a> was designed on a clean slate in academia by people who had dealt with <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/RISC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RISC</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/CISC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CISC</span></a> architectures and needed something <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> as they can't just violate NDAs nilly-willy for teaching.</li></ul><p>Pretty shure <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@stman" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>stman</span></a></span> could write an entire curriculum on why <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SPARC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SPARC</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PowerPC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PowerPC</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/s390x" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>s390x</span></a> and even <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ARM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ARM</span></a> / <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ARM64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ARM64</span></a> should not be pursued and why <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/mc68k" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mc68k</span></a> died alongside the unfixable-by-design mess that is <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ix86" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ix86</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/amd64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>amd64</span></a>.</p><ul><li>Plus RISCv's ISA has been an <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpenStandard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenStandard</span></a> from the get go, whereas the efforts by <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Oracle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oracle</span></a> nee <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Sun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sun</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/IBM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IBM</span></a> were mostly done in reaction to it and to keep the few invested licensees and co-designers onboard and not drop the platform entirely...</li></ul><p>Look, I'd love to get my hands on some Sun SPARC Hardware but aside from making my room hot and noisy there isn't much to justify blowing likely over half a Euro per hour (electricity price: € 0,40/kWh) just to have it up and running, as compared to a <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PiCluster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PiCluster</span></a> like those <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@geerlingguy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>geerlingguy</span></a></span> had built multiple times are more practical.</p><ul><li>For comparison: It's like driving a 2011 Ford CVPI-71 with a 11,9l SONNY'S SAR-729 engine for commuting from Leverkusen to Köln when there's ample of affordable, reliable and fast public transport that gets me faster from Opladen to Deutz than it takes to drive up the 15th deck of a parking garage just to find a spot to park that 5,7m long street yacht where one can climb out of it from the doors and not the trunk!</li></ul><p>And that's just bottom-billing, low-cost ARM SoC tech designed for a price tag (to the point that until the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Pi5" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pi5</span></a> they neither included a power button nor <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/RTC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RTC</span></a> onboard!</p><ul><li>OFC RISC-V is still 5-25+ years behind <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ARMv9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ARMv9</span></a> solely based off <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/patents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>patents</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/budget" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>budget</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PersonnelHours" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PersonnelHours</span></a> invested in it, so it's barely getting on-par with 10-20yr old ARM devices in terms.of power and support.</li></ul>
Ethan Blantonkeyboard horror, filth
XANTRONIX<p>a teenage dream come true</p><p><a href="https://xantronix.social/tags/apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>apple</span></a> <a href="https://xantronix.social/tags/macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macintosh</span></a> <a href="https://xantronix.social/tags/powerpc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>powerpc</span></a> <a href="https://xantronix.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>
Pete Orrall (defunct account)<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.party/@sufferforme" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>sufferforme</span></a></span></p><p>I believe it. My first computer was a Macintosh LC. 16MHz, 2MB RAM, and a 40MB disk.</p><p>Unfortunately, this laptop is the oldest hardware I have at the moment. I wouldn't mind, however, using something a bit more "modest" as far as old tech goes. Perhaps a dual Pentium 2 or later <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/mac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mac</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/powerpc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>powerpc</span></a> series.</p>
Preston Maness ☭<p>Re-intro post I guess. Moved from <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://octodon.social/@aspensmonster" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>aspensmonster@octodon.social</span></a></span> to <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tenforward.social/@aspensmonster" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>aspensmonster</span></a></span>. Also used to be @aspensmonster@mastodon.technology way back when.</p><p>"To help some of the newcomers make connections: name 5-7 things that interest you but aren't in your profile, as tags so they are searchable. Then boost this post or repeat its instructions so others know to do the same.”</p><p>Geography: <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/atx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atx</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/tx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tx</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/austin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>austin</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>texas</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/AustinTX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AustinTX</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/FortWorth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FortWorth</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/dfw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dfw</span></a></p><p>Tech: <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/GrapheneOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GrapheneOS</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>firefox</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>debian</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/sysadmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sysadmin</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/RockyLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RockyLinux</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/AlmaLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlmaLinux</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/osm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>osm</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/OpenStreetMap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenStreetMap</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/RISCV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RISCV</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/OpenPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenPower</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/PowerPC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PowerPC</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/PPC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PPC</span></a></p><p>Politics: <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/marxism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>marxism</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/MarxismLeninism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MarxismLeninism</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/cyberpunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cyberpunk</span></a> </p><p>Games: <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/haloinfinite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>haloinfinite</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/celeste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>celeste</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/StardewValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StardewValley</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/Nintendo64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nintendo64</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/n64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>n64</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/DeusEx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeusEx</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/zelda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>zelda</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/OcarinaOfTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OcarinaOfTime</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/botw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>botw</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/nintendo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nintendo</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/playstation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>playstation</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/DetroitBecomeHuman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DetroitBecomeHuman</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/dbh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dbh</span></a> </p><p>Movies: <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/TheMatrix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheMatrix</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/BladeRunner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BladeRunner</span></a></p>
MontyOnTheRun<p>Having recently acquired a <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/Mac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mac</span></a> Mini M2, I was wondering if it was still possible to create fat binaries with <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/PowerPC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PowerPC</span></a> ...turns out that yes! And it remains compatible across 25 years of Apple systems!</p><p>Now, it would be even cooler if I could make a fat binary that included 68K, but I suspect this is a bit too much, since the binary format is probably too distinct.</p><p>On the picture, the list of archs in this binary (obtained on MacOS 10.4 Tiger, running on a PowerMac) features: PPC, x64 and ARM</p>
Apple Product Collection<p>Alright, I’ll bite.</p><p><a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/windowsnt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windowsnt</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/powerpc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>powerpc</span></a></p>