powerpc

This is a continuation of @kencu instructions here: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/snow-leopard-on-unsupported-ppc-machines.2232031/page-45?post=30227761#post-30227761 Macports Guide: https://guide.macports.org/ [The post will keep being updated] I refactor the post in order to make it...

I have a rather non-standard set up to build for PowerPC: 10.6 PPC (10A190) with Xcode 3.2 and 10.6.8 with Xcode 3.2, Xcode 3.2.6 and Xcode 4.2. There are two problems: 1. I have gcc10 and gcc11 built for PowerPC, however I don't know how to make Xcode see them. Same goes for Macports gcc6 and...

Hi everyone, I have a iMac G4 that I change the HD, so now has a clean HD new. I changed the battery I switch on and does nothing, sometimes appears the logo and gets kernel panic, sometimes I enter to Open Firmware with "Invalid access memory" message. But the most cases is black screen. I...

Mission [mostly] accomplished, we got a working gcc11 compiler on a PowerPC: Anyone who may want to make it build: 1. First build and install this branch of gcc10 using Apple native gcc42: https://github.com/iains/gcc-10-branch/tree/gcc-10-3-ppc 2. Using newly built gcc10, build gcc11...

So I'm now in an interesting spot: My mom has reclaimed her PowerMac G5 as a end table (irreparably damaging the MB and other components when she stripped the case out). This leaves me with a Thinkpad P51 and a MBP2020. I would like a PPC Mac for nostalgia purposes but also as a dedicated word...

Hi everybody. I'm trying to restart a project I left a few years ago. The thing is I want to install OS X 10.4 on my unsupported iBook. I remember I did it a few years ago, but I don't remember how I did it and now I don't find the solution anywhere. I'd like to know 1) how to create a bootable...

I have found RTT v. 12 that claims to be universal, but it fails to install for me. Roxio website has nothing useful at all. (I happen to have licenses for v. 11 and v. 12, so only looking for the dmg or pkg of the app, provided either of these is the latest Universal one.)

I looking for a way to either make modern XIB files readable on PowerPC with Xcode 3.2 or possibly some converter to run on Intel Mac to turn XIB into NIB or something else that Xcode 3.2 can understand and use in place of XIBs to build a project.

I finally got my Powerbook G4 to boot off my USB, but it is showing the stop sign logo. Can someone please help me fix this? I just want leopard.

Hello all, I decided to make this post here because I was interested in knowing what some of you have used in terms of PCI upgrades for a PowerMac G4 AGP. I have a PowerMac G4 Digital Audio with an upgraded GPU with no populated PCI cards at the moment. I'm wondering what would be some good...

So with everyone always sharing what they've done with a PowerPC Mac recently, I thought I'd add a fitting companion into the mix. Although I've had the idea (and rudimentary contents) for making a relatively simple thread like this since April, it wasn't until I saw this guy on reddit that I...

Hello All! I wanted to share my latest victory with my first iBook G3. I bought it about 3 months ago in a local site (Mercadolibre, the Argentine Ebay), payed for it about $10 plus shipping. This pictures where in the post of the seller: it came in this state in a champagne box: No...

Hello! I am back at it again with the PowerMac G4 DA (Digital Audio), I got a compatible GPU upgrade coming in the mail soon. That GPU being the BFG Nvidia GeForce 7800 GS 256MB AGP GPU (BFGR78256GSOC). I looked around The Mac Elite Wiki and found that this very card is compatible and I saw...

I was wondering if AudioGridder that is working since Lion could be made to work on our machines. Maybe VST is not directly compatible with VST 2 or 3, but AudioUnits are almost the same since Panther AFAIK. There maybe a coder is needed to wrap VSTs as VST2, but it is not needed for a pure...

Hi all, I’m trying to find a way to listen to podcasts on either a G4 iMac or PowerBook, both running leopard. It’s looking like iTunes 10.6.3 won’t allow podcast downloads, though. Are there any alternative, lightweight programmes that I could try instead? Or, does anyone know of a workaround...

Hi! I recently bought a Rev D (333Mhz) that has had its CPU swapped for a 266Mhz, most likely from a Rev C, although it could also be a PowerBook. The backstory is a bit uncertain. Anyhow, I am experiencing a few issues with it. It runs great, hard drive is in good shape, image is clear. The...

For a lot of us, many POSIX-related utilities, tools, and libraries are handled routinely by Macports, so I haven’t seen this kind of question come up on the PPC forum. This question involves building from source code without using a ports handler like macports or homebrew. How come? Because...

PPCMC 7 is now 1.5 years old, and has seen 25 updates since version 7.0. Recently it has come to my attention that something weird is going on with using VLC and QuickTime to watch YouTube livestreams. Apparently Google changed something, I think it’s to do with the codec/format somehow...

I’m motivated to post a new thread here as a kind of bulletin board, to help each other find obscure add-ons for Mozilla-based browsers which preceded the Quantum era of Firefox (i.e., pre-Firefox 57). Such browsers might include InterwebPPC, Interweb, IceWeasel-PPC, TenFourFox, SpiderWeb...

I have some G3 Lombard Powerbooks, and some of them have a problem with the daughter board, I'm sure it's this board, because I removed the same board from another drive to put in the faulty drive, and it worked perfectly. But I don't want to have to throw away these defective daughter boards...