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This is an obscure card for the Power Mac G5, but I have heard of it being done and I know someone here did it by replacing the ROM, but I think I have heard of doing it without having to do that. I bought an unused 7800 GT with 256MB of video RAM. Ignoring I have no experience whatsoever with...

Most of us will know the term "Griffin iMate" - but have you heard of or even better, used a "Drakware ASDB2USB"? It's sold for 20 bucks, thats a quarter of the minimum price I have seen on (german) eBay for an iMate - usually they tend to be around $120 plus shipping from the US... Does anybody...

UPDATE: I've decided to change this project and make it a Tiger app shop instead. Why? Off the top of my head, here's a list: Tiger is actually used on PowerPC Macs bc of performance. No one uses Panther for anything The website is guarenteed to display correctly on TenFourFox, and on top of...

Today i was - again - surprised by my 14" iBook, especially by the temperatures it develops. I was trying to install the newest possible version of Eclipse for Tiger (3.8.1) and had problems downloading it because the download process in TFF took about 80% of CPU. Then the iBook didn't react to...

I'm trying to turn my old Mac Mini G4 into a media center, and to do that I'm trying to download XBMC v11 (Mac OS Tiger, I think.) However, all the v11 download links I can find are broken. Could anyone point me towards an XBMC v11 download that still works? Thanks.

So after 2/3 years of putting up with an unsightly '12' in my system profiler under memory, I finally got some cheap DDR2 DIMMs to bring me on up to 16GB. For some reason when I first put them in it only detected 2 of 4. So swapping 4 x 1GB for 2 x 2GB was naturally not much of an upgrade. I...

Hey guys, I want to restore my iMac G3 and have the original disks ('Software Restore' and 'Software Install'). Both have options to essentially install OS9. What is the difference between the 2 ways of doing it? Thanks

I'm trying to play around with python development on PPC Leoaprd with my Quad, after discovering to positive surprise the latest version of Python 2 and a still very recent version of Python 3 are still available for PPC OS X. I love using PyCharm on my MacBook Pro, but the oldest version of...

So, one of the biggest issues to anyone who uses Leopard/Snow Leopard is Discord. Personally I can't go without it since I started using it in 2015. How do you guys run discord on your machines (assuming you use Discord)? Using the web app in Firefox ESR 45 is kinda slow on my early 2006 MBP...

Being a Network engineer I never understood why Network/Cyber Security people or Pentesters always buy an expensive Macbook Pro and then completely ignore the BSD fundamentals and power of the Terminal. As most guides will tell you , to pentest you either need to install Kali Linux natively or...

Hey guys, I encountered a very strange problem - 2 somehow 'unblessed' system folders! I'll explain what I did, maybe you can tell me what I did wrong. I exchanged the HDD of my 12" iBook with a SSD and installed Leopard on it. On the HDD was Tiger. After some days I decided to make it multi...

Hello Community I have recently been handed a PowerBook Duo AC charger (The one with the 2 battery slots) Can I use this for anything except a PB Duo? Can I hack it in some way? Note that the power cord was NOT provided with this unit. Is this worth keeping, or better off being sent to the...

Prompted by the recent post regarding Minecraft and Java SE 6 for PPC, I downloaded the related packed and installed it on a few of my systems. Eventually I got the notion to give it a whirl on my famous heavily upgraded Power Macintosh 8600. (450MHz Sonnet G4, 1GB RAM, Radeon 9200) Low and...

ORIGINAL INFO: Yeah, I said I was done with PowerPC projects, but this is just a Mac app in general that happens to be compatible with PowerPC. ;) Anyway, I've coded a simple AppleScript assistant! It can do things like web searching, weather, timers, app launching... and it'll get way better...

Was reading through viva PowerPC's "world" page (which combines a bunch of PPC news sites into one feed) and I found out that TenFourFox FPR (Feature Parity Release) 1 is here and available for download! So, following my "TenFourFox 45 is Here" thread, here's a discussion thread on it. Is it...

Back to ask a question. My email is an icloud.com account. Yesterday, I had it working fine in mail with the server addresses Apple provided on their support website. Today, it stopped working and it rejects my password. Two-factor authentication is off on my account? Anyone have a fix? Thanks...

Hi all, I have a dual 2.0 G5, it sat for a little over a year but the last time it was hooked up it worked just fine and never really had any issues until now. It starts up, chimes. and thats it. No video. I can hear hard disk activity for a couple seconds, my display light turns green for...

NOTE: 2021 overhaul updates and remarks supersede the original WikiPost. Several details have changed. OVERVIEW In 2021, we still have a few browser options for PowerPC. Nearly all, however, are no longer current, particularly where security updates are concerned. The do, however, generally...

Today I had my private Easter-holiday PPC challenge and I tried again to max-out video options for my PowerBooks. First I reviewed and fully understood @Dronecathchers *great* thread about TFF/Greasemonkey/CorePlayer-integration and video-download and got everything to work for the first time...

This idea drives me nuts! - To run a slick Linux-Distro within VirtualPC7 which is also able to run a Dropbox-Client or even Netflix. I did not succeed with AntiX and Debian7 'cause the damn Cursor didn't work within the VM. Read about someone getting Mandrake10 to run within VirtualPC7 but...