tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73274451473170798212024-03-06T12:56:27.301-08:00PowerPC Liberationzenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01006273801333641372noreply@blogger.comBlogger136125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7327445147317079821.post-69092903262052592882021-03-30T07:16:00.000-07:002021-03-30T07:16:22.920-07:00GratitudeI am sure most of you have heard about the news regarding TenFourFox and Classilla. If you have not here is a link to what I am talking about,
https://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-end-of-tenfourfox-and-what-ive.html.
Reading this has made me look back over my PowerPC Mac experience. I am left feeling extremely grateful. Prior to my experiences with post Leopard PowerPC Masc I had only fiftysixkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04263693656038903910noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7327445147317079821.post-39377877935387828352020-12-06T11:09:00.000-08:002020-12-06T11:09:49.198-08:00Still A Place For OS9For years I've used my Macs to produce and write music - generally
favouring Propellerhead Reason for purely electronic pieces, Garageband
where real instruments need to be recorded and often using both in
combination.The final step to a recording after mixing down
is mastering to give it that extra zing and dynamics - for this I use
SonicWORX which is an OS9 application.Initially this wouldDronecatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13182493099221415069noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7327445147317079821.post-51465961366617821382020-10-23T13:37:00.000-07:002020-10-23T13:37:42.277-07:00Updating VLC To Play YoutubeWhen VLC was last updated for PowerPC it was possible to play Youtube links copied into it - alas that ability has long since expired but you can bring it back with a few updated components.This only applies to the last PPC iteration of VLC, version 2.0.10 and also requires the ever wonderful PPCMC (for latest security certificates and curl.)The following code copied into Terminal will do the Dronecatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13182493099221415069noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7327445147317079821.post-80339381246234936542020-10-18T12:10:00.000-07:002020-10-18T17:13:55.786-07:00Virtual PC and Ancient IDEs: Part 1 - Setting up Virtual PCAs mentioned in my previous post I have set up a 17 inch PowerBook G4 for Python, Objective-C and C++ development. One of my newfound time-sinks-that-brings-me-joy is setting up old Windows environments and installing very old IDEs. Examples include Visual C++ 6, Borland Delphi 7 and most recently PalmOS IDEs. I thought to myself, why not set up VirtualPC on my PowerBook and see how viable it fiftysixkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04263693656038903910noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7327445147317079821.post-35083218034154701682020-10-16T07:34:00.000-07:002020-10-16T07:34:13.227-07:00TuneCatcher - A Youtube Audio PlayerI've often heard people on the MacRumors PowerPC
forum say that they like to use Youtube for audio playback only -
listening to albums or gigs etc so don't really require all the CPU
intensive donkey work of playing video.With that in mind I've
cobbled together TuneCatcher and TuneStreamer - scripts that play audio
only and save on all important CPU cycles.Included in the
install is Choob -Dronecatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13182493099221415069noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7327445147317079821.post-34270782479445549332020-10-08T13:23:00.000-07:002020-10-08T13:23:18.175-07:00Blogging Like It's 1999Pardon the lazy Prince pun/reference but all will become clear...While writing theses posts will always primarily be done in front of a Mac screen, it's nice to have the ability to write when out and about too - enter my pocket sized, vintage Oregon Scientific Osaris from 1999 - a budget copy of the mighty Psion Series 5 PDA.Being an 18Mhz EPOC32 device, this thing only gently nibbles away on twoDronecatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13182493099221415069noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7327445147317079821.post-44981466035629974752020-10-08T10:10:00.005-07:002020-10-08T13:26:04.575-07:00wicknix In my two plus years away from this blog, I was also away from using PowerPC hardware most of the time. So I hadn't been keeping up with the development of PowerPC software much. Then I come back to find someone named wicknix who frequents the Mac Rumors PowerPC forum. This guy has been very busy developing PowerPC and early Intel software, and he's done some pretty zenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01006273801333641372noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7327445147317079821.post-6605421431527254672020-10-05T14:12:00.004-07:002020-10-06T10:37:19.320-07:00Security of the mind Security is a very dynamic sort of thing quite often. It changes a lot over time, but it also often stays the same in many ways. For the average user out there, they only have the know-how to rely on the OS for all potential security threats. We all have experience using the internet every single day, but some don't utilize the best security tool on earth... your ownzenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01006273801333641372noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7327445147317079821.post-79909319994114876392020-10-01T08:09:00.000-07:002020-10-01T08:09:18.272-07:00WebDAV and GoliathIt's been a few years now since Dropbox ceased support for PowerPC and although there was a community workaround that worked for a while, that too fell by the wayside with ongoing developments at Dropbox.Folder syncing has never been a specific requirement for myself but having convenient access to a central repository across various machines is always useful - for this I use the WebDAV protocol Dronecatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13182493099221415069noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7327445147317079821.post-63280658356712096802020-09-26T07:12:00.000-07:002020-09-26T07:12:36.386-07:00User Agents And The Art Of Online CamouflageThe user agent is a digital calling card presented by a web browser when it visits a website, identifying it and telling the website what content is best served to that particular web browser - the simplest example being the web browser on a mobile device will receive content more proportionally formatted for a smaller, portrait screen whereas when viewed from a laptop or desktop, the web browserDronecatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13182493099221415069noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7327445147317079821.post-63900249011023705782020-09-22T10:43:00.001-07:002020-09-22T10:44:29.953-07:00Drones beware! After a two year hiatus, myself and fiftysixk are returning the blog to an active state. And we hope the other authors will join us. To help liven things up a bit around here, we have brought in the Dronecatcher himself from the MacRumors PowerPC forum. That's right... the guy who can make web video play on a toaster has joined the PowerPC Liberation fold,zenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01006273801333641372noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7327445147317079821.post-12514821279854335522020-09-19T08:24:00.006-07:002020-09-20T10:33:38.817-07:00A hopeful real returnIt has been quite a while, over two years to more precise. I hope every one is well and healthy, especially during these trying times.
I have moved into a development position at my employer. My on the job focus revolves around ASP.net, C# and querying Microsoft SQL databases. This has been a wonderful opportunity to learn and self teach. I now have enough experience and theory to branch out to fiftysixkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04263693656038903910noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7327445147317079821.post-19045802569404883742018-07-17T19:44:00.001-07:002018-07-17T19:44:23.340-07:00Debian PPC Status Update
Earlier this month, the migration of the Debian PPC port from Debian's main archive to the Debian ports archive was completed. The DSAs' shut down of the powerpc buildds on the main archive was a result of the PPC port no longer being a release architecture. With this change, also comes the need to update one's sources.list file. Also keep in mind that if you want to continue running DebianB-rockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997596702539921342noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7327445147317079821.post-68260707993143724482018-05-13T22:15:00.000-07:002018-05-14T06:48:58.005-07:00Back with a surprise
Hello everyone. I hope you have all been well. My apologies for falling off of the face of the earth. It is wild how time flies by. Enough about that though, it is time for the surprise.
There will be more details and plans shortly. It has already been quirky but hey, it is a G5 after all.
It is good to be back.fiftysixkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04263693656038903910noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7327445147317079821.post-44167206063468264902017-12-09T07:28:00.001-08:002017-12-09T07:35:01.477-08:00Why I finally ride the SSD train
For the longest time... I was always against using SSD's, as reliability had been an issue for the first several years they were on the market. Now however, I have discovered the Samsung 850 EVO series of 2.5" SSD's, and damn are they amazing. I have one in my Sawtooth, and one in my late 2009 Mac mini. The performance and reliability is amazing all-round.
As my Sawtoothzenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01006273801333641372noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7327445147317079821.post-45523482490492857162016-11-20T00:14:00.000-08:002016-11-22T04:18:12.410-08:00Current state of Linux on PowerPC
I am sure most you have heard that Debian has dropped PowerPC as a release architecture. If anyone is interested in the reading the meeting notes where it was discussed it can be found here. Basically it came down to lack of support. According to the Debian team there were no porters for PowerPC to maintain it as a release architecture. There is also the issue of outstanding bugs. An rican-linuxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12272380772590347131noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7327445147317079821.post-14148383419027984322016-10-17T19:24:00.001-07:002016-10-17T19:24:15.192-07:00Ping
Just a quick note to let you all know we're still alive. Content will come as time allows.
Though we are a team of writers, each of us is also our own satellite - since we each have our own orbits in life. The point is that we write when time allows, which means that when we do post something, you know we mean it.zenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01006273801333641372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7327445147317079821.post-32516119614985080812016-07-05T22:14:00.000-07:002016-07-06T21:44:39.987-07:00For the love of Mutt!
I have been trying to see how much I can get done just using the terminal. I have my Debian partition on my PowerBook G4 running Awesome. It is a very lightweight tiling window manager. It does take some practice getting use to but once you have it set up, navigating around is not hard. One tool that I have just come to love is the mutt email client.
I have found very few lightwieght email rican-linuxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12272380772590347131noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7327445147317079821.post-6647449731489901032016-05-23T11:35:00.003-07:002016-05-23T20:36:13.029-07:00Looming on the horizon
This is likely at least 3-4 years away, but h.264 is on its way out, now that h.265 (HEVC) has been adopted by more and more people. Just as XviD was dropped by most in 2012, the same fate is inevitable for h.264 within a few years.
There are two key issues that keep h.265 off PowerPC:
1. Playback - there are currently no available playback applications capable of playing the h.265 zenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01006273801333641372noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7327445147317079821.post-85637015559110043052016-05-17T09:04:00.001-07:002016-05-18T07:27:57.234-07:00CorePlayer details
I have received numerous questions regarding the method of the CorePlayer crack. Now I would like to briefly describe the process.
PPC Reverse engineering on Mac OS can be an easy process if we know how to do it. There are several debugging and disassembler tools available for Mac OS that can be used for such purposes. In this case I only used OTX v.16b disassembler and a simple hex lotvai77http://www.blogger.com/profile/04958049103466635107noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7327445147317079821.post-37577500525109828472016-05-03T07:45:00.001-07:002020-09-27T10:59:26.935-07:00CorePlayer file association icons
Now that CorePlayer has been in the wild for a few weeks, I'm sure you have noticed that its file association icon is the default blank one, which has no personality at all.
Well, an app this efficient deserves to have better than a blank file association icon, and thanks to Adam Albrec, the maker of PPC Media Center, it now has two custom icons.
Download
zenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01006273801333641372noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7327445147317079821.post-16226157261500411022016-04-16T12:24:00.001-07:002016-04-18T10:13:26.063-07:00New admin
In the spirit of this blog always growing and staying around, I have decided we needed another admin here, and Mark (fiftysixk) is the natural choice as the longest member of the team after me, and the guy works for freaking NASA. Do I really need to say more? I didn't think so...
Life is a delicate thing, and if anything ever happened to me I want another admin around to take care zenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01006273801333641372noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7327445147317079821.post-7009964996416951452016-04-13T21:34:00.000-07:002016-04-13T21:34:04.221-07:00CorePlayer and the guy who proved me wrong, so I asked him to join us
As I'm sure many of you know already, CorePlayer was cracked by a man named Lotvai, and after me claiming this was "impossible". You see... I was basing this on the basis of code, and how it is virtually impossible to truly alter closed software. This, added with the fact that I'm certainly no Mac developer, and never have been, caused me to make a judgement on fundamental factzenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01006273801333641372noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7327445147317079821.post-77269409156219350982016-03-29T07:56:00.002-07:002016-03-29T08:46:39.735-07:00Parts exchange is up
A very early and primitive version of the parts exchange is now online here.
This is something we will be making up as we go. As of now there are few guidelines, because we need to figure out what they should be.
Feel free to leave feedback here, or on the PowerPC Parts Exchange page.
Happy exchanging!zenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01006273801333641372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7327445147317079821.post-1051275406309340072016-02-08T19:49:00.002-08:002016-02-09T05:09:44.768-08:00G5: Nouveau & 3D Acceleration
UPDATE 1: Updated glxgears output after running it not synced to vsync
As many of our readers may already be aware, both 2D and now 3D acceleration are working with the nouveau driver on PPC! However, with a couple of hopefully temporary caveats that should hopefully disappear over time. The caveats include the following:
1. You can only try/test this out by upgrading your system B-rockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997596702539921342noreply@blogger.com13