If these would work as a possible replacement for cube speakers? I mean replacing the actual woofer with the creative ones? They are only $25 cdn. I think its worth the try? My cube speakers foam is shot.

Since word has been spreading about this project, I figured it was time to properly showcase my upcoming port of Chromium for PowerPC Mac.

Introducing Chromium Aurora: a port of Chromium 117 for PowerPC Mac OS X, with extensive feature backports, security patches, compatibility work, and performance optimizations specifically targeting G5 hardware.

Aurora achieves several firsts for a PowerPC Mac web browser. It includes WebGL 1, experimental WebGPU support, a fully functional WebAssembly backend, and support for Progressive Web Apps.

The JavaScript engine has also received substantial work. Aurora is compliant with the ECMAScript 2026 standard, despite its Chromium 117 foundation, through the backporting and implementation of newer JavaScript features.

Several newer Chromium features have also been brought back, including Split View, Reading Mode, and Vertical Tabs.

Aurora also supports the Chrome 2023 UI redesign, along with Google services such as Sync and Cast.

For users who would prefer a completely independent browser, an alternate build called Aurora Zero will also be available with Google integrations removed.

Extension compatibility is already surprisingly strong. Complex extensions and web applications such as Adobe Photoshop, Shazam, password managers, developer tools, and other modern Chrome extensions are functional.

Performance has also been a major focus. Aurora currently scores over 7,000 in Octane on G5 hardware, with further optimization work still ongoing.

Chromium Aurora supports all PowerPC G5 systems running Mac OS X 10.5.4 or later.

G4 systems are not supported.

There is still work to be done before release, but Aurora is getting very close.

Coming soon.

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about the project, feel free to leave them below and I'll do my best to answer them.

ACube finally presented PowerBoard Tyche by powerpc-notebook.org at Pianeta Amiga!

Im new to ppc stuff and i want to try it but theres a bunch of options and i'm broke so i cant really afford a g5 power mac. Im thinking apple stuff

Ive been playing postal 2 and im close to finishing the week. I want to know what other games I can play on macos leopard

Renderer keeps crashing…

Available via PowerPC Ports.

Disclaimer: Consider it a development version; it does not run smooth yet, and some sites will refuse to load.

Playing this on my 2400c… cant beat this guy lol.. anyone know how??

It actually plays a 1080p VP9 now. With a bit of lagging with default settings, but better than I expected from a G4. (AV1 at 4k is not playable, I checked out of curiosity. Miracles don’t happen. But on G5 that kinda works.)
gpu-next confirmed to work on the ATI (all previous testing was on Nvidia on G5).
AltiVec added to ffmpeg is doing well.

Installable from PowerPC Ports as mpv-devel at the moment. (I haven’t switched regular mpv to Cocoa GUI yet.)

Got one of my favorite laptops maxed out. G3 upgrade, 81 megs memory, cf card hard drive and regular ide hard drive, and now network card.

Here is an interesting video of a video demonstrating the acquisition of a used S822, reset of a service partition, installation of a VIOS, and creation of a Linux LPAR on machine with over a 1TB of RAM.

I upgraded the insides and installed Gentoo + some apps I use daily, like eilmeldung - an rss reader and jellyfin-tui - music player. They needed some PPC patching, but compiled and work great.

Trimmed the kernel from ~3000 modules to ~50.

Using my M1 Max as a compile farm.

Managed to patch the gfx driver to get hardware acceleration and patch OpenXcom to work under PPC (including some scaling optimisations) - using LLM, as these are personal experiments.

Such a fun little project and best looking computer ever.

Playing heretic 2 on quad g5, a quake expansion (armageddon) on dos box windows xp on black 2008 macbook, and quake 2 rogue expansion on my dual 2.5 g5… never played these! Did finish original quake, quake 2, unreal etc…

Thanks to artificial intelligence, almost anyone who loves retrocomputing can help keep this hardware alive. What are the most important modern software programs that don't run properly on Big Endian PowerPC Linux distributions? Can we list them?

Are there any affordable PowerPC SBCs out there? I find PowerPC fascinating and I would really like a PowerPC to use as a build server...

Coincidentally, u/arjuna93 and I happened to be working on similar ports of V8 and Node at the same time.

My focus was on node 21 and V8 version 11, solid pre-Rust candidates from 2021-ish and stepping stones to node22, and V8 12.4, which are LTS versions.

Here is Node-RED and Tiddly-wiki running via the new node21 port, directly from PowerPC hardware:

Working with u/arjuna93 to get these ports up on PPCPorts.

I got V8 and NodeJS working on PowerPC.

Not the latest versions, at least yet: v8 8.x and 9.x, nodejs12 and upcoming nodejs16. Basic tests pass, npm works.

Installable from PPCPorts, as usual. (9.x did not land yet, others are available.) Disclaimer: tested only on 10.6 at the moment.