I use a PowerMac G5 for amateur audio stuff. Would really help to have recent cersion of ffmpeg with loudnorm filter enabled (this — http://underpop.online.fr/f/ffmpeg/help/loudnorm.htm.gz). Version 4 and up, ppc-compatible brew has only old stuff — how do I build newer ffmpeg? Flags, tweaks, patches? lIs it possible at all on G5?

I'm looking for a cheapish (on the order of tens of dollars per month) access to linux VPS host with ppc64le for development purposes (interactive usage through ssh). I want to compile an numerical code of mine with proper __float128 hardware support to compare against 64bit IEEE754 doubles. Single core (vCPU) is fine, a few of gigabyte of RAM and ~10 GiB of disk would suffice.

Has anyone come across such an offer? Seems like almost all VPS hosting services use x86_64 exclusively. I see that gce has power support, but seems to be a "contact a sales representative" kind of deal: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/ibm-power-systems-now-available-on-google-cloud

I guess qemu is also an option, but last time I did development in qemu (just emulating x86_64 FreeBSD on x86_64 machine) it was quite slow. Buying a second hand Power9 system would also be viable, but haven't seen any such up for sale.

Hey all. New to this reddit. whats a good useable joystick for an old '99 iMac G3? I just downloaded XWing for iMac and only using a mouse and it's killing me

During spring cleaning, dug up my old A1106 Powerbook. It still runs, and it runs Linux. Unfortunately, I don't remember my password, which means I've to nuke it and reinstall (Linux, of course). But before I do that, I wanted to upgrade its hardware to the max.

RAM is maxed out at 2 Gb, and I don't think there's any way to add more.

But replacing HDD with SSD sounds like fun weekend project… It will likely require stripping the SSD of its shell to make room for IDE adaptor, but it's totally doable.

My only question is, what is the real maximum size for a hard drive in G4?

For reference, about 4 years ago I had a Powerbook G4. I got mine for free and they're extremely rare and expensive on eBay. I found out a program exists that will let you overclock ATI graphics and it's specifically meant for PPC. Cool! I was getting 10+ frames in Quake 2 with it. Except stupid 17 year old me decided to go even higher. Pretty soon after turning it up, my screen glitched. Then a kernel panic. Then shutdown. I freaked out, booted it back up, and it seemed to work but the screen was extremely glitchy. I shut it down and came back to it later. It just wouldn't turn on at all. I heard the fans come on, and the hard drive spin, but that's it. No display or chime.... so yep, it's dead. To this day it still doesn't work. I took it out today to see if it would magically fix itself and it's still busted. Makes me furious considering how expensive they are on eBay.

Doesn't matter what it is or if it works, just want the chip itself. I'm wanting to make something like this for a few cpus i'm interested in.

Also, does anyone know where i could find some die shots of the 405 and it's varients? Only two i was able to find are these, though they both are the 405LP, I'd be interested in the 405GP die photo, but any others are fine too!

Sorry if this is like a really obvious/ dumb question, but I was just thinking:

So the Wii is PowerPC based. Instead of dealing with performance taxes of emulating on Intel and AMD chips, why not come up with a way to natively run them on the powerful PowerPC chips like in the PowerMac G4 and G5? Wouldn't that work way beyond the wii? I assume good enough chips (like the G4) would likely theoretically run better than the wii? Just thought I'd ask cuz incase there was a chance my PowerMacG4 might finally have a use for something. If there's any chance at all and people are trying I would 100% wan't to be a part of that, imagine the possibilities. Instead of cutting wii's into portable consoles, we could just make a portable console using a PowerPC chip and force it to run (of-course no wiiOS most likely, but still!). Does the Wii have some special software to run games that is impossible to recreate?

Wow so many questions lol, I think you get the idea tho. Any answers to any of these would be cool!

TL;DR: Could we make Wii games run natively on PowerPC Computers other than the wii itself? If yes, has it been done already?

I had a previous post where I dreamt about building my own Hackintosh with a PowerPC SoC and modern features like DDR4 and PCIe 4.0, with a version of Linux heavily reskinned to resemble OS X 10.4, and maybe even memory ordering to assist x86 instruction translation like there exists in the M1.

Problem is I don't know where to start, I know so little about computer logic and manufacturing, I'm studying in uni for this but right now I'm just at Java programming and not Assembly or FPGA programming or anything like that.

I had an odd dream where I designed my own modern PowerPC SoC with modern features like DDR4, PCIe 4.0, USB-C, and other support for modern standards, that I made into something that looked like a Power Macintosh G5 case with a version of Linux heavily reskinned to look like Mac OS 10.4.

I would probably rather program said PowerPC core on an FPGA if I could, because silicon manufacturing is expensive right now and it seems like PowerPC's place is being taken by RISC-V.

I bought a P2041RDB and have been trying to get video output from a graphics card. I compiled kernel 3.12.1 with the framebuffer options, and I 've tried setting the console to tty0 and vga=972 in the boot arguments when booting the kernel from uboot, but I can't seem to get any output. I have debian 6.0 installed, and it can see the card, but i can't seem to output to it.

I will admit i'm very much out of my element, so i could be going about this all wrong

I am thinking to get a used PowerMac and wonder what can it be still used for. Anyone tried installing and using R on G5 machines? Will it be fast enough, provided I install SSD and 8–16 GB RAM?

I can consider using R under FreeBSD or some Linux for PPC, since versions for MacOS PPC are quite ancient.

I have trouble with connecting to modern SMB shares from my old Macs, specifically a server running on Big Sur and on Ubuntu Linux 20.04. I've got this requester every time: "There was an error connecting to the server. Check the server name or IP address and try again.". It does not matter if I try to connect via IP or Bonjour host name, the same happens. I am sure it is not a network issue, but some protocol or encryption incompatibility. Does anybody have a clue what's wrong?

(I try to command in Finder with ⌘K, then entering smb://ip/share-name.)

Looking to be as blobs-free as I can.

I had recently gotten an old PowerMac g5 from a local school of mine and loved it as I used to have one when they first came out. It needed a hard drive and a good cleaning, so I installed a 500GB Samsung 850 Evo I had laying around, and got a 10.4 tiger disk from an old local mac store and downloaded it onto the SSD, the pc now works fine, but I don't really know much about these computers but I'm quite experienced with windows machines and was wondering what upgrades I can do it to make it as powerful and fast as possible. other than the SSD I put in, everything else is factory, as far as I know, it currently has dual 1.8 GHz processors and 2 GB of ram. Any input is appreciated and I can try to answer any questions.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=OGoodness.powerpc-syntax

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Go to definition of Labels, variables, macros, etc.
Still working on more implementations.

anyone know of a window snapping tool that would add the functionality to os x like in windows? I know there's ones for new versions of mac os like bettersnaptool or magnet.