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Yeah, well, brought Altivec and G4, etc., into discussion because I thought would have a problem when compiling 32-bit packages due to platforms that don't have Altivec, but checked "makepkg.conf" file and for powerpc (32-bit) arch in archpower, it doesn't use Altivec as a target, only Linux...

Compiled Aerofoil (glider pro), works fine too Best regards, Link.

One interesting finding is that ArchPOWER uses ELFv2 from OpenPOWER Foundation according to the internet, ELFv2 ABI provides significant performance and efficiency advantages over the ELFv1 ABI on PowerPC64: No Function Descriptors, Reduced Call Costs, Optimized Parameter Passing, Streamlined...

Yes, I thought there were some G4 without it, but all MPC74xx do have altivec. Best regards, Link.

Minecraft 1.12.2 works on ArchPOWER. I compiled the launchers, they're at my extra repo. Best regards, Link.

Mini vMac works Mua-hua-ha-ha-ha - evil laugh from cinematic Grand Vizier Jaffar BasiliskII crashes when initializes OpenGL. I started to compile and provide the packages at https://github.com/Link4Electronics/archpower-packages You're just a sudo pacman -Syu away of using some of these...

Are you okay, g-man? Jumped linux distro, ArchPOWER which supports Nintendo Wii U, PS3 and Xbox 360, PowerPC 64 & 32 etc. all the good stuff, the last iso is inside https://archlinuxpower.org/iso/stable/, the current provided on root folder is outdated. I like Arch my favorite distro, 8GB of...

For Linux, no need for Open Firmware support. My R5 230 doesn't have Open Firmware support, have a black screen until linux kernel boots, then I have a screen. For the G4 situation I then remember that there's AGP voltage key, 4x vs 8x, don't know if they made them universal key to accept both...

Well you would be surprised then, most of them still supports 32-bit. There's talk at mailing list of debian-powerpc about firefox for ppc32 (still has some issues). Gamed on an Apple TV Gen1, which is x86 32-bit (unfortunately some games ran very slow due swap on hard drive and less than 256MB...

Clownmdemu works now, which I helped to make it work on big-endian linux: https://github.com/Clownacy/clownmdemu-frontend Put a bluray drive too from a laptop, looks ghetto for now Colheita Maldita (Children of the corn 1984) in time for halloween (despite we don't celebrate it in my country...

Almost there Best regards, Link.

Well it works, but there's audio crack noises, sent a PR, but project seems dead by years, don't know if they'll merge. Best regards, Link.

2025, the year of big-endian. More and more games working. I'm behind on schedule and still didn't upload them at https://archive.org/details/linuxppc64compiled but will do on next days (maybe), plan to recompile most of them again, or teach myself how to pack them as .deb Best regards, Link.

Replying this directly from Power Mac G5. Best regards, Link.

ClassiCube now works too! Best regards, Link

Let's go deeper, Plan9 for ppc, anyone? 😂 Never used NetBSD, most closely that I tried is FreeBSD... Messed with haiku, beos, amigaos many years ago. Good stuff. Best regards, Link.

GPU: Radeon R5 230 2GB I had youtube working with yt-dlp, but unfortunate there's a fight going on between google youtube and the maintainer of the lua script, but others streaming websites they do work. Can play the native Myth II Linux PPC32 port too. Compiled and uploaded them at...

Greetings, I got a mac mini g4 silent update 1.5ghz 64mb vram, managed to dual boot os x tiger and macos9 on it. I forgot to check if bluetooth works on macos9, but I'll revisit that for a future yt video. Noticed that games perform better on macos9, which shouldn't be surprising since, in...

I'm glad you were able to resolve your PowerMac G5 issue. It's a beautiful machine, I like all G5 models, in fact disassembling and removing the motherboard is horrible, the worst is the power supply because it's the last thing you can remove, at least on PCI-Express models. Got the DP2.0GHz...