#powermac g5

[identifying-computers-in-posts]

iMac G5/1.9 iSight 17” (PowerMac 12,1)

[nonjo]

My Favorite/Best Mac Model Ever

Inspired by Episode 496 of Upgrade, “40th Anniversary of the Mac Draft,” I got to thinking about my favorite Mac. I’ve had a solid run of Macs: Color Classic (my first) Performa 630 CD PowerBook G3 333 Lombard PowerMac G4 Titanium PowerBook G4 Aluminum PowerBook G4 PowerMac G5 MacBook (the “Blackbook”) MacBook Air 2013 MacBook Pro 13” 2015 MacBook (the MacBook Adorable) 2019 MacBook Pro 16” 2021…

[remiliascarlets]

[petro1986]

I love seeing a bunch of 80s computers, then BAMN mid 00s PowerMac G5 to leap us 15 years out of sequence

[oldmacnewlife]

Replacing the Ethernet Adapter in the PowerMac G5

The onboard Ethernet Adapter on my PowerMac G5 recently died. My options: replace the motherboard, or install a PCI Ethernet Card.

The card seemed like the simpler, and cheaper option, so, I plugged it in and...

Success!

[aleclikesmacintosh]

PowerMac G5

[punisheddonjuan]

Windows audio fucking sucks, for a number of years I had to roll back every single Windows 10 update because the update would break my motherboard audio drivers without fail (it was an LGA 1151 Z170 ASUS Maximus VIII board, top of the line when I bought it). BIOS updates didn't fix the issue, reinstalling the realtek audio drivers didn't fix it either, it took two and a half years for a Windows update to come along that didn't result in silence. And god help you if you're trying to do any realtime audio mixing, recording or modelling in Windows, the latency just makes it unviable. The difference in audio latency in amplifier modelling between my old 2013 15" MacBookPro and a Windows PC built in 2022 using the same programs with the same audio hardware was 20ms in the Mac's favour, plus the Mac didn't need to stop all other audio, which meant you could play along to a click track or song. The only thing worse than Windows audio drivers are Linux audio drivers. There's a reason why musicians generally own or use Macs and why you'll see an old Mac Pro or Powermac G5 or an iMac in recording studios.

[fuhrious520]

Ah man the PowerMac g5, quite possibly the most aesthetic computer case ever made. Could possibly even get the cost back in scrap aluminum alone lol. Fully functional and the top end model of 2004. Dual PPC 2.5ghz with a ATI 9600 upgrade option. Only the ATI 9800 would have been better at the time.

[computationltd]

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[puppy-linux-official]

This sounds like a perfect place to plug some of my sillier projects.

Moontif

Do you use Lua but want to programmatically create GUIs using the absolutely ancient Motif UI toolkit?

Improvements over the library I forked include: readable code, deterministic widget ordering, slightly fewer memory leaks, probably no use-after-free????

vaporWaves

What about if you want to use Pure Data to stream to a shoutcast/icecast server from a PowerMac G5?

pyBGBLink

Want to make a Twitch Plays Pokemon clone in Python? Here's a library that interfaces directly with the BGB gameboy emulator over its IP link protocol so you don't have to slam phantom keypresses into the aether and sense whether they've been received or if you have to redo.

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Want to ██████ with your friends and lovers in Final Fantasy XIV? I wrote a tool for that too. Sorry no link for this one.

Surrounding yourself with Linux enthusiasts on the internet is the best thing you can ever do.

You'll mostly just become friends and mutuals with a lot of furries, but there’s always at least one person who does shit like turning an Intel Pentium CPU into a lawnmower, and that type of entertainment and enjoyment is akin to laughing at a court jester.

[skyr4t]

Pretty much 100% based on me.. Had alot of fun doing this one haha  Yeah Sam really isn’t a fan of flies. They're actually one of the few things hes not scared of.. I was gonna do something to do with the good and bad copies, but got side tracked. The next one will be about them though I promise    Thanks for viewing Skyr4t <3 

[marchmountain]

4 generations of pro machines from Apple. #apple #powermac #macpro #g3 #g4 #g5 #powerpc #intel #xeon #osx #macosx

[hawkuletz]

Can I boast on your post? Of course I can! (hope you won't mind, though)

Somewhere around 40.

Let's do a rough count:

VAX: MicroVAX 3500. VAXStation 3100, 4000 VLC, 4000-96

Alpha: 1000A, ES40

Mac: Classic, 2 LCs (475 and 630 I think), Power 603, Powerbook G3, iMac G4 (Lamp), PowerMac G5, Intel Mini (Core Duo)

PC: An XT (8086 CPU) with onboard VGA interface and IDE HDD. The PSA6 (286), The Schneider (286). A generic Everex, plus some noname boards. 1 386, 1 486, 1 Pentium (generics). The ToughBook (CF-25). A Siemens semi-portable. Another Siemens Pentium (75MHz, non MMX) with Novell Netware 3.12 installed on it. There was one P-II (HP Kayak) but it's no longer functional, MB issues. One P-III (Compaq Proliant). One of the first P4s (with RAMBUS memory). One Slot-A Athlon (my office desktop in the noughties). One Core 2 Duo desktop (HP). An i7 (2600K?) that was the main gaming desktop for over 10 years (built it around 2011, I think). An old IBM eServer (dual-Xeon). The MicroServer Gen8 (HP with Celeron CPU) that's still my home server. Another generic Atom CPU desktop with serial port, 6 SATA ports and one ATA interface (used as a plain development machine for some years). Some other PCs that I forgot to count. The 10" ASUS eeePC that I used to take on vacations with me (on account of being cheap and small and quite usable with just 1GB of RAM)

Pi: 2 of the first, one 3, one 400

Other unusual: HP LX 200; 2 LASs (Logic Analysis System) with 8088 CPUs, CPM/86 and single sided 256K 3.5" floppy. One Epson portable with CP/M, 4rows*80chars LCD display that I never got around to. A small Sharp BASIC portable (one line display and thermal printer; 1KB of RAM I think). HP-85 (with a custom CPU running at 625KHz, graphic display and thermal printer but non-functional tape drive).

Micros: Spectrum clones: JET, SINTEZ, CIP, HC-91 with FDD, BASIC and CP/M; COBRA that is no long functional. C64, Atari 520st.

Tablet, phone, 2 laptops (one being another very cheap Asus without active cooling)

That's roughly it. No, wait! How could I forget? The Nintendo Wii with the balance board.

When I'll get polls maybe I'll do one to see which member of the collection to present in a future post.

Some of the above already appeared on my tumblr.

ewa computerhoofd hoeveel computers heb je zelf

ey computerhead how many computers do you own

well! as of the time of writing, i have:

my main use laptop

a small tv i have in my room

various game devices, such as a SNES, N64, a few gameboys, ect.

my own mobile phone

and a very big one you most certainty will recognize! hope this helps! :D

[grandtidalwavedelusion]

Mount Scsi Drive Mac Os X

Mac Os X Update

Oct 13, 2014  Download and install FUSE, followed by installing SSHFS, both of which can be obtained from the OS X FUSE site; Create a folder on your Mac that you want to use as the mount point (I recommend a folder called “mount” directly within your home directory). Jun 25, 2013  When you boot OS X or attach a hard drive, the system will automatically try to mount any available volumes so you can access or format them for use.

I brought an old Mac Plus out of storage for the first time in a while. When I put the computer away everything worked fine as I recall. Now when I attached the SCSI HD the computer has fits when I try to start up off of it. It will go into an infinite loop of showing a plain gray screen and then restarting while the HD read light is on solid. The only way I could mount the HD was to start up off of a System 6 boot disk that I made then restart. While it is restarting, I flip the HD on. This will work until I either restart or shutdown, which forces me to do the process all over again in order for the HD to mount. The HD has System 7.1 and 6 but will not start using either version. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Powermac G5 (dual 2ghz), Mac OS X (10.4.6), 1Gig, 2x 160GB

Feb 04, 2015  An USB to SCSI is available for only $100 which is a lot cheaper. If you can find an old G4 PowerMac then SCSI cards are on eBay for around $20. It looks like. . Computer with SCSI port(s) or SCSI host bus adapter. MacOS 8.5 or greater, including Mac OS X Windows Computer. Computer with SCSI port(s) or SCSI host bus adapter. Windows 98 SE, 2000, ME or XP Unpacking Your GT 050 Your Glyph GT 050 and accessories are packaged in.

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[oldmacnewlife]

Meet the Mac

PowerMac G5  2.0 DP Early 2005 M9747ll/A A1047

The Specs

The early 2005 PowerMac G5 2.0 DP introduced in April 2005 with dual PowerPC 970 fx G5 processors running at 2 GHz. The base model came with 512 MB of PC3200  DDR memory, clocked at 400 MHz. I’ve upgraded my machine to the maximum supported amount of 4 GB. This model was discontinued in October of 2005.

This PowerMac shipped with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and supports up to version 10.5.8 Leopard. Applications designed for Mac OS 9 may be run in Classic mode, as this computer will only boot into OS X. I have set up my Mac to dual boot both Tiger and Leopard.

Storage was originally provided by an 160 GB  7200 RPM SATA hard  disk, with a second  bay available for an additional hard drive. I’ve installed two 1 TB hard drives to my system, allowing the two supported versions of OS X to each have their own drive. A 4X DL SuperDrive also came standard, enabling reading and writing to DVDs and CDs.

The G5’s graphics are powered by an ATI Radeon 9600 with 128 MB of VRAM, installed into an 8X AGP slot. This card provides two DVI ports, permitting either dual or mirrored displays at a maximum resolution of 1900x1200.

For networking, you get 10/100/.1000Base-T ethernet standard. AirPort Extreme wifi, Bluetooth, and modem were all optional and not originally installed on my machine. I have since added these.

Connectivity is fairly generous for a machine of the period, with 3 USB (2.0) ports, 2 Firewire 400 ports and a single Firewire 800 port.

For expansion, you get the aforementioned AGP 8X slot, occupied by the aforementioned ATI Radeon 9600. There are also 3 open PCI slots.

OK, that pretty much covers the specs, Let’s take a look at what you can actually do with this thing in the modern era.

The Internet

 I’ll get this out of the way first: you’re not going to want to use this Mac as your daily driver on the internet.  Safari, Firefox and Chrome all left the G5 behind along time ago. Internet  Explorer? Even Microsoft has moved on from Internet  Explorer. Sort of. But...There is a web browser actively supported  for these machine. Built on an older version of Mozilla, TenFourFox is intended for PowerPC Macs running OS X Tiger or Leopard. It’s objective is to bring the modern web to these old Macs and, considering the limitations of the hardware, it doesn’t do a terrible job. Those hardware limitations are a  pretty severe bottleneck, though. It’s just too slow to keep up with today’s internet. Social networking sites like Facebook and Tumblr don’t seem to function correctly. YouTube does technically work if you can accept watching videos at 144p. Higher  resolutions bog the computer down to much, leading to buffering or choppy video. Basic, text heavy sites work tolerably well, though, and I have done quick research on the web while working on other projects on this machine. Still...Verdict: No.

Video Editing.

 Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha . No.

Audio Processing

 My needs in this area are very simple., and, I’ve been able to do very basic audio recording and editing on this Mac using a Blue Snowball USB microphone and Audacity. A quick note, though: if you’re Audio files  absolutely need to be in MP3 format, Audacity requires  the LAME library for MP3  encoding, which I have not been able to get to work with the old version of the software compatible with this old machine. I’m not saying it can’t be done. I’m saying I haven’t been able to figure out how to do it. Verdict: meh.

Retro Gaming

From a hardware perspective, this Mac should be a pretty capable retro gaming  rig. The chief problem here is simply the availability of games for the platform. Game studios tend to focus resources on where  the customers are, and in the computer gaming world, that’s going to be Windows  and gaming consoles. Back in 2005, the Mac community mainly got ports of games that had already been out for other platforms for some  time already, sold for full “new game price”, of course. If retro or any other type of gaming is your primary interest,  the Mac probably isn’t be your first choice. Still, it’s not a total wasteland out there. MacSoft put out some decent ports - Civilization IV? OK, I’m in for that. Verdict: meh.

Office

I spend most of my time on this Mac in OS X Tiger. The two office suites I’ve found  available for this operating system are Office  2004 and an equally ancient (4.0.6.2)  version of Open/LibreOffice. Whether this PowerMac can meet your needs in this area depends on, well, what you need. I use Office 2004, which includes  Word, PowerPoint  and Excel, and for me, that does pretty much everything I need it to. This old version of Office can’t open anything saved in Microsoft’s XML format, though. Those can be identified by an x at the end of their filename extensions, such as .docx for a Word document. OpenOffice can deal with these files, so if you find yourself frequently exchanging files with other people, that’s probably the way to go. Verdict: Qualified yes.

Desktop Publishing

 Ah, now we’re getting to what I consider the Mac’s strong suit - desktop publishing. With the right software installed, this old Mac is still pretty capable. I got lucky and was gifted a G5 with Adobe Photoshop CS2. That’s CS2 as in “Creative Suite 2”, so, it’s the bundle - Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat Pro, and InDesign.  I once read something to the effect that “your Mac will always do the things it did on the day you bought it just as well years later.” That’s not absolutely true - see Internet and Video Editing - but here I think that statement holds up. I’ve used this Mac to create newsletters. My typical workflow looks like this: rough drafts of articles are written in Word. I’ll also handle the proofing in Word (if InDesign has proofing features, I haven’t found or seen a peep about them anywhere.) I’ll copy and paste these into InDesign, and begin to design the layout. I’ll use Aperture for quick touch-ups to photos (color or contrast adjustment, brightness, etc.) while actual photo editing (cropping, compositing, etc.) is done in PhotoShop. I’ll then import these into InDesign and finalize the layout. Although very old, these are professional grade tools. Could a professional use them in 2020? That might be a bit of a stretch, but a hobbyist can absolutely use them. Verdict: Yes

Conclusion

 Hardware and software limitations make this Mac poorly suited for the modern web. Limited availability of software hobbles it’s capabilities as a retro gaming rig. But, for basic office duty and desktop publishing tasks, this old Mac can still be a productive member of the family.