Right in the middle of 2018, im doing my standard search for powerpc apps and found finderpop which has brought a whole new life to my pretty and powerful 15 year old mac computer. Automatically detect the internet videos from flash video. Posts about converter written by mac powerpc i dont know how many of you still have blackberry cellphones, but at one point blackberry was cutting edge and considered cool, and. By mac powerpc posted in apps tagged application, download, free, g4, g5, kronenberg, leopard, mac, powerpc.
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With the impending demise of dropbox on macs running tiger and leopard, a lot of powerpc users are going to be looking at lowend intel macs, and mac. Nov 08, 2012 before beginning to install or reinstall macos 10. This is a great player and the latest version of realplayer does a lot more than just play videos. I starting using something called quicktubeplayer the other day that allows you to drag or paste youtube links into it to view videos in h.
Going to the vlc page i see that he downloaded a recent one and it specifically says download latest vlc for mac os x 10. Recover lost data on your mac, prevent accidental data loss, backup failing disks. With a dualcore processor and space for an extra hard drive, these personal computers can meet your needs with an efficient and sleek design that features easy access to the. The powerpc 970 was announced by ibm in october 2002. I feel it would only be anywhere relevant if the person was asking something impossible of their computer getting a g5 to play youtube is one of the easier things a ppc. I installed tenfourfox browser, and even some of the most basic sites like reddit or the html version of gmail will lag. I recently got my hands on 3 beautiful powermac g5 s.
How an old powermac g5 compares to modern intel cpus phoronix. This is the only os x gui for youtube dl that i know of. Thats going to make things a lot easier on older hardware, as it wont be handling. Optimised builds are available for the g4 7450 and the g5 970. It is still a great machine, more than adequate for most of my tasks, but it has become a deadend machine.
In this video im showing them plus i explain how to boot a powermac g5 with mac os 10. No display after startup, potential solution sign in to comment. Can anyone help me download flashplayer for my machine hardware overview. Other major release software can be located as well by first finding the latest powerpc compatible. I suspect apple sent you an install disk for an intel mac, not a powerpc. The best ppc computers apple released are the power mac g5 series. Thats our guess of what still has the most ground in the powerpc world. While this computer is old, gosh the screen is beautiful and there are no issues with the tasks i use it for.
Sep 10, 2012 i was unsure whether to post this in the mac forum or the hd video forum, but felt that it is more of a computer question. Or at least it makes websites think it is a newer version. I have 7 g4 towers so i will be playing video with leopard and tiger for decades to come. They are definitely still usable, but their functionality is becoming less and less effective in the fast moving world of consumer electronics, with any new software. Its unbelievable why they stopping doing browsers for our old ppc. The packages in this directory are unofficial builds of rawtherapee for mac os x leopard 10. Hey i recently bought a g5, and i just got myself a gpu and a hdd for it. We delete comments that violate our policy, which we. Theres a thread here where a guy made a better flash plugin for mac powerpc. My power mac g5 runs very smoothly with no loud fans at all. My home desktop is a power mac g5, model 11,2, with a powerpc g5 1. Front row requires a mac with builtin ir and an apple remote dvd player requires a 1. Some claimed to be able to play 1080p with coreplayer.
I cant watch any videos whether on youtube, itv player, iplayer, anywhere. Dave alerted me to a couple of japaneseauthored apps for viewing youtube and flv files in 9. This installation was done with a windows disk drive with windows partition on it. Then ill be able to do a little more trouble shooting. For other processors, please refer to the main by processor page. We reported how to run upcoming lubuntu desktop lxqt in xenial xerus on a raspberry pi 2 and now, thanks to tester herminio hernandez, jr. As for youtube dl my plan is to incorporate the ability to download. Here is the thing there are good choices for powerpc but there are much more for intel. I ordered a new drive, and i should receive it by this weekend. Unboxing of a mac g5 case by justoeasy by easywolfteknow.
Posts about youtube written by mac powerpc summer time is a very difficult time to blog for the macpowerpc team because of our day jobs. I have a macos leopard iso file on my usb, is it possible to boot from that. What to do with a powermac g5 in reply to mxyzpltk sep 17, 2011 thank you all for your responses and time, i had a blast playing with the powermac today, but it comes with 10. Jun 12, 20 the power mac g5 is still a very capable machine despite its age and powerpc processor which is now outdated compared to intel based processors.
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