Time has been limited with everything going on around here. I did manage to get a Netac 120Gb SSD into an Orico drive sled and installed into my a1047 PMG5 (2.0Ghz dual cpu, 4gb ram max - the neutered PCI model) and partitioned for a Shuriken 10.4.12 and Sorbet 10.5.9 install. Ive gotten Shurien installed with the Sierra theme along with some neat apps.
Funny story (to me anyways) I dont spend all that much time in Tiger - 99% of Daily driving exists in Sorbet, MX23, El Cap, or Sequoia. That was part of the allure of getting the most updated Tiger onto a reasonably fast dual cpu G5 and having some fun with that - seeing what I could do with a 20+ year old Macos. That and if I ever get my hands on a cube, thats what it will be running
Anyways, speaking of fun, I was using
INTHEBOX and was giving the ITB instances custom icons for their dedicated, intended use. These icons for whatever reason had a box around them and I was trying to figure out the root of that fuginess so I was in syspref hunting/thinking that dock shadowing was turned off or something along those lines causing that fill in. Anyways, while in accessibility, I mustve accidentally maxed contrast to 100% because in 2.5 seconds ziiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing! I was presented with this lol.
With contrast maxed out, the enhance contrast slider was invisible. I had no idea what had happened and what had caused this was invisible to me. I initially assumed contrast (I mean thats exactly what it looks like lol) so I ctrl-option-apple+8 but that only changed whacko colors selection #1 to whacko colors selection #2. I then suspected the Sierra theme as I have experienced repeated instability and gui borking weirdness with it bundled with Sorbet on an a1117 specifically. Fun times. It took me some time futzing around vanilla Tiger on an ibook G4 to realize what I did and correct the issue - me and my fast mousing tendencies. Figured it out but holy heck, I was getting close to calling it quits and reinstalling which for anyone installing Shuriken knows, to do so, it entails like a bazillion entries of your password which gets really old really fast. Anyways, its all figure out now.
Im trying to figure out how to get discord lite to work. I picked up the most recent build on github and it installs fine but I get a greyed out reCAPTCHA window that is useless and unfortunately gatekeeps entry so I cant get it. Anyone know a fix for this?
Fun times
and it is no big surprise that the 2026 PowerPC Challenge has dropped off here and you are right, it also has dropped off at MacRumors>PowerPC Subforum. Most of the folks around here are into beige & compact macs and despite the broadening of the event to include 68k, I think most of the 68k crowd aims for Marchintosh vs the January PPCC. Whatevs, we're having fun with it. That's all that matters.
