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For Marchintosh I posted about my hobby project called Altivec Intelligence in the Software Development forum. But at the time I did not know about The Lab section. So anyway, I thought I would post the first fruits of this hobby project here: It's Vienna 3.0.8 Backported for Tiger. Vienna is a...

And now I am so curious what happened to InventoryDifferent1 😂

@wottle thanks for sharing! I was eager to see more. This is absolutely fantastic!

thanks for sharing @Certificate of Excellence ! I did not know about this plex front end. Now I am wondering if a Jellyfin client exists / would be possible to make for Tiger+ Oh and good luck on your remodeling project. Hopefully you left some room in the plans for your vintage Macs :)

Did anyone try the Half Life unofficial PowerPC back port from Macintosh Garden? I put it on my iMac G4 and it runs suuuper well! Like way better than Max Payne. Ah but I just googled it and it looks like Max Payne is at least 3 years newer than Half Life. So that would explain why Half Life...

From the old OS, you connect by using connect to server and then typing: nfs://my-server.local/Path/To/Mount I will provide the exports file from a modern Mac that allows these old systems to connect (but sorry I do not know how this is translated into truenas) Also see attached screenshot that...

Sorry, I don't have experience with true nas. But I do have experience with file sharing on these versions of osx... even back in the day when they were up to date. I think I am safe in saying their SMB support was never good. It was truly an afterthought by Apple to check the windows...

Ok, big breakthrough in #Altivec Intelligence. Gemini helped me build a modern-ish version of libcurl and openssh in a way that can build for iOS 4.3+ and Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger+. So with this, it is possible to make an app that can do modern networking with TLS 1.2 support. Something that these...

@wottle this is amazing! I really want to see the project after you open it up on GitHub. And yeah, these are exactly my findings as well. I don't want to discourage non-software developers from doing vibe coding. But do know, that in the current state of the AI technology, it does need a lot of...

Thanks for starting this thread. I think everyone has really great points. I will throw my personal opinion into the ring as a software developer, I like retro tech because its fun and I like making my old tech do things no one would have expected it could do, or at least it can no longer do due...

I have used AI to write Applescripts (and it is much better than I am at AppleScript). But for this project, it's pure Objective-C assistant. This doesn't try to automate tasks on old Macs. It just helps you vibe-code apps that will run on old Macs.

I posted in the Software Development section, but I thought I would cross-post here, this is my little #MARCHintosh project:

Hello everyone, this is my little #MARCHintosh project: Altivec Intelligence is a containerized cross-compile environment that is built for retro tech-enthusiasts that want to build software for their retro Mac and iOS device. It builds Mac apps that run on all Macs with 10.4 Tiger and up...

@akator thanks! I will try this! so cool!

It can.... but it's not very nice. It's vga out only. And when the screen is present, it's mirroring only. So it's not really good for a pro dual display setup. But I did get a cheap Chinese vga capture device from aliexpress and it did work. But yeah, vga... not super clear.