Recent content by jeffburg

Great idea! I so should have done that when my iMac was in pieces. The fan is the one thing that I think is annoying about using the iMac. The stock one is not loud... but it's there and it never slows down. I fear opening it back up again unless something else fails because it is not an easy...

Hello, I have a 17" iMac G4 as well and so I would be extremely interested to hear about how this project goes. I cannot say for sure what the letters mean... but when I was building my own 5K monitor from an iMac 5K (which also uses an LG display), those letters represented different cables you...

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...