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In fairness - and people who know my opinion know my opinion - in the past I've had to sometimes eat substantial downtime on systems I cared about because upstreams wouldn't do their job. Floodgap was down for six weeks once when I moved houses. It took me threatening legal action and a...

I think those are all good things, and I really do appreciate all the hacking you do on Open Firmware, but the core goal of a "boot anything" ANS won't get better until there are actually sticks people can put in motherboards. We already have what is nearly the optimal ROM thanks to @johntucker...

Nekochan ended the same way. Big loss.

I'm not sure if I should like your post or not. ;)

Oh, don't thank me yet. You'll still need one of the special ROMs for it; the regular production ROMs just won't work for this, even if you try to patch the OpenFirmware words.

Possibly, though if it passes the test suite (TenFourFox was aggressively tested on it), then it should at least behave correctly. Couldn't say anything about security issues, of course, but those tend to be a bigger problem in the front end rather than codegen.

My suspicion is that the user agent may "look suss" to Google. We didn't have this problem with TenFourFox because I suspect it had developed sufficient notoriety with developers, but this won't be true of UXP forks. Someone else has done a 10.4 port, and they are working on a JIT. Looking at...

Which product is that? I just get the main page with that link. (But I love the JC HI-FI item! JC, you've done it again!) @joevt, do you have something handy that can pull an ndrv out of a ROM, or is this something I'll have to whip up? I'm thinking of creating a modified Mac OS that will at...

You're welcome, though that was just self-preservation. I would have gone mad trying to merge later updates without a clear understanding of the intended changes.

Hmm. My only other comment is that in TenFourFox, I used a third-party library called CTGradient to give me proper convenience functions. This library works on both 10.4 and 10.5. I don't know if that's worth looking at, but if you want to, it should be in gfx/2d/ in the TenFourFox source...

I seem to remember a problem with alpha blending and gradients but not failing to render entirely. You mentioned it only occurs on 10.5. Are your previous builds linked against the 10.5 SDK affected?

Some old cards will not handle 10/100 (let alone GigE) ports with auto-negotiate. The usual solution is to stick a 10Mbit hub between the card and the switch.

Love those scarab beetle dongles. :-D

Nicely done. Yes, I remember having to dink around with pixel offsets to get Australis working. If you have a build, I'll try it on the G5 this weekend.

Yes, the non-working one I have also has a USB/FW interface. I think someone looted the OP's unit for parts.

I have a real Sluggo poster on my wall, including the tube. One of the best Mac ad campaigns.

How much video memory do you have in the system? ISTR that Action Retro tried the 10.5 build on a G4 and had to upgrade his graphics card or he'd get a similar startup crash. (I'm not sure how he determined that was the problem, but it worked after he did.)

Excellent! I look forward to source (my Linux box is a POWER9).

Looks like he pushed out a new update.

I have a full gigabyte in my 7300. Works fine.