What were you doing on your Sunday? Oh not much, just playing the PowerPC port of Half Life on my #iMacG4, you?

https://macintoshgarden.org/games/half-life-xash3d-ppc

No but seriously. This is amazing! Runs great even at the full 1440x900 resolution with vsync and all high video options on. Much better than Max Payne (which was an official release for Mac back in the day)

Back in the day, us Mac folks were so hard on USB; We all knew FireWire was better. But now that FireWire is officially dead in macOS26, I just wanted to reflect on how amazing USB has turned out to be.

Admittedly, my #iMacG4 is the 1.25GHz model which had USB 2, but still, I just bought a brand new USB 3 hub and then I plugged into it:

- D-Link Bluetooth Module
- Wireless Keyboard Dongle
- Wireless Mouse Dongle
- USB-C Samsung 1TB SSD
- iPhone 5

And everything works. Thats 20+ years of compatibility!! including with USB-C!! Leopard is happily backing up to this USB-C SSD without issues.

And yes, I know this SSD is wasted here, but I just upgraded my backup solution for my M1 Air, so this drive is just getting handed down the line.

Look! I made another loop! #imac #imacg4 #powerpc #powerpcmac #retrocomputer #retromac #fallout #thesims #thesims2 #minecraft #apple #retroapple

https://loops.video/v/dM3SBfLKvF

(I hope the thumbnail works)

For any "olds" 👴 like me, you might be surprised to see what CD's look like in the streaming age. Clearly the important part of these KPOP CD's is not the CD itself 👨‍🎤🧑‍🎤👨‍🎤

But yeah, the cheapest way to wean myself off of streaming is to buy these used KPOP CD's.

Anyone in Japan want them? I have a lot more than this. I don't need them after I get the music into iTunes on my #iMacG4

Holy shit folks! A big breakthrough tonight! I got my iPhone 5 to sync with my #iMacG4!!

This was never allowed by Apple as Mac OS X 10.6.8 is the official minimum OS required by iPhone 5. But I knew this limitation was artificial as my iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 are both running iOS 6.1.3... so what could the actual difference be???

This is my first reverse engineering project and it ended up being only a 1 character change, but it took many many many hours in GDB to figure out which character. I promise I will write a blog post.

But in the mean time, please enjoy the screenshots while I buy myself a 64GB iPhone 5 so I can get some content synced!