This brings back memories: #Diablo2

Though I prefer #Diablo 1 and I've already installed #DevilutionX, it's been so long since i've played D2.

And everything is so snappy on #OSX #Leopard with an #SSD so I've spent hours installing stuff in general just as an excuse to play with the machine.

Time to play on this portable mac gaming powerhouse:

#PowerbookG4 12" 1.5GHz
#Nvidia GeForce FX Go 5200
128GB SSD
1.25GB RAM
64MB VRAM

#Apple #Macintosh #VintageMac #PowerPC #PPC #Retrocomputing #mac

Spent the entire day building a modern *nix ecosystem for the 12" 1.5GHz #PowerbookG4 with the new #SSD drive.

#MacPorts is such a great tool and community with archives for atleast some prebuilt packages.
Thanks!

In total 266 packages installed today. Not done yet though but managed to get the essentials including:
- bash 5.3.9_0
- gcc14 14.3.0_0
- openssh 10.3p1_0
- openssl3 3.6.1_0
- python314 3.14.5_0
- zsh 5.9_3

#VintageMac #PowerPC #Macintosh #Retrocomputing #PPC #Apple #OSX

Twelve years of volunteer work. One #OpenHardware PowerPC desktop. A community that refused to quit.

I spoke with Roberto Innocenti of the Power Progress Community about the Powerboard Tyche: NXP T2080, schematics under CERN OHL 1.2, PCB finished March 2026.

Their first prototype booted on the reference kit. The custom board refused to boot for 18 months. They pivoted to desktop and kept going.

~€3,500 left to close the prototyping campaign.

https://bruno.verachten.fr/2026/05/12/twelve-years-one-bet-on-powerpc-the-power-progress-community-story/

#PowerPC #FreeSoftware

Bought an #SSD Upgrade to the #Powerbook G4 12" 1.5GHz

- chenyang mSATA Mini SATA SSD to IDE 44Pin
- Transcend MSA230 128GB mSATA SSD

Opening up this computer takes some commitment. And while I was in there I also lubricated the CPU fan to fix some noise. Then booted the computer from an external #Firewire disk and restored the #Sorbert Leopard image.

#VintageMac #Retrocomputing #PPC #PowerbookG4 #G4 #msata #Macintosh #PowerPC #osx

🖥️ J'allume enfin l'iMac G3 !

J'allume ENFIN l'iMac G3 M5521 de 2001 que j'ai trouvé l'an dernier dans un vide-grenier ! Est-ce qu'il fonctionne ou est-ce qu'il explose ?

https://video.neliger.com/w/m5xRRo663nU7Sc1t6Dqkgn

#Apple #iMac #G3 #PowerPC #retroComputing #retro #retroTech #vintage #vintageTech #oldTech #PeerTube

🖥️ J'allume enfin l'iMac G3 !

https://video.neliger.com/w/m5xRRo663nU7Sc1t6Dqkgn

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogFind #apple #mac #powerpc #internetExplorer #tasman

Catch of the Day: The Forbidden Apple! 🍏🪟

Hey Retro Fans!
Hold on to your CRT monitors, because our FrogFind radar has caught something today that feels like a relic from a parallel universe. Among all the Nintendos and Linux machines, this legendary identifier appeared:

Internet Explorer 5.17 on Mac (PowerPC)!

For everyone rubbing their eyes right now: Yes, Internet Explorer existed for the Mac, and it was a big deal! Following the historic "peace treaty" between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates in 1997, Internet Explorer became the official default browser on all Apple computers for five years.

The craziest part? Mac IE was technically vastly superior to its Windows counterpart at the time! Microsoft built a completely bespoke rendering engine for Apple called Tasman, which was one of the very first to properly support CSS. Version 5.1.7 (released in the summer of 2003) was the absolute final update ever pushed for classic Mac OS 8 and 9 before Apple entirely shifted focus to their own browser, Safari.

The fact that today, over 20 years later, someone boots up an old PowerPC Mac (perhaps a colorful iMac G3?) and browses FrogFind with the Mac-exclusive Internet Explorer is a glorious time machine to an era when Microsoft and Apple surfed hand in hand.

Cheers to the Tasman engine!

Your FrogFind Team 🐸