It’s almost that time again, time to fire up those old Macs and spend a week trying to use it as much as possible. This year we’re expanding the challenge to include 68K Macs as well. THE GOAL Use the 68K or PPC Mac as much as you can for your day to day computing. … Read more
Due to timezone differences etc. some reports will arrive late or early. These will all be added to the appropriate pages as they arrive. Iulian P. Started the work week strong using my 800 mh Titan Powerbook G4 at work , mostly for music and some Quake 2 when there were no patients waiting (I work … Read more
Due to timezone differences etc. some reports will arrive late or early. These will all be added to the appropriate pages as they arrive. Iulian P. Well , nothing new on the Eastern front as they say , I did a little cleaning in the morning and in the afternoon played some games Alice (the … Read more
Due to timezone differences etc. some reports will arrive late or early. These will all be added to the appropriate pages as they arrive. Iulian P. I tried using Discord on my Powermac G4 but it was painfully slow. Then I tried connecting to the Macintosh Garden Jabber server and failed miserably at it , … Read more
Due to timezone differences etc. some reports will arrive late or early. These will all be added to the appropriate pages as they arrive. Iulian P. In the second day of the 2020 Powerpc Challenge I tried to perform a few usability test: First I tried to do some light browsing using Ten Four Fox … Read more
The PPC Challenge kicked off tonight when the Mac Yak show ended. We encouraged participants to share their stories and emails already started in before the night was over! So this post will showcase some of the setups that will be used in the 2020 PPC Challenge. Thanks for the emails and if anyone else … Read more
The concept is simple, for one week switch to PPC and do all of your computing on it. Of course your job may require Intel etc so do as much as you can when you can. The challenge is to stick with PPC, don’t run right back to your Intel when a website doesn’t load … Read more
The week is up and here is Greg Thompson with his final thoughts on the 2019 PPC Challenge: Final thoughts on the PPC Challenge. Well I had a great time using this old PPC for a week to do tasks that I normally use my 2017 iMac and 2017 MacBook Pro to do. I found … Read more
Greg Thompson is still hanging in there! Day 6 Two days to go and all is going well. Did the morning ritual of checking email and Facebook with the G5. Also listened to some music on iTunes while doing that. Attempted to get wired server client working on the G5 except it will not connect … Read more
Greg Thompson, Garrett Green and James reporting! Day 5 Well almost done with the challenge. Only a few more days to go. Did the normal routine of checking email and Facebook. I didn’t like the white background of my desktop so I opened up gimp and made some modifications of the color on the background. … Read more