🦾 The PowerPC Has Still Got It // Hackster

｢ Rossignol, a vintage computing enthusiast, successfully ran a large language model (LLM) on a 1.5GHz PowerBook G4, a machine with just 1GB of RAM and a 32-bit processor. The experiment used a fork of llama2.c, an open-source LLM inference engine originally developed by Andrej Karpathy ｣

https://www.hackster.io/news/the-powerpc-has-still-got-it-c4348bd7a88c

#powerpc #diy #llm

Netissä on paljon vapaaehtoisuuteen ja lahjoituksiin perustuvia hankkeita. Lahjoitin tänään 10€ hankkeelle, joka suunnittelee PowerPC-prosessoriin perustuvan läppärin emolevyä. Tarkoitus on kerätä 5400 € ja aikaa on vielä 24 päivää #powerpc #tyche

@argv_minus_one You are way off, Windows the brand is 44 years old, but classic 3x/9x Windows and Windows NT are different lineages and ages. Also, OS X/macOS is its own platform, sure, it shares some history through NeXTStep. If you truly thing they are related, try running Concurrence on #PowerPC OS X or any app developed for NeXTStep, you can't. They are ancestors in some sense yes. You can't even run apps for PPC OS X on #Apple Silicon.

Is #MorphOS worth it?

#RetroComputing #PowerPC #AmigaJunkie #AmigaOS

Is there any reason why an opensource project these days should still care about 20 year old hardware and it not supporting anything more recent than Java 8?!?

#Java8 #PowerPC #PowerMac #I2P

The hardware for my fantasy PowerPC console (that is how it's done, right?), renamed "Bobcat", has all arrived!

Now the only things I need are the JTAG debugger (this board has _no_ removable media or drive ports, only an EEPROM and some flash) and some motivation.

...and also lots of luck, because the last time I touched JTAG was 20 years ago, for a 68k assembly course. -_-;

#powerpc #fantasyconsoles

AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup – November 2025

Introduction

Hi there,

Welcome to a new monthly roundup of AmigaOS 4 news!

Thank you for visiting my blog and for checking out this article. Hope you’ll enjoy the read!

Last month, in the October edition, I wrote that it would be hard to top all the news and information presented that month. Well, I might have been wrong, because it turns out that after a very busy October, the community had an extra gear to set in…

Yes, November was another fantastic month for our platform! The developers and content creators have been very, very busy, and we can see the results below. A big thank you to all of you!

As for hardware, we know that the Mirari project is making progress. What will next year bring? I’m optimistic, that’s for sure!

Thanks again, and enjoy the roundup! 🙂

Software News

Steffen Häuser is back with a game port, this time of the first-person shooter Serious Sam TFE/TSE!

The port includes:

• Binaries for Serious Sam “The First Encounter”
• Binaries for Serious Sam “The Second Encounter”
• Binaries for Serious Sam “The First Encounter” Demo Version
• Installer so that you can directly install from the CD or Steam, or Gog Version data (Steam/Gog needs preinstall on PC, CD-Version can be installed directly on the Amiga from the CD)
• Both MiniGL and GL4ES are supported (Demo Version only supports MiniGL)

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=game/fps/serioussam.lha

Maijestro of the Amiga Retro Channel on YouTube has created a video showing the gameplay. The video is available below. Enjoy! 🙂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HYYQBHq9YU

On the Polski Portal Amigowy, we can read that a remake of Ubek is coming soon to AmigaOS 4! This is thanks to the cooperation between Szymon Ulatowski and Marek Glogowski in this project. A video showing the game running on an AmigaOne X5000 has been released:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az97mNH0ll8

The news can be found here:

https://www.ppa.pl/aktualnosci/remake-ubeka-wkrotce-dla-amigaos-4.html

AmigaGPT is a versatile ChatGPT client for AmigaOS 3.x, 4.1, and MorphOS. It is being developed by Nightfox. This powerful tool brings the capabilities of OpenAI’s GPT to your Amiga system, enabling text generation, question-answering, and creative exploration. AmigaGPT can also generate stunning images using DALL-E and includes support for speech output, making it easier than ever to interact with AI on your Amiga. Designed to integrate seamlessly with your system, AmigaGPT delivers modern AI technology while embracing the timeless Amiga experience. Version 2.13.1 is now available for download from Aminet:

https://aminet.net/package/util/misc/AmigaGPT

A new version of Dir Me Up has been released! This program allows users to explore and manipulate files, links, and drawers of their Amiga. This time it is also available for AmigaOS 3.2 RTG. Please visit the official homepage for more information:

http://glames.online.fr/products/dirmeup.html

Fredrik Wikstrom, Scott A. Cabit, and Ryan Dixon have released version 1.4 of AmigaKeyRemapper. This program lets the user remap qualifier keys. The changes from the previous version is that it now accepts multiple arguments and allows Caps Lock to be mapped to CTRL.

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=utility/misc/keyremapper.lha

DRIDI has released version 14.5Final of the Arabic Console Device. Changes are as follows:

(version 14.5Final) “Version education&legacy” finished (I hope) – stevie[edit.c] –
Big regression fixed (one letter + <return> will clear it).

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=driver/input/arabic_console_devicepro2.lha

Do you enjoy playing role-playing games? If yes, then you should be happy to read that version 0.6.2.3 of the EasyRPG Player is now available on AmigaOS 4!

This program allows you to play games created with RPG Maker 2000 and 2003, of which there are quite many available, and some of them look very interesting.

For more information, I recommend you check out their website at https://easyrpg.org/.

For downloading the EasyRPG Player, please click on the link below to OS4Depot:

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=game/roleplaying/easyrpg.lha

McFly PPC has created a video showing it in action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhN8WqYntbA

Like ScummVM, the EasyRPG Player opens up a whole new range of games for the platform!

HexView is a utility to view a file in hexadecimal way. It has been developed by Tjitte “OldFart” de Wolff. Version 3.0 is now available.

Here are the changes since the previous version:

V3.0 (November 2025)
Introduces some kind of ‘tabbed browsing’ (or better: chooser-controlled browsing) through a list of opened files
*** switching between opened files may be too fast to be noticed! ***
Trying to load a file for the second time, will result in showing the already available version (this can be noticed by the entry number not being ‘1’)
Lets you save either full qualified path or directory to the clipboard
Introduces keyboard shortcuts for controlling the listbrowser
Overall, HexView has gained considerable increase in speed
As HexView sports a screen of its own, ‘Iconification’ and all the virtues coming with it are no longer available (makes little sense)

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=utility/workbench/hexview.lha

Apart from this, he also released version 2.0 of the utility AlignWindows. This is a Workbench tool that you can use to stack windows. More information is available here:

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=utility/workbench/alignwindows.lha

Amiga-news.de reports that Rene Olsen ” (…) provides templates with his ‘AmigaOS 4 Skeletons’ that are designed to make it easier for developers to create their own libraries and device drivers.” More information is available on their website here and over on GitHub.

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-11-00005-EN.html

https://github.com/rolsen74/amy_skeletons

HunoPPC strikes back with a new game release! This time it is a port of Cannonball, an Outrun engine for AmigaOS 4. We can read the following on his website:

“CannonBall is an souped up game engine for the OutRun arcade game. The original 68000 and Z80 assembler code has been rewritten in C++. This makes it possible to make improvements suitable for modern platforms, including a higher frame-rate and widescreen support. It requires the original ROMs, as these contain elements including the graphics and audio data.”

As for OutRun, I believe it does not need much introduction, since this is a title familiar to most who is active on the Amiga. 🙂 The classic Amiga version was released back in 1989, and according to reviewers on Lemon Amiga, it was not very good.

https://www.lemonamiga.com/game/out-run

The AmigaOS 4 version, however, should be in a completely different league… 😉

It is worth mentioning that a special version for the A1222+ is available.

Speaking of which, here is a video of Cannonball – OutRun running on the A1222+, courtesy of Mr. Byte.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypNtPdak9-w&t=92s

Another game port recently released is Disasteroids 3D. It was brought to the platform by “AOS4 fans from Mars”. A very original team name, to say the least! It is nice that we have interplanetary support in the community! 😉

Anyway, this is an OpenGL remake of an Asteroids game ThomW wrote back in the year 2000. ThomW writes on itch.io:

Disasteroids 3D was a personal research project to learn how to write simple games using Visual C++ and OpenGL. Programming started on February 16,2000, and the game rapidly took shape. I had a rough game that was playable in less than a week, and since that time, I’ve added a lot of cool effects to make the game more polished.

The game features:

OpenGL 3D graphics
DirectSound support
DirectInput support for joysticks and force-feedback devices
A very low sticker price (it’s free)
I owe a great deal of thanks to Jeff Molofee of nehe.gamedev.net for his OpenGL base code, as well as his encouragement throughout the project. Without his help, Disasteroids 3D wouldn’t have even been started.

I hope this game serves as an inspiration to anyone out there who has wanted to program a game to go ahead and do it.

The AmigaOS 4 version is now available to download from the website of HunoPPC:

https://hunoppc.amiga-projects.net/content/disasteroids-3d-fore-amigaos4-aos4-fans-mars

Looks fun!

Asum from Patrik Axelsson and K-P Koljonen is a very fast MD5 checksum tool. It uses highly optimized PPC MD5 code.

https://os4.aminet.net/package/util/misc/asum

Patrik Axelsson also released version 1.0 of NOP-Handler. He writes:

“This handler serves reads and writes instantly, without touching the data. Additionally, the size can be specified. This is useful for performance testing, as it can be used to remove the overhead of the underlaying I/O solution.”

https://os4.aminet.net/package/util/misc/NOP-Handler

Chris Young has released version 3.2 of Avalanche, a ReAction unarchive GUI for xfd/xadmaster. Please check out Aminet for the download.

https://os4.aminet.net/package/util/arc/avalanche

HunoPPC has made an update for Me and My Shadow, a platform game. This time, there are two versions available, one for fast AmigaOS 4 systems and one for A1222+ SPE. More information, as well as the download, is available here:

https://hunoppc.amiga-projects.net/content/me-and-my-shadow-ng

Here is the official trailer for the game:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUcdtxoO5Lw&t=3s

From amiga-news.de comes news about the Boulder Dash clone Diamonds and Dust by Juha Niemimäki, which is now available for download from OS4Depot.

Please have a look here for more information.

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-11-00023-EN.html

The goal of the game is to collect diamonds while avoiding enemies, poison, and falling objects. I’ve heard talk about a possible games competition on Amigans.net in this game, which should be fun if it happens. 🙂

Another piece of news from amiga-news.de is that more Collector’s Edition boxes for The Settlers 2 will become available. A press release from Look Behind You about this can be found via the link below:

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-11-00037-EN.html

Daniel Westerberg of OnyxSoft has released the Amiga Development Environment ++. According to the official website, here are the features:

“This release of the ADE package comes preinstalled with:

• GCC 3.4.0 (and all its bugs, see NOTES-3.4.0)
• NDK3.9 includes with working inlines for 3.4.0, and autodocs.
• MUI38dev with working includes and autodocs.
• The two most used MUI MCCs: TextEditor and NList includes and autodocs.
• newmouse.h for mouse wheel and 4th, 5th mouse buttons.
• SDI includes for multi-amigaos-development.

I put this package together since I was missing a complete package
that can build MUI applications like Annotate for 68k.”

https://onyxsoft.se/ade_ndk_mui.html

Doug Bakewell (original author) and Daniel Westerberg (maintainer and successor) have released version 3.1.1 of Annotate, a comprehensive text editor written for AmigaOS 3.0 and up, and ported to AmigaOS 4.

Amongst its features are syntax highlighting with links to autodocs, multi-file search, can use screens, printing, macros, and much more!

Please follow the link below for more information about the program and for the download link.

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=utility/text/edit/annotate.lha

LiveForIt has been working hard on improving E-UAE on AmigaOS 4. According to the documentation on OS4Depot, 10 years have passed since the last release! He now thought it was time to do another release, containing changes that have happened in the background for quite some time. The new version, 1.1.2, contains the improvements:

• Auto center window in AmigaGFX mode
• New console_output option
• On full-screen mode, now use window size to find a screen mode that matches.
• AGA might be a little faster, (Edge detection, scanline change check, code unrolled)
• In early early pre-alfa AHI driver support.. (Is not recommended to install.)

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=emulation/computer/uae.lha

It’s great to see E-UAE getting some attention on AmigaOS 4!

Now for even more gaming-related news! Yes, if all those above were not enough to satisfy your thirst for gaming, then this one should help. 🙂 This is Open Geometry Wars for AmigaOS 4.1 FE!

Open Geometry Wars aims to be an extremely faithful recreation of Geometry Wars Retro Evolved.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/opengw/

George Sokianos writes the following on his Ko-Fi page:

Today, I released a new port of the Open Geometry Wars for AmigaOS 4.1, which was created more than 10 years ago by Peter Hirschberg.

As the original developer mentions:

“Open Geometry Wars aims to be an extremely faithful recreation of Geometry Wars Retro Evolved.

Since then, the code was maintained by Juha (capehill) Niemimäki, and was ported by BeWorld and papiosaur to MorphOS. So I thought to give it a try and port it to Amiga OS4 as well.

(…)

OpenGW is a great and fun game, especially for game contests, like the ones we run at amigans.net. Hope to see people having a round of it in the future.”

Please follow the link below to visit his Ko-Fi page to read more:

https://ko-fi.com/post/opengw-released-for-AmigaOS-4-1-I2I61OY0AW

Once again, we turn to Maijestro of the Amiga Retro Channel, who has created a video of this game in all its glory:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49KhlZbZpWA

Here is the game on OS4Depot:

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=game/shmup/opengw.lha

A. Pankalla has released MouseDriver 1.4. The drivers are based on open-source code from various authors and changed in two ways. Please follow the link below for downloading the drivers and for more information:

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=driver/input/mousedriver.lha

Version 35.4 of AmiArcadia for AmigaOS 4, a Signetics-based machines emulator, has been released by James Jacobs.

According to the documentation, AmiArcadia supports the following systems:

• Emerson Arcadia 2001 console family (Bandai, Emerson, Grandstand, Intervision, Leisure-Vision, Leonardo, MPT-03, Ormatu, Palladium, Poppy, Robdajet, Tele-Fever, Tempest, Tryom, Tunix, etc.) (c. 1982);
• Interton VC 4000 console family (Acetronic, Cabel, Fountain, Hanimex, Interton, Prinztronic, Radofin, Rowtron, Soundic, Voltmace, Waddingtons, etc.) (c. 1978);
• Elektor TV Games Computer (1979);
• PIPBUG- and BINBUG-based machines (EA 77up2, EA 78up5, Signetics Adaptable Board Computer, Eurocard 2650, etc.) (1977-1978);
• Signetics Instructor 50 trainer (1978);
• Signetics TWIN minicomputer (1976);
• Central Data 2650 computer (1977);
• PHUNSY computer (c. 1980);
• Ravensburger Selbstbaucomputer aka 2650 Minimal Computer trainer (1984);
• Hofacker MIKIT 2650 trainer (1978);
• Astro Wars, Galaxia, Laser Battle and Lazarian coin-ops by Zaccaria (1979-1981);
• Malzak 1 and 2 coin-ops by Kitronix (c. 1981);
• AY-3-8500/8550/8600-based Pong systems (Coleco Telstar Galaxy, Sheen TVG-201, etc.) (1976-1977);
• VTech Type-right machine (1985)

It is packed with features, far too many to list here. Examples include ReAction GUI, load/save snapshots, and windowed and fullscreen modes. Other features are CPU tracing, trainer, and drag and drop support. Additionally, it offers graphics scaling, PAL/NTSC modes, and frame skipping, among many other features!

Changes since V35.33:
Summary:

• PIPBUG: added “Peripherals|Industrial/scientific…” subwindow.
• Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.

AmiArcadia is free to download. You can get it from OS4Depot via the link below:

http://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=emulation/gamesystem/amiarcadia.lha

Here are the links to the websites of the author:

http://amigan.1emu.net/releases/

http://amigan.yatho.com/

George Sokianos has released version 1.8.0 of Kyvos. This is a user-friendly graphical frontend for QEMU, which makes it much easier to set up and run AmigaOS 4 on various platforms.

Please head on over to Mr. Sokianos’ Ko-Fi page to get the full details on the new version:

https://ko-fi.com/post/Kyvos-v1-8-0-released-C0C01P93IV

Miscellaneous News

Helge Kvalheim is back again, after a nearly 2-month break, with a new song called “My Love Is Real”! It is a 16-bit 4-channel relaxing reggae song and the first from the “Romantic Christmas” collection from him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11rx72mIZdA

If you want to download the song to play it on your own Amiga, you can grab it from Aminet:

https://os4.aminet.net/package/mods/misc/MyLoveIsReal

A new issue of Amiga Future has been released! This time it is issue number 177 (November, December 2025). Both The Settlers 2 and Starfall Defenders are featured in the magazine. More information, with the option to purchase, can be found here:

https://www.amigafuture.de/app.php/kb/viewarticle?a=10933

AmiWest 2025 took place on November 1st and 2nd. The event was a big success with many exhibitors, speeches, and visitors. On the AmiWest Broadcast Page, you can watch a ton of footage from the event.

https://amiwest.net/broadcast2025/

Ghettofinger Gaming has created a roundup of the event in episode 11 of Boing & Beyond, which you can watch below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v0gaIj9-I4

From Andrea Palmatè comes news about Waffle Copy Professional.

He writes as follows on his Ko-Fi page:

I’m excited to share some amazing progress on Waffle Copy Professional – we’ve just completed a massive localization effort that makes this essential floppy disk tool accessible to users worldwide! 🎉

Full AmigaOS localization system integration using locale.library

Compiled with latest clib4.library (included)

340+ translated strings covering every part of the interface

Dynamic language switching support

Proper catalog system implementation for seamless translations

Enhanced installation process with multi-language catalog support

Please visit his Ko-Fi page for more information:

https://ko-fi.com/post/HUGE-Localization-Update-for-Waffle-Copy-Profes-S6S31PAY82

Now I’m hungry for waffles for some strange reason, hehe. 😀

On the 26th Amiga-Meeting Nord in Neumünster, Germany, the AmigaOS 4 user and developer Turbo4.1 held a presentation of Lüttje Bookholler (kleiner Buchhalter). You can watch the video below. It is in German language.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcqt-YfO-0M

The Blastaway games competition on Amigans.net is coming to an end.

At the moment it looks like Walkero will take away the victory trophy, closely followed by Tuvok. At the bottom of the list, you will find yours truly. 😉 Yep, no whopping score from me this time! But, I will do better (I hope) in the contest for December. If you want to join in the fun, please head over to the games competition sections at Amigans for some AmigaOS 4 gaming action!

https://www.amigans.net/modules/newbb/viewforum.php?forum=42

The last piece of news is from Hans de Ruiter. On Amigans.net he writes:

“The Kea Campus is closing, but before it’s gone, here’s your chance to get an archive of the whole campus, including exclusive content such as my “Saving AmigaOS” series. This is a gift for all of you who love AmigaOS and my work, but hate subscriptions. You can now get it all for a one time fee. Yours forever.”

For the full story and the archive, please follow the link to Amigans below:

https://www.amigans.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3397

YouTube

Mikael Burman has published a video showing how to share a folder on Windows 11, and how to mount it as a drive on AmigaOS 4.1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdtoCXbKVIY

Ghettofinger Gaming has been busy creating new videos on his YouTube channel. One of these is called “Bringing Point-and-Click Legends to Life on the X5000!”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPWhTQQlH0E

Radzik and Adam Mierzwa discuss Amiga 40 and AmiWest 2025 in episode 97 of AmiWigilia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ6NAIgIMsE

The podcast is in the Polish language.

Auzie Morgan has created a new video called “AmiDev take2 Native tools and examples”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kOw22hO9XM

Amiga Bill has returned with a new video where he delivers sad news (RIP Rebecca “Burger Becky” Heineman), but also a lot of focus on games and software for AmigaOS 4.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R9TO88dtd0

Mr Byte is back with a new video featuring his A1222+. In this one, we get a look at Infinite Icons 1.2, video playback, and different games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3pgEFY_liY

HunoPPC has published a video of Dark Salvation for AmigaOS 4:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_-W9QV_RyE

He also published a video called “Lilium Voyager Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force Holomatch AmigaOS4 on local mode.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIj7n6mCNe8

Hirudov has created many AmigaOS 4 video lately, one of them contains gameplay from Dodge These Balls from EntwicklerX.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyI6gB5q4Xs

McFly PPC has made a video showing The Settlers 2 on his AmigaOne X5000:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVgP97V3kaw

Maijestro has made a video showing the developer version of Radon Break for AmigaOS 4.1:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC7ZsqmwRJc

Mufa has tested the Competition Pro Manix Twins:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xPA-4aJZgE

George Sokianos has made a video showing Open Geometry Wars on AmigaOS 4:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fofmVZxNbAQ

Until next time

That was the news for November 2025. December is already here (December 1st today), and both Christmas and a new year is on the horizon! 🙂

Thanks to all of you who read this blog, helps me with news, screenshots and much more. Also big thanks, again, to the developers and content creators keeping our platform going! Cheers! Keep up the good work!

I wish you all a nice December, and see you in the next AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup, due for release on December 31st!

Have a great day everyone!

Best regards,

Puni

#amiga #amigaNews #amigaone #amigaos4 #amigaos4MonthlyRoundup #powerpc #ppc

Getting System 7.5 natively booting on a G4 Mac is impressive enough…

...but what truly blows my mind is that on the same hardware, the author managed to get System 6.0.8 as far as a Happy Mac, and Systems 7.0/7.1 to a "not supported on this computer" dialog.

The fact that the ROM manages to get that far at all, instead of a black screen or sad mac is bonkers, considering that the processor architecture (and the rest of the hardware) is completely different from anything that would be understood by that era of OS. It's relying on the 68k emulator built-in to the ROM.

Driver support notwithstanding, I wonder how low could you go if you took the resources from the CHRP system enabler and brought them over into the System file directly? Since 6.x and early 7.x didn't support enablers.

#RetroComputing #VintageMac #68K #PowerPC #Apple #Mac #MacOS #ClassicMac https://mstdn.social/@osnews/115637701377779352

System 7 natively boots on the Mac mini G4
https://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?topic=7711.0
#ycombinator #Mac_OS_9 #Steinberg #Cubase #Emagic #Logic #Ableton #Live #Proppellerhead #Reason #Opcode #Studio_Vision #VST_Effects #VST_intstruments #TDM_Plugins #VST_plugins #RTAS_Plugins #MAS_Plugins #old_version #Powerpc #classic_mac #mac_os_8_6 #mac_os_8_5 #powermac_g3 #powermac_g4 #quicksilver #MDD #Mirrored_Drive_Door #Sawtooth #B_W #Midi_Interfaces

#todayInHistory 2005 - #Microsoft launches the #Xbox 360. The system features #IBM #PowerPC with 3 cores @ 3.2 GHz, 500 MHz ATI graphics with 10 MB cache, and 512 MB RAM. It costs US$299.9, including Composite AV Cable, and Controller.

It's the ninth-highest-selling home video game console in history, and the highest-selling console made by an American company.

#retrogaming

The ol' mighty PowerMac G5 gets to be turned on with its original 2005 drive. Still working! #PowerPC

Schéma Powerboard Tyche Desktop dokončeno
#PowerPC
https://alt-f4.cz/schema-powerboard-tyche-desktop-dokonceno

#TodayInHistory 1995 - #IBM, #Apple Computer, and #Motorola release the #PowerPC Platform specifications, called the Common Hardware Reference Platform (CHRP). It encompasses support for Macintosh System 7, #Windows NT, #AIX, #Solaris, NetWare, and OS/2.

#retrocomputing #hardware

Ein vergilbter Nachttischlampen #iMac (#PowerPC) im Studio eines Fotografen.

#RetroComputing #Stilleben

@thejpster Hmm... I take your word for it. At that time I don't recall any #PowerPC with #Windows NT, but I recall #Alpha machines demonstrated with #Windows NT.

With OS/2 fine, maybe. I had OS/2 installed as main OS on a PC for some time, but trouble running software and games became annoying, so we removed it.

@thejpster Little know fact: #PowerPC (later just #Power) are behind most of the cellular networks infrastructure revolution till (if I'm not wrong) at least 2015.

It's the smartphone market that lifted #ARM to it's current position on the processor market.

@thejpster #PowerPC based #Mac did similar dent in workstations market then as #Apple M1 did recently - it was jaw-dropping performance in graphics, rendering and video.

@thejpster There was #Windows NT for #Alpha, but not for #PowerPC as far as I remember.