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Tenfourfox g41/24/2024 "Jaguar plays classicmode games smoothly, Panther and Tiger can't play a lot of games due to what's been called the implementation of "double buffered" screen memory."Įdit: The slower-than-Jaguar but still-quicker- than-Tiger Classic from Panther (60%+ vs Tiger) apparently can be transplanted into Tiger, also btw. It also works in Classic Environment, which otherwise has zero graphics acceleration.Įdit: There's an interesting read at Macintosh Garden ("Tiger/Panther classicmode smooth emulation") that explains : Some extensions from Tiger (Rage 128 kext etc) used to work on Leopard.Įdit: There's a (slightly dated) Glide software-renderer for Mac OS 9.x.: MacGLide Not sure whether or not it does include older Kexts, though. Last, but not least, there's the Leopard Sorbet release made by the community. Through Rosetta, Carbon applications originally written with Mac OS 8/9 in mind, might still run on Snowy, even, despite the lack of Classic Environment. On x86, it still supported PPC applications written with the Carbon (Mac OS 8/9, 10.0+) and Cocoa (10.0+) APIs. Snow Leopard was much better than Leopard, IMHO. That being said, you could try Snow Leopard for PPC - there's a preview that can be found online. The Datagram Delivery Protocol (DDP) was used before things switched to TCP.įor maximum compatibility, Jaguar might be better, though. It also knew real AppleTalk and shipped with the complete Apple Filing Protocol aka AFP, still: Panther 10.3, by comparison, had the fastest Classic Environment and was the only one being compatible with Mac-On-Mac (Edit: Or was it Jaguar 10.2 that had the fastest?). Jaguar 10.2 was the last release with pinstripes and real aqua 'tabs'. The downside of Tiger 10.4 is the reduced Aqua interface. Sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/ Quartz2DExtremeEnabled -boolean YES QE2D can be enabled system wide by using terminal in Tiger: So I suppose an optional Voodoo2 (Glide API) or Quick Draw 3D Accelerator must be used if any kind if acceleration is still required. Unfortunately, newer GPUs capable of Core Image lost Mac OS 9.x acceleration due to being made after OS 9 'died'. Something Iike a Geforce 5200+ etc can be used to enable Core Image, which provides even more GPU related magic. A Geforce 2MX+ or Radeon 7000+ can be used for this, if memory serves. Quartz Extreme is handy, because it can draw the GUI via the GPU. In addition, it already also has Quartz Extreme, Core Image and Quartz 2D Extreme (Q2DE). Tiger still has Blue Box aka Classic Environment and can virtualize Mac OS 9.1+. Personally, I prefer Tiger over Leopard, also. Tenfourfox is no more, unfortunately, but InterWebPPC is an alternative. Lubunto 16 Remix - too many crashes and graphical glitches.Īny ideas? Or should I stick with Tiger and leave it as gaming (Dark Colony/Diablo) machine? Void Linux - work well as Live CD but install is beyond me - I've tried every tutorial on net but always fail at partiotioning part (if someone would explain it step by step.) As game machine is terrible, emulator packages refuse to compile, Crispy Doom is a 10 fps slog and DosBox cannot run 486 game like Mortal Kombat 3 at decent speed,Īdelie Linux - hangs once desktop is being loaded from live CD Mint PPC - based on Debian edition, being in slumber for year only to reactivated like 2 years ago, I installed in once (Debian install with custom config file), good with IceWm or XFCE. Poor as gaming machine but not hopeless, there is some advancerd stuff with MorphOS like Shogo or Return to Castle Wolfenstein.ĭebian Sid - seems ok but any netinstall gives random error, I only manage to install it once. MorphOS - it's decent as OS but it's NOT free and trial version starts crawl mode after 30 minutes. For modern system, you can install TenFourFox and that's all. OSX Tiger - decent as gaming platform although performance is dissapointing, especially in Classic Mode (e.g, Tie Fighter runs slow, Super Wing Commander has messed up color palette). I want it to make gaming machine or modern OS for surfing net and stuff. I'm gonna use full potential out of this machine but most of ties to leave OSX Tiger became traumatic.
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