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Very nostalgic. I wonder if an old PPC is feasible at all for basic browsing these days. Probably would run into issues updating the browser?
by ricardobayes 5y ago
Very nostalgic. I wonder if an old PPC is feasible at all for basic browsing these days. Probably would run into issues updating the browser?
- Pamar 5y agoPretty sure it would: I replaced my old PPC iMac in (IIRC) 2017 and it was already basically impossible to get an updated browser version (let alone most if not all the other apps).
- fredoralive 5y agoUntil recently there was TenFourFox, a Firefox fork for old Macs, if you wanted a modern browser although it's now mostly dead.
- djxfade 5y agoIt has been forked as InterWebPPC
- classichasclass 5y agoI'm still doing security updates, but you have to self-build, and any new development would be "when I get a round tuit." Some people are doing downstream forks and there are build-it-for-you scripts/Automator packages you can use.
- sneak 5y agoYou can emulate it on modern hardware, faster than it would run on the real deal, if you truly want to go that route.
- cellularmitosis 5y agoNot quite. My M1 is running Tiger in QEMU and it’s a little slower than my 1.2GHz eMac.
- cellularmitosis 5y agoThe problem is mostly slow JavaScript performance on this era of ppc machines