In my expierence LinuxPPC can be somewhat less stable. Of course, the last version I used was R4, on a G3 upgraded clone. It might be alot more stable now.
Does anyone know if you can use a Voodoo3 flashed with the Macintosh ROMs under LinuxPPC? I know there is support in XF86, but I thought that just might be for Intel ROM V3s.
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They're claiming their 24xPower3 box is faster than Sun's 64xUltraSparc. I don't know if it's true or not, but it is possible. It's also only costs 1/2 as much.
I'm going to agree with this AC, esp in GMs case. They're trying to make themselves seem like a new, exciting, dynamic comapany. Their new ads portray the chairman of the board as wearing jeans and chuck taylors. I think this may be part of some huge plan to look like a geek friendly company.
This company has produced PCI cards with multiple PPC chips on them for a while. It used to be 604s, now it'll be G3s or G4s. Assuming they're using a Daystar Clone, with 6 PCI slots, combined with several of those external PCI chassies, they could easily have a system with 128 PPC chips, although you'd have to write programs using their API to take advantage of them.
Do a search for interactive fiction. You'll turn up tons of links. Here's a good one http://www.ifarchive.org/. There's also a yearly interactive fiction contest
Why would IBM or Motorola want to ever get rid of Apple? Are they not turning a profit on the chips they sell them? You're supposed to eliminate competition, not customers.
The article says that they've gotten rid of evolution as a way of open species becomming another, but not evolution within a species. That's ridiculous. The lines between species are fuzzy, they're not something you can just slap down a ruler and say "here's the division." A species becomes another species by evolution with in the latter. It's not like primates said, "Well, if we evolve anymore we'd be a different species. Better stop before that thumb becomes too opposible."
No, it just means there are zero supercomputers computers in China which have had bench marks submitted for them. There was a story on 60 Minutes last week about China buying serveral large SGI boxes. It's a big deal because everyone's afraid they'll use them for weapons research, but the state department said they wouldn't stop it, because they could always just connect a whole bunch of commidity PCs together (ala beowulf). Of course, when asked why they couldn't stop selling them various machine tools for making missles, they started talking about how old the machines are, and how they were to be used to build planes and blah blah blah.
>let the retail world know that there is a market >for Linux games.
I should also like to add that if Loki sells 1,000,000,000 units, they've sold 100,000,000,000 units. It doesn't matter who sold them, selling a lot of a product by any means will show that there is a market for it. It's not like CompUSA sales are used as a measure of marketability.
Besides, I'd rather Loki be getting full retail price for the game then letting CompUSA taking a cut.
By buying online, you are voting with your dollars.
It's hard to get a product into big stores. It costs money. Companies pay stores for placement, the more they give, the better the placement. Supermarkets have been doing it since the '50s, I'm sure computer stores do the same. Even the larger mailorder outfits (you know (Micro|Mac)Warehouse, (PC|Mac)Mall) charge comapanies for ads in their catalogs.
Interestingly enough, Bungie (who wrote Myth II in the first place) complained about this a while ago (it was on their website), and that's why they try to do most of their sales direct.
So, by buying online, you're "voting with your dollars" to stop these practices which are hurting small startup companies and helping the giants.
Interestingly enough, there's a good article on mac "clones" over at MacKido, here. According to it, Power Computing was in quite a bit of finicial trouble before Apple ended clones, and, you must remember that Apple more or less bought them out after ending the licensing. Besides, Power Computing was, more or less, the only clone maker really tearing into Apple's market that was deystroyed. Umax is still doing fine, MacTell was alright last time I checked, Motorola didn't even notice. The only other "casuality" was DayStar, who was producing high quality products for a very small niche (people who needed quad CPU machines with 9 PCI cards). DayStar was also in a bit of hot water before it entered the Clone market.
Anyway, Apple has recently released an Open Source OS that can be ported to any platform. So build yourself a box and port Darwin to it.
In addition, Apple's most recent Macs (iMacs, B&W G3s, and the new PBs) are using software ROMs. That's the only proprietary part of a Mac that's overly difficult to reverse engineer.
There never were any clones, only licencees. Now there can be real clones.
Not Conix, Tenon Intersystems. They make a product called MachTen. It's not open, but it does come with some of the source. Conix makes an X server for MacOS.
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The Mac version of Half Life is almost done. Logicware, who are doing the port, has sent an early build to sierra for testing.
You can use just about any PC IDE or SCSI CD-RW on the mac. The driver quality isn't always great, though.
MkLinux is terrifically stable, but it's slow.
In my expierence LinuxPPC can be somewhat less stable. Of course, the last version I used was R4, on a G3 upgraded clone. It might be alot more stable now.
I don't know about debian/ppc or yellowdog.
The U is for Unix or Ubiquitous, depending on which port you ask.
Does anyone know if you can use a Voodoo3 flashed with the Macintosh ROMs under LinuxPPC? I know there is support in XF86, but I thought that just might be for Intel ROM V3s.
They're claiming their 24xPower3 box is faster than Sun's 64xUltraSparc. I don't know if it's true or not, but it is possible. It's also only costs 1/2 as much.
Size!=Speed
I'm going to agree with this AC, esp in GMs case. They're trying to make themselves seem like a new, exciting, dynamic comapany. Their new ads portray the chairman of the board as wearing jeans and chuck taylors. I think this may be part of some huge plan to look like a geek friendly company.
Not just apple. They share that patent with Sony, TI, and others.
This company has produced PCI cards with multiple PPC chips on them for a while. It used to be 604s, now it'll be G3s or G4s. Assuming they're using a Daystar Clone, with 6 PCI slots, combined with several of those external PCI chassies, they could easily have a system with 128 PPC chips, although you'd have to write programs using their API to take advantage of them.
It's on it's second developer seeding
Do a search for interactive fiction. You'll turn up tons of links. Here's a good one http://www.ifarchive.org/. There's also a yearly interactive fiction contest
Why would IBM or Motorola want to ever get rid of Apple? Are they not turning a profit on the chips they sell them? You're supposed to eliminate competition, not customers.
>Hopefully they won't shift their focus away from
>the Mac.
Why would they do that? Chips designed and/or manufactured by them go inside every mac. Why would they shift away the focus?
>Damn, Apple should have bought them long ago.
Apple's MPW kicks CodeWarrior's butt in just about everything except friendliness and debugging.
>Money speaks much louder than whining True, but sometimes whining (not the best word) gets other people's money talking too.
The article says that they've gotten rid of evolution as a way of open species becomming another, but not evolution within a species. That's ridiculous. The lines between species are fuzzy, they're not something you can just slap down a ruler and say "here's the division." A species becomes another species by evolution with in the latter. It's not like primates said, "Well, if we evolve anymore we'd be a different species. Better stop before that thumb becomes too opposible."
An Apple III or Amiga 500. They both had ICJ problems (Intermediate Chip Jump).
No, it just means there are zero supercomputers computers in China which have had bench marks submitted for them. There was a story on 60 Minutes last week about China buying serveral large SGI boxes. It's a big deal because everyone's afraid they'll use them for weapons research, but the state department said they wouldn't stop it, because they could always just connect a whole bunch of commidity PCs together (ala beowulf). Of course, when asked why they couldn't stop selling them various machine tools for making missles, they started talking about how old the machines are, and how they were to be used to build planes and blah blah blah.
I've never been able to find them. MkLinux always posts them, but LinuxPPC doesn't.
here's the Bungie's CEO's rant about the evils of selling a product any way except for direct.
>let the retail world know that there is a market >for Linux games.
I should also like to add that if Loki sells 1,000,000,000 units, they've sold 100,000,000,000 units. It doesn't matter who sold them, selling a lot of a product by any means will show that there is a market for it. It's not like CompUSA sales are used as a measure of marketability.
Besides, I'd rather Loki be getting full retail price for the game then letting CompUSA taking a cut.
By buying online, you are voting with your dollars.
It's hard to get a product into big stores. It costs money. Companies pay stores for placement, the more they give, the better the placement. Supermarkets have been doing it since the '50s, I'm sure computer stores do the same. Even the larger mailorder outfits (you know (Micro|Mac)Warehouse, (PC|Mac)Mall) charge comapanies for ads in their catalogs.
Interestingly enough, Bungie (who wrote Myth II in the first place) complained about this a while ago (it was on their website), and that's why they try to do most of their sales direct.
So, by buying online, you're "voting with your dollars" to stop these practices which are hurting small startup companies and helping the giants.
Interestingly enough, there's a good article on mac "clones" over at MacKido, here. According to it, Power Computing was in quite a bit of finicial trouble before Apple ended clones, and, you must remember that Apple more or less bought them out after ending the licensing. Besides, Power Computing was, more or less, the only clone maker really tearing into Apple's market that was deystroyed. Umax is still doing fine, MacTell was alright last time I checked, Motorola didn't even notice. The only other "casuality" was DayStar, who was producing high quality products for a very small niche (people who needed quad CPU machines with 9 PCI cards). DayStar was also in a bit of hot water before it entered the Clone market.
Anyway, Apple has recently released an Open Source OS that can be ported to any platform. So build yourself a box and port Darwin to it.
In addition, Apple's most recent Macs (iMacs, B&W G3s, and the new PBs) are using software ROMs. That's the only proprietary part of a Mac that's overly difficult to reverse engineer.
There never were any clones, only licencees. Now there can be real clones.
Port what? The old games were interpreted. There's a linux interpreter called Sarien here
You can boot a kernel, you just couldn't do anything with it (or build it for that matter).
Not Conix, Tenon Intersystems. They make a product called MachTen. It's not open, but it does come with some of the source. Conix makes an X server for MacOS.
It breaks down like this:
kernel - FreeBSD
tools - NetBSD
library code - OpenBSD
Read it for yourself