There are three rather critical pieces of software still being kept alive for PPC:
Tenfourfox: http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/ <http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/> (Firefox) Tenfourbird: http://tenfourbird.osdn.jp/ <http://tenfourbird.osdn.jp/> (Thunderbird) LibreOffice: http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/manulix/other/libreoffice/ <http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/manulix/other/libreoffice/> (LibreOffice 5.1 alpha, needs OS X10.5 Leo) Fortunately a number of Macports packages are (still) working on PPC, notably the cli stuff tende to last longer (gcc 4.6 being essential for me). And there is still a reasonably current version of Emacs. The point being that PPC Macs are still useful machines that should not be condemned to the landfill… Uli > On Nov 12, 2015, at 3:31 PM, Michael David Crawford <mdcrawf...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > The PowerPC/Tiger backport of FireFox that I installed on Mom's G4 is > called "TenFourFox". I think there's also a "TenThreeFox". > > There are quite a few Classic programs that are actively maintained. > > From time to time I get email from a user of Working Software's > products, none of which ever ran on OS X, to ask me if I could > re-release them. I expect I could earn quite a good income doing > nothing other than selling QuickLetter, which was written largely in > 68k assembly code and never even ported to PowerPC. > > (It was built on the same CoreEdit as MacWrite was.) > Michael David Crawford, Baritone > mdcrawf...@gmail.com > > One Must Not Trifle With Wizards For It Makes Us Soggy And Hard To Light. > > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote: >> On Nov 12, 2015, at 10:58 AM, Michael David Crawford wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 5:43 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >>>> >>>> On Nov 12, 2015, at 6:55 AM, Michael David Crawford wrote: >>>> >>>>> There have been plenty of times that the only Mac available to me for >>>>> development has been my mother's Tiger G4 iMac. I was at least able >>>>> to install a PowerPC backport of Firefox. >>>>> >>>>> What was most upsetting to me when I used it was that I often had to >>>>> build my own tools from source, because the powerpc binaries had been >>>>> withdrawn. >>>> >>>> Not sure if you were talking about MacPorts or other projects, but >>>> MacPorts has never offered PowerPC binaries. We started offering binaries >>>> with OS X 10.6, for x86_64 only. >>> >>> Not MacPorts specifically but that has been my experience with >>> numerous software packages. >> >> In many cases, the software is no longer compatible with the older versions >> of OS X required for PowerPC machines, so they couldn't provide a binary if >> they wanted to because it won't compile anymore. Though there probably are >> other projects that would still work on PowerPC but binaries aren't provided >> because few people use PowerPC machines anymore. In any case, it's a matter >> you would have to take up with the particular project in question. > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > macports-users@lists.macosforge.org > https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
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