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Dr. Juande Santander-Vela

Remembering Graphing Calculator [1] in today's macOS… I always loved how quickly it plotted inequalities…

Reminder of the Graphic Calculator story [2] (which shipped with all initial PowerPC computers, and then some) courtesy of @timbray. Not sure if @RonAvitzur is still active on the fediverse…

[1]: apps.apple.com/app/graphing-ca
[2]: pacifict.com/story/

Snapshot of Graphing calculator plotting the area where 3x<7y is in violet, with a blue line showing exactly where 3x = 7y. Also, a grey surface shows where 7x < 3y, and a black line shows where 7x = 3y. Above the plotting area, an equation area shows the colors for the different plots, and the 4 equations above indicated.
#Apple#macOS#GraphingCalculator
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pulusound

heres a 303 Day tip that im sure is relevant to a lot of people in 2025: how to streamline your ReBirth RB-338 startup on Mac OS 9 😎 pulusound.fi/blog/quickly-laun #303day #RetroComputing #MacOS9 #Marchintosh

pulusound.fiquickly launch ReBirth on Mac OS 9!it's 303 day, and you would like to fire up ReBirth RB-338 on your Mac running OS 9 in order to write an acid banger. ReBirth's copy protection requires the installation media to be present in order for the program to start, and you know that optical drives don't last forever, so you've ripped your 100% legally owned CD-ROM to a disk image file. but you are annoyed by the tedium of having to mount the disk image, click skip on the checksum verification (since it takes a while), and then finally open ReBirth.
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Sidde

A nice evening with some #Crémant de Bourgogne and #Warcraft on my "new" #ibook G3

I have such memories of this game playing on my old #386. But I also remember the game taking just a few 1.4MB of ARJ compressed floppies and not 80Mb+ as the Mac version seems to be.

But I should have read mission objectives. Because I have explored the map and killed all the enemies and then later found out that was not the mission.

Warcraft 1 on the ibook
Warcraft 1
#PowerPC#PPC#MacOS9
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Sidde

Now after installing #MacOS9 on an #Apple #iBook G3 600MHz I did some benchmark against my #MacMiniG4 also running MacOS9 (via the ROM hacked image).

The #PowerPC G3 in this iBook surprisingly slow. I expected half of CPU performance, of the G4 not less than a third compared to the 1.2GHz #PPC G4 in the Mini. And it's rather close with the built in reference result of a #Powermac G3 300MHz.

The FPU benchmark looks better though...

MacBench on the ibook G3
#Retrocomputing#VintageMac#MacBench
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Sidde

Fantastic! #TotallyNormalComputing

Booting #MacOS9 Installer from USB, and without even touching #OpenFirmware. I really like the community for this kind of service!

'Mac OS 9.2.2 "boot kit" for booting your G3/G4 from an USB stick' by that-ben on Macintosh Repository just works out of the box! On a #powerpc #G3 #ibook with USB1.

And it was kinda fast to boot and install too. My #Powerbook got some company now!.

Booting MacOS9 Installer from USB
Booting MacOS 9.2
#Apple#Macintosh#PPC
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