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Posted by: aladds on 2024-07-12 08:35:46GitHub - Wack0/maciNTosh: PowerPC Windows NT ported to Power Macintosh systemsPowerPC Windows NT ported to Power Macintosh systems - Wack0/maciNTosh
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What an interesting project! | |
| Posted by: cheesestraws on 2024-07-12 08:46:20 That's absolutely mad. Must have been fun to do. | |
| Posted by: finkmac on 2024-07-12 08:54:23 wow, that's wild. the promise of ppc nt on powermacs finally delivered... 27 years later. G3 support, even... | |
| Posted by: 3lectr1cPPC on 2024-07-12 09:49:15 I don't own any of the supported systems unfortunately. If they get it booting on the PDQ, I'll give it a go! | |
| Posted by: Powerbase on 2024-07-12 10:24:11 Neat 👍 | |
| Posted by: NJRoadfan on 2024-07-12 13:09:24 Weird. I pulled out my Lombard earlier this week for other testing. Guess that was a sign. Finally, the middle bastard child of the PowerBook G3 line gets some love. Edit: There might even be a slight chance that XPostFacto can get this working on a beige G3. That or futzing around on the OpenFirmware prompt. | |
| Posted by: NJRoadfan on 2024-07-12 16:48:04 Umm..so.... this works. | |
| Posted by: croissantking on 2024-07-12 16:58:28 I suppose I have a reason to keep my PowerMac G4 (PCI Graphics) now. 🤣 | |
| Posted by: NJRoadfan on 2024-07-12 17:09:49 | |
Posted by: 3lectr1cPPC on 2024-07-12 17:12:27 | |
Posted by: croissantking on 2024-07-12 17:19:13This is so weird. | |
| Posted by: NJRoadfan on 2024-07-12 17:19:24 Screen! This just seems... wrong:    Here are the system specific strings from the System Control Panel:   Plays Pinball:  Its surprisingly stable for a hack. It only crashed twice for me. | |
| Posted by: 3lectr1cPPC on 2024-07-12 22:48:00 Never thought I’d suddenly want a Lombard real bad. | |
| Posted by: Cory5412 on 2024-07-12 22:59:12 NT on PowerMacs is the future we were promised. It's just that it was supposed to be PowerMacs from like 1996-97. 😛 Very neat though, I might have to poke at this on my blue yikes g3. NT4 is already "pretty fast" on like a P/200, I bet it's great on a G3@300 or more. (Perhaps save performance penalties of basic drivers, but NT4 is pretty lite on, like, graphics acceleration in the base UI so that may not matter.) | |
| Posted by: 3lectr1cPPC on 2024-07-12 23:01:28 I’d love to see this evolve further with custom drivers, stability improvements, more supported models, etc. Most of these projects don’t go beyond proof of concept though, just gotta hope this goes further. | |
| Posted by: croissantking on 2024-07-13 01:19:38 Ultimately, what could you do with it? I’m guessing that any contemporary Windows apps would need to be recompiled for PPC. Do any already exist? | |
| Posted by: MacUp72 on 2024-07-13 01:54:25 interesting..kinda pre-bootcamp..a pity XP wont run on these.. | |
Posted by: cheesestraws on 2024-07-13 01:59:07(snip video and photos) This is really funny. I’m guessing that any contemporary Windows apps would need to be recompiled for PPC For NT on Alpha there was a dynamic recompilation thing from x86 - no idea how well it worked though or whether it made it to the PPC build. | |
| Posted by: rplacd on 2024-07-13 02:12:39 Prices for Lombards and Yikes going up in 4... 3... 2... | |
| Posted by: aladds on 2024-07-13 03:31:03 There is an old Vogons thread talking about PPC NT stuff but sadly the archive.org link doesn’t seem to work anymore: Windows NT on Motorola Powerstack II \ VOGONS
www.vogons.org
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