Mac PPC

[Richmond Mathewson]

I think you will find that WINE enables you to play most Windows games:

https://appdb.winehq.org/

or you could just set your rig up to dual-boot.

Richmond.

On 6/14/17 10:40 pm, Mike Bonner via use-livecode wrote:
> If i didn't have things that I don't want to do without on windows, I would
> go solely linux.  Alas i have to admit that even at my age.. I still play
> games that are only available on windows. (some could be shoehorned into
> linux in various ways but games can be very problematic)
>
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 1:02 PM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
>> It never ceases to amaze me how I manage to run the latest LC release via
>> Xubuntu
>> on a Pentium IV that is significantly older than my MacMini PPC and that
>> is significantly
>> older than my Polycarbonate Intel iMac:
>>
>> I am running LC 9 dp 6 on the Pentium IV . . . .
>>
>> admittedly this says buckets about Apple's policy of forcing hardware
>> upgrades by
>> messing around with both their OS and their hardware and nothing about
>> LiveCode.
>>
>> This really does say something very positive indeed about Linux.
>>
>> Richmond.
>>
>> On 6/14/17 8:31 pm, Mike Bonner via use-livecode wrote:
>>
>>> I have a little macbook g4 running 10.4.11 and after going through the
>>> release notes, chose livecode 6.5.2 (the last version of lc that
>>> specifically says it will work with a macos that old)  the machine has
>>> 1.25g of mem, and runs like a champ.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 10:47 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode <
>>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks Kay C Lan, but I am after some slightly more obscure info:
>>>> the last version working on Mac OS 10.4.11 as my MacMini PPC does not
>>>> have suffiecient RAM to cope with 10.5.8 (and I am NOT going to pay for
>>>> more RAM for a machine that spends most of its time running a variety of
>>>> emulators: BBC Micro, Amiga and Commodore).
>>>>
>>>> Richmond.
>>>>
>>>> On 6/14/17 10:24 am, Kay C Lan via use-livecode wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Can confirm that LC 6.6.5 will run on a PPC running Leopard 10.5.8.
>>>>> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 5:37 PM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
>>>>> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> 6.6.x I think was the last version to support PPC - 10.4+.
>>>>>> Mark
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 13 Jun 2017, at 08:32, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode <
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I wonder (to save me trawling endlessly though release notes) if
>>>>>>> anyone can tell me the last LC version to run on Mac PPC?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Richmond.
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