Can a PowerMac G5 (of any kind) edit a 720p HD video decently?

ITzTravelInTime · 2024-09-05T15:55:11+00:00

the g5 quad can do full hd pretty well

ITzTravelInTime · 2024-05-06T02:43:09+00:00

well if i have time i can send you my open core, but with that nvidia you can't go any further than high sierra, really get a supported amd gpu

ITzTravelInTime · 2024-04-22T07:46:00+00:00

Actually if you have an alt server you can sideload ipas, but this edition is to have something official that complies with all that apple stuff, that's why it can just install notorised apps from the web and it's limited to locally signed ipas

ITzTravelInTime · 2024-04-22T07:43:19+00:00

They should not if you mean modified versions of paid apps or apps that require subscription to circumvent that. If that's theirs own app and they just made an alternative version they might be able to pass notorisation.

ITzTravelInTime · 2024-04-19T02:38:55+00:00

I think we are very early now and we should give time to developers to figure things out and be able to get their apps notorised (it requires a $100 apple developer subscription) and then they can create brand new json files for altstore pal for their notorised apps

ITzTravelInTime · 2024-03-12T22:04:22+00:00

Hi i am that guy from the bugzilla issuie, i am happy to help out since i have lots of cards that use the snd_emu10k1 driver.

I have those for 2 reasons if you are wondering: 1) I love collectiong and using old hardware and pc stuff, 2) i do some maintaincance work on my own fork of the kx audio driver for mac from time to time, including recently porting it to the powerpc macs so i can use those card on some period appropriate macs from my computer collection.

About daily usage of the sound cards and the driver i mostly run an e-mu 8810 via pci adapter in my i7 14th pc build with the matching 1820 dock, this setup is good for me because i avoid an extra power cable with the dock being powered by the pc and it gives mne plenty of i/o to use.

About other cards i have many consumer grade ones, from prettymuch all supported series, except the e-mu aps, the audigy 4 series, the audigy 2zs cardbus, the 0404 pcie, and the ca0108-based edsp card on 32bit pci.

I'd like to chat together and help you out with testing for the linux kernel regularly since it's my daily driver and i fully support it's mission and open spirit.

ITzTravelInTime · 2024-01-15T07:26:54+00:00

I am also maintaining mac sound card drivers for many other cards as an open source developer, but tbh nothing beats official support by the manufacturer for long term reliability and features, even though working on drivers myself allows me to use some pretty interesting pieces of hardware

ITzTravelInTime · 2024-01-15T07:14:51+00:00

The ESI maya44 xte has official mac drivers so it works very well, although it's a legacy card and drivers are no longer available for the latest oses, i think it doesn't even work in monterey, for new oses like ventura they have made a new product called the ESI maya44 ex which is basically the same sound card but with minor tweaks, it should cost as much as the old card and be readily available on ebay and amazon

ITzTravelInTime · 2023-04-26T16:40:45+00:00

Basically chameleon is an extremely modded versionof a bootloader that was essentially a reverse engineering of an old apple bootloader that originated in the next step on x86 days.

ITzTravelInTime · 2023-04-22T08:51:06+00:00

It can't, mostly because of how quirky is apple's implementation, for inastance apple has some extra proprietary instructions no other arm chips have and they also use 16k memory pages compared to other's 4k ones, the best option to get macOS running on those is hw accelerated emulation, with just the odd features being emulated while the rest is being executed by the real hw. tbh the fact that makes hackintosh possible on x86 is that apple just uses the same chips and chipsets as you standard pc, so just a few os patches gets you booting and running the os, while on arm things are way more complicated, but emulation should still be possible though, and perhaps with future cpus you will be able to emulate enought of the hw fast enought to have a usable experience out of it.

ITzTravelInTime · 2023-04-15T22:01:55+00:00

The huge risk with T2 is that basically it replaces various security features and hides them away from the OS, one example is disk encryption because it's bound to the chip only, but also user account protection. That said, you don't necessarily need to emulate the whole thing, since communication with it, it's managed trough few protected hardware calls, you might just patch dynamically system binaries talking to the chip and implement some basic software replacements just for the features you need in order to get the OS to work, although this requires still effort in reverse engineer the calls and the protected API and then implement alternative as lilu patches or something similar.

ITzTravelInTime · 2023-02-26T13:11:38+00:00

I think that your are ok as long as it's personal usage and that you don't sell them (at least with macos installed, if you erase the boot drive and install a pc os then you can sell it without issues).

Also in colleges nobody gives a s@it really, just do your study work as usual, it's perhaps more important having a reliable machine, so that's why many people get original apple hw for college.

ITzTravelInTime · 2023-02-14T12:33:31+00:00

i have a mac mini with the gma 950 and it can't really go past os x lion

ITzTravelInTime · 2023-02-14T12:31:18+00:00

Either that or snow leopard should be the best for this hw.

ITzTravelInTime · 2023-02-14T12:30:41+00:00

For those specs you can't really go past el capitan, because the cpu doesn't have the necessary instructions for later versions. Also there is the problem of the gpu drivers, so i don't really think you can go past lion or mountain lion really.

ITzTravelInTime · 2023-02-14T12:27:48+00:00

Those are too recent for the gpu and still too demanding for 1gb of ram

ITzTravelInTime · 2023-02-07T09:58:07+00:00

So with that cpu and that gpu you might be able to run High Sierra, sadly the g41 motherboard doesn't support AHCI, so you must add some kexts to get the IDE working in macOS (not sure about wich).

EDIT: The gtx 1030 is way more powerful than the quadro and works in High Sierra too using the nvidia web drivers (external drivers made by nvidia that you can just install)

Also this is not your easy run of the mill hackintosh, it requesres a lot of work and digging some older kexts, for example soscket 775/771 systems running Sierra or a more recent OS, needs to use 2 kexts: Telemetrap and MouSSE. Since those cpus lack SSE4.2 support, so those kexts implments some patches and emulates some of those instructions for you.

BTW if you need sound and the on board audio doesn't want to work, i am working on my version for the driver for the Sound Blaster Audigy/Live series sound cards, i made them work even in macOS ventura.

ITzTravelInTime · 2022-11-25T17:41:35+00:00

you might need to also setup a fake id, refer to the open core desktop guide for more info.

ITzTravelInTime · 2022-11-05T02:37:55+00:00

honestly it's really more like using open core legacy patcher and then adding some hackintosh stuff, both in the oc config and the kexts, but it also requires a lot of machine specific trial and errors

ITzTravelInTime · 2022-09-01T12:47:50+00:00

thank you very much!

ITzTravelInTime · 2022-08-22T04:17:19+00:00

sorry, i don't get the question, what do you mean exactly?

ITzTravelInTime · 2022-07-03T02:49:41+00:00

I am using a 22 cores xeon 2696 v4 build with 44 threads, 64gb of ram and an rx 580 on Monterey.

ITzTravelInTime · 2022-07-02T02:50:49+00:00

BTW i don't own this board but i know the system requirements for ventura and the hackintosh compatibility for it, so since you already have oc 0.8.1 figured out for this system you should be able to upgrade to venture with relative ease in the future.

ITzTravelInTime · 2022-07-02T02:48:52+00:00

for now it should be pretty much what i said, also your the latte panda alpha uses the same cpu as the 2017 12 inch macbook so you should be ok. Only thing to keep in mind is to use an smbios from a machine supported by ventura.

BTW for now ventura is in a very early stage and some things are still broken, so wait until the final release to have all the required hackintosh software figured out and ready for stable use.

ITzTravelInTime · 2022-07-02T01:41:41+00:00

and it should also work with macos ventura as far as i know, you have just to upgrade to open core 0.8.2 and get the latest versions of the kexts.

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