{"id":2042,"date":"2024-04-06T12:14:13","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T11:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elephantandchicken.co.uk\/stuffandnonsense\/?page_id=2042"},"modified":"2024-04-06T12:21:40","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T11:21:40","slug":"powerpc-beos-quality-of-life-refinements","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/elephantandchicken.co.uk\/stuffandnonsense\/?page_id=2042","title":{"rendered":"PowerPC BeOS Quality of Life Refinements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At this time, I haven&#8217;t added any, but I hope to perhaps, with time, add&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Setting the clock to dates beyond 2010 &#8211; <em>For now, try setting it in Mac OS. You&#8217;d either need a utility like BBraun&#8217;s SetDate, or to have an install of Mac OS 8.6 or later (I think that&#8217;s where it was added) and use NTP to set the date and time. This should then carry over to BeOS, although you&#8217;ll need a battery to keep it between boots.<\/em><\/li><li>Recognising G4 processors by name &#8211; <em>I&#8217;ve seen a patch for the x86 version I think? Perhaps we can add some extra PPCs?<\/em><\/li><li>Patching maximum RAM &#8211; <em>Again, I&#8217;ve heard of x86 patches? Is there one for PPC?<\/em><\/li><li>A copy of OS Chooser that loads after your accelerator&#8217;s drivers (<a href=\"https:\/\/elephantandchicken.co.uk\/stuffandnonsense\/?page_id=1911\">already done and referenced elsewhere on the Picking Hardware page under upgrades<\/a>). I&#8217;ll upload a copy here so people don&#8217;t have to modify the file themselves.<\/li><li>7zip for PPC &#8211; <em>I keep finding BeOS software archived as 7zip files, but I can&#8217;t find a copy of 7zip for PPC. This is frustrating. Perhaps it is solvable.<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this time, I haven&#8217;t added any, but I hope to perhaps, with time, add&#8230; Setting the clock to dates beyond 2010 &#8211; For now, try setting it in Mac OS. You&#8217;d either need a utility like BBraun&#8217;s SetDate, or to have an install of Mac OS 8.6 or later (I think that&#8217;s where it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2022,"parent":1908,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P7g9vY-wW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elephantandchicken.co.uk\/stuffandnonsense\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elephantandchicken.co.uk\/stuffandnonsense\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elephantandchicken.co.uk\/stuffandnonsense\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elephantandchicken.co.uk\/stuffandnonsense\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elephantandchicken.co.uk\/stuffandnonsense\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2042"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/elephantandchicken.co.uk\/stuffandnonsense\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2047,"href":"https:\/\/elephantandchicken.co.uk\/stuffandnonsense\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2042\/revisions\/2047"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elephantandchicken.co.uk\/stuffandnonsense\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elephantandchicken.co.uk\/stuffandnonsense\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elephantandchicken.co.uk\/stuffandnonsense\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}