Your experience with one of these machines taught me something.. ..that I should buy one.

Dude your content is way too high quality for the amount of views you're getting. As someone who also loves to dabble in old technology, this was fun to watch from start to end

@RetronetYT

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

Panther. Install Panther. We all bought new hardware when Tiger dropped. Also you can edit proxies and link back to whatever crazy format you had your original files in. We "printed" back to 2K files and they still look amazing today - albeit if they were film-scans to start with...

HOW DOES A CHANNEL THIS GOOD ONLY HAVE 800 SUBS OMG!!

love these kinds of videos! Also, love your personality and editing style! I have a lot of vintage macs, but my 2006 iBook G4 14” 1.42GHz is actually surprisingly good at a lot of modern tasks. It runs minecraft smoothly, youtube works decent with a little bit of video skipping. It’s also been upgraded to 1.5GB of RAM. The extra CPU power and RAM will go a long way in making these machines somewhat usable

this channel feels tailor made for me man its insane

@RetronetYT

6 ай бұрын

glad you enjoy :D

I have one of these w/ an old beige apple external mass storage HDD, a dual CPU G5 w/ a 20" cinema display, and my 1st personal computer... A RevB OG Bondi Blue iMac. They all reside in my apartment closet currently. I also have a 2008 iMac I actually use as a VST midi noise maker as well as a retro Nintendo (NES/SNES/N64) emulator. My current main audio workhorse is a 21.5" 2013 (i7-4770/GTX-750m/16gb/256 NVME/1tb SSD), that I pick up "parts only" for $50 local! Invested another $40 for parts and refurbished/upgraded myself. Wasn't the easiest endeavor I've embarked on mind you, but after a couple of days hunched over and swearing? I'm actually quite satisfied with it's capabilities. Great video series BTW. Cheers!

told you it wouldn't take 5 months

@orestes1984

4 ай бұрын

You have a niche here, your channel should be getting more views.

20:05 I was at that christmas concert and the pipe fell on my head, i've been in a coma and this is the first piece of media I've watched since waking up

@RetronetYT

Жыл бұрын

it’s true he was the pipe

How did I just find this video? You literally made me fall out of of my chair in the Discord stuff lol. Subbed

@HrutkayMods

8 ай бұрын

Don’t be surprised if you end up seeing a few bigger KZreadrs reach out to you in the future, I shared you with everyone I knew

@RetronetYT

8 ай бұрын

@HrutkayMods Much appreciated! :)

the new druaga1

Hope this channel takes off. ive been running mac os 9 as my main os for the last few months

Oh the memories. Time makes things seem better, and your video reminds just how jank it was back then.Thank you. PS: I just bought a Dual MDD 1.42 and might regret it...sgh.

@RetronetYT

6 ай бұрын

Best of luck with the MDD! Hopefully the power supply works :P

Love every minute of both videos my man!!! I have several Power Mac G4s from Sawtooth to the MDD, loved and hate them dearly 😂 when they run fine and when they refuse to run a “compatible” software and meet the requirements. Thanks for bringing great and fun content!!!

The part 1 of this video one day just appeared in my recommended and you have somehow combined tech and comedy almost perfectly. You just got a subscription.

Subscribed for entertainment

I liked this duo of videos! The narration was calming and the production value was very good.

@RetronetYT

2 ай бұрын

thank you! :)

High quality!

the first gens are a struggle without the 1.2 ghz encore g4 modules but the mdd and g5s are so much better

Awesome content man just watched both videos in this series! You should totally do more stuff around retro computers like this. Have you looked into things like OpenBSD or NetBSD they support SPARC and PowerPC 32 bit systems like this. Some Linux distros like Gentoo also support this hardware but take time to compile everything for the hardware but it should run smoother than anything else. It would be cool to see some content on that as well with these old machines since macOS is pretty much unusable for them these days. Keep up the good work

19:14 I love this. And the rest of the video.

only the most reputable of establishments are located across from a Denny's

Bro. I love your content. I hope you hit it big so we can enjoy more.

Dude this is so good 😂 Keep it going man, you’ll blow up

Yeah, I kind of figured it wouldn’t be fun. I not too long ago snagged a 2012 Mac Mini with 4GB of RAM off eBay…since that was the year they started saudering RAM to the motherboard I’m stuck with it. I figured it wouldn’t matter since it’s basically just going to be a dedicated HomeBridge server but even pulling up the site to download the software and some plugins took WAY longer than it needed to so I can only imagine your struggle. Thanks for the entertainment though.

Your experience with Final Cut Pro isn't too unlike the genuine 'at the time' experience i had in 2006 during Media Studies at college, in the MAC suite. It didn't quite crash as easily as it did for you, but it didn't 'never' crash either.

I am 36, and feel like you're 2-4 years younger than me. I remember using some of this hardware new ish

omg... jesus that brought me back with the RWJ transistion in the beginning. Great content dude, finding your channel was a delicious surprise. I thank you for giving my soul something to consume.

I like your sketches

i loved it, it was a cinematic masterpiece.

I binged all the videos on this channel, and I enjoy this one alot, It reminded me of the time I tried to use a IBM Thinkpad 390X as a main PC for a week a few months ago just to see how it would pan out, it went well aside from driver issues, just couldn't connect to the internet. Mainly due it only having a modem port. But, it ran Microsoft Excel and Word and .mp3s (for background music) perfectly fine.

YIPPEE!!! you r so underrated + its awesome to find someone else who likes old apple stuff hehe edit: apple pro mouse is hellsent fr 😭😭

"No,... I will not elaborate" 😂

i used to own a ppc mac pro g4 quicksilver, destroyed the thing a year ago, terribly regret it rn...

FINALLY I CAN WATCH THIS HOLY FUCK

@RetronetYT

Жыл бұрын

glad your shower is fixed

@FangTheWerewolf

Жыл бұрын

@@RetronetYT its not, my room smells like spackle and drywall rn this fucking sucks

@RetronetYT

Жыл бұрын

unfortunate

I just got a PowerMac G4 Quicksilver a little while ago, watching this video (so far, I'm on the multimedia portion) makes me wanna try this challenge myself! Maybe things have changed in the last few months...

@RetronetYT

6 ай бұрын

You’ll probably fair better with a Quicksilver than my machine. Hopefully your power supply is also in better shape than mine :P

@formerlycringe

6 ай бұрын

@@RetronetYT I got it from a design studio (?) or I think from a designer (?) so there was a LOOOOOOT of files on it. I haven't taken the chance to look through it as I lack a lot of equipment for it atm. I also need a new VGA Cable.

i feel this pain i bought a power mac g4 for fun it had a absolutely broken os where nothing worked and seems for 3 weeks not to accept any os i put on it till one day i did super jankie shit and some how made 10.4 stick ! it now works awesome even tho i nearly lost my mind

A power supply swap before trying this experiment would of saved you a lot of headaches with system crashes, and lock ups.

@RetronetYT

Жыл бұрын

probably lol

I had that same mbox back in the day

Great content.

@tostadorafuriosa69

Жыл бұрын

Maybe you could try this challenge with a linux distro? I’m kinda doing it with an old netbook from 2009 that is a POS using antix linux.

Bôa average enjoyer 🏄‍♂️ Your content is awesome!!! I thought you had ≈400k subscribers When I saw ≈400 I was like ???

Awesome video! I think you should get a MDD G4 or a Power Mac G5 next. I know you are short on room, but the G5 PowerPCs are nice! Or get one of the late model MDD G4s. The last model was a 1.25GHz which could also run Mac OS 9 still. It is much faster than yours, but still of the era, and can play games and work with other intensive things much better. Keep these kinds of vids coming!

@RetronetYT

10 ай бұрын

Thanks! If I ever do revisit this line of machines it’ll definitely be with a faster model. G5 is a tank and I already have an OG Mac Pro so space-wise another G4 is more likely :P

I wonder if it would be better to use linux on such machine. If this machine was a G5 machine it would be easy to test because G5 is a 64-bit big-endian PowerPC CPU and several distributions support this architecture but G4 is a 32-bit PowerPC CPU and out of all major linux distributions only Gentoo seems to support it and installing Gentoo is a very tedious and intentionally very manual process.

@soraaoixxthebluesky

Жыл бұрын

Zorin 15 also 32-bit Linux OS. And installing should be easy I suppose as it is a complete OS out of the box.

@berdinskiybear

Жыл бұрын

@@soraaoixxthebluesky there are no new versions of zorin os for 32-bit machines, it seems release 15 was the last one. Also Zorin os is x86 exclusive and they never supported powerpc architecture.

you should install a version of windows on the g4

9:44 thought it was going to be a porn joke

idk why i have a feeling that your name is ruben

cmon man, u know u can install debian on this thing right??

@RetronetYT

10 ай бұрын

I was planning on possibly revisiting this machine (or a better spec’d) one with some flavour of linux one day :P

You should of tried vlc??? 16:51

@RetronetYT

Жыл бұрын

The PowerPC version of VLC (from my experience) is pretty laggy and kinda buggy

@RetronetYT

Жыл бұрын

Also I thought I might’ve tried it off camera now that I think about it

Generally speaking Photoshop CS2 is still perfectly usable today, unless you do something professional. So it is not a surprise G4 gets the job done in the image editing department. (F**c Adobe though)

@RetronetYT

Жыл бұрын

Yea it is very useable. Only thing that was tough to get used to was selecting multiple layers because you kinda can’t

@Dizrak

Жыл бұрын

@@RetronetYT Huh, weirdly enough I am able select multiple layers on my Windows machine.

You cannot expect to use the modern, ad and script riddled internet, on a 20 year old computer. I hate what the modern web has become. This isn’t the fault of the G4 which is plenty powerful to render HTML and CSS.

@RetronetYT

9 ай бұрын

I agree and very briefly tried to touch on that in the video. It handles plain HTML and CSS pages without much issue but sadly, as you’ve mentioned, most of the modern web isn’t just plain HTML and CSS.

What the hell is a twitter machine rofl

Around 2015, I tried using a iBook G4 as my main laptop for a little while. At the time, it was still kinda usable. TenFourFox was still updated (and Leopard WebKit was a lot faster, even if not as compatible), HTTP was still pretty common, HTTPS was still using TLS 1.0 or 1.1 pretty much everywhere and we had a lot of options to play KZread videos, the best one being YouView, but QuickTimeEnabler being also pretty good. Even for productivity, it was decent. Office 2009 and iWork 09 were still pretty recent, Audacity had just dropped support and had basically every features you needed, iMovie 06 was pretty good for basic video editing and if you were running Leopard, a lot of general software were supported on PPC until early 2010, so most programs you needed had no so old versions available. Years later, the situation is definitely very different and even with the best G5 Quad and 8 GB of RAM, you can't do much, at least on OS X, the software part is just too outdated and unlike XP, most people don't care, so there's not a whole lot of alternatives. Even in the Linux world, the situation is very different, most distributions still had PPC builds in 2015 (I still have the DVDs for multiple version of Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Kubuntu, Fedora, etc.), but today, I think you only have one or two options.