I bought a PPC Mac from ebay in order to compile my games on it to make a Universal Binary for Mac (I already have an Intel Mac).
It was like £130 inc VAT and delivery and is 800MHz, 80GB HD, 512MB RAM, 32MB ATI graphics with OSX 10.4 and it rocks! It loads super fast (like 10 seconds or less) and OSX runs really nicely on it.
I got BlitzMax working on it and compiled my AOTMG demo and it ran at the full VSync framerate of 60FPS, I was WELL impressed. A PC with those sort of specs would be horrible.
Oh and I manged to network it to my Macbook Pro really easily, much easier than Windows.
I'm continously impressed by Apple Macs and I'll be doing more development on my Macbook Pro on whilst sitting the sofa in 2008 :-)
One thing, I also ordered PCI wireless network card from ebay that said it worked on G4 Macs and would be detected as an Airport card - but it doesn't. I plugged it into one of the 64bit PCI slots even though it's a 32-bit card, but that should work right? (love the way the case folds open btw, why aren't PCs like this!?) Anyway the Mac doesn't pick it up or say anything (but I've never installed hardware on a Mac before, am I missing something). There's two lights on the back near the arial but neither light up. There's a driver disk with it but nothing Mac-like on it. I even plugged the Mac into my LAN and upgraded OSX via the Internet but it still didn't pick up my card. Can anyone advise further or have I been ebay-diddled? Thx.
It was like £130 inc VAT and delivery and is 800MHz, 80GB HD, 512MB RAM, 32MB ATI graphics with OSX 10.4 and it rocks! It loads super fast (like 10 seconds or less) and OSX runs really nicely on it.
I got BlitzMax working on it and compiled my AOTMG demo and it ran at the full VSync framerate of 60FPS, I was WELL impressed. A PC with those sort of specs would be horrible.
Oh and I manged to network it to my Macbook Pro really easily, much easier than Windows.
I'm continously impressed by Apple Macs and I'll be doing more development on my Macbook Pro on whilst sitting the sofa in 2008 :-)
One thing, I also ordered PCI wireless network card from ebay that said it worked on G4 Macs and would be detected as an Airport card - but it doesn't. I plugged it into one of the 64bit PCI slots even though it's a 32-bit card, but that should work right? (love the way the case folds open btw, why aren't PCs like this!?) Anyway the Mac doesn't pick it up or say anything (but I've never installed hardware on a Mac before, am I missing something). There's two lights on the back near the arial but neither light up. There's a driver disk with it but nothing Mac-like on it. I even plugged the Mac into my LAN and upgraded OSX via the Internet but it still didn't pick up my card. Can anyone advise further or have I been ebay-diddled? Thx.