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Applications and Porting / Re: Little Snitch for Linux!

« on: April 11, 2026, 01:20:20 pm »

Interesting

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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: Queensland Health, IBM's 12 year ban and the future of POWER

« on: April 02, 2026, 01:58:36 pm »

The future of POWER: https://newsroom.ibm.com/2026-04-02-ibm-announces-strategic-collaboration-with-arm-to-shape-the-future-of-enterprise-computing

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Applications and Porting / Re: [GAMES] UT99, UTGOLD, UT2004 on native PPC64LE!

« on: March 30, 2026, 09:21:52 am »

There is AntiDrv.

* Our patch includes a brand new OpenGL 3.3 / ES 3.0 renderer, AntiDrv. This renderer outperforms the original OpenGLDrv on most platforms, adds new features (e.g., shader-based gamma/color correction), implements/fixes several features that were missing/broken in the original OpenGLDrv (e.g., gradient projectors and weightmap terrain rendering), makes features that were previously nvidia/amd-exclusive available on all platforms (e.g., CO_AlphaBlend_With_Mask combiners), and it can serve as a reference implementation for other new renderers

ReleaseNotes

But there is a Vulkan renderer for Unreal Tournament (UT99) repo.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [BUG] Linux 7.0-rc1

« on: March 27, 2026, 03:16:42 pm »

Solved: https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2026-March/294102.html

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [BUG] Linux 7.0-rc1

« on: March 26, 2026, 07:41:48 pm »

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [BUG] Linux 7.0-rc1

« on: March 15, 2026, 07:48:13 am »

At least this time it's not an amdgpu bug: https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2026-March/293448.html

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [BUG] Linux 7.0-rc1

« on: March 12, 2026, 01:06:37 pm »

Unfortunately, I can confirm the regression on Chimera Linux.

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Operating Systems and Porting / [BUG] Linux 7.0-rc1

« on: March 05, 2026, 12:08:22 pm »

and amdgpu broke again: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/5039.

I haven't tested yet.

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Applications and Porting / Re: Discussion about Blender Cycles on PPC64

« on: February 25, 2026, 08:50:38 pm »

CUDA was a thing on ppc64le.

Regarding ROCm I found this repo. It also has Nvidia/ CUDA patches. But it's all VibeCoding. Let's see where this leads.

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Applications and Porting / Re: [GAMES] UT99, UTGOLD, UT2004 on native PPC64LE!

« on: February 25, 2026, 12:46:24 pm »

Yes, prices have to go down, too. But maybe we will have more options in the future

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Applications and Porting / Re: [GAMES] UT99, UTGOLD, UT2004 on native PPC64LE!

« on: February 24, 2026, 04:32:12 pm »

Was there feedback from Nightdive?

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] Adding support for POWER SIMD in ispc lib

« on: February 14, 2026, 05:36:01 pm »

You only have to add (last line):
[[Category:Ports]]

or

[[Category:Ports/Games]] (for e. g. Games)

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] Adding support for POWER SIMD in ispc lib

« on: February 13, 2026, 07:06:11 pm »

tle, for all the porting efforts, maybe to make a porting wiki page like this:
https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/Category:Ports

Maybe more people will recognize.
I also posted your ioquake3 call on GitHub in the Talos IRC.

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Applications and Porting / Re: [GAMES] Doom 3 BFG bad ass game XD

« on: January 29, 2026, 08:50:12 am »

On Alpine Linux it's available on ppc64le. On ArchPOWER it's even available on ppc/ppc64.
https://github.com/kth5/archpower/blob/master/games/dhewm3/PKGBUILD

When I have time, I'll try it on Chimera Linux.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: FreeBSD 16 plans to drop support for PPC64.

« on: December 06, 2025, 07:37:42 am »

3 December: New committer: Timothy Pearson (src)

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