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General CPU Discussion / Re: Power11 announced by IBM

« on: July 12, 2025, 08:27:51 pm »

Well, hopefully the new raptor systems are much cheaper than the price hikes the power9 offerings had

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Firmware / Re: Maybe bricked the firmware on my Blackbird

« on: April 05, 2025, 10:11:29 am »

The write protect needs to be enabled in firmware which defies the whole point of hardware write protection.

Is that where the write protect range is set? I know theres DIP switches on the board itsself

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Applications and Porting / Re: XenonRecomp

« on: March 03, 2025, 08:22:01 pm »

As for intensive, unreal engine 4 has worked, and so has openxray engine (stalker)
this is pretty interesting though, i mean since xbox360 is ppc already im sure something can be worked out....

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Legacy POWER Hardware / Re: Running GTA: Vice City on a PowerPC based wireless router

« on: February 19, 2025, 12:39:12 am »

what are some other PPC based routers..?

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 41 is out!

« on: December 31, 2024, 12:38:24 pm »

I don't see how (or why) a Fedora install would change the pnor. There is a write protect switch on the motherboard that will prevent the BMC from writing to the FLASH chips.

it doesn't have a WP range by default so afaik flipping the dip switch as it is out of the box won't do anything..

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Applications and Porting / Re: [GAMES] Quake 3 source port with Vulkan renderer (vkQuake3)

« on: December 05, 2024, 10:14:02 am »

I don't think this would work as written for the original PowerPC Q3VM, which was big-endian (little-endian PowerPC wasn't really a thing in those days). There may also be a few 32-64 bit edges, though I would think that would be minor.

it wouldn't, it needs a new one. Game/sourceport still works as is though, just some mods will have performance degradation..

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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: POWER11 on the horizon?

« on: November 25, 2024, 12:53:47 am »

If anything I'm most interested in is IBM returning to its core open source design, so that it has a Power 11 processor that's exactly as open as a Power 8 or Power 9, I'm not going to buy Power CPUs. that they are not IBM because their technology is the best ever for their processors and I don't think that any other company, no matter how good, can reach their level and therefore I don't intend to change companies for these microprocessors. IBM creates it and IBM must produce it or have it produced by one of its direct partners to be the best, this at least is my humble opinion and then obviously it is debatable by anyone.

I've learned in life not to get hung up on vendor brands. Especially in the computing space, it's all about the design and how it's implemented.

I think in this case it's mostly reference to IBMs QC with their foundry etc.. in the 90s my dad had produced tooling for motorola (he owned a machine shop), unsure if they were used for manufacturing POWER cpus but what I do know is the workers at motorola had told him and his constituents that when they switched to chinese produced tooling that the american made tooling had been a lot better... for whatever thats worth.

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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: POWER11 on the horizon?

« on: November 25, 2024, 12:51:26 am »

For end consumer/home user adoption, it's really the price that kills it... and maybe perhaps a lack of better marketing but I mean just setting one of these up isnt as simple as building a windows gaming machine so IDK...

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: Radeon RDNA3 support?

« on: November 20, 2024, 07:58:49 pm »

so any updates to this? my next POWER system i'd like to use one of the new single slot pro w7600s

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Debian 12 status?

« on: November 19, 2024, 04:48:10 pm »

It is really sad that so many people are suffering because of the politics in Debian.  It is really bad for people who spent money on the Raptor hardware and it is also really bad for my family, friends, neighbors and many other people who had these political problems forced upon them by the social media set.

all i know is the installer was broken, i'm sure it still is lol

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Third Party CPU Discussion / Re: Why haven't we seen boards with Power9 / MicroWatt?

« on: September 02, 2024, 02:28:46 pm »

I completely agree with Classic, I don't think Risc V can compete with the Power architecture, let's say it's a world apart.

That's why I went with raptor, riscv just isn't suitable for a desktop imo.

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Applications and Porting / Re: Medal of Honor: Allied Assault War Chest (OpenMoHAA)

« on: September 01, 2024, 01:47:46 pm »

I think you should try it.

Below are some details:

The main goal of OpenMoHAA is to ensure the future and continuity of Medal of Honor: Allied Assault. It has always been a dream in the community to provide patches and security fixes for the game. Thanks to the ioquake3 project, F.A.K.K SDK and other quality tools,

OpenMoHAA allows people to fix many issues, and this project reached this state without access to the source code.

I don't have a power system currently. I played this game back in the day because it had a linux port, but I liked RTCW and day of defeat a lot more heh... I'm not very interested in it though. Whenever raptor sells power10 systems i'll maybe go back to messing with half life 2 and stalker etc. main thing for me is better support for the ISA from ezQuake and Quake3e.

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Applications and Porting / Re: Medal of Honor: Allied Assault War Chest (OpenMoHAA)

« on: August 30, 2024, 05:23:35 pm »

since this is quake 3 engine i imagine it'd still have the same issues with QVM etc in regards to performance

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User Zone / Re: Fedora or Suse ppc

« on: August 27, 2024, 02:15:24 pm »

i don't think alot of people use opensuse. I did when I had a blackbird, leap was pretty good I liked it more than fedora but codecs for video playback were a problem unsure if that's resolved now. There was also the issue of missing libraries in the repo needed to build software on occasion. When I used leap I had to use a newer kernel for some ppc64le patches/updates that weren't in the standard mainline leap kernel. Tumbleweed is pretty incomplete, it's near unusable for a desktop imo. Fedora had more software support but I wasn't really a fan of it, it had problems with my mouse when clocked at 1000hz and just didnt feel as solid/stable. most people tend to use fedora or debian though. I used a blackbird as a main desktop, it's not super different from x86 linux imo.

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Applications and Porting / Re: [GAMES] Quake 3 source port with Vulkan renderer (vkQuake3)

« on: August 13, 2024, 03:35:33 am »

Quake3e still needs a bytecode compiler for ppc64le if you were still interested in helping with that.