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Applications and Porting / Re: [GAMES] dosbox-staging -- one of the best choice for DOS gaming

« on: July 10, 2026, 01:09:17 pm »

tle has a fork of it with the JIT I wrote just before the deletion landed.

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Applications and Porting / Re: [GAMES] dosbox-staging -- one of the best choice for DOS gaming

« on: June 08, 2026, 10:42:55 am »

I doubt they will reconsider it, and I don't intend to contribute any further work upstream given the relative abruptness of the decision. That said, it's their project and their policies, of course.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Bootstrapping native Void Linux (ppc64le) on Talos II

« on: May 27, 2026, 09:56:34 am »

Still, good work.

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] JIT support for Firefox

« on: May 14, 2026, 10:01:16 am »

Fun! (But requires Leopard.)

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] JIT support for Firefox

« on: May 11, 2026, 05:22:50 pm »

I have a Quad G5, but it runs Tiger, and I am not likely to run Linux on it. Similarly, my POWER6 runs AIX.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 44 officially released!

« on: April 29, 2026, 03:29:09 pm »

Is DHCP working OK with your internal Ethernet ports? I can't figure out why it WON'T work in Fedora, it WILL work in Petitboot, and it DOES work if I connect a USB Ethernet adaptor and plug the network into that.

I can't really test this on the T2 because it has a static IP.

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] JIT support for Firefox

« on: April 24, 2026, 09:46:48 pm »

Good work picking it up. Unfortunately I'm having trouble with Fedora on my Blackbird (won't DHCP through my wifi bridge), so I can't really check it right now, but I've been following the commits as they land.

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

« on: February 15, 2026, 12:01:04 pm »

I'll do my best, though I'm currently in a semi-permanent away job, so I'm not on my POWER9 much for sustained periods (part of why there hasn't been much Talospace content either). Job market isn't so great in my line of work these days.

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

« on: February 12, 2026, 10:46:15 am »

Looks like a great start.

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

« on: February 12, 2026, 10:42:46 am »

I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but I don't see anything obviously wrong with your code.

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] Proposal to drop PPC64 BE support in the next version of Golang

« on: January 20, 2026, 10:03:47 am »

gccgo should still work.

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

« on: November 28, 2025, 04:31:43 pm »

Good news: I heard back from someone "who would know" who said they are probably going to keep ppc64le, at least. However, big-endian ppc64 is still being considered.

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

« on: November 18, 2025, 10:48:47 am »

Thanks. I know Warner and I asked him to clarify if this is BE-only or if this applies to ppc64le also.

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Legacy POWER Hardware / Re: Will it run DOOM?

« on: October 17, 2025, 06:16:58 pm »

Not sure I follow. What's the target hardware? Doom has of course run on Power Macs since nearly the beginning (I bought Doom II and Ultimate Doom for my 7300 at retail).

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] IBM offers ppc64le/s390x GitHub Actions CI/CD workers for OSS projects

« on: October 15, 2025, 07:12:35 pm »

Very good news!