The latest version of Mac OS X SDL2 has dropped support for PowerPC Macs and OS X. I tested these on a 1.5 GHz AlBook and a Sawtooth with an ATI 9000 upgrade. They all have their pros and cons and are different enough to make you want to play all three. The first two are open source, and all three are freely available for OS X as well as other platforms. The three games are TORCS, VDrift, and Dolphinity Racer.TenFourFox, along with its email counterpart TenFourBird, are excellent offerings that together have kept my PowerPC based Macs completely relevant even in the incredibly feature laden world of today’s internet. I managed to score a pretty respectable bargain on a machine (a lovely Indigo slot-loading model from 2000) and I came here to ask if anyone knows:For some time now, the only game in town, where PowerPC Mac OS X web browsers are concerned, has been TenFourFox. Perhaps it did yours too, and so I am writing a brief post about it.Best software and games for OS 9/OS X PowerPC G3 So I decided that since I had one when I was a kid (and I'm a huge fan of nostalgia) I would get a iMac G3 from eBay. Somehow, in the nearly nine years that I have been using Macs exclusively, this particular web browser has completely evaded my attention.My sense of wonder at this unexpected turn of events is expressed perfectly by John Siracusa, a technology journalist and critic for Ars Technica, who in reference to OmniWeb said, “Finding in a proper Mac OS X application from a respected developer with a proven track record is like finding a perfect 1/10,000th scale replica of the Eiffel Tower in a box of crackerjacks.”“Respected Developer”? Did he say “Respected Developer”? Where did such a capable web browser come from, and how did it fly under my radar for so long? Well, it turns out that OmniWeb has had a long and eventful history. By contrast, OmniWeb seems to just snap into being, and augments this impression of blazing speed with its rendering of web pages, which seem to appear at an equally good clip.As you can see below, in 2006 at least OmniWeb was the leading speed demon among Mac OS X web browsers:Stumbling across a previously unknown, full featured and exceptionally fast web browser that still runs on PowerPC Macs seems almost too good to be true. This means that OmniWeb has been exposed to a good cross section of the web, and performed admirably for me to date.OmniWeb compliments this surprising performance with … its surprising performance! OmniWeb is FAST! Even on my PowerMac G5 Quad, equipped with an SSD boot/applications drive, TenFourFox is still somewhat slow to launch, taking two or three Dock bounces to get going. OmniWeb has performed flawlessly on all of the web pages I have tried it on so far, and that has been no small number – I have tested it as my day to day browser for about a week now.Whether there will ever by another Tiger/Leopard compatible version remains to be seen, but it is clear that the Omni Group is continuing to work on the product.So, there you have it, OmniWeb, a “new” web browser for PowerPC Macs. Active development is clearly taking place right now. The Omni Group web site indicates that test builds of OmniWeb for Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) are available now, and checking into this, I see that these are being updated almost daily. Courtesy of a corporate acquisition of its parent company, it then spent some time on Sun Solaris before ultimately settling into it current role as an exclusively Mac OS X offering (as of its version 4.0 and onwards).OmniWeb is one of a family of programs offered by the Omni Group (and seems far from dead. OmniWeb started life in 1995 as a NextStep browser.
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