Reading Time: 4 minutesThis is a post in the Project Maya series. To see all related posts go to the index page here. As the 2023 PPC Challenge is well underway, it was time for Maya to make an appearance again. As we’re used to from these machines (once the power supply has been fixed), it fired right up. This year I want to play with some of the cool projects out there such as Arctic Fox, Message Bridge, Discord Lite, and others….
Reading Time: 3 minutesWell to be more precise, it’s the 2021 68K & PPC Challenge now. The rules and more info can be found on the Mac Yak website here but it’s quite simple (and always has been): Use your eligible Mac as your daily driver for a week, as much as possible. Mac, Macintosh or Apple Clone only. Mac OS, Linux, your call. No virtualization or emulation of an OS. People are already sharing what their setup is going to be on…
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe PPC Challenge has been around for a while. I don’t know who started it or where but I’ve been participating for at least 5 years. The goal is simple; For one week, use a PPC Mac for as much as your daily computing as possible. Last year I used a 17″ 800MHz G4 iMac and I got a remarkable amount of my daily computing done on it. Updating and maintaining my websites with Photoshop 6 and Dreamweaver MX, AppleWorks…