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Cameron Kaiser
Personal blog · floodgap.comhardwaresystems
Cameron Kaiser writes Welcome to Floodgap Systems' WWW server, a personal blog at floodgap.com about hardware and systems. Since 2009, 59 different Hacker News readers have linked it 71 times, most often “Firefox Fork for PowerPC Macs”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Most-linked posts?
- Firefox Fork for PowerPC Macs12 people · 14 mentions · first linked 2011-03-21
- /software/ttytter/7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2010-11-01
- /software/tenfourfox/5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-11-26
- /software/classilla/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-04-20
- Classilla: Building a secure browser for classic Mac OS3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-08-27
- /retrobits/ckb/secret/lorraine.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-08-11
- Xa: Open-source 6502 cross assembler2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-08-12
- The CBM 900 (2020)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-01-14
What Hacker News says?
Used this years ago for twitter https://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/ It was amazing... everyone thinks you're working with the terminal open ;)
Comment linking /software/ttytter/
on “Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform”Submitted Commodore 900 as a story · 102 points
HN discussionFor those with old ppc Macs, there is a port of FF4 Final at http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/ Works great for me and is way faster than Safari 5.04 on a iMac G5 and a Powerbook G4 (10.5.8 in both).
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on “Firefox 4 is here”Submitted The CBM 900 (2020) as a story · 29 points
HN discussionThis may be helpful [1]. It's not exactly modern but far more up-to-date than IE and NS. Last updated 2014 I think [2]. [1]. https://www.floodgap.com/software/classilla/ [2]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classilla
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on “1991 Macintosh Quadra with Mac OS 8.1 as an Electron App”Submitted Firefox Fork for PowerPC Macs as a story · 29 points
HN discussionThere are manuals and an emulator here: http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/kim-1/
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on “How I coded in 1985”Submitted Power MachTen: Unix as Classic Mac OS App as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYeah, bitlbee rocks, I use it under an i386 OpenBSD netbook (Atom CPU), it's much faster than Pidgin. Also, I use m68.news everywhere, as it can be read with no issues. Lynx on Gopher protocol will work "as is" for Mac OS 7 I guess, and it's very fast. 68k.news it's over HTTP and not HTTPS, so it will work as is too. This is the most recent version http://www.floodgap.com/retrotech/mac/lynx/download.html The interfa…
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on “My Favourite Computer, an Old Mac”Submitted GopherVR – A virtual reality interface to Gopherspace (2015) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionQ: What happened to Pidgin? A: Google & Facebook shut down their XMPP gateways to force you into their apps. All the sudden you can no longer use Pidgin to communicate with people on google & facebook. At least that was my experience. I used to use Pidgin with OTR[0] for e2e encrypted chat over google & facebook. It was pretty fantastic, messages were inaccessible to facebook and google even with a court order so I…
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on “Pidgin: The Universal Chat Client”- of · 2014-08-27
Submitted Classilla: Building a secure browser for classic Mac OS as a story · 2 points
HN discussion Then you may be interested in this: http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/
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on “Bootstrap 3 RC1”Submitted TenFourFox: Unofficial Firefox 4 with fastest PPC JavaScript engine as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis site is specifically targeted to software engineers, so it's a reasonable assumption that we can talk about the relevant topics without having to simplify things for people outside that group. For a reverse proxy, you would want a computer capable of the encryption methods the modern web's security standards demand and to install a web server on it which you can access from the older computer. The server comput…
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on “Plain Text Sports”Submitted The KIMplement is a KIM-1 emulator for the Commodore 64 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThat is what the Apple/NeXT combined company did, of course. Rhapsody showed it well. http://toastytech.com/guis/rhap.html And there's some description of the emulation nanokernel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_nanokernel But in its way OS X was much more of a clean break: a whole new OS, ported to the old hardware, tweaked to understand filesystems and file formats and given a shallow cosmetic resemblance. A…
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on “Windows NT for Power Macintosh”Submitted Xa: Open-source 6502 cross assembler as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIf you are running a PowerPC you can use this pretty up-to-date Firefox fork: https://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/
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on “Documentation to set up a simple macOS VM in QEMU, accelerated by KVM”Submitted Floodgap ANSwers' Apple Network Server Resource as a story · 1 points
HN discussionNice. It reminds me a bit of GEOS Warp http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/archive/geoswarp/
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on “Advanced Mac Substitute: API-level reimplementation of classic Mac OS”Submitted Wormhole, Green Giant and Starbucks as a story · 1 points
HN discussionVeronica-2 is alive and kicking: https://www.floodgap.com/infotech/ https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw.lite?=gopher.floodgap....
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on “The Internet Archive and Jason Scott are saving our weird Internet history”Submitted The Little Orphan: The Tomy Tutor as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSnow Leopard was tongue in cheek as it comes up among OSX fans as the best OS made. To your point, there are plenty newer MacOS versions that might still suit ones taste, still run 32 bit apps, and still get patched. There are plenty alternatives to surfing Safari. Heck, you can even get modern Firefox compiled for Power Macintosh G3, G4, or G5 (not for Lion 10.7 or newer, which dropped Power Mac support): https://w…
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on “Apple's list of 235 apps that are incompatible with macOS Catalina”Submitted Svicc: Small VI Clone for the Commodore 64 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYou beat me to it. I only know Cameron from his work and his mailing list. His Retrobits site is a kick: http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/
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on “Introducing T: A command-line power tool for Twitter”A brief plug for my friend's command line tool TTYtter: http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/ super-crazy powerful, has an interactive mode, is scriptable, etc, etc... Also, I'm glad you are able to manipulate lists in T by just typing names (t list add presidents BarackObama Jasonfinn). This is a _total_ pain on the website where you can only manipulate lists by clicking about 5 buttons per person you want to a…
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on “Introducing T: A command-line power tool for Twitter”Yes, it is what I am using. It is called TenFourFox http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/ . New functionality allows you to create "FoxBoxes" which are like separate containers for a single site; this allows you to both keep some sites separate, and, ensure that when you close the site, all the RAM is reclaimed immediately by the OS.
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on “The Decline of the MacBook Pro”The Voyagers are lovely machines, but my personal favourite SPARC luggable is the Solbourne S3000 with the flaring orange gas plasma screen. It looks like no other workstation. http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/solace/
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on “SPARCbook 3000ST”
