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FireFox 9 beta 4 now available for PowerPC

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Thanks again to the TenFourFox development team for continuing to port current versions of Moizilla’s FireFox browser. Mozilla dropped PowerPC support for FireFox over a year ago.

Your web browser is huge because it connects you to so much content, having a current and secure browser that is optimized for your system and updated regularly is crucial and TenFourFox fills that role for PowerPC users. I’m up to my knees in PowerPC and I don’t feel the need to upgrade to Intel just quite yet.

If you want to read about some of the trials and tribulations that the team encountered with this release you can see it at the TenFourFox Development Blog.

You can find system specific builds (G3,G4,G5) from TenFourFox

Retro Mac. Issue I -The Power Macintosh 8100

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In this issue of “Retro Mac” we will be looking at the first Mac to break the 100MHz barrier. The Power Macintosh 8100. Introduced retromacNov.3, 1994, the 8100 did not have the most inspired design. It was practical and powerful but Apple had yet to start it’s campaign for making computers that looked as good as they worked.

    The 8100 sported a 1.44MB floppy drive as well as a 2x CD-ROM drive, clearly more the enough to handle all of your data needs.

      Although it came standard with a mere 16MB of SIMM memory, the machine itself could handle a total of 264MB! This was made possible due the 8 RAM slots. I personally am very impressed to see a 15 year old computer flaunting 8 RAM slots.

        The GPU sported 2 MBs of apple_powermac_8000VRAM which where more then enough at the current time, however, if you were looking for a little more power you could utilize the four empty SIMM slots on the graphics card to double your VRAM from 2 to 4MB.

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