My new 2.5GHz DP G5 Powermac is running beautifully, and I was wondering what (if any) software on this site would be compatible with Mac OS X 10.5.8 (no classic mode).
Many thanks for any info.
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2014, September 21 - 9:28am
#1
Software for OSX 10.5?
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2014, September 21 - 10:57am
#2
Use the Search field above, on the word Carbonized, tmm. This should find a few. Toast Titanium 5.2x, AppleWorks 6, Virtual PC 6 spring to mind... and may work on 10.5.x PPC
2014, September 21 - 11:57am
#3
You could try the following ones:
Aquatomic
AquaMan 0.5
Zebulon
Tux Racer
Pingus
2014, September 21 - 7:49pm
#4
Aside from those:
Halo (Warning: The port is memory-intensive and doesn't appear to be well-optimized)
Oberin
Airburst Extreme
Crazy Golf
As well as many of the Geneforge and Avernum games
I see that THPS4 for the Mac has yet to be uploaded here, although keep in mind that doesn't run well at well (especially not on 10.5). I know this from running the demo on a G4 iMac that was only a few months old at the time the demo was released.
Any game made in TNT Basic can run on 10.5 too, although I don't know how well.
2014, September 21 - 9:31pm
#5
Basilisk II & SheepShaver too, of course 
2014, September 22 - 1:24am
#6
Thanks everyone... I am amazed at the software that still runs on 10.5. I have VLC, MPlayerOSX, iLife '09 + iWork '09 and the three big Introversion games, as well as Crack Attack! and Handbrake and Aperture and Final Cut Pro.
Please keep recommendations coming, I got some good ideas from what has already been posted!
EDIT: I got BasiliskII and SheepShaver going first thing 
2014, September 22 - 6:10pm
#7
Don't forget SoF2. One of my all time fave FPS games.
Although they're not here (as they're still sold) there's also Call of Duty 1+2.
2014, September 26 - 5:46am
#8
Oh snap, thanks Protocol 7, I played this on an old PC, and was amazed at how great the gameplay was...
2014, September 29 - 12:03pm
#9
Could you test OpenOffice 3.x for me, tmm? These are PPC native so should be OK, just I don't have a 10.5.x PPC system to try it out on for myself.
The 3rd DL is the newest to choose from on that page.
2014, September 30 - 2:30am
#10
I have finished wasting my time with Debian/Mint, there is no way I can get hardware accelerated 3D working, and there is a horrible bug, so no Airport Extreme over 4GB RAM 
I tried launching with mem=1024mb, and got WIFI working, it was dropping out in the same ROOM, with clear line of sight to the router!!!
Anyways, if this worked in 10.4, it should work marvellously in 10.5 ppc
Many thanks
2014, October 5 - 7:35am
#12
Cheers, I'll give it a try. I think this machine will run 10.4.11 as well, Can someone tell me if it is possible to install TWO versions of Mac OS X on one hard drive, or is that courting disaster?
I may have to revert to two separate partitions on two separate drives... (again).
2014, October 5 - 8:25am
#13
Two OS on one HD with two partitions should not be a problem.
2014, October 5 - 8:41am
#14
thanks @sfp1954 -- I think I will give that a try, I have a lot of Classic software that would still run beautifully on this machine (previous machine was a G4 iMac @ 700MHz)
Any chance of putting both partitions on a software RAID-0 stripe?