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Re:The final official release of Classilla by classichasclass on Monday March 29, 2021 @03:07PM (#26626751)
Author here. Sadly, not without a current toolchain, plus all the custom changes for Mac OS 9 on top of NSPR and other pieces. CodeWarrior is a solid compiler but the classic Mac OS versions definitely show their age compared to modern gcc and clang.
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Re:The final official release of Classilla by duskwuff on Monday March 29, 2021 @03:19PM (#26626918)
I wonder how much work would be needed to generate PEF from a modern PowerPC toolchain...
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Re:The final official release of Classilla by classichasclass on Monday March 29, 2021 @03:41PM (#26627196)
There's Retro68. It might be able to pull this off. You'd still need all the other pieces, of course.
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Re:The final official release of Classilla by stratosmacker on Monday March 29, 2021 @06:27PM (#26629081)
Regardless, thank you for all of your work and contributions. Keeping those old PPC devices alive did more for the environment than I think you'll ever be able to quantify. Not to mention, I had a lot of fun with old PowerBooks and iMacs surfing the web.
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Re:The final official release of Classilla by classichasclass on Monday March 29, 2021 @08:03PM (#26629850)
Hey, thanks. It's nice to hear it said.
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Re:The final official release of Classilla by duskwuff on Monday March 29, 2021 @07:51PM (#26629770)
Oh wow! I didn't know that was a thing -- it looks as though that's exactly what I was thinking of.

With that in place... I suppose the next step would be to start writing a Mac OS browser shell to run WebKit in.

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