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The Best OSX For an iMac G3 is... OpenBSD

Action Retro 45,515 3 years ago
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Thanks https://PCBWay.com - Today we're taking a humble 600Mhz iMac G3 from 2001, tossing in a few upgrades, and installing OpenBSD 7.0. Why? So we can stream it directly to Twitch with ffmpeg, of course! Thank you PCBWay for sponsoring today's shenanigans! https://www.pcbway.com/ VIDEO LINKS: 🍎 Twitch Channel: https://www.twitch.tv/actionretro 🍎 Xorg conf used: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/AdrianKoshka/c6c4a7718de43f6708711c7664e70aa0/raw/85cff6844bf1320193e3158258657dc43954a0c2/xorg.conf 🍎 OpenBSD on a laptop guide: https://www.c0ffee.net/blog/openbsd-on-a-laptop/ 🍎 OpenBSD macppc: https://www.openbsd.org/macppc.html TWITCH SCRIPT (save your twitch key in the same folder as this script, in a file named twitch.key): TWITCH_KEY=$(cat twitch.key) ffplay -x 250 -y 190 -video_size 640x480 /dev/video0 & ffmpeg -f x11grab -video_size 1680x1050 -framerate 24 -probesize 42M -i $DISPLAY -f alsa -i default -af acompressor=threshold=0.089:ratio=9:attack=200:release=1000 -vf scale=1680x1050 -c:v h264 -g 24 -b:v 2M -preset ultrafast -c:a aac -pix_fmt yuv420p -f flv "rtmp://jfk.contribute.live-video.net/app/$TWITCH_KEY" clear ══════════════════════════ πŸ’Ύ For more vintage Apple stuff, please subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/ActionRetro?sub_confirmation=1 πŸ’Ύ Support these retro computing shenanigans on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/ActionRetro ══════════════════════════ Check out my Amazon page with links to my tools, adapters, soldering equipment, camera gear and more: https://www.amazon.com/shop/actionretro ══════════════════════════ πŸ’¬ Come talk about old computers on the BitBang Social Mastodon! https://bitbang.social ══════════════════════════ #PowerPCChallenge #OpenBSD #iMacG3

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