Bubba Biberman Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 I have been using an old Mac Power PC notebook to log on alts using Viewer 1.23.5 until today when I receive a manditory update on log in for version 3 viewer, which does not support Power PC processors. Is this change permanent? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perrie Juran Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 Bubba Biberman wrote: I have been using an old Mac Power PC notebook to log on alts using Viewer 1.23.5 until today when I receive a manditory update on log in for version 3 viewer, which does not support Power PC processors. Is this change permanent? see obvious below Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubba Biberman Posted January 22, 2014 Author Share Posted January 22, 2014 Darn it! I have been using that old laptop for eight years. I knew this day was coming, I guess its time to upgrade. Does anyone know if the problem with the newest mac os has been fixed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ObviousAltIsObvious Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 right-click the old SL viewer and select "show package contents" move down to the contents/resources folder there should already be a file arguments.txt inside, open that with textedit. If there is a line starting with --channel, change it to something else like "Ancient Viewer" If there isn't a line like that, add it. --channel "Ancient Viewer" save that and the old viewer should stop demanding updates. it may not work very well with Second Life any more, but by now you probably knew this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perrie Juran Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 ObviousAltIsObvious wrote: right-click the old SL viewer and select "show package contents" move down to the contents/resources folder there should already be a file arguments.txt inside, open that with textedit. If there is a line starting with --channel, change it to something else like "Ancient Viewer" If there isn't a line like that, add it. --channel "Ancient Viewer" save that and the old viewer should stop demanding updates. it may not work very well with Second Life any more, but by now you probably knew this. I wasn't going to suggest obfuscation but isn't there also a 'viewer id #' they can block log ins by? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ObviousAltIsObvious Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 I tested that a channel change was enough before posting the workaround. The normal SL test for a required update is a channel plus version check, and that is what they are doing here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubba Biberman Posted January 22, 2014 Author Share Posted January 22, 2014 That worked. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonya Souther Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 Quite frankly, I'm stunned you are able to do anything at all useful with 1.23.5. Second Life has long since passed it by. What problem are you referring to about the latest Mac OS X? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ObviousAltIsObvious Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 It still works all right as a substitute for a text based client. libopenmetaverse broke on PowerPC a long time ago, so the options are few. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metukah Lenroy Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 There is a problem with the OS X 10.6.8 and the latest release of the 3.7 viewer - it only opens the game on a very small window, which is not using the wholse size of the screen, and it can not be enlarged. When one trys to enlarge the window - it only gives white background arount it and the game icons can not be clicked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mc Lobo Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 My version 1.23 stopped working on Windows this week too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mc Lobo Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Many of the newest viewers suffer from 1) Sudden Freezes 2) Memory Holes which cause them to get slowwwwwwer and slower after using for a few hours 3) version 1.23 is extremely dependable if you don't require mesh, and has the excellent classic U.I. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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