Description pulled from the MacRumors thread found [here][1].
Uploaded here to allow downloading MinDisCD directly to our old Macs
instead of going through MEGA, which is impossible.
Installation steps tweaked a bit by me, RetroReviewYT.
MinDisc is a lightweight Discord client written for, and developed on,
PPC macs. It runs in about 40 MB of memory and idles at nearly zero
CPU usage.
This first "Alpha" version is fairly basic. You can send and receive
messages in text channels, fetch previous history, and see which
channels are unread. While the user facing features are slim, a lot of
work and time went into getting everything running under the hood and
making sure everything was stable.
I wanted a basic discord client to use on my PPC macs for my own use
and I also wanted an excuse to learn Obj-C/Cocoa. So MinDisc was
created. I don't aim to recreate all of Discord's feature set. Sorry,
you'll still need to use the real client for voice, streaming, or
managing your account. But if you're looking for a basic IRC-like
experience, this will get the job done.
Anyway, if you're still interested in my pet project here are the
install directions.
Install Steps:
1\. Install the dependency package. It's a 70mb download. This is
required to be installed first
2\. Get your Discord User Token -- use this guide I found [here.][2],
you'll have to enable the Storage tab in InterwebPPC's Developer tools
to get to your token.
3\. Run the following command in Terminal: `sudo
/opt/mindisc/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/bin/python3
-m pip install discord-py --upgrade`
4\. Download the application on this page and paste your discord token
in when asked. click Save and Close and restart MinDisCD.
You should now have Discord running on your PowerPC Mac!
Enjoy!
Notable features not implemented:
DM support
Emojis
User list
Mentions / Notifications
Known issues:
when switching channels. the chat messages can sometimes be spaced too
far apart or overlapping. Just switch to a different room and then
back again. It'll fix itself.
The URLs are not clickable -- they're not clickable unless you're
"editing" the chat row. Double click on the row to go into edit mode.
Then click on the link. Unfortunately this is a limitation of the
Leopard-era NSTableView. Maybe I'll work around it one day.
when waking up from sleep or regaining network connectivity, it may
not properly reconnect and it won't load any missed messages. your
best option is to close the client and reopen.
newly joined channels/discord servers wont show up until Mindisc is
relaunched. Mindisc takes a "snapshot" of available guilds and
channels at launch and will only work with those. If you change your
membership, relaunch MinDisc to update the list.
Compatibility
Architecture: PPC
[1]:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/mindisc-a-lightweight-leopard-discord-client.2240014/
[2]:
https://pcstrike.com/how-to-get-discord-token/