MacintoshPi
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MacintoshPi
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Re: MacintoshPi
#2Amusingly, they didn't call it ApplePi and instead went with their (in my opinion) less intuitive name.
Anyway, I wonder how long before someone can get OS X (macOS?) to work. I'm sure the early big cat OS requirements are within the capabilities of beefier Pi units. I fondly remember making my first Hackintosh and accidentally wiping my Windows partition. If it can be done for only $40, very cool!
Re: MacintoshPi
#3No Pi 4 support as yet.
Re: MacintoshPi
#4Amusingly, they didn't call it ApplePi and instead went with their (in my opinion) less intuitive name. Anyway, I wonder how long before someone can get OS X (macOS?) to work. I'm sure the early big cat OS requirements are within the capabilities of beefier Pi units. I fondly remember making my first Hackintosh and accidentally wiping my Windows partition. If it can be done for only $40, very cool!
ApplePi would feel more for the Apple II to me
Re: MacintoshPi
#5This is a fun project, but at least for my uses is a bit hamstrung by SheepShaver's capabilities. Most of my desires/needs for Classic Mac OS are PPC-era, which rules out the use of the stable and generally capable Basilisk II… I'd need to use SheepShaver instead, which is ok but generally more crashy and has more shortcomings.
Beyond this project, there's a fork of QEMU that emulates a PowerMac G3 pretty well and is generally nicer than SheepShaver, but doesn't emulate a GPU properly and as such isn't suitable for some things (mainly games).
So for now I have a 500Mhz PowerBook G3 Pismo I pull out as needed, but it'd be really cool to have a full featured PPC Mac in a more compact form factor.
Re: MacintoshPi
#6The more interesting part of this project is the inclusion of BMC64, an emulator for various 8-bit Commodores that does not require an underlying operating system. (It uses VICE linked against circle-stdlib.) I guess it's made for people who need to do some writing in Word 5.1, and who play Bruce Lee during their breaks!
Re: MacintoshPi
#7Amusingly, they didn't call it ApplePi and instead went with their (in my opinion) less intuitive name. Anyway, I wonder how long before someone can get OS X (macOS?) to work. I'm sure the early big cat OS requirements are within the capabilities of beefier Pi units. I fondly remember making my first Hackintosh and accidentally wiping my Windows partition. If it can be done for only $40, very cool!
Or PiMac. :-)
Re: MacintoshPi
#8Amusingly, they didn't call it ApplePi and instead went with their (in my opinion) less intuitive name. Anyway, I wonder how long before someone can get OS X (macOS?) to work. I'm sure the early big cat OS requirements are within the capabilities of beefier Pi units. I fondly remember making my first Hackintosh and accidentally wiping my Windows partition. If it can be done for only $40, very cool!
Or PiMac. :-)
MacInPi
Re: MacintoshPi
#9This is a fun project, but at least for my uses is a bit hamstrung by SheepShaver's capabilities. Most of my desires/needs for Classic Mac OS are PPC-era, which rules out the use of the stable and generally capable Basilisk II… I'd need to use SheepShaver instead, which is ok but generally more crashy and has more shortcomings. Beyond this project, there's a fork of QEMU that emulates a PowerMac G3 pretty well and is…
Given the similarities between a Gamecube and a g4-era iBook (down to the ATI 9200-Like GPU) I'm surprised nobody ever tried modifying Dolphin to boot up Mac Os Classic.
Re: MacintoshPi
#10This is a fun project, but at least for my uses is a bit hamstrung by SheepShaver's capabilities. Most of my desires/needs for Classic Mac OS are PPC-era, which rules out the use of the stable and generally capable Basilisk II… I'd need to use SheepShaver instead, which is ok but generally more crashy and has more shortcomings. Beyond this project, there's a fork of QEMU that emulates a PowerMac G3 pretty well and is…
I wonder if it would be possible to pass through an era appropriate graphics card to QEMU instead?
If one can dump the Mac VBIOS for an old PCI Radeon card and attach it to a supported motherboard, would it be possible to get the machine to use that GPU? Obviously the host system can't touch it since it's providing PPC code, but if it's all being handled inside QEMU itself it seems plausible enough