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Re: MacintoshPi

#11

Post by rvense »

noisymemories wrote: post #9
kitsunesoba wrote: post #5

This 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.

Now you made me look at Wikipedia and I'm more interested in the possibility of Mac OS booting on a Wii U.

Re: MacintoshPi

#12

Post by gattilorenz »

kitsunesoba wrote: post #5

This 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…

Out of curiosity, which Mac-only games are you interested in?

Re: MacintoshPi

#13

Post by dazzawazza »

gattilorenz wrote: post #12
kitsunesoba wrote: post #5

This 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…

Out of curiosity, which Mac-only games are you interested in?

Personally I would play the Marathon series of games. Love the narrative and atmosphere of those games.

edit to add a link for the lazy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon_(video_game)

Re: MacintoshPi

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Post by Toaster-King »

dazzawazza wrote: post #13
gattilorenz wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Out of curiosity, which Mac-only games are you interested in?

Personally I would play the Marathon series of games. Love the narrative and atmosphere of those games. edit to add a link for the lazy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon_(video_game)

FYI: There's a modern source port for the Marathon series called Aleph One[1]. 60+ FPS support was recently added, so it's running better than ever.

[1] https://alephone.lhowon.org/

Re: MacintoshPi

#15

Post by WesolyKubeczek »

texaslonghorn5 wrote: post #2

Amusingly, 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!

I think Apple’s trademark lawyers would be not amused by that at all.

Re: MacintoshPi

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Post by WesolyKubeczek »

IntelMiner wrote: post #10
kitsunesoba wrote: post #5

This 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

VFIO doesn’t work on emulated architectures. Maybe on Talos it could kinda sorta start, but then again, you’d have to build a contraption to physically fit old PCI into PCIe.

You could also start a reverse engineering effort for one of those old cards and emulate it properly in QEMU. Once done, it would be much faster than the original. It could be ready by the time my grandkids entered adulthood.

Re: MacintoshPi

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Post by comprev »

texaslonghorn5 wrote: post #2

Amusingly, 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!

By good fortune the custom PC I had at the time was 100% compatible with 10.6 Snow Leopard, including WiFi and Bluetooth, by learning about tonymacx86. I've been on Apple ever since, both personal and professional.

Re: MacintoshPi

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Post by gebruikersnaam »

texaslonghorn5 wrote: post #2

Amusingly, 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!

"accidentally wiping my Windows partition. If it can be done for only $40, very cool!"

I'm sure it can be done for a lot less.

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