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Re: MacintoshPi

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Post by cptnapalm »

NegativeLatency wrote: post #4
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!

ApplePi would feel more for the Apple II to me

ApplePII?

Re: MacintoshPi

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Post by tssva »

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!

There is an existing ApplePi project which is an Apple ][ emulator on the Raspberry Pi.

Re: MacintoshPi

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Post by deltarholamda »

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…

>which is ok but generally more crashy

So it is a fully accurate emulator. Why are you complaining?

(I'm still upset over my 7100av going pffft at day 3 of a 4-day Strata render.)

Re: MacintoshPi

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Post by jameshart »

Interesting. Last summer, I followed the instructions on https://www.instructables.com/Making-a-Tiny-Mac-From-a-Raspb... to get a Pi-zero-based mac emulator up and running with Gryphel's Mini vMac (https://www.gryphel.com/c/minivmac/index.html) - it looks incredibly cute on the 2.8 inch LCD. I notice since I built mine, they've now added SE and SE/30 variant front panel models too!

Anyone have any sense of the technical differences between this project and mini vMac?

Re: MacintoshPi

#26

Post by texaslonghorn5 »

WesolyKubeczek wrote: post #15
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.

Figured they would be more focused on the Hackintosh part than the trademark.

Re: MacintoshPi

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Post by kitsunesoba »

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?

Just a smattering of shareware games that I played growing up that never got big enough to get modern ports. A more capable GPU could also be nice for having the emulator drive modern screen resolutions smoothly.

Re: MacintoshPi

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Post by Lammy »

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…

> it'd be really cool to have a full featured PPC Mac in a more compact form factor

Good reason to find a G4 Mac Mini: https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_mini/faq/differences-...

Re: MacintoshPi

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Post by kitsunesoba »

deltarholamda wrote: post #24
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…

>which is ok but generally more crashy So it is a fully accurate emulator. Why are you complaining? (I'm still upset over my 7100av going pffft at day 3 of a 4-day Strata render.)

Hah yeah, the stability of the Performa 6400 and iMac G3 I grew up with was anything but stellar. SheepShaver feels more touchy than either though.

Re: MacintoshPi

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Post by wmf »

jameshart wrote: post #25

Interesting. Last summer, I followed the instructions on https://www.instructables.com/Making-a-Tiny-Mac-From-a-Raspb... to get a Pi-zero-based mac emulator up and running with Gryphel's Mini vMac ( https://www.gryphel.com/c/minivmac/index.html ) - it looks incredibly cute on the 2.8 inch LCD. I notice since I built mine, they've now added SE and SE/30 variant front panel models too! Anyone have any sense of the tech…

Basilisk II supports color but AFAIK Mini vMac does not.
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