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It's a real shame there's nothing like Wine for the late PPC/early Intel era of OS X. That entire galaxy of apps basically just no longer have anything to run on. I would love to fire up a game of Pac the Man X, but no dice.
(I'm aware of Darling, but its development seems to have stalled.)
This is really neat! It's a real shame there's nothing like Wine for the late PPC/early Intel era of OS X. That entire galaxy of apps basically just no longer have anything to run on. I would love to fire up a game of Pac the Man X, but no dice. (I'm aware of Darling, but its development seems to have stalled.)
PPC apps run great in QEMU/UTM on Apple silicon:
Run Tiger, Leopard, or any Mac OS X PowerPC version on M1 https://tinyapps.org/docs/tiger-on-m1.html
Intel emulation works too, but is not nearly as performant at present:
Virtualizing OpenCore and x86 macOS on Apple Silicon (and even iOS!) https://khronokernel.com/apple/silicon/2021/01/17/QEMU-AS.ht...
Emulating Windows XP x86 under M1 Mac via UTM & QEMU https://tinyapps.org/blog/202105220715_m1_mac_emulate_x86.ht...
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I actually liked the stronger pin stripes on Jaguar
Same! And I really liked the pill on the upper right of each window. Brings back that Mac OS feel.
Can you give some examples of the prompts you used to get Claude to generate the old-enough code?
Can you give some examples of the prompts you used to get Claude to generate the old-enough code?
"This project must generate code that works with Mac OS X Tiger 10.4, Xcode 2.5, and Objective-C 1.x. The Objective-C code generated MUST NOT have ARC, blocks, @property, @optional, @try, @synchronize, NSInteger, auto-layout, or modern features, NSCharacterSet doesn't have newlineCharacterSet. I know it's an old, obsolete version but I must use it.
Generate clean code with comments and debug logging to NSLog."
Can you give some examples of the prompts you used to get Claude to generate the old-enough code?
Here's the prompt I ended up with after several iterations of Claude trying to spit out Objective-C 2.0 code: "This project must generate code that works with Mac OS X Tiger 10.4, Xcode 2.5, and Objective-C 1.x. The Objective-C code generated MUST NOT have ARC, blocks, @property, @optional, @try, @synchronize, NSInteger, auto-layout, or modern features, NSCharacterSet doesn't have newlineCharacterSet. I know it's an…
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Here's the prompt I ended up with after several iterations of Claude trying to spit out Objective-C 2.0 code: "This project must generate code that works with Mac OS X Tiger 10.4, Xcode 2.5, and Objective-C 1.x. The Objective-C code generated MUST NOT have ARC, blocks, @property, @optional, @try, @synchronize, NSInteger, auto-layout, or modern features, NSCharacterSet doesn't have newlineCharacterSet. I know it's an…
Any reason Xcode 2 was chosen? Wouldn't have Xcode 3.2.6 on Snow Leopard but targeting OS X 10.4 and including ppc as an architecture also worked?
I forget exactly why I used Xcode 2.5, but I wanted to do it on Tiger since that OS was the one around the time Xbins started. It probably would've been a bit nicer working in Snow Leopard, but I just chose Tiger.
This is really neat! It's a real shame there's nothing like Wine for the late PPC/early Intel era of OS X. That entire galaxy of apps basically just no longer have anything to run on. I would love to fire up a game of Pac the Man X, but no dice. (I'm aware of Darling, but its development seems to have stalled.)
> It's a real shame there's nothing like Wine for the late PPC/early Intel era of OS X. That entire galaxy of apps basically just no longer have anything to run on. PPC apps run great in QEMU/UTM on Apple silicon: Run Tiger, Leopard, or any Mac OS X PowerPC version on M1 https://tinyapps.org/docs/tiger-on-m1.html Intel emulation works too, but is not nearly as performant at present: Virtualizing OpenCore and x86 macO…