, as well as dovetailing nicely into the historical attempts. I figured it'd be faster than trying to get 10.4 Tiger running In the end I went with a Jaguar 10.2 boot image. This has no bearing on the actual execution of the emulator so I decided it was an acceptable tradeoff. I chose to slightly taint the project by storing the disk image on another Linux server and mount it over the network. Sadly my LC475 is slightly constrained for disk space. The next issue was selection of boot disk images.
The only real problem was getting a few of the dependencies worked out, but this didn't prove to be a big hinderance. This means it was fairly trivial to compile PearPC for 68k Linux withoutĪny real drama or complication.
#Ppc emulator for mac software#
One interesting thing about open source software is the source code is available for modification, as well as compilation on other platforms. I haven't figured this part out yet,Īnd it factors into the story a bit. More seriously, moving the mouse makes the X server die completely and quickly. This was mostly just an annoyance but made it look ugly. Interface on top of Linux, providing the colorful mouse-driven interface most people are familiar with.) There was something wrong with the way the widgets were displaying, causing many labels and controls to be blank. However, I was having problems with Xorg (Xorg is the graphical Console was 100% stable with everything a Linux box needs. On the Debian m68k mailing list I was able to get a completely modern installation of Linux running mostly nicely. With some great assistance from the fine folks It was still running the ancient circa 2002 Debian installation I was playing with at the time. It has 68mb of RAM, and I've swapped the 25mhz 68LC040 for a real 33mhz 68040, as well as clock chipped it to run atģ3mhz. I've finally pulled my old LC475 out of the closet, and got it up and running.
#Ppc emulator for mac mac os x#
The Intel transition pretty much killed the need for an OS X/PPC emulator for non-Mac platorms since it was far easier to get Mac OS X running natively than emulate anything.įast forward to today.
#Ppc emulator for mac windows#
It was usable in a pinch but you weren't going to be happily running Photoshop for OS X in Windows very effectively. PearPC came alongĪnd not only allowed PPC emulation, but Mac OS X! Sadly, on the PCs of the time, it was very slow. A PPC Macintosh emulator had been vaporware from several other commercial companies for a long time. When it came out, PearPC was a pretty big deal. I'd always meant to try this myself, being an emulator geek and kind of twisted when it comes to making computers do things they were never supposed to do. Sadly, she ran into problems and was unable to complete the boot. The original thread where she gave a blow-by-blow account is still up at Slashdot of Dana(mania) attempting to boot 10.2.8 on a 25mhz Centris. Back in the mists of time I once even ran my web/mail/ftp/etc/etc server under Debian Linux on a Quadra 840AV.Īround about a decade ago, a story blew up on the on places like GEEKtechnique and even Everythingįrom various versions of Macintosh System Software to Linux and A/UX. I've been something of a fan of vintage Macintoshes for awhile now, and I've spent a lot of time messing with getting various ones running, on the internet, and otherwise trying to make them do things. Booting Mac OS X on a 68k Mac Booting Mac OS X 10.2.8 on a Macintosh LC 475
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