Mac emulation

Ste-

Anyone offer any help/suggestions as to links etc.. ?
What I need ?

DiscoStu

You will need BasiliskII, a mac rom(which you must own of course:)) and a copy of system 7.5.3(which is freely available from apples website).

BasiliskII comes in two flavours non jit and jit. the jit one is an unofficial version and can cause you emulated mac to go a bit mental when the pc your running it on is above 2ghz but for slower machines it gives a _massive_ speed boost.

www.emaculation.com should have links to just about everything needed except the roms.

LoGiE

Good Link DiscoStu. I didnt know they had emulated MacOS8.1 on X86 Pcs:ninja: Theres also an interesting article on were Mac emulation is heading with regards to MacOSX and G4 emulation:)

DiscoStu

Originally posted by LoGiE
Theres also an interesting article on were Mac emulation is heading with regards to MacOSX and G4 emulation:)

nowhere

LoGiE

But still a very interesting approach!

....the best way to get PPC support on regular commodity PCs is by not emulating the CPU at all. Instead, one could use a real PPC processor on an add-in card, maybe even with its own system RAM to increase speed. Then, emulate the rest of the hardware on a given PPC Mac using some "glue" software. These cards have been available for a long time in PCI form factors, though not yet used for PPC/Mac "emulation"; most are sold as "processor upgrades" for older Macs...

As the article also says having a box that runs Windows, Linux and MacOS9 -X would be something else:)

DiscoStu

the add on card method of emulation is nothing new. back in the days of the atari st there were copmpanies that made 286 based expansion cards that allowed dos and many real mode dos programs to be run on the st.

true software ppc emulation at any kind of useable speed is still a long way off. the new athlon64s may give a small ray of hope but apple are notorius at protecting their IP(worse than nintendo) so any large scale popular ppc mac emulation will have the lawyers set on it faster than a really fast thing that goes fast.

Ste-

Got it up and running tonight.
Cheers guys.
Heres a quick screenie.
Also a link to a tutorial.
{Mods} If there's anything wrong feel free to remove the link.

http://www.kearney.net/~mhoffman/basiliskII/system753_tutorial/index.html

Gordon

Why do you want OS 7.5 by the way?

Interesting link folders in yer favourites

Ronan|Raven

Hmm interesting I shall have to have a bash at this "mac emulation" indeed. *narrows eyes* Is that porn and roms I see in your favourites dj?!

Ste-

erm erm erm /me runs and hides in the corner.

Why do you want OS 7.5 by the way?

Isn't it better than Windows.
Is the newer versions available for download ?

LoGiE

LOL:D...........LOL:D

DiscoStu

dont forget to play escape velocity and ev override and if you can dig them up the mac scumm games(monkey island etc.).

i had a nice disc with a fully kitted out os 8.1 installation, rakes of apps and games all tucked away on a nice 500mb hdf file. then i got a puppy who ate the cd. it took me almost 2 years of searching and downloading and it killed it because it was bored