Id like to install and run MAME binaries on an iMac G4 (PowerPC), and information on. Tricky, all of this, but it would be great if someone managed it. An X-Windows frontend for the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. I haven't checked recently but the OS 7.5 system was given away as a free upgrade by Apple that allowed you to build the machine. Apple's own "Classic Environment" was an emulator for Motorola on G3/4.įunnily enough I actually still have two old magazines which explain the OS 8 process (PC Express if anyone remembers it). OS 9 didn't make it as far as G3 remember so wasn't even PowerPC.
This is a copy of Mac OS 9.2.2 included on the MDD bundled Software Restore CDs which is able to boot these G4 models into OS 9 (FireWire 400 models only). In those days hard-disks were SCSI and Mac floppy disks unreadable by PCs or their hardware. Mac OS 9.2.2 for PowerMac G4 MDD Retail Mac OS 9 installers do not work on the last generation PowerMac G4 MDD models. Take a look here: However there's is more of a hybrid emulator/VM using genuine components, getting to a full standalone OS 8 (or 9) Hackintosh maybe a step too far. There were PCI boards designed to hold these chips fairly easily available - probably still are. Yes, you can create software images of them to run in emulators but a physical machine would need real, genuine hardware ROMs. These days emulators can re-live those olden days fairly easily however building a real OS 9 Hackintosh would be hard. To enable altivec emulation you have to set the entry 'cpupvr 0x000c0000' in your config file. You can also expect the 0.4 release soon.
That means you can now use the G4 emulation with the standard CVS tree. Interesting idea, but I suspect Timbck2 is rightĪpple Macs prior to G3 ran on Motorola chips and their operating systems came partly built-in on ROMs, and partly on floppy disk. We finally merged the altivec-branch into the main CVS tree.
TRS-80 Model I/III/4/4P emulator for Macintosh OSX, Windows, and Linux. Emulates either a Mac Classic (which runs MacOS 0.x thru 7.5) or a Mac II series machine (which runs MacOS 7.x, 8.0 and 8. This is the first release with G4 support by Daniel Foesch (you have to enable.
Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's Guide Mac OS X (PowerPC and Intel) Windows NT/2000/XP BeOS R4 (PowerPC and Intel) AmigaOS 3.x Some features of Basilisk II.