OSNews > Thread > "RE[3]: os9 + macintels" by nimble

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 12th Feb 2006 21:27 UTC

A few weeks ago, I did something crazy and shelled out 50 Euros for a G3 iMac. It was a 333Mhz G3 iMac with 96MB of RAM. It came with a copy of MacOS 9-- and that was what I bought it for. I wanted to experience first hand what OS9 was like. I did not expect I'd use the machine much. However, I was in for a rather pleasant surprise. Note: Read more on the meta blog about the new Sunday eve column!

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RE[3]: os9 + macintels

by nimble on Sun 12th Feb 2006 23:52 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: os9 + macintels"

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2005-07-06

First person to make a Macintel OS9 emulator has themselves their own market.

PearPC? It works on PPC-OSX as well as x86-Linux, so getting it to run on x86-OSX shouldn't be too difficult.

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RE[4]: os9 + macintels

by Arkus on Mon 13th Feb 2006 00:14 in reply to "RE[3]: os9 + macintels"

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2005-07-06

PearPC isn't gonna cut it unless someone has bothered to try and get OS9 to run in it. Last I heard is that it only runs OSX still (which is was specifically designed to do).

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RE[5]: os9 + macintels

by DeadFishMan on Mon 13th Feb 2006 03:51 in reply to "RE[4]: os9 + macintels"

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2006-01-09

PearPC isn't gonna cut it unless someone has bothered to try and get OS9 to run in it. Last I heard is that it only runs OSX still (which is was specifically designed to do).

Hmmmm... Isn�t PearPC a PowerPC emulator? I believe that people have been using it to emulate Linux on PPC. The fact that we can run OSX PPC edition on it is a nice bonus, I guess... :-P

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RE[5]: os9 + macintels

by re_re on Mon 13th Feb 2006 20:06 in reply to "RE[3]: os9 + macintels"

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2005-07-06

there is always QEMU, it needs some work, but ppc is well on its way to being supported, all they would have to do is compile it to run on OSX. (which they may already do, i'm not sure)

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RE[6]: os9 + macintels

by dhazeghi on Tue 14th Feb 2006 01:33 in reply to "RE[3]: os9 + macintels"

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2005-11-18

@nimble:

SheepShaver's the only game in town for now, and I suspect quite for quite some time.

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