Submitted by In a serious case of I-have-too-much-time-on-my-hands, someone “ported” Mac OS 7.5.5 to the… Sony PSP. It required a few tricks, but in the end you can have an x86 emulator running a 680×0 emulator on a handheld gaming console.
In a serious case of I-have-too-much-time-on-my-hands, someone “ported” Mac OS 7.5.5 to the… Sony PSP. It required a few tricks, but in the end you can have an x86 emulator running a 680×0 emulator on a handheld gaming console.
Hello? It’s just running in an emulator in an emulator.
Nothing to see here.
It’s just running in an emulator in an emulator.
Well then isn’t that something to see?
Ben
In what fashion does this constitue a port of Mac OS 7.5.5?!? It is fairly clear from reading the article that this is simply emulation of Mac compatible hardware environment on the PSP. Mac OS 7.5.5 was not PORTED to run on a PSP hardware as the title of posting on OSNEWS suggests. The only porting involved was that of Bochs to the PSP.
Thats why it says “ported” with qoutes. Although I do agree that this is reall no where near porting.
actually the story synopsis and title was edited when i informed thom of the error, the original title read: “Mac OS 7.5.5 Ported to PSP”
Yeah how does this constitute a port? Also 4hrs to boot? this is very useful lol
I know that this is emulation of emulation, but 4 hours to boot? Even people who installed extensions galore would have a hard time getting 7.5.5 to boot in over five minutes on a 68k.
Why was the word “ported” even used in the description?
What an incredible waste of time! Imagine if the effort applied to this inane endeavour was applied to something useful.
Such as climbing a mountain? Drinking a beer?
He could have avoided the double processor emulation by using Shapeshifter on a UAE-emulated Amiga:
http://www.kaillera.com/pspuae/
But then you might as well just stick with the Amiga games and forget about Mac
I think this is Damn Cool. The guy did it in one day! Now if anyone can get OS 9 to run, and faster than this, the world might actually see a good PDA for once.
Or, if you could port OS 9 to the Game Boy DS, that way you could use a stylus for typing and mousing on the bottom screen…
One of these days, something like that will happen, I hope.
PS I’m no Mac zealot, I just know that the layout of OS 9 and older Mac OS’s would work better for the small screen than current Windows/OSX.
mabey not cool, but certainly funny and amusing.
How I emulated VMS on my Atari TT!
How I emulated RISC OS on my Amstrad Mega PC!
How I emulated QNX on my VAX!
This isn’t much of a story. Given enough CPU cycles, almost any machine can emulate almost any machine. You could emulate OS X (via PearPC) on an Amiga if you were willing to use your whole hard drive as virtual memory and wait two weeks to boot it.
I beg to differ. The PSP will never make a good PDA, because it doesn’t have a touch screen. You can’t control a PDA with an analog stick designed for games, a digital directional pad, and six buttons. It’s just not the right interface.
In _theory_, I agree with this guy’s rant about being allowed to do anything you like with the system. In _practice_, I’m never likely to bother using my PSP as anything apart from a games machine and emergency MP3 player, because it’s not the right design for doing anything else.
amazing to see so many people with so little sense of humor and such an easy trigger when it comes to bashing other people.
indeed, this site is full of people with no sense of humour. here is a list I have compiled.
CPUGuy
Varg Verkness
Sappyvvc
Raver31
Darkstar
Lazarus
I sure you could all add some more to the list
…would use their creative energy for something useful – we would all be better off. On the other hand, the individual might have wanted to play Marathon on his/her PSP :p
That was the buggiest OS version Apple ever released. I still remember all the problems it had even though it was like 10 years ago.
please port OpenStep to run on my cell phone?
Wow thats cooler and more useful than windows Vista beta one.
To be sure, but Vista will sell more copies. Must keep those IT types fully employed and busy, after all.
It’s not really a waste of time. Like her page says, a PSP is for playing, and for her this was fun, and it took less than a day of effort after getting the PSP. I say it was all worth it just to show it can be done!
Anonymous (IP: 62.254.32.—) said:
indeed, this site is full of people with no sense of humour. here is a list I have compiled.
CPUGuy
Varg Verkness
Sappyvvc
Raver31
Darkstar
Lazarus
oohwww Ist Krieg! The Uber dark goat lover members running Slackware 666 on there dark Church burnt PSP’s yes very Kvlt.
Evil very evil, they can’t crack a smile as the corpe paint may crack, be very scared cos I am, they may stab your PSP’s screen
First, this is a chick who likes hacking on hardware. 500 points and a chubby to her right off the bat.
Second, useability is not the goal here. It’s something that was possible to do, so she did it. Nobody said she was building nanobots over here. If you don’t dig this kind of thing, WTF are you doing here?
Third, ask RMS, Linus, ESR or damn near any geek how useful general hacking around with stuff can be. I for one remember when the linux kernel was dismissed out of hand for it’s immaturity and impracticality. A big STFU from all of them to all of you who feel there’s “nothing to see here…”
/dicks.
I guess the next step is porting Mini vMac or vMac direct to run on the PSP for faster execution times. Maybe I should get one and do it. I’ve already compiled Mini vMac for the PS2 Linux Kit, no biggy getting that to work…
This is kinda cool in a pointless sort of way… these are the sorts of pontlless but fun things I enjoy as well. Sure it may not be particularly useful, but the lady (Im assuming its a lady going by ppls responses) achieved her goal so good luck to her.
I must admit though my 1st thought when I read it was “why not just use shapeshifter under psp uae instead?”.. it eliminates the need for emulating the x86 processor,.. very little additional overheads required (shapeshifter works along the lines of virtual pc, etc., but on a lightweight OS like Amiga OS u get to use nigh on all the syetm resources on the “guest(68k)” OS… can even run 680×0 linux,bsd, etc, even if is touted as a Mac emulator)…. all of which is a little off track I guess in regards to the topic, but would be intereseting to fool with (for my interests anyway)… in fact u could set up a minimal Amiga OS setup within a few meg and alter the startup sequence to boot straight into Mac OS (or another 680×0 os) making Amiga OS invisable (although Amiga OS itself would be cool as well,… Im just trying to think outside the box).
Anyway Ive rambled enough for now I think,….. Id be interested to hear of any other OSes ppl have got running on these sorts of machines if anyone knows of similar stories
uh dude, i just used it and i took about a minute to boot. idk where you read 4hrs