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It’s so good to see more movement in the realm of classic Mac compatibility! Mac OS emulation/simulation has received astonishingly little attention given the i
by kitsunesoba 8y ago
It’s so good to see more movement in the realm of classic Mac compatibility! Mac OS emulation/simulation has received astonishingly little attention given the immense body of software that exists for the platform.
That said, while this is a great start, what would really excite me is something along the same lines with PPC support, OS 9.x API simulation, and ideally proper FPU and GPU support. SheepShaver and QEMU are too incomplete and hacky to run the majority of apps that interest me.
- jjuran 8y agoThanks! It would be a real shame if the rich culture that sustained the Mac for fifteen years got lost. My plan for Advanced Mac Substitute is roughly to start at 1984 and move forward, with a focus on getting individual applications running. What you're seeking isn't out of scope in the long run, but it is off the horizon for now. I have a build of SheepShaver I made years ago that's pretty stable, which I rely on for developing AMS' 68K components.
- zapzupnz 8y agoHave you tried QEMU in the last 3 months? They've really ironed out a lot of things, and you can now run Mac OS 9.2.2 with sound and networking. I run it to play a few old games and open old ClarisWorks documents.
- wmf 8y agoIt seems likely that a WINE-style reimplementation will always be more incomplete and hacky than an emulator.