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Amiga did this in 1985. It's just that for compatibility reasons Apple couldn't do this. Even funnier: the fastest hardware to run old MacOS (68k version) on: a

by wokkel 7y ago

Amiga did this in 1985. It's just that for compatibility reasons Apple couldn't do this. Even funnier: the fastest hardware to run old MacOS (68k version) on: an Amiga computer.

Wowfunhappy 7y ago
A non-Apple computer? Was "Hackintosh" (presumably under a different name) a thing back then?
- reaperducer 7y ago
  You didn't need to build a Hackintosh. You could buy legal, officially-licensed Mac clones back then.
  - amatecha 7y ago
    Ah yeah I still have my PowerComputing PowerTower Pro! At the time it was a current model, its 512mb of RAM was insane and my friends & classmates were jealous! hahah :)
- LargoLasskhyfv 7y ago
  I sometimes used my Atari ST with an emulator called Aladin. "Cracked" to work without Mac ROMs. But wasn't really useful to me because of lack of applications (at the time). IIRC there were solutions like this for the Amiga too.
- amatecha 7y ago
  Check out this video[0], basically an Amiga with an accelerator card potentially makes for the fastest environment to run 68k-based Mac OS (System 7) ... [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jph0gxzL3UI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jph0gxzL3UI
  - Wowfunhappy 7y ago
    Whoa, the Amiga is faster even though it's running in a VM!
    - amatecha 7y ago
      Well, it's more akin to something like Wine where it's not exactly a virtual machine, since the processor instructions are the same. Tho that's about the extent of my understanding.. haha