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Where will you get your supply of custom chipsets? Do you want to reverse engineer Apple's already badly documented chipsets and reimplement them on fast enough
by crest 5y ago
Where will you get your supply of custom chipsets? Do you want to reverse engineer Apple's already badly documented chipsets and reimplement them on fast enough FPGAs maybe even support more modern RAMs or improved off-chip caches? It would be nice to have a mATX NewWorld Mac you can maintain for playing old MacOS games, but the farther you go into the G4 (or even worse G5) era the more advanced GPUs you would have to reimplement as well. The PPC6xx era 2D on-board graphics may be in reach of such a project, but I can't see anyone without Nvidias active support releasing a Quadro FX 4500 compatible GPU clone.
- kitsunesoba 5y agoChipsets indeed prove a challenge, but it’s not insurmountable. QEMU’s emulation of a G3 tower is a decent example of this. There’s decent availability of PCI and AGP GPUs supported by OS 9 and early OS X, especially if you include PC variants that can be flashed to work with Mac OS, so I wouldn’t worry about video too much in the short term… just make sure the motherboard has a PCI or AGP slot.