Comments on: OS X 10.2 on Qemu PowerPC

By: neozeed

neozeed — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 11:49:57 +0000

In reply to Malcolm. There is some pages and I’ve done it for running 1.2 like back in the day . It’s slow and native hardware is the way to go!

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 21:14:12 +0000

In reply to neozeed.

Lots of progress. I started using this in 2020. As of now, it runs OS X Public Beta through Panther with 24/32 bit color, and the resolution can be selected from the guest OS. I haven’t tried Tiger or newer, since I have convenient hardware running those.

I haven’t been able to get DP4 or OS X Server 1.2 to work. There are instructions for 1.2v3 – I don’t know what the “v3” is, the CD I have says it’s 1.2 with no suffix, so I assume it’s older. I picked up this 1.2 CD at a flea market 20 years back and have never had an environment that runs it, sigh.

Even on a 2022 host though, the guest is slow. It’s fun for nostalgia but still seems slower than running this software on period hardware.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 12:59:28 +0000

In reply to Daniel. probably, its been a while since I loaded it up so I would imagine there has been quit a lot of progress

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 12:58:15 +0000

In reply to neozeed. when do you think qemu ppc will support 16 and 256 colors on apt-get? 8bit is very old graphics...

By: daniel

daniel — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 12:52:18 +0000

In reply to neozeed. This does work with tiger os x it has a os 9 classic file you can download from some source around 240mb

By: junebeetle

junebeetle — Sat, 13 Feb 2016 14:49:45 +0000

Awesome! I couldn’t figure out how to get it working until now. What do you think about running 9.x thru 10.1 (maybe even Public Beta) in Mac-On-Mac in OS X in QEMU? Would it work?

By: neozeed

neozeed — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 23:49:30 +0000

In reply to SpecialEd.

No, the free ROM is missing some hooks that OS X uses to overlay a ROM for the classic environment… Or so I suspect.

either way, it doesn’t work.

By: SpecialEd

SpecialEd — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 21:44:02 +0000

Interesting. Can the OS X run Mac Classic applications?

By: Alessandro

Alessandro — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 19:08:45 +0000

In reply to neozeed.

too bad 🙁
i’ve run rhapsody x86 in bochs on my old powermac g5.
so, old x86 hardware is better emulated than old ppc hardware.
maybe one day… who knows 🙂
it would also be great to emulate AUX! .P

By: neozeed

neozeed — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 17:46:47 +0000

In reply to Alessandro.

I doubt it, old OS X really needs apple firmware… It would be the same reason OS 8.6 & 9 don’t load.

Trust me, after shelling out $599 USD for OS X Server v 1.1 I’d love to run it again, mostly because it cost me so much money back then, and there was no upgrade path from v1.1 to 10.0 …. 🙁