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This has been a rush of excitement! Rairii published their port of the ARC & Drivers needed to get NT 4.0 working on commodity PowerMac hardware over on github. And what about running it under emulation? Once more again Rairii provided a custom fork of dingusppc, again over on github!
A custom CD-ROM worked best (for me?!) for installation, combining the ARC & Drivers, along with a copy of Windows NT Workstation onto a single disc. Rairii provided the magical recipie for creating the ISO:
genisoimage -joliet-long -r -V 'NT_arcfw' -o ../jj.iso --iso-level 4 --netatalk -hfs -probe -map ../hfs.map -hfs-parms MAX_XTCSIZE=2656248 -part -no-desktop -hfs-bless ./System -hfs-volid NT/ppc_arcfw .
And the needed hfs.map:
# ext. xlate creator type comment
.hqx Ascii 'BnHx' 'TEXT' "BinHex file"
.sit Raw 'SIT!' 'SITD' "StuffIT Expander"
.mov Raw 'TVOD' 'MooV' "QuickTime Movie"
.deb Raw 'Debn' 'bina' "Debian package"
.bin Raw 'ddsk' 'DDim' "Floppy or ramdisk image"
.img Raw 'ddsk' 'DDim' "Floppy or ramdisk image"
.b Raw 'UNIX' 'tbxi' "bootstrap"
BootX Raw 'UNIX' 'tbxi' "bootstrap"
yaboot Raw 'UNIX' 'boot' "bootstrap"
vmlinux Raw 'UNIX' 'boot' "bootstrap"
.conf Raw 'UNIX' 'conf' "bootstrap"
* Ascii '????' '????' "Text file"
I went ahead and made the image, and added in Service Pack 2, Internet Explorer 3 and IIS3 onto the same CD-ROM to make things easier for me to deal with. It’s on archive.org.
On Discord and impromptu porting session broke, out and we got NP21 up and running!
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Unfortunately, it is very slow. I have no idea how it performs on real hardware, it’s entirely possible that it really is unplayable. It’s still pretty amazing that the OS booted up and I could actually compile something!
Even the usual fun text mode stuff from Phoon, Infocom’87, F2C, compiled!
![](https://virtuallyfun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/phases-of-the-moon-ppc-1024x798.png)
But will it run DooM?
![](https://virtuallyfun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/xxppc.gif)
Of course, it runs! I’m using the 32bit C code from Sydney (ChatGPT), which runs just great.
Into 3D space
I was able to compile GLuT on the way to try to build ssystem but there is two textured OpenGL calls missing, meaning that the more fun OpenGL stuff simply will not work.
Setting expectations
As a matter of fact, lots of weird stuff doesn’t work, the install is very touchy so don’t expect a rock-solid experience, but instead it was incredibly fun to try to get a bunch of stuff up and running.
Thanks again to @Rairii for all their hard work! This is beyond amazing!
— it’s 3am and I’m exhausted, but I had to share this out some how some way!
NT ON PowerPC! It’s happening!
Thank you, it’s very interesting.
How can I send ctrl+alt+delete to dingusppc emulator ?
I can not find the information…
Control alt backspace
and Ctrl-Click for right-click
It is true that this is an inspiring project.
I would like to create a personal ISO with nt_arcfw_grackle files and other languages versions of NT 4 PPC.However,I don’t know what the “hfs.map” in the command in the article is.As a result,I can’t create a proper ISO which can be booted in the emulator.
I will appreciate it if anyone can describe how to write this map file correctly or provide a detailed tutorial about creating an ISO like the image which has been given in the article.
I’ve updated the article, it’s a plain text file.
Thank you,it really works!
Fantastic! Welcome to the POWER of PowerPC!
@neozeed:
Have you tried to install “Motorola SoftWindows 32 for PowerPC”?
It was a bundled emulator software with the Windows NT PowerPC versions to run x86 executables. It run Win32 applications at about the speed of a 486 in contemporary MPC604 PowerPC systems.
Link:
“https://archive.org/details/softwindows-32-powerpc-v1.01”
I haven’t tried it yet, I suspect under emulation it may have weird off cases to not work like the nt4 linker.