Hello everyone,
I have a longstanding hobby in tinkering with computers and consoles with PowerPC CPUs, and I recently picked up a tray-loading iMac G3 from a friend(Interesting to know it's in the same CPU family as the Nintendo Gamecube!). I always had a mild interest in Mac OS, and this is my chance to mess around with it, namely for software development and whatever else I can figure out.
I notice that there's a good amount of resources related to disassembling and modifying the Mac OS ROM file, which I'd like to try setting up a build environment for. The only problem I am having is that documentation related to setting up a build environment is both sparse and what's there seems to only apply to users on macOS. Is there any pointers that can be given for the preferred method of dumping and rebuilding the ROM file? I can boot into Windows 10 and Linux, and I can run Mac OS 9 on both the iMac G3 and QEMU instances. If I have to use OSX I can make use of a Mojave VM, but that should only really be a last resort thing as I wouldn't be as efficient with moving files around.
Thanks in advance!