Mac OS 9 Lives

Classic Mac OS Software => Virtual Machine & Emulation => Topic started by: teroyk on August 31, 2021, 12:44:34 PM

Title: Emulators for Mac OS 9
Post by: teroyk on August 31, 2021, 12:44:34 PM
There have been quite many emulators for Mac OS 9, here is some information of some of them:
https://web.archive.org/web/20041009223739/http://emulation.emuscene.com/classic.php
Title: Re: Emulators for Mac OS 9
Post by: teroyk on September 13, 2021, 06:23:08 AM
And here some more (scroll down to skip for OSX 10.2 emulators):
https://web.archive.org/web/20040831074253/http://www.bannister.org/software/emu.htm
Title: Re: Emulators for Mac OS 9
Post by: Bolkonskij on February 19, 2022, 06:54:49 AM
I've been recently dabbling with emulation on OS9 and much to my surprise, there's quite a lot of very capable emulators out there. Problem these days is rather finding a page that has ROMs and is accessible from Classilla ... (read: we need a ROMs page for low-end systems :-) )

That's a cool link, teroyk! It's a good starting point, though the list misses a lot of excellent emulators like iNes, DGen, Mac Spectacle (Spectrum), IIe, GUS_GS and many many more ...
Title: Re: Emulators for Mac OS 9
Post by: teroyk on February 23, 2022, 03:49:23 AM
I found this Sinclair QL emulator for Mac OS 9 (it has version also newer and older Macs):
http://www.terdina.net/ql/MacQL.html
that smaller links before main download link is for Mac OS 9.
Title: Re: Emulators for Mac OS 9
Post by: teroyk on July 03, 2022, 09:49:15 AM
And here some more (scroll down to skip for OSX 10.2 emulators):
https://web.archive.org/web/20040831074253/http://www.bannister.org/software/emu.htm

I think there is still working files to those emus:
https://www.mac-emu.net/~bannister/filemirror/
I didn't check them yet, but filenames matching...if you tested come here to tell.
Title: Re: Emulators for Mac OS 9
Post by: IIO on July 03, 2022, 10:19:40 AM
it is funny how this page (first post) does not list windows and atari emulators, which are probably the most "important" ones (unless you´re into mame roms)

but what i actually sometimes wish to have is an "OSX enviroment".
Title: Re: Emulators for Mac OS 9
Post by: teroyk on July 04, 2022, 01:11:33 PM
it is funny how this page (first post) does not list windows and atari emulators, which are probably the most "important" ones (unless you´re into mame roms)

I just thought that everybody knows them already :)

but what i actually sometimes wish to have is an "OSX enviroment".

I just think it in another thread month ago:
How far Power MachTen compatibility is from Darwin OS? Could it be use as compatibility layer to compile Darwin 1-5 apps to Mac OS 9 with MachTen?
from wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)):
"Up to Darwin 8.0.1, Apple released a binary installer (as an ISO image) after each major Mac OS X release that allowed one to install Darwin on PowerPC and Intel x86 systems as a standalone operating system.[10] Minor updates were released as packages that were installed separately. Darwin is now only available as source code."

I think it is possible to make at least OSX Jaguar terminal enviroment for Mac OS 9 with those source codes and Power Machten.
Is there anybody who is good with those GCC-compilers?
Title: Re: Emulators for Mac OS 9
Post by: vad12 on July 04, 2022, 02:42:13 PM
I used to play a few of these emulators in high school. We found a way to disable the security system and install iNes and either snes9x or bsnes. Those were some good ol' days in class. I wonder if the netplay functions in those emulators still work.

Zophar's Domain still has links 20 years later: https://www.zophar.net/macintosh.html