Mac OS 9 Lives

General => New Member Welcome => Topic started by: nklsf on March 20, 2025, 01:20:00 AM

Title: Hello
Post by: nklsf on March 20, 2025, 01:20:00 AM

Hi there, it's just me trying to run mac os 9 on qemu to play the games of my childhood. had anyone success with this on m1?
i'm stuck debugging qemu ...

Title: Re: Hello
Post by: Knezzen on March 20, 2025, 04:39:17 AM

Hi!

I'm using UTM on my MacBook Air nowadays and it works very well actually.
Give it a go :)

https://mac.getutm.app/

Title: Re: Hello
Post by: laulandn on March 20, 2025, 06:42:35 AM

I installed qemu using Homebrew (https://brew.sh/).  I have two disk images, named MacO9.img and extra.img and use the foliowing command to run it:

qemu-system-ppc -M mac99 -m 512 -hda MacOS9.img -hdb extra.img -netdev user,id=mynet -device sungem,netdev=mynet -device usb-mouse -device usb-kbd

I'd installed MacOS9 using an iso image from mactinsohgarden.  It's been a while, but I believe I just mounted it as -hdb, with MacOS9.img as -hda.

I created the disk images with a command something like:
dd if=/dev/zero of=IMAGENAME.im bs=1G count=4
Used MacOS 9 booted from the cd to format them, I think.
(can't remember if the 1G is correct, or if I calculated the amount of bytes in 1 gig)

I also frequently use SheepShaver, I believe it's an old Intel binary I kept from when I upgraded that still works.  I can't necessarily recommend it because it is very crashy, but serves its purpose.

But UTM is probably a lot more user friendly!