It was Mac84, not "someone"... just give credit where credit is do:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbIoaulKYJY&pp=ygUFbWFjODQ%3D

Congratulations all involved! That's quite the hack and definitely something that brings excitement to the whole space. Great write up and it was cool to see how the efforts of multiple individuals came together.

Hey, it's great to see you return here, @ELN! Your scripts and tools really saved the Mac-day here!

I wasn't sure about Go, but yeah, Python doesn't usually leave me with the best impression with lack of forward compatibility among even minor versions... I thought the infamous Python 2 to 3 migration was going to be the last time it would have issues like this, but I guess not. However, I'm just glad your tools work with most Python 3.x versions still! They made all the difference, and they were very easy to use thanks to the lengths you went through to keep it as heavily-commentated and easy-to-use as possible for a CLI app. I see why you would favor Go nowadays, though, as they reassure to do better to devs. (What about good ol' Perl?)

By the way, in case it might interest you, you can interact with Rairii directly through this Discord server of his (listed in his Nintendo PPC NT GitHub page, which currently accomodates PowerPC/MIPS WinNT + Mac discussions/developments in particular).

Excellent work!

I switched from Python to Go in large part for the compatibility guarantee. https://go.dev/doc/go1compat

BRAVO Jubadub!

Had been wondering about your absence ‘round here lately.
Now that’s evident, considering what you’ve been working on.

Extremely well done and VERY highly commendable.

Not everyone is capable of pulling all of that information together
and then presenting it in such a concise, yet clearly written manner.

Kudos!

I'm glad you like the post! Indeed, gathering all the information so that everyone's on the same page was one of my main goals with all this.

But, just to be sure there's no risk of any misunderstanding, I'm just the messenger in all this: we all owe it to Rairii, who is the sole owner of this project that made all this possible. All I did was to combine it with @ELN's mac mini scripts and tools, then share the result of that with everyone along with the story and all the information.

My overall "Mac absence" for the year was mostly due to having to take care of personal matters to get things in due order. But after I saw these crazy new developments brewing, I sure took the time to take a dive and share whatever I could!

In the words of the late great Ozzy "Never say Die..."

BRAVO Jubadub!

Had been wondering about your absence ‘round here lately.
Now that’s evident, considering what you’ve been working on.

Extremely well done and VERY highly commendable.

Not everyone is capable of pulling all of that information together
and then presenting it in such a concise, yet clearly written manner.

Kudos!

Great Post!

This is EPIC!

Agree!

@Jubadub, thank you for writing all this! I will need to re-read it several times to fully grasp what's going on there.
This is EPIC!

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Jubadub has already just begun:
System 7 natively boots on the Mac mini G4!
https://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?topic=7711.msg59712#msg59712