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[GaryN]

Get a load of this!!

http://www.macintoshrepository.org/

[macStuff]

great site - they are adding content daily from a large stash of actual macintosh CDs that one of their members got a hold of

[DieHard]

This is awesome !

Anyone... please make a guide for our users to load 9.2.2 via QEMU

[macStuff]

what is QEMU?? im not sure what that stands for?

[Knezzen]

what is QEMU?? im not sure what that stands for?

It's a generic machine and CPU emulator.
More info here: https://www.qemu.org

[macStuff]

thanks knez for that link;
so its another way to shave sheep?

i still dont understand the whole virtualization thing, as my whole point of using the old operating system more often than not is because of legacy hardware peripherals..

is there a way to use QEMU and still access hardware like pci? etc?

[DieHard]

The difference is that it can supposedly load Mac OS 9.2.2; where shaving sheep gets stuck at not going past 9.0.4...

Now with Mac OS 9.2.2 in emulation, I could run things like Cubase VST 5.1 and load old projects and do stem exports and other things that do not require a full DAW accessing hardware.  This would be very convenient, since I am not always near a "real" G4 Tower that is hooked up and ready to boot; so this interests me VERY much.  VST 5 and many later classic software needs a minimum of OS 9.1 to load, so SS is out

[Naiw]

Macintosh Repository has QEMU images with Mac OS 9.2.2 preinstalled for Windows.

[Naiw]

thanks knez for that link;
so its another way to shave sheep?

i still dont understand the whole virtualization thing, as my whole point of using the old operating system more often than not is because of legacy hardware peripherals..

is there a way to use QEMU and still access hardware like pci? etc?

Yes you can passthrough PCI hardware with QEMU (at least when running it on linux)

[oldtimer]

GaryN,

Great find. Thanks for sharing.

[mrhappy]

Yes, very interesting indeed!!

[DieHard]

Macintosh Repository has QEMU images with Mac OS 9.2.2 preinstalled for Windows.

windows 32 Bit, 64 Bit ?

Any for Mac ?

Any step by step instructions and screen shots ?

We need to get the details

[devils_advisor]

Have it running on a windows 7 64bit with 8gb ram. You also need a extra file they have to get a bigger secondary partition because the one that comes with it is way to small.  Include the partition in the start script and your good to go. Network was working in the setup. Have not tested 3d capabilites in detail.  So gaming i dont know yet. Its a little sluggish on my machine but i didn't expect to much. Im for the real deal anyway.

[MacTron]

I have no interest in emulation ... but around here there is someone working on QEMU for Os x. If I remember correctly ...

[Naiw]

QEMU is interesting cause unlike sheepshaver or basillisk it actually emulate the hardware and often very precisely. The downside is of course that it come at a performance hit but the significant benefit is that no modifications to the OS is necessary at all. Sheepshaver/Basillisk may be fairly fast but they cheat so it’s not even funny- patches the system on several occasions etc.

The QEMU performance is fairly good with the latest builds on x86 at least, however graphics still feel fairly slow unfortunately.

[Protools5LEGuy]

Get a load of this!!

http://www.macintoshrepository.org/

The video archive from Peter Brockie's youtube channel are interesting to us. At least to me every 96+ Apple video is.

I see no different stuff from Macintosh Garden. Last time I checked were even less content. But please enlighteen me.

[Knezzen]

[I see no different stuff from Macintosh Garden. Last time I checked were even less content. But please enlighteen me.

That's because they crawled all of Macintosh Garden, took the files, screenshots and file info the users of Macintosh Garden contributed with and started Macintosh Repository. Nowadays at least the file info from the Garden is gone, but the screenshots are still there.

An example from a page I made on the Garden:
http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/macnfs-30p3
What's on Repository:
https://www.macintoshrepository.org/1957-macnfs-3-0p3

If you look at the screenshot you see my name in it. Because the screenshot was made on my MDD, so I know they stole it.
Just one of many examples. But the internet is free, so what to do. We just try to make it the best we can over at the garden.

Whatever people use are up to them in the end

[Protools5LEGuy]

I have never seen an add advertisement on the Garden.

Repository has.


Edit: grammar

[FdB]

"Dance with the one that brung ya."

[Knezzen]

I have never seen an add advertisement on the Garden.
Repository has.

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