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It (QEMU) was indeed very impressive and I hope to return to it very soon. I excitedly downloaded the “Initial” QEMU Drive image.Īnd I toyed with it a bit before being interrupted by other responsibilities. (Really no need to be ageist about things.)Īnyway… with my faltering and remaining reliquiae grey matter, Perhaps even if death and / or senility might be rapidly approaching. I suppose that I do have zee major soft spot for OS 9… yet I don’t particularly And even then, it could be in a sort of 80% state, to borrow a loophole from another community I'm in the periphery of, where all of the essential parts are in there and you just supply the parts that actually make it a Macintosh, rather than just a PowerPC computer.īeing of a certain age (elderly and perhaps “older-minded” / ring any bells?) A computer basically equivalent to a good Pentium 3 is not really a competitor to the M1 MacBook Pro. Legal issues I suppose, but PowerPC Macintosh was two processor architectures ago, I don't think they'll cry too, too much about hardware they stopped selling when I was three. The main question is how many people would actually buy one, but there are clones of PETs, C64s, and XTs on the market, so why not a G3 or G4, which has a bigger niche than just gaming? It's not just the elderly that have a soft spot for OS 9. People cloned Apples back in the '80s, and I don't think it would be impossible to make a 20 year old computer nowadays, even if it was just a pile of FPGAs hooked up to some RAM, although 750s are still being made last I checked. We will continue to help all the members of our community.Ĭomputers don't really care what year they were made.

#Mac os 9 emulator for powerpc mac os#

With the help of our core members, we have helped so many achieve their goal of a working and productive Mac OS 9 system. This is still what drives me to this day to keep this all going. looking at a system that would have cost thousands 20 years ago and enjoying getting the 98% discount.

Bringing complete systems with peripherals, like a home recording Studio, or a graphics workstation station, to life, so many years later, MacOS9Lives!.

#Mac os 9 emulator for powerpc download#

was based on the idea that musicians, and others, would source out used G3/G4 hardware for low dollars, and in some cases free and have a resource to download applications that would make these antiquated machines produce real results. Remember, the basic motivation that I and Mactron created this site with. I just wanted to tell you guys I am still dedicated to our cause. YES!! My personal search for Virtualization and Emulation setups are expressed on the forum as "Practical solutions" for those who are interested in porting old projects to newer systems or for those who don't have the room, or the energy to track down old Mac hardware.

#Mac os 9 emulator for powerpc software#

Hell Yes ! Am I still searching for those elusive software titles that we don't have in our downloads yet. New Sampling Libraries, 32GB of RAM, Nvme drives and other advancements have migrated my workflow to things more modern over the years do I still power up the MDD, the QS, and my Macos9lives mac mini ?.

#Mac os 9 emulator for powerpc series#

Many of you know my day to day DAW runs on a series of Mac Pros and High Sierra. I just wanted to tell you guys, that Mac OS 9 is my first girlfriend, the hot one, the one that I will always remember as the most amazing, but as we get older, we can also appreciate our other loves. So, we have many options here, from purist to practical and all in between. But I feel that QEMU is a way to extend the future on Mac OS 9 via emulation. Yes, we will keep the G3/G4 hardware alive for as long as we can. the reason I have ventured into the "QEMU" thing was expressed by member FBz 100% correctly. OK, I'll get off the tangents.īack to the topic. Sure DOS was great, sure it ran stable, and setting up business networks and Novell servers, Word perfect 5.1 as a production marvel with virtually no maintenance. Even the G3/G4 hardware of the era became a perfect balance of "art" and "engineering", pushing all sorts of envelopes, while IBM PCs were just kinda boring. That being said, Mac OS 9 in particular, has always had a place in my heart, and will always be unique, there is a perfect balance of art and functionality that is intrinsically "baked" into it's core. These efforts are based on finding solutions, not replacing or core values.Īs you guys know, or may not know, I am an old guy old and I have been exposed to computers from Commodore PET, IBM mainframes, and Unix terminals in my teens to contemporary PCs and Macs today. After getting a few PMs from our core members, I felt I should explain my affinity for always pushing the Mac OS 9 realm (and OS X for that matter) into unsanctioned areas.