5 Aug
2006
5 Aug
'06
12:02 p.m.
Zane H. Healy wrote:
I've head of these, but haven't tried them yet, as I'm still running
10.3.9 on a G5, so can still run my software under classic. Ideally
I'd like a PPC emulator, even a 604e would work for me.
...
I need something that supports networking, interfaces
cleanly with the
host OS's filesystem, and gives me a decent sized screen (1280x1024
would do nicely). Ideally PPC support, but just 68k support would let
me run the most important stuff.
I think PearPC does PPC emulation. It emulates a
G3 or G4, but very
slowly. see http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/ and this link for an
article that tells you how to configure it:
http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/01/18/PearPC.html
I'm not sure if it will run OS 9.x. Basilisk will run upto OS 8.5 just
fine. (OS 9 is PPC only)
Basilisk II does have networking, and you can surf the web with ancient
Netscape Navigators. At least, there's a network module for it on
Windows. Not sure about under Mac OS X.
Wow, I remember them well, I used the Demo 10+ years
ago to write
floppies on my P90 laptop running Windows and Linux (it could access
the Internet, when I was in the US and had phone access) that could be
read on my PowerBook 520c. It was pretty cool. IIRC, the demo was
also where I got what was one of my favorite Mac OS X games :^) To bad
they're not still a functioning business.
Yeah, but if they open source it, it
has a better chance of survival, in
one form or another. Executor's 68K core seems to be very fast, so it
could be useful to lots of other emulation projects.