5 Aug
2006
5 Aug
'06
9:40 p.m.
At 3:02 PM -0400 8/5/06, Ray Arachelian wrote:
Zane H. Healy wrote:
I'm actually looking to be able to talk classic Appletalk via an
emulator rather than TCP/IP. Mac OS X handles TCP/IP just fine, so
unless I'm trying to run my rather antiquated version of eXodus
(X-Windows) I personally don't have a need, though I could probably
find one :^)
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. 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.
Keep in mind that it's been about 10 years since I touched it,
however, wasn't it emulating both the 68k and System 6? Or was it
System 7? It didn't actually run it.
Zane
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