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#MAC OS 9 EMULATOR MAC OS#
#MAC OS 9 EMULATOR INSTALL#
#MAC OS 9 EMULATOR 32 BIT#
#MAC OS 9 EMULATOR ARCHIVE#
#MAC OS 9 EMULATOR ISO#

It will open a dialog letting you select your ISO.Ĭompatibility: This is emulating Mac OS 9.2.2, released in late 2001. If something breaks your Mac OS 9 installation then you can restore the file.ĭiscs: You can dynamically attach CDs/DVDs to the emulated system by going to the menu bar on your host system for the QEMU application and selecting the option to attach to the CD IDE drive. It should boot up and you will have a running Mac OS 9 with audio! I recommend saving this command as a shell script in your ~/emulation directory.īoots much faster than it did in 2001 Tipsīackups: When the emulator is shut down, just make a copy of the hard disk image to create a backup. qemu-screamer/ppc-softmmu/qemu-system-ppc \ -L qemu-screamer/pc-bios \ -cpu "g4" \ -M mac99,via =pmu \ -m 512 \ -hda macos92.img \ -boot c \ -g 1024x768x32 \ -device usb-kbd \ -device usb-mouse Similar to the last command, except we start up from the disk we created. Once done, shut down the emulated system (Special Menu -> Shut Down).

One partition is good.Īfter initializing the disk, run Apple System Restore with the Mac OS 9 Lives disk image as the source and your disk as the destination. Go ahead and do that, using Mac OS HFS Extended as the file system. Once it starts up, you will be able to run Disk Initializer to format your hard drive image.

-device usb-mouse enable USB mouse input, will improve cursor tracking somewhat.

-device usb-kbd enable USB keyboard emulation/support.

#MAC OS 9 EMULATOR 32 BIT#

-g 1024x768x32 default to 1024x768 resolution and 32 bit colour.

#MAC OS 9 EMULATOR ISO#

-cdrom "~/Downloads/Mac OS 9.2.2 Universal Install.iso" use the ISO for the cdrom.

-hda macos92.img use our generated disk image for the hard drive.

-m 512 use 512 MB of RAM, could go lower probably.

-M mac99,via=pmu will define the Mac model and enable USB support.

qemu-screamer/ppc-softmmu/qemu-system-ppc \ -L qemu-screamer/pc-bios \ -cpu "g4" \ -M mac99,via =pmu \ -m 512 \ -hda macos92.img \ -cdrom "~/Downloads/Mac OS 9.2.2 Universal Install.iso" \ -boot d \ -g 1024x768x32 \ -device usb-kbd \ -device usb-mouse I started by creating a directory for all this emulation stuff. These instructions are adapted from Cat_7 from the Emaculation forums Windows/Linux: These instructions should probably work there too, although you will probably have to substitute something else for coreaudio in the configuration step. MacBook) then there may be some struggling.

However if you have a low-power CPU (e.g. Hardware: I am not sure about hardware requirements, as most modern Macs will probably eclipse the power needed to run the guest OS.

#MAC OS 9 EMULATOR INSTALL#

If you don’t have them, you might be prompted (by MacOS) to install them. Don’t worry about seedless torrents these ones are backed with web seeding.ĭevTools: I already have homebrew and XCode installed because of this I was not prompted for missing command line tools. Cover discs can be downloaded directly as ISO files or a torrent for the ISO.

#MAC OS 9 EMULATOR ARCHIVE#

Magazines can be browsed right on the archive site, or downloaded as archives or PDFs (or a torrent containing all formats). Note that while QEMU is available in Homebrew, it does not have the experimental audio support (yet). Here is a short guide on how I got it running with MacOS High Sierra as the Host OS. Yes, many people have already written about emulating Mac OS 9, but only recently (2018) did experimental audio support come out for QEMU. I recalled that QEMU could emulate other architectures, surely someone has already tried to emulate Mac OS 9. My first instinct was to reach for VirtualBox, but that is a no go as I need to emulate a Motorola 68K or IBM PowerPC architecture. I was curious to see what applications were around back then - what about emulating Classic Mac OS to see? These magazines are freely available on the Internet Archive, including their cover discs. Building websites, graphic design, hacking the appearance of the UI, all these were explained in the pages of magazines. Growing up around that time, I remember reading a lot of MacAddict and MacWorld to learn what I could do with a Mac. I recently got an urge to revisit old computer media from the late 90s and early 2000s.