Windows NT PPC on Macs

finkmac

NORTHERN TELECOM
wow, that's wild. the promise of ppc nt on powermacs finally delivered... 27 years later. G3 support, even...
 

3lectr1cPPC

Well-known member
I don't own any of the supported systems unfortunately. If they get it booting on the PDQ, I'll give it a go!
 

NJRoadfan

Well-known member
Weird. I pulled out my Lombard earlier this week for other testing. Guess that was a sign. Finally, the middle bastard child of the PowerBook G3 line gets some love.

Edit: There might even be a slight chance that XPostFacto can get this working on a beige G3. That or futzing around on the OpenFirmware prompt.
 
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NJRoadfan

Well-known member
Screen!

This just seems... wrong:
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Here are the system specific strings from the System Control Panel:

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Plays Pinball:
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Its surprisingly stable for a hack. It only crashed twice for me.
 

Cory5412

Daring Pioneer of the Future
Staff member
NT on PowerMacs is the future we were promised.

It's just that it was supposed to be PowerMacs from like 1996-97. :p

Very neat though, I might have to poke at this on my blue yikes g3. NT4 is already "pretty fast" on like a P/200, I bet it's great on a G3@300 or more. (Perhaps save performance penalties of basic drivers, but NT4 is pretty lite on, like, graphics acceleration in the base UI so that may not matter.)
 

3lectr1cPPC

Well-known member
I’d love to see this evolve further with custom drivers, stability improvements, more supported models, etc. Most of these projects don’t go beyond proof of concept though, just gotta hope this goes further.
 

croissantking

Well-known member
Ultimately, what could you do with it? I’m guessing that any contemporary Windows apps would need to be recompiled for PPC. Do any already exist?
 
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