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"Hackintoshed" ATOMs & OS9 . . .

Trash80toHP_Mini

Trash80toHP_Mini

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. . . do any of them run OS9 under X and how well do they do so? :?:

If the answer is "no," what Rainbow OS Emulator will run acceptably on a Dual Core ATOM NetTop Mobo, under what OS? :?:

HEH! }:)

 
If you mean in terms of using Shapeshifter, just as well as any other ~ 1.6Ghz CPU, ie. rather well! The issue with Shapeshifter has always been poor video performance and some stuttering, but overall it's pretty good. Basilisk II also comes up trumps.

JB

 
I have absolutely ZERO Mac Emulator experience, what OS do they run under?

Are they each an OS in their own right?

Will they co-exist equally well with X & ubuntu installed and can I avoid installing/running any version of DOS or Windows?

Except maybe SoftPC and MSDOS for DOS! }:)

 
I have absolutely ZERO Mac Emulator experience, what OS do they run under?Are they each an OS in their own right?
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They're not "OSes in their own right", they're just applications. To use them you need a ROM image and a disk image (which is just a data file that acts as the hard disk for the running machine). You install the application, point it at the ROM and disk image, and you're off.

Both SheepShaver (PowerPC, runs up to 9.0.4) and BasiliskII (68k, runs up to 8.1) work fine under Linux, and I'd actually argue they're better under Linux than they are under either OS X *or* Windows. (Simply because Linux/X11 is the native development platform, the other versions are ports.) But any will work. Your Mac emulation can run inside a window or if you're so inclined you can let it occupy the full screen, and both BasikiskII and Sheepshaver have a feature that allows you to map a virtual drive inside the emulated machine to a directory on the host filesystem, allowing you to drag and drop files between the two systems.

Googling something like "Sheepshaver Ubuntu" will net you plenty of resources for setting up the emulators if the links already thrown out are not enough. Really the only requirement is that you need a ROM image from a supported Mac (although in the case of SheepShaver and OSes newer than 8.5 you can usually use the New World ROM image that comes on the installation disk) and installation media or images for a supported OS. (Which can make Sheepshaver a little bit of a pain because it has a hard limit of 9.0.4. 9.1 or newer disks *will not and will probably never will work*.)

As for performance, both Basilisk and Sheepshaver are faster than any "real" 68k Mac on even fairly slow CPUs. (I've been using BasiliskII almost since its introduction around 1999, and even right after the introduction of their first JIT CPU emulation core a 166Mhz Cyrix machine could benchmark about 80% as fast as a Quadra 605. With the older interpretive core a Pentium was closer to an LC, which obviously was a huge difference.) I haven't benchmarked an Atom but my vague guess based on how fast SheepShaver is on the slower machines I have used it on is that an Atom should easily be somewhere in the 603e-early G3 ballpark. (Faster on some things, slower on others, your mileage may vary, etc, etc.)

 
My main beef with SheepShaver is that it has relatively poor compatibility. A lot of things cause it to simply freeze up. In fact, you could run Copland on it and not tell the difference. ;)

Basilisk II isn't bad, but isn't PowerPC.

I have SheepShaver on my BeBox but it's abysmally slow. Classilla will run but at a glacial pace. I'm still periodically hacking the source to make it build on my AIX POWER6 ("world's fastest Power Mac").

 
My main beef with SheepShaver is that it has relatively poor compatibility. A lot of things cause it to simply freeze up. In fact, you could run Copland on it and not tell the difference. ;)
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I hear that complaint about SheepShaver, but I've just never seen it. Granted I don't use classic Mac programs much, but I've never found SheepShaver on Linux much if any less reliable than a real Mac running OS 9. :^b

(The last OS X build I played with was buggy as a bait store, however.)

 
Here's a screenshot of Speedometer 4.0 results from a slow-by-today's standards workstation. (A first-edition 2006 Mac Pro with the downgraded 2.0 Ghz CPUs, running 64 bit Ubuntu. SheepShaver's running MacOS 7.5.5, which I realize is a little weird. The results with 9.0.4 are similar, however.) According to this:

http://lowendmac.com/benchmarks/speedo4.shtml

They make it about as fast as 400Mhz G4 Powerbook. Thus the off-the-cuff "G3 ballpark" estimate for an Atom.

SheepBench.jpg

 
It sounds like Sheepsaver/ubuntu & X will be my OS mix of choice.

I'm building a cross between the idiotic, totally unexpandable, Cube, the Mac Mini and something on the order of the Quadra 700's form factor. I've got a great Compaq Front Bezel, in gloss black, with flip down bezels that're marked for the the drives in the box, a DVD R/W-CD/RW and a DVD/CD Player. It has a floppy Bezel that'll work with a ZIP Drive, a full Card Reader Section & USB/Firewire/analog AV.

The bezel's top curve matches the curve on the corners of the case side covers. Those are Quicksilver colored 12" Mac/iBook top covers . . . with backlit Rainbow Logos!

Not a bad end for a curbed POS! }:)

 
It sounds like Sheepsaver/ubuntu & X will be my OS mix of choice.
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X? Friends don't let friends throw their lives away on a completely idiotic waste of time Hackintosh. Sure you wanna do that, huh?

 
Nothing wrong with Hacintoshes. My main machine (in terms of hours usage) is a HacBook nano (as I like to call it) which is an Acer Aspire A150, just recently upgraded from 10.5 + XPsp2 on a 160GB HDD to 10.6 + W7 on a 750GB. I've been using my Acer ever since the 1st Mac Air was announced, and before it was available in Australia.

As long as you are prepared to ensure that all appropriate "drivers" are available, or just use a known working recipe, they are fine.

The HacBook will never replace the real Apple loves of my life, but it is a cheap reliable utility machine that I don't hesitate to chuck in my bag on the run. My next ultra light machine will probably be a recent 2011 11" MBA (with 10.6), now that Apple have got the specs vs price mostly sorted out.

 
I just want to try out an emulator so I'll have a Rainbow OS on my MacMidTowerHack & X will only be on there for kicks.

I'll probably only really only use ubuntu on it, but with backlit Rainbow Apples on the sides OS 9.0.4 seems to be in order.

But this is to be the expandable Mac Mini/MacMidi that was never released in the y2k era.

When did X stop supporting OS9?

 
*snicker* Hey, I played all the way through "Lemmings" on it without a problem. Is there anything else classic MacOS is good for?

 
All my old CAD CAM (Dongled), Graphic Design, Productivity and BookKeeping Apps run under OS 9.

I'm NOT upgrading them to X, what worked fine 10 years ago is good enough for me now! :p

;)

 
All my old CAD CAM (Dongled)
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Dongles are very likely going to be a problem for an emulator. (Any emulator, which means *any* way to run OS 9 programs on Intel hardware.) What form is the dongle? Serial? USB? There's possibly a chance it'll work if it goes on a serial port (if you cook up an adapter cable and jump through the hoops to configure Sheepshaver so it can access a physical serial port), but no OS 9 emulator allows direct access to USB bus devices.

 
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