OS Emulation Extravaganza, OS X On Down

HomeBrewR writes: "Behold the power of MacOS X... Windows XP? Who cares! You guys arent going to believe what I was able to do in one bored day at work. http://www.mystaticip.com/homebrew shows my effort. I took OS X 10.1, installed fink with rootless Xfree86 with IceWM running BasiliskII [running MacOS 7.6]. OS X is also running ircle and VPC test drive running Windows XP. Simply amazing. The speed on this iBook 466SE of all the apps left much to be desired. This was a feasibility test. The speed of either one of the emulators running by themselves was decent if you turned off all the eye candy in Windows XP. I'm REALLY interested in getting BasiliskII up and running to be able to play all those games that OS 8 broke...stuff like Ancient Art of War and Vette. Check it out and have fun duplicating the effort HomeBrewR" The question I'm sure you're asking now is Why stop there?

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Mirror

[helixblue]

http://www.webcache.org/a/2001/10/27/www.mystatici p.com/homebrew/index.html

Hopefully it can handle it. :) I can definitely say I love MacOS X, and without a doubt -- you can run more apps from MacOS X than any other OS, especially if you throw in Virtual PC.

I myself run WinXP in VirtualPC.. but I've been struggling to figure out why I bought VirtualPC other than to try XP? Is there really any Windows app I need?

Oh.. ya, Civ3 is being released for Windows first.. that's why I need it!

Heres the Pic on a much beefier machine

[jgaynor]

Picture Mirrored on a good server

It looks pretty cool - cant think of what use this would be though. This guys website has no text about it at all. It goes something like:

Dayam I love Mac OSX - look what I did.

No lie thats all it says.

Useful Link

[moosesocks]

Emaculation.com Is one of the most popular mac-emulation sites on the net and has useful information on setting up Mac emulators (currently, there is no ppc software-based mac emulator :-( )

Emulators for MacOS

[Arkham]

www.emulation.net is the best site around for Mac users. They have links to every mac emulator under the sun, from Palm to Playstation to Amiga. They do Arcade machines, Computers, Consoles, and Handheld devices.

With this site someone could make a MUCH better picture than the one shown.

big whoop

[posmon]

old concept, new operating systems, as the quote below shows. hardly worth all the fuss though.

I've done a ZX81 emulator running on a Spectrum emulator running on a Mac emulator running on an Amiga emulator running on a 333 MHz PC. The Spectrum runs at about 10% normal speed, but the Mac goes almost as fast as the Mac emu straight on the PC. This is due to the way the Mac emu works on an Amiga - they both share the same processor, and so a lot of the emulation can be bypassed for the Mac to directly use the Amiga's CPU.

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Mac OS X 10.1 & Performance in general.

[wdavies]

Hi,

First off, this is slightly off-topic. I just wanted to relate my experience with 10.1 last week. I got a copy after months of procrastination and installed it on a G3 450mhz (the Blue and White type). I'd also like to note that I'm not really trying to start a flame war. I am a big fan of *nixes in general (I first worked on a PDP11 running some kind of Nix back in 82), I am also (strangely for a nix zealot) a huge Mac fan. I'm not a big fan of any Nix GUI nor of windows. Mainly I'm posting this because for the first time in several jaded years, something in mainstream Computing made me go "Wow!". Forget the iPod. The experience below hasjust made me decide that OSX is an incredible achievement.

The install was the easiest I have ever done, especially amazing considering there is a *Nix beneath. I went from 9.0 to 9.1, 9.1 to 10, 10 to 10.1 and finally upgraded the 9.1 to 9.2 The only hiccup was that I only got developer tools for 10.0 -- they don't work with 10.1 -- and although I bought a 10.1 Installation, that kit didnt come with 10.1 developers tools -- download from connect.apple.com.

So far so good -- it isn't rocket fast, but not slow enough to impair productivity at all.

My long term aim is a Powerbook running my work development environment which is Dynamo and Weblogic based. I really dislike my Tecra 8100.

So, the rest of the afternoon I checked out our CVS tree -- all 300 Megs.... Yes -- I was able to switch to ZSH, and access CVS via SSH without installing a single piece of software (other than creating a zshenv with CVSROOT etc set).

Next day I started a build, and after a couple of minor hitches (differences with FIND and RM, and PERL in the wrong place (bin not local/bin), I had a clean build. Took a little while, but by the end of the afternoon I had a ATG Dynamo server running our web applications....

Amazingly simple. Everything just *WORKED*.

My only problem is that Java based disk access is *VERY SLOW*.

I did some basic benchmarks against my Toshiba Tecra (650 mhz). The Mac (450mhz) during Memory and CPU based processing ran about the same speed as the 650mhz.
However disk access was twice as slow as the laptop -- anyone got any ideas ? Recall I installed on a pre-existing HFS+ disk that had OS9.1 on it. Can anyone recommend a disk tuning utility ? Should I rebuild from scratch with a different disk format?

In Summary -- OS X 10.1 rocks if you want to use Java 1.3 in a Unix environment - project Builder looks sweet , though I haven't played with it. 2 easy days work and I had a new development environment. I think it took me a month or so with my Redhat 6.2 on that Tecra.

All I want now is a Quartz/Carbon based Emacs :) oh yeah, that and a Titanium powerbook so I can trash that fscking Tecra :-)

Winton