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?

Comments

Been there done that...

[pridkett]

Maybe not to that extreme...But I've done pretty much the same a little over a year ago with a PowerBook G3 running at 233Mhz. The Windows was on a different system in the shot, but it was through VMWare. MythII was running locally as was MacOnLinux. Now if only someone hadn't stolen that laptop I could still be having fun like that, but that beg's the question, why so much? I actually had a legitimate use for most of that stuff for various work projects, but rarely did I actually need them all at once.

here you see it

It's odd that there's a map in Myth II with the same name as a church I go.

Just for the hell of it.

[BrookHarty]

One extremely bored weekend, on a win2k box..

VMware with redhat linux running UAE
Vmware with Win98SE for games.
BaliskII with net access running os8
WinUAE playing .mods

Then,
Running VNC to my linux box with IceWM with qnx theme.
Running VNC to my wifes 98se box
My linux box mounting my Win2k drives with sharity
My win2k box mounting my linux boxes with samba
Xwin32 running a file manager on the unix box that was looking at my win2k mounted drives.
Netscape exported back.
Running eFX with enlightenment skin.
Exporting Gimp back and viewing pictures on my local drives.
Mirc in desktop mode with transparency.
tclock for looks and to replace the start button.
econsole - I use dterm for win32 now.
And when not listening to mods, Sonique with background visuals.

Lots of cool stuff out there, emulators for almost everything, mame/consoles/64/amiga/atari/mac/apple/etc..
And tons of programs to make windows look the way you want, or even go wild with litestep/graphite/etc..

If your interested in tweaking and shell enhacements check out Shell City daily updates with new programs.
Customize.org and Floachs site are a must visit also.

Re:OK here's my setup

[BroadbandBradley]

http://www.totalimpact.com/G3_MP.html
they also make mac's that fit in a drive bay.
and from the site:
Total mPOWER Product Description

PCI: Single slot PCI card
12.2" x 5.2" PCI 2.1 Interface 32 and 64 bit
33/66MHz Host Interface using Digital 21554 PCI to PCI Bridge (data sheet attached). Processors:
PowerPC G3/G4 a.k.a. PPC 750/7400. Interposer based processor design. Boards are available with up to 4 processors. Features:
Supercaler (3 IPC: 2 Instructions + Branch) G3 Dual 32KB Instruction and Data non-blocking caches Dual MMUs Hardware Tablewalk On-chip debug suppoirt (JTAG/COP) External L2 cache interface Level 2 Cache:
1Mb of L2 "Backside Cache" per processor. Local Bus:
Local 60X bus speed: 66MHz or 83MHz using MPC 106 Rev. 4.0. Memory:
Two 168 DIMM sites, support for up to 512Mb of SDRAM, 3.3V, unbuffered PC-100 DIMMS. Power:
Minimum 30W (processor speed and SDRAM size dependent) 5V 12-18A, 12V .5A Integrated power supplies: 3.3V and VCore are generated on-board, power is drawn from host system power supply. Expansion:
Optional expansion I/O card PCI 2.1 Interface 32 bit/33MHz uses IEEE 1384 (PMC) connectors Operates on secondary PCI bus isolated from host PCI Bus Possible interface cards:
FireWire 10/100 Base T Ethernet Ultra Wide SCSI Custom support for two independent PCI targets any combination of the above. System Requirements:
PC/AT, Power Macintosh 8600, 9500, 9600 Warranty:
One year parts and labor. Part Numbers:
Total mPower 4 X 400 MHz G3 with 128 MB of SDRAM - TPG3-4400-128 $3,200 Total mPower 4 X 400 MHz G4 with 128 MB of SDRAM - TPG4-4400-128 $3,900 Total mPower 4 X 500 MHz G4 with 128 MB of SDRAM - TPG4-4500-128 $4,600

Contact Sales Department for other configurations.

Re:Woop tee doo..

[CmdrPaco]

There is a cool screenshot of emulation upon emulation etc... http://www.kearney.net/~mhoffman/basiliskII/softwi ndows/program_manager01.JPG