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OS Emulation Extravaganza, OS X On Down

Posted by timothy on from the top-this-if-you-have-the-ram dept.

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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  1. Been there done that... by pridkett · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

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  2. Just for the hell of it. by BrookHarty · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.