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So, why port emulators of outdated computers to the browser? Well, to start with, I feel very strongly about the importance of learning from the past – not making the same mistakes again and again due to a lack of historical perspective.

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Some of the questions brought up included why someone would undertake such a project, and also the legal considerations of including the software ROM required to boot the machine.

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In a recent discussion on Hacker News about emulators being ported to the browser, I drew attention to my own project, PCE.js, which emulates a Macintosh Plus and an IBM PC/XT. Serverless server monitoring for AWS Lambda Hacker News mobile progressive web app built with Reason ReactĪ React Native component which renders HTML content as native views Play around with storing multiple pieces of data in a single number value using bit packing Learn how computers work by simulating them in JavascriptĮxplore HyperCard, the visual programming tool for MacintoshĪ crappy robot arm I built with inverse kinematics-based control softwareĪ tool for uploading and downloading sysex patches/samples/messages to your midi gear from your web browserĪ beat-synced music visualization which controls RGB LED strips via bluetoothĪ development tool for debugging homebrew n64 gamesĪ tool for peeking at the structure of AIFF audio files Tools for adding sound and music to N64 SDK homebrew games Mac Plus/IBM PC/Atari ST emulator in the browser I’m using Quadra 900 ROM MacROMan/1991-10 - 420DBFF3 - Quadra 700&900 & PB140&170.Mac OS System 7, SimCity 2000 & Marathon in the browser I downloaded a HD disk image for 7.5.5 here MacOS 7.5.5 (English) (Clean Copy) - Macintosh Repository My config is mostly defaults, I changed screen, extfs, disk, and modelid (for Quadra 900, to match my ROM). After first boot, I needed to use Monitors Control Panel to change from monochrome to thousands of colors. The installer should see the new image and finish the installation.

This gives you a list of mounted drives, identify the CD-ROM, prob ide1-cd0 You need shut it down, change the boot flag to point towards the HDD instead of CD, then “swap” cd images like this: After the first disk completes installing, the guest will try to restart but boot from the CD again.

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Has a USB tablet pointing device -device usb-tablet (this helps smooth out the mouse pointer capture, making so it doesn’t get caught on the edges of the host window/screen)Īdd this to the list when mounting an image containing software/during installation:įor OS X, I waited hours and hours working off two install CD images.

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Has a VGA graphics card with 64 MB vram -device VGA,edid=on,vgamem_mb=64,xres=1280,yres=720ĭisplay res 720p 32-bit color -g 1280x720x32īoot from HD image -boot c (swap for -boot d when booting from install media) USB-friendly Mac with G4 processor -M mac99,via=pmu -cpu g4 QEMU PowerPC translation with acceleration, required bios: qemu-system-ppc -accel tcg -L pc-bios Qemu-system-ppc -accel tcg -L pc-bios -M mac99,via=pmu -cpu g4 -m 1024 -hda diskx.img -device VGA,edid=on,vgamem_mb=64,xres=1280,yres=720 -g 1280x720x32 -boot c -device usb-tablet The OS 9 install went extremely quickly thanks to an image called OS9Lives, which is set up to directly clone a known working disk with staple apps already installed to your bootable disk image.įor booting the OS X guest, I found the following works best: Installers are readily available out there gestures but I won’t link here just in case there are legal issues. Neither guest OS has working sound, but there’s some effort on the part of the community to fix this with the qemu-screamer fork but I figured I should try whatever QEMU version was native to arm64 before trying this one that seems to be focused on x86 Windows and Mac. Networking is configured automatically! I was able to browse using frogfind, which strips away elements from sites and loads a text-only version friendly to retro computers/defunct browsers. There’s some info in the emaculation forum about installing a usb-tablet extension, but that didn’t work for me and instead leaves the cursor immobile.

BASILISK II ARM MAC OS

Mac OS 9 does not respond well to the Reform trackball, and that makes using it a terrible experience.

The guest thinks it’s a 900 MHz PPC G4, but I’ve never used a G4 that felt this slow before! I don’t think there’s a way to allocate more CPU resources, but I could be wrong. In OS X, Activity Monitor shows the virtual processor basically fully utilized, while on the host, I barely get 115% CPU utilization for the QEMU process. I’ve played around with some of the optional commands that I thought would help out but I’m unsure they’re doing anything (see below for my recommended config). Performance is very slow in either OS 9 or OS X.

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