This may be great for running Windows software on a Macintosh, but what about vintage CPUs that Apple has long ago abandoned for the Intel processor? Virtualization has progressed to the point of allowing non-native and native software to run side-by-side.

This website is not running on a dedicated physical server, but in a virtual server on the same physical machine with other virtual servers. VMWare Fusion and Parallels Desktop are two software packages that offer hardware virtualization, or virtual machines (VM). Or otherwise known as virtualization software, the more common option. However, advances in hardware and OS software available today has made hardware emulation software, Hardware emulation with just software was historically a poor performer. Hardware solutions, such as expansion cards, including the CPU and memory necessary to run the non-native OS and application was expensive,īut offered the best performance. In the past, running non-native software, such as Windows applications on a Macintosh, had its performance trade-offs. So I looked for a software solution that would allow me to recompile the program on my current Intel Macintosh. I no longer had any vintage Macs or software, I no longer have the compiled program,īut I still have a dot-matrix printout of the C source code and resources, which meant that I could enter the source code,ĭefine the resources and compile it, but I needed a compiler to compile with the original Mac ROM. I had written a few programs with Aztec C on an upgraded Mac 512K. you seem to have 8.1 working reliably with Fusion )Īppleshare was the main extensions I had to remove from an installed macos in order to boot mac OS 7.I have been thinking about my past recently and I started reminiscing about my early days of computing, with my first Mac. Moved to Fusion because couldn't get anything beyond 7.55 to work at all on Shapeshifter.Īny Ideas (calling DDNI. I have yet to try 7.61, but as it was crashing in Shapeshifter at the same place as 8.1 is doing now, I suspect it might be something similar. Or, on the other hand, OS8.0 on its own without the update is absolutely fine and dandy every time, so perhaps an extension added/modified by 8.1 is causing the emulated mac to sulk. Bearing in mind I am essentially emulating an emulator could it be the way WinUae is set up ? I am wondering if its something to do with the 'speed' of the Emulation - Sometimes my 68060 config at the start of Fusion is detected as low as 13 Mhz.

As the Extensions are loading, yet on the third Attempt I now have a perfectly Happy Mac OS 8.1 Desktop. I've rebooted the Amiga in Winuae twice since I started this. Now moved to Fusion (choicers chioces lol) Altough Mac OS Bombs when loading the Extensions for 8.1. Well I managed to get OS 8.1 running after a fashion.

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