Subject: Re: Mac OS software under (YD) Linux
From: Andrew B. Arthur (arthur99@global2000.net)
Date: Wed Dec 15 1999 - 21:38:12 MST
>From: Nick <napalmfreak@mindless.com>
> Does anyone know of a Mac box (something that allows you to use tha mac
> hardware to run mac apps under linux) or a good mac emulator under linux?
> Im not really picky about OS version, I mainly want to use it for some
> small apps I use under mac OS over the net and theres no ports that I can
> find (The Palace visual chat). If someone knows of a port that would be
> great too thanx.
Your first choice most likely would be Mac-On-Linux, a fairly well featured
Mac OS runtime for Linux. It has it's issues, such as it requires a special
kernel (or kernel patch) to run on 603ev Macintoshes, and it doesn't support
serial ports (yet), it may require a ROM file for some Macs) or no support
for X Window Mode (it runs in a separate console -- usually #8 in Linux).
All and all, if you can live without serial ports support, this works great!
www.ibrium.se/linux
If you need serial port access or to run it in a Window check out Basilisk
II. It is a full featured Macintosh 68k emulator, so most things can run on
a 68k Macintosh will run well on this emulator. I was just playing with it
the other day, and was fairly impressed with the speed (after all it is
emulating a totally different processor). The downside of this is it
requires a ROM image from any 68k Macintosh except for 128, 512, Plus, SE,
PowerBook, Mac II, IIx, SE/30 and Powerbooks. All Mac Classic ROMs are
supported. A Quadra or a 32. ROM image works nicely -- you get full 32-bit
color, and the ability to run Mac OS 8.1.
www.pona.net/basilisk/
My YDL package of it:
http://members.xoom.com/bsa89/test/BasiliskII-0.7-2.ppc.rpm
Finally, a project similar to the WINE Win32-compatible APIs, is the Mace
project, which is a free implementation of Mac OS API. Still in early
development stages, it has trouble with many apps and simply doesn't work
good. See more about this in the future.
http://vmac.org has links to it.
Thanks,
Andrew B. Arthur |http://members.global2000.net/~arthur99
arthur99@global2000.net|http://linuxonline.org
(G)AIM: AArthur PPC |http://osonline.org/mac
PS: Could you please spare all of the quotes, and instead just give us one
and/or give us a URL were we can find them all :)
For some of us, bandwidth == gold.
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