What MMX was for the Windows 98SE platform, the Altivec unit was for late Mac OS 9 systems. VirtualBox dropped 3D graphics support for it in v6.1 due to a change on the VGA graphics core under the hood.Įdit: There's another similarity that comes to mind! PPC emulator being made for the current Macintosh platforms.Īll current PC virtualizers start with supporting Windows 2000/XP only.īut even XP support is getting neglected slowly. So all in all, Mac OS 9 is equally neglected in the software world like Windows 98SE.įor both platforms, the software industry hasn't developed any kind of adequate virtualization or emulation.įor example, there's no commerc. In case of Mac OS 9.2, the platform's original Voodoo was the better Voodoo 2, even.Īlso, Mac OS 9.x had games support for ATI Rage IIc and other PCI GUI accelerators through the APIs QuickDraw 3D/RAVE. Now that I think of it, the situation is more similar than I thought first.īoth Windows 98SE and Mac OS 9.2 had their Voodoo enabled games. Just like with Windows 98SE/Me, Mac OS 9.2 is barely supported by modern emulators or virtualizers (existed on PPC). They are a bit like Pentium Pros/Pentium IIs running Windows 9x, emulation wise. While the classic 68000 Macs are emulated acceptable by now -except for the Mac II, maybe-, Apr 2008, 22:43 Primary OS: MS Windows 7 VBox Version: PUEL Guest OSses: Windows XP, Ubuntu 10.Hopefully this will be a MACEM like PCEM. over_clox Volunteer Posts: 167 Joined: 5. With that aside, I hope you enjoy using VirtualBox for all the wonderful things it is capable of. Sorry to burst your bubble like that, but VirtualBox is just a virtualizer and unfortunately will most likely never be able to do what you're wanting it to do. Then again, old school Macs aren't quite as common as PCs either. I'm sure this hybrid nature hasn't helped your understanding of the topic much, but it's not nearly as common to run into a single product that can do both. The benefit is that virtualizers tend to run a lot faster, but the drawback is that they can't be ported to a different architecture like an emulator can.Īpparently, SheepShaver is a bit of a hybrid in the fact that it virtualizes when running on a PowerPC and emulates when running on other architectures. In contrast, a virtualizer is designed to run only on the same type of processor with a compatible language, because virtualizers run as much code as possible directly on the CPU, without much if any translation. ![]() Emulators are capable of running on any processor/platform that the emulator's source code is compiled on and it's the job of the emulator to translate every single instruction of the emulated guest CPU language to that of the host's architecture. ![]() I think you might be a little confused on the difference between a virualizer like VirtualBox and an emulator like SheepShaver. Thanks for your answers ! Crocodil Posts: 3 Joined: 18. If it is possible, i'm sure that a lot of people would be so happy ! Here is an explanation on how to install it on mac os x for example:īut this last one is more complicate to install then VB, and it seems to be forget by its developpers. If you're planning to run SheepShaver on a PowerMac, you probably already have these two items. However, you still need a copy of MacOS and a PowerMac ROM image to use SheepShaver. ![]() SheepShaver is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). There is also a built-in PowerPC emulator for non-PowerPC systems. If you are using a PowerPC-based system, applications will run at native speed (i.e. This means that both BeOS/Linux and MacOS applications can run at the same time (usually in a window on the BeOS/Linux desktop) and data can be exchanged between them. SheepShaver is a MacOS run-time environment for BeOS and Linux that allows you to run classic MacOS applications inside the BeOS/Linux multitasking environment.
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