[plug] To emulate or not to emulate...

Craig Ringer craig at postnewspapers.com.au
Mon May 23 13:43:11 WST 2005


On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 11:44 +0800, Carl Gherardi wrote:
> >     Find a way to build a bootable CD that will run on many (perhaps
> >     lower-end) PC's that will play an existing educational title that
> >     was developed in MacroMedia Director 5 in 1997. The title runs on
> >     Windows 3.1, Win95 or Macintosh OS 7.1 and requires QuickTime 2.1
> >     and some fonts.
>  
> >     * To emulate a Macintosh requires an Apple ROM image which is not free
> 
> PearPC http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/ is one which you've probably
> used in this category - i've used it for toying with osx stuff but
> never os <= 9

Not for OS 7, you won't. I don't think it even runs OS9. 

You need Basilisk (if it's an m68k executable) or SheepShaver (if it's
an OS7 - OS8 PPC executable). Both should support bootable CDs fine, and
information on how to make bootable CDs (or images) for MacOS is around.
IIRC you just need a copy of Adaptec Toast that knows how to steal the
boot records off an Apple OS CD.

> If you are looking at a classroom environment, then it may be pretty
> cheap to pick up the required copies of os7 through broken hardware.

Copies of OS7 can be downloaded free from Apple, or at least they could
be once. No idea if that's still the case.

The problem is the ROM images themselves, which are part of the hardware
not the OS.

-- 
Craig Ringer




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