Re:BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X
by wokkel on Thursday January 09, 2020 @02:03PM
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Amiga did this in 1985. It's just that for compatibility reasons Apple couldn't do this. Even funnier: the fastest hardware to run old MacOS (68k version) on: an Amiga computer.
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Re:BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X
by Wowfunhappy on Thursday January 09, 2020 @03:10PM
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A non-Apple computer? Was "Hackintosh" (presumably under a different name) a thing back then?
Re:BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X
by reaperducer on Thursday January 09, 2020 @04:28PM
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You didn't need to build a Hackintosh. You could buy legal, officially-licensed Mac clones back then.
Re:BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X
by amatecha on Thursday January 09, 2020 @09:59PM
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Ah yeah I still have my PowerComputing PowerTower Pro! At the time it was a current model, its 512mb of RAM was insane and my friends & classmates were jealous! hahah :)
Re:BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X
by amatecha on Thursday January 09, 2020 @09:58PM
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Check out this video[0], basically an Amiga with an accelerator card potentially makes for the fastest environment to run 68k-based Mac OS (System 7) ...
Re:BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X
by Wowfunhappy on Friday January 10, 2020 @09:40AM
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Whoa, the Amiga is faster even though it's running in a VM!
Re:BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X
by amatecha on Friday January 10, 2020 @05:57PM
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Well, it's more akin to something like Wine where it's not exactly a virtual machine, since the processor instructions are the same. Tho that's about the extent of my understanding.. haha
Re:BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X
by LargoLasskhyfv on Thursday January 09, 2020 @05:56PM
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I sometimes used my Atari ST with an emulator called Aladin.
"Cracked" to work without Mac ROMs. But wasn't really useful to me because of lack of applications (at the time).
IIRC there were solutions like this for the Amiga too.