Re:SheepShaver: macOS run-time environment for BeOS and Linux
by rbanffy on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @12:04PM
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Haiku should be portable to it, but that's a lot of computer for an OS that is not daily-driver grade.
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Re:SheepShaver: macOS run-time environment for BeOS and Linux
by memsom on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @05:25PM
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Haiku will never support legacy BeOS PowerPC apps though, as that makes no sense. PEF is hard to support even today.
Re:SheepShaver: macOS run-time environment for BeOS and Linux
by rbanffy on Thursday March 23, 2023 @06:22AM
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It’s a shame, but it’d probably be easier in a VM.
Re:SheepShaver: macOS run-time environment for BeOS and Linux
by memsom on Thursday March 23, 2023 @09:12AM
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There is also currently no way to even virtualize BeOS for PowerPC. I wish there was. The closest I have seen is a MESS that could boot and show the boot splash screen (this is a 3d Be logo on PowerPC, the one you see on Intel was only ever on Intel.) The dingusppc have BeOS as a possible target for their Mac emulation, but it is not there yet. I'm pretty sure QEMU can't boot BeOS because BeOS requires an old world ROM and it requires a PCI Mac with a 603 or 604 processor - so a 4400, 7300, 8500/8600, 9500/9600 and a few others (including clones) work - but nothing NUBUS and nothing post the first motherboard revision of the 8600/9600. The later x600's have a different motherboard and do not work. Nothing that shipped with a G3 and nothing with new world ROM.