It has 68mb of RAM, and I've swapped the 25mhz 68LC040 for a real 33mhz 68040, as well as clock chipped it to run atģ3mhz. I've finally pulled my old LC475 out of the closet, and got it up and running. The Intel transition pretty much killed the need for an OS X/PPC emulator for non-Mac platorms since it was far easier to get Mac OS X running natively than emulate anything.įast forward to today. It was usable in a pinch but you weren't going to be happily running Photoshop for OS X in Windows very effectively. PearPC came alongĪnd not only allowed PPC emulation, but Mac OS X! Sadly, on the PCs of the time, it was very slow. A PPC Macintosh emulator had been vaporware from several other commercial companies for a long time. When it came out, PearPC was a pretty big deal.

I'd always meant to try this myself, being an emulator geek and kind of twisted when it comes to making computers do things they were never supposed to do. Sadly, she ran into problems and was unable to complete the boot. The original thread where she gave a blow-by-blow account is still up at Slashdot of Dana(mania) attempting to boot 10.2.8 on a 25mhz Centris. Back in the mists of time I once even ran my web/mail/ftp/etc/etc server under Debian Linux on a Quadra 840AV.Īround about a decade ago, a story blew up on the on places like GEEKtechnique and even Everythingįrom various versions of Macintosh System Software to Linux and A/UX. I've been something of a fan of vintage Macintoshes for awhile now, and I've spent a lot of time messing with getting various ones running, on the internet, and otherwise trying to make them do things. Booting Mac OS X on a 68k Mac Booting Mac OS X 10.2.8 on a Macintosh LC 475

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