An idea... maybe a 86x emulator for MOS can be a good thing for a bounty?

Exist some emulator for 86x for MOS, Bochs and DosBox, but they are SLOOOWWW! But I think they are useful...
Many of them are porting, but maybe a bounty can persuade someone to develop a 86x emulator for MOS, capable to use better our OS, and make them ever fast and stable. Or at least porting quickly last versions of these portable emulators, MOS versions appear late respect Linux/Windows releases.

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Think this will be interesting for MOS.

agreed.....what about somehting like PearPC that way we could run OSX from MOS

Yeah, I heard those PowerPC cpu's are really good; shame we don't....ow, hold on a minute

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Maybe they can port MacOnLinux itself for MOS.

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Thats the one I want to see ported most of all! I dont see why it couldnt be done!

MAC on linux would be an incedibly dificult port...........writing somehting from scratch would be easier.....

by the way Acill nice avatar....

would it really be that dificult? i mean how many actual dependancies does it have on linux? besides being designed specificaly for it? why couldn't it be ported....(besides apple would get mad)

Oh no, I shouldn't....but...can't...control.. XpostfaxtO! Darned, another software request post contaminated

XpostfaxtO would be indeed a great pice of software for pegasos but needs first a working OpenDarwin Port. Maybe it could be possible to make a single boot.img that can start a MacOS CD or HDD. Well, we will see.

whats XpostfaxtO?

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Not needed. Since we use the same processor as OS X there is absolutely no sense to emulate it.

Regarding MOM (MacOnMos): It's not possible with the current state of MOS. We need to wait for the appearance of some kind of public Q API, since it will hardly need MMU capabilities which is not handled within the ABox but in Q.

XPostFacto

Its a kind of Wrapper for old Powermacs and Clones to install and run MacOS X on these machines. Because they are no longer supported by Apple.

cool idea how odes it work and how much ram do u need to suport OSX on these comps...must just be a ton

You install MacOS 9 and then XPostFacto or similar like that. Havent any old Powermac for testing. It runs also with 128 MB. Slow but it runs.

I want to port QEmu!!!

QEmu is the fastest X86 Emulator...with that you can be 5 times slower than a real X86 so It's correct
It can be also a "box" where you can run linux applications.


[ Edited by tetuzo on 2005/7/8 21:26 ]

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Not bad but MacOS needs no CPU Emulation and would be faster.

yes for sure, maybe quite native speed

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An teorically how much fast should be a Windows program on Pegasos/MOS whit this emu?
And it can support Direct 3d or OpenGL?

Well, I think only if it's enough fast, should really rock play some 3d game on pegasos trought emulation! :D
(well, maybe today we can't do that well, but sure ly this appen in near future...)

Well, true, i think only to play.

lol first we must have an opengl on MOS before doing a opengl wrapper...But be sure It won't be quick enough to play games but just use office tools :p

tetuzo ia gona port Qemu?!?!?! tetuzo has become my new best friend

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Any software whitout Direct 3d should work (using software rendering at least).

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mmm... depends how good will the emulation... often i run some games for 600/800 ghz CPU, using a Pentium 3 450 Mhz. Well, they don't run very fast, and many options must disabled or reducted for gain fast, but they still playable.

If an emulator can match a discreet fast (or at least... near a minimal requisite), well, playing a "near modern" title should be possible... i think see Blizzard's "Diablo" (or "Diablo 2") on Pegasos via emulation should be... interesting.

hum you can't expect a quick enough emulation to run X86 games...Windows is a ####in slow and fat system...consuming memory and cpu :(

Windows is a pain in the arse, sorry.