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MacOS X could become the solution many are looking for: simple GUI (and tons of quality software) with stability (& features) of UNIX. Summer of 2005 the news made it, MacOS-X will be available on Intel processors; and mid of August the first (unauthorized & patched) disk-images of MacOS-X x86 became available, and run on PC with SSE2 and SSE3 capability, amazing - after all the years of wishful thinking! ;-)

1. MacOS X
2. MacOS Classic & Unix
3. Misc. Mac

MacOS X is most promising to bring the best of GUI and best of MACH kernel and (Free)BSD userland together, and the recent developments have shown it is worth it.

Apple: MacOS X Primary site	BSD & MacOSX First part of seris of articles	Usenix2000: Unix and Mac OS Environments (MacOS X) Research paper
OSXTalk.Com MacOSX news site

MacOS-X on x86

Native: obtain a (illegal) copy of tiger-x86.tar.gz, which is a patched developer version of MacOS-X for x86 in order to run on VMWare, but it also works on a real PC (!!). Uneasysilence.com: MacOS-X on x86 Win2OSX.net or apply for a development system, just $999 (2005) incl. a x86 machine, quite worth it. OSX86 Project.org or wait until there is an official x86 release sometime in 2006, likely not running on "normal" PC Emulations: PearPC PPC Emulator for i386 PearPC.net Community site QEmu Another Emulator: PPC, x86, ARM, SPARC

MacOS 2. MacOS Classic & Unix

To run MacOS (System 0.x - 8.x) under Unix, BeOS or even WinXX:

Basilisk II: MacOS for Unix/BeOs/WinXX Open source MacOS 68k emulator (requires MacOS ROM)

compile it, get yourself the disk-image (e.g. MacOS 7.5.5), and the MacOS ROM too (either 512K or 1MB).

Basilisk II under Linux, MacOS 7.5.5

Select in "Volumes" the disk-image (*.dsk), and in "Memory/Misc" reference the MacOS ROM (e.g. Quadra.rom), and click on "Start" and you are done :-).

ROMs & Disk-Images

EmulateMac Lot's of downloads (MacOS 5.x-8.x & ROMs) and div. tools MacDimension: MacOS MacOS Systems (0.x-8.x)

Recommendation: Acquire MacOS 7.6.1 (link may or may not work), it has Open Transport built-in, there you can go into "Control Panel" and setup TCP/IP. Hint: use another IP (in case you use "Manual Assignment") than your host (Linux, BeOS or WinXX box). Usually the system-disk is too small (the one you downloaded from the net), create a new disk in Basilisk II (e.g. 40MB) and add it, copy System-Folder over (you may redo the alias of "Control Panel" in the System Folder), and you have your new disk with System on a larger disk. I installed Netscape-2.02, Netscape-3.04 and Netscape-4.08 (install them NOT on the system disk, but another one, e.g. Scratch which in my case I used 100MB); this way you can exchange the System disks (e.g. MacOS 7.5.5, 7.6.1 and 8) and your applications can be started from the other Scratch disk.

MacOS 8 works, but is unstable with Basilisk II 0.8. MacOS 9 or MacOS X may never work with 68K CPU (which Basilisk II is emulating).

Linux PPC & MacOS

If you have an PPC and have Linux running, it doesn't prevent you to have MacOS in a window under Linux: Mac on Linux (PPC) Run MacOS under Linux on a PPC (great feature!)

MacOS 3. Misc. Mac

AppleHistory.Com History of the Apples

EveryMac.Com Everything about Mac

AppleFritters.Com History, prototypes, etc ...

                                                                                                                                   

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