[HN Gopher] Running macOS on the Amiga in the 80s ___________________________________________________________________ Running macOS on the Amiga in the 80s Author : marban Score : 30 points Date : 2022-04-17 16:04 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (www.youtube.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.youtube.com) | boboche wrote: | Shapeshifter was epic. Could enrage any apple fanboy around | running benchmarks much faster than stock mac because roms were | loaded in fastram. That expensive Quadra was toasted against my | cheaper A2000 + Fusion forthy at running anything, including | photoshop. | | There was that other board that was supposed to emulate pcs mac | and whatnot that ended up only running macos and vapor, that was | a shame though. Awh yes, Infamous Jim Drew. 30yrs later, still | remember that name... | icedchai wrote: | I remember doing this. Someone from a local BBS mailed me a | pirated Amax emulator (it was patched to load the ROM from disk.) | tejtm wrote: | "Shapeshifter" did it for me, even got myself legit physical ROMS | to have on hand just in case anyone cared. Mac users were shocked | it booted faster than native hardware. Looks like decedents are | still around although superseded. | | https://shapeshifter.cebix.net/ | sys_64738 wrote: | I did this via AMAX. There was a time that the fastest Mac was | slower than an Amiga emulating a Mac. | technothrasher wrote: | To his musing about whether he ever convinced anybody at his high | school that his Amiga was better than a Mac, I can say as a | fellow high school Amiga evangelist... no, you didn't. | karmakaze wrote: | Similarly there was Magic Sac for the Atari ST that could | faithfully run MacOS apps with 640px width vs 512px which made a | big difference alleviating the need to horizontal scroll to see | portrait page width. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-04-18 23:00 UTC)