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I supported Toymods
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 Emulating a mac
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Wed, 21 April 2004 11:12
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Hi,
Seeing as millions of IT doods seem to hide out @ Toymods I thought I'd seek some advice..
My girfriend wants to run a mac-only program for uni on our pc. It's a neuroanatomy atlas (from 1995) which requires system 6.0.5 or higher & 4mb RAM.
From what I can gather, i can either buy a 2nd hand mac, or do this emulation thingo.
I'd rather emulate, so this means I need emulation software, a cd of system 6.0.5 or better, & access to a Mac "ROM BIOS". Ya?
The last bit is what confuses me a bit.
I have to use a 'ROM dumping utility' to copy the bios from an existing mac, right? (Or use the actual rom itself, but that sounds like it costs money, so fook dat)
Should I just get onto the newest mac I can get my hands on for this bios thing? That is, if i obtain a copy of OSwhatever & copy a recent bios to run it with, will it be happy to run this fairly ancient program which was designed for system 6?
Oh, and finally, the site that flogs Softmac seems reasonable, would anyone suggest better software (free of course!) to do this?
Thanks heaps to anyone who a) read all that and/or b) can tell me if i've got this straight.
Nick
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Re: Emulating a mac
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Wed, 21 April 2004 11:50
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Something for os6 SHOULD/MAY run on os9 (classic) I do believe it would be easier to grab a second hand mac.
Then sell your other piece of junk as you will have seen the light and get a new one. 
Seriously, go to www.emulators.com they have a free download to suit win95 to xp, quite small too. go from there.
But once you go mac you never go back!
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May 2002
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Re: Emulating a mac
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Wed, 21 April 2004 13:12
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I think its faster to use UAE (Amiga emulator) and then run shapeshifter or fusion inside of that 
Allan
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Re: Emulating a mac
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Wed, 21 April 2004 13:42
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jeez - i bought a G3/300 for $100 last year
i think a used mac would be easier that trying to get an emulator to work 
see if a mac using friend can run the application under classic (on OS X) or under 0S 9. If the former, then maybe it's time to buy a decent Mac, if it's the later, contact NextByte of someone advertising in MacWorld and buy the cheapest G3 or powermac you can afford.
Some of the really old apps did stuff that breaks OS8 and beyond - particularly apps that try to write/talk directly to hardware - like video apps, games, etc
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I supported Toymods
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sydney.au
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August 2002
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Re: Emulating a mac
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Wed, 21 April 2004 14:21
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man just trawl some mac site for an OLD g3 with os6/7
$50 bucks tops
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I Supported Toymods
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melbourne.vic.au
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May 2002
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Re: Emulating a mac
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Wed, 21 April 2004 15:16
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But for PC, VMWare does everything but Mac  , Does anyone know any good Mac Emulators programs as I'll be interested as well? Don't want to get a Mac as I have too many PCs in the house and not enough space
Cheers.
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Re: Emulating a mac
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Thu, 22 April 2004 04:18
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[quote title=ZZT231 wrote on Thu, 22 April 2004 01:16]But for PC, VMWare does everything but Mac , Does anyone know any good Mac Emulators programs as I'll be interested as well? Don't want to get a Mac as I have too many PCs in the house and not enough space
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why not some dump some of your PCs?
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June 2003
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Re: Emulating a mac
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Thu, 22 April 2004 05:48
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Yeah, i wouldnt bother with the emulator. you would probably end up paying more anyway. And more time wasted. OS6/7 will work on like an LCII and stuff like that. Those are basically free these days.
As for it working on OS 9, dont count on it. The architecture is so different between the two, that quite often it doesnt work.
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Re: Emulating a mac
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Thu, 22 April 2004 06:27
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Seriously, go to www.emulators.com they have a free download to suit win95 to xp, quite small too. go from there.
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See above for FREE Emu. It's a start
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I supported Toymods
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Sydney
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September 2003
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Re: Emulating a mac
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Thu, 22 April 2004 07:58
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Thanks for the input guys, currently waiting on a friend re a free mac.
Will run the program on some new macs at uni tomorrow & see how it goes, that way if it works on brand new stuff i don't have to worry about what software i get.
Have read a fair bit of stuff on emulators.com, that's the only reason i knew enough to even post in the 1st place
It'd be nice to save space & emulate, but we'll see what happens with the freebie.
thanks again,
Nick
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