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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: bon on July 15, 2003, 11:20:26 AM

Title: Mac OS on Amiga One?
Post by: bon on July 15, 2003, 11:20:26 AM

Is there any way/hack to make Mac OS work on an Amiga One? I don't mean through Linux, I mean directly!
I suppose it won't be impossible and if it's done, even unofficially, it will be a great push in selling Amiga One Systems!

Title: Re: Mac OS on Amiga One?
Post by: olegil on July 15, 2003, 11:38:11 AM

You would need to write a HAL, and the only people sitting on MacOS sourcecode are Apple, who are NOT friendly towards clone systems.

You do the math, please.

Windows NT supports 3-4 PPC motherboards, that doesn't mean the AmigaOne can run NT. Why? Because there's no HAL written for it, that's why.

Title: Re: Mac OS on Amiga One?
Post by: bon on July 15, 2003, 12:07:22 PM

I agree with you. It's not something easy, but (I think) it's not impossible. I mean, there were Mac clones in the past, werent they? What if you could "fool" the MacOS that the AmigaOne is actually a Mac? I'm just saying an idea...

Title: Re: Mac OS on Amiga One?
Post by: olegil on July 15, 2003, 12:16:25 PM

There were Mac clones as long as Apple supported them. When Apple withdrew their support, the Mac clones died.

To make MacOS think the AmigaOne is a Mac you need an emulator, like MOL (which emulates the hardware for bit-banging pieces of code) or at least OpenFirmware and a set of drivers. That set of drivers is what you would normally call HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) and since you need to be Apple to have the proper source code, I'm still saying it will not happen.