WinUAE + Shapeshifter + Install MacOS

[direktorn]

Hi,
I'd like to install MacOS 8.1 from scratch from WinUAE but I do not think that works I have made an .iso of my retail 8.1 within a real mac and used that in WinUAE. I have assigned uaescsi.device in shapeshifter but no success. I do not belive WinUAE can handle mac ISO files. I have also tried system 7.5.3 as a emulated DF0 but they are in .IMG format and not .ADF and I do not think that will work either..
 
How could I install an os within WinAUE and Shapeshifter?

[direktorn]

I got it working, there where an issue with  WinUAE not correctly mounting the iso on the Amiga side. I didn't remember that Mac disks normally mount as "unknown" on the Amiga but they mount so after mounting a standard ISO9660 disk and switching to my macdisk it all went well.
 
The only problem I have now related to GFX modes. As WinUAE cant display 15 and 24 bit modes I'm stuck with AGA or Windowed (b/w). Has anyone worked out a way to solve that?
 
I have even tried 8-bit modes but my screen is just blank (white).

[direktorn]

I've done it. Though it was about 15 years ago. Pretty straight forward OS install, if I remember correctly.

You ran WinAUE 15 years ago?

[direktorn]

Wouldn't an emulated Mac run faster if done from Windows rather than inside WinUAE? I can't see the reason for emulating a Mac inside of another emulator, unless it is just for fun and nostalgia reasons.

Sure, but can you mention one that has Ethernet support, that is stable etc. The only emulator i know of is SheepShaver and it crashes the emulator if you launch Netscape for example.

[direktorn]

It's not a full emulator: it doesn't emulate the 680x0 CPU or the Mac custom chips. It's uses virtualisation techniques if I'm not mistaken, so Mac OS software runs natively on the Amiga CPU & chipset. Correct me if I'm wrong.

It emulates graphics, I/O, Sound, SCSI, Harddrives, ROMs so it is by definition an emulator. It does not have direct access to the CPU so there is a layer in between (task) that takes cares of things. A modern term would be hypervisor.

[direktorn]

No, it doesn't emulate any of those things. It patches the Mac ROM and replaces the hardware drivers for the Mac hardware with drivers for the Amiga hardware, and of course it has direct access to the CPU.

I have to agree to disagree. Lets leave it there.