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Re: Amiga OS4 on old (PPC) Macs
« on: December 05, 2007, 03:50:43 AM »
Although something like this would probably be the only way I would ever run OS4, I can't see it ever happening from a legal standpoint.

One could certainly hope for a backroom solution however:-D
 

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Re: Amiga OS4 on old (PPC) Macs
« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2007, 04:36:58 AM »
Fact of the matter is someone claims to have had some flavor of OS4 running on a Mac Mini. I doubt we will ever see that actual version. I'm sure there aren't many copies of that disk, and it doesn't look like they will be selling that version any time soon.

It seems we have no idea how different the currently shipping Classic version of 4.0 is from the one they used on the Mini. I'm sure that it is sufficiently different that the average person(s) won't have any chance of making it work at all.

Perhaps someone who is a talented coder, both on the Amiga and old PPC Mac's, will give it a go if someone like this;

A) Had all the needed hardware and software including Amiga's, Mac's, and a copy of OS 4 classic.
B) Even cares enough to try it at all
C) Has the time to even start trying such a thing

As much as we all would like to see it happen the only thing the rest of us can do is sit back and wait to see what happens if anything. We are all used to waiting forever for impossible solutions to problems or we wouldn't still be here.

I ordered my copy even though I don't have a PPC card. I probably could drop a grand on a 10 year old card if I wanted to, but I have elected to wait at least a few months after some copies make it out in to the world and see what happens.

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Re: Amiga OS4 on old (PPC) Macs
« Reply #2 on: December 31, 2007, 02:45:26 AM »
Great Work! I would like to see the video but permission denied. Do you have a working link to the avi?

Thanks and Happy New Year!
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Re: Amiga OS4 on old (PPC) Macs
« Reply #3 on: January 01, 2008, 04:50:54 AM »
Tested on another machine and failed. I didn't think it would work, but it was worth a try. G4 Digital Audio 533;

CPU clock freq description set to 1500 as above
Boot from CD slb_v2_mm and chose option 3 (best results) slb crashed totally.

slb_v2_mm boots all the way up to the point where it says

Killing OF
Loading ExecSG and then goes no farther.

Oh well, sounds like 08 might be an interesting year.