OS4 on Pear PC ????

[humppa]

Adam Kowalczyk from ACK has already confirmed that he got OS4 running under QEMU.

[Piru]

@humppa

Oh really. Someone must have been busy:

The QEMU PC System emulator simulates the following peripherals:

-   i440FX host PCI bridge and PIIX3 PCI to ISA bridge
-   Cirrus CLGD 5446 PCI VGA card or dummy VGA card with Bochs VESA
    extensions (hardware level, including all non standard modes).
-   PS/2 mouse and keyboard
-   2 PCI IDE interfaces with hard disk and CD-ROM support
-   Floppy disk
-   NE2000 PCI network adapters
-   Serial ports
-   Creative SoundBlaster 16 sound card
-   ENSONIQ AudioPCI ES1370 sound card
-   Adlib(OPL2) - Yamaha YM3812 compatible chip
-   PCI UHCI USB controller and a virtual USB hub.

What is the definition of "running" here?

[humppa]

@Piru

QEMU supports various target platforms, not only x86 (that you listed). QemuPPC already runs Linux PPC on x86.

What is the definition of "running" here?

Not sure. At least Adam managed to boot it. You could try to modify a Linux kernel in order to access physical hw devices.

[Piru]

@humppa

QEMU supports various target platforms, not only x86 (that you listed).

Right, my mistake. The powerpc systems are:

* PREP (PowerPC processor)
* G3 BW PowerMac (PowerPC processor)
* Mac99 PowerMac (PowerPC processor, in progress)

Thus:

QEMU emulates the following PowerMac peripherals:
- UniNorth PCI Bridge
- PCI VGA compatible card with VESA Bochs Extensions
- 2 PMAC IDE interfaces with hard disk and CD-ROM support
- NE2000 PCI adapters
- Non Volatile RAM
- VIA-CUDA with ADB keyboard and mouse.
 
QEMU emulates the following PREP peripherals:
- PCI Bridge
- PCI VGA compatible card with VESA Bochs Extensions
- 2 IDE interfaces with hard disk and CD-ROM support
- Floppy disk
- NE2000 network adapters
- Serial port
- PREP Non Volatile RAM
- PC compatible keyboard and mouse.

Yet, to fully be able to boot, drivers for these (either PowerMac or PREP) HW would be needed.

You could try to modify a Linux kernel in order to access physical hw devices.

I'm not sure what the point of the emulation would then be, though.

[djbase]

Nothing is impossible...

[jj]

how easy is that screenshot to be faked with somone with a A1 and pc

[humppa]

how easy is that screenshot to be faked with somone with a A1 and pc

Especially when the OS4 screenshot used for the Photoshopping can be easily found on the net.  :-P

[narcea]

Nice image but the OS4 ISO image is actually a Howard Stern clip.

This is clearly seen if you use Gnome's Nautilus file browser.  

Otherwise in Windows you'll need to change the file extention to um... .AVI I think.

It's a joke.