Amiga OS4 on old (PPC) Macs

[giZmo350]

@AeroMan

There's no way to update a PPC macmini. It's a bummer! But I'll bet someone will get it working on the 1.42ghz machine sooner or later.

Mac Mini forum HERE....

[DBAlex]

@kickstart:

Try 5 and try holding down both mouse buttons on the mouse to get to the early boot menu...

Try the same with 4 too.

[If at any point the boot halts just press enter... Also have you tried waiting? It does take a while after the black screen for the kickstart to pop up...]

Alex. :-D

[kickstart]

Still black screen with 5 and both mouse buttons pressed

This is a 1,42mhz one

edited: Using 4 option obtain an error screen with something like a debug error, anyway, its needed 512mb of ram? mine is 256mb

[DBAlex]

@kickstart

Hmm, its probably not the right firmware revision then...

You are only holding down the mouse buttons when you see the black screen right?

I'm gonna have another play with it myself in a sec.

Alex.

[redrumloa]

Resize the pictures please, or just make links to them. Way too big for a forum posting.

[Jeff]

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!
Jeff

[giZmo350]

OK, The installer got pretty far copying files. It stopped at "About to build the copy of the OF tree - press any key"

Is this going to screw up my MAC OS installation that's already on the mini HDD if I continue? I don't want to do that!

 :-?

[Johan Samuelsson]

installer?
it just reads the files into memory.

[giZmo350]

OK, well the routine says that it's copying a bunch of stuff and I got worried! SO, if all goes well I should get the requesting workbench screen right? I simply pressed option 1 and enter. Should I select some other option (1 thru 6) to get the "Amiga Early Startup Control" screen? Do I need to then select "BOOT" to go on from there? Do I need the OS4 CD to get to the floppy animation screen?

[Raffaele]

DBAlex wrote:

PHWEW! When my brotehr who was checking the internet told me that Alex succeded I could not believe in him. I believe It was joking with me...

But I understood Alex bootloaded ENTIRE AmigaOS 4.0...

Also when I come back home I totally in a comatose state, and when I saw first screens I want to cry of joy, but I also feared for DBAlex... I think that someone could had sued him for running not-legal copy of AmigaOS 4.0...
I suggested him to remove all...

When I get more lucid I saw that it is just Kickstart awaiting for oiriginal OS 4.0...

However I send you 3 Private Messages Alex advicing you...

Well... It was a nice night and full of good news, after all the bad situation I had in my family recently...

I need to see some good Amiga news for the new year, really I want for something really new and exciting. And these news are coming...

I read three or 4 times all the threads about this success of DBAlex, I also answered all threads but I still need some sleep or I will collapse.

Good Morning for you all and good night for me...

[BooBoo1200]

With all that was going on I forgot to say Well done DBAlex:-)

Would I be correct in saying any MacMini with a G4 at 1.5Ghz would also have the upgraed Radeon 9200 at 64MB not 32MB  

[Amigaz]

So does this installer actually let you partition the drive and install OS4 or is it just a thing to show "it can be done, you can boot OS4" like a live cd?

The video is gone btw. was it removed by Amiga inc?  :-D

[motorollin]

It just gets you to the kickstart screen. It's only a matter of time before someone works out how to boot an OS4 install CD.

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moto

[samo79]

@DBAlex

Your video doesn't work, link corrupted ...

http://www.lightwaredesign.co.uk/os4_on_mac_mini.AVI

[motorollin]

I suspect he took it down to avoid repercussions from AInc.

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moto

[humppa]

The video is gone btw. was it removed by Amiga inc?  

Maybe Alex got scared after he got the 3 PMs from Raffaele (which he wrote in a "comatose state") and accordingly removed the video.  :lol: