Mac OS emulation on PC

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>Do you guys mean macs from the 68040 types? (68010-68040)
>Those are generally referred to as 68k macs.
>This number doen't mean anything apart from that it is the name of the chip.
>The 601, 603, 604(e) (and 750) chips are generally referred to as PPC.
>
>As far as I know, 68040's run 16 bit code, up to system 7.6
>There's a lot of stuff that is either 68k code or FAT (meaning both PPC and
>68k in one file). It took a long time before people started writing PPC
>native code.

All the 68k's run 32 bit code, the main differences were support for
Paged-memory management, L1 caching, math co-processor, and memory access.
The last OS that supported the '040 was 8.0.

There's still a lot of FAT software around but most of the big players have
gone to PPC-only.


>And yes, you can run the Midi versions of Max on that, as long as midi in
>out is well supported by the emulator. To run MSP (with real sound DSP),
>you'll need a) a fast processor and b) a FAT version of Max MSP.
>Max Play is free, and there many MSP patches that can run without MSP even
>being around on your mac. Try those out, you'll find many on the web, and
>you'll know.

Not familiar with it so I can't comment.


>>For audio 040 isn't ok though.
>A real 68040 is not realy up to todays needs, no. But even Protools 4 kan
>do something on it. It's like buying a win311 only PC for audio.
>But if you run win311 on a fast pentium, I bet your soundprogs speed up
>tremendously (if they can handle being run in a 16 bit enviroment, that is).

Yeah, it can be done, but a dog can walk on its hind legs, too.


>You can run a pre 95 version of Mac OS on a PC.
>You can run WinME and NT on a Mac, as it is downwards compatible.

I have an OrangePCi card for my Mac, which is a complete PC on a card. It
has a 133MHz K6 and is running Win95. I can swap files, share the
network/dial-up connection, etc. Very convenient.


-- 
Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
"The Mac Doctor"