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DingusPPC - Mac Emulator In Progress

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First post, by kataetheweirdo

Posted on 2020-11-22, 18:06

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So, me, maximumspatium, and a few other people are currently working on a PowerPC Mac emulator meant to accurately emulate the hardware.

As of now, this emulator is in early development. It can play the boot-up jingle, but crashes somewhere before reaching the blinking floppy disk screen due to unimplemented CUDA commands (i.e. getting and setting the 6805 address) and interrupts not being fully implemented.

We're also working on implementing a more efficient interpreter.

This emulator also only supports recognizing Old World ROMs, so iMac, iBook, and other New World ROM Macs are not yet supported.

You can see the progress being made over here.

Reply 1 of 5, by benjamin91609

Posted on 2020-11-25, 20:39

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But we have Sheepshaver, which is like the best PPC emu

Reply 2 of 5, by kataetheweirdo

Posted on 2020-11-26, 21:55

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Sheepshaver is not bad, but it definitely uses a lot of hacks to work and even directly hijacks Toolbox calls. Basilisk II works in much of the same way. The aim of DingusPPC is to partially avoid this.