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First post, by MustiFB82

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I have a question to experienced forum members.I want to thank all of you for your support and opening such usefull website. When I first saw it, I wanted to build a vintage PC to remember and work like old days. I also found many answers to my questions which rare people can talk about,especially in Turkey.

Years ago(30 years ago) my middle-school friends have tried OS/2 and MACOS at their Pentium 75/100 PCs. They were talking about how to install MACOS to IBM PC instead of MAC-PC.

Is it possible to do that with old hardware(from 1990s) to use MACOS operating systems in IBM PC compatible platforms without problem?

I have a AMD K5-133 PC and finally I installed Win 95 OR2.1 but due to problems(or unfit to bare) I could not install MS-DOS and Win 3.x.(My IDE-HDD is 6GB)

If any of you tried and succesfully implemented, do you recommend me to try?

Because I always wondered about old OS/2 and MACOS operating system since my childhood.

I have also another PC Pentium 2.8 HT with ATI 9550 Graphics and 80 GB HHD with 512 MB RAM.

By the way does MACOS have USB support? If yes, which one?

Best wishes.

Reply 1 of 3, by wierd_w

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With emulation, classic macos can run on a vintage pc. I used to use FusionPC for that.

(Note for mods: It is my understanding that the author of fusionpc made the software free to use, which is why I am providing this link. It requires a classic mac system rom file, which I have no intention of linking to.)

https://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/fusion

For a short while, Apple's OSX was built for intel processors, and 'hackintoshes' were possible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_transition_ … ntel_processors

Since Apple's pivot to bespoke arm silicon, this is no longer possible with recent builds of osx.

You need to be more specific on how, and what lineage, of macos you are intending to install, and the specific pc hardware you intend to install it on.

For USB support, you need OS9 or later. By that point you are better going to OSX hackintosh territory.

The newest macos that can run on fusionpc (on dos), is Macos8.1, Which is the last version that could run on a 68k motorolla processor. OS9, and early versions of OSX need a PPC processor, which vintage emulators do not support.

Reply 2 of 3, by wierd_w

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For your target hardware (pentium 75, mid 90s), I believe 'classic 68k mac' is your top end.

Your options would be Basilisk II on windows, and FusionPC on DOS.

I'd suggest FusionPC, even though it lacks MMU emulation, on something this old.

For Basilisk II, I'd suggest a pentium II/III era system, on an NT flavor OS.

Basilisk II can present USB devices like they were SCSI devices, which will permit classic mac OSes to partition, format, and use them. (Modern macs can read these sticks when inserted.)

FusionPC can 'also' expose SCSI to the emulated macos, but needs an aspi driver. *SOME* dos USB disk drivers out there operate like aspi drivers, but to my knowledge they dont support hotplugging.

Reply 3 of 3, by Jo22

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The original vMac had a DOS version, too.
It can run System 7.x at the highest.

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