BeOS PowerPC emulation finally become possible: BeOS? · Issue #35 · dingusdev/dingusppc · GitHub
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Yes. I haven’t had time to test it yet but it is a big step forward.
I think a BeBox emulator would be possible now based on Dingus.
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I backed up much of BeBits and BeOS development on my old Zip drive and then to a portable hard drive. Lot of the sources of certain code was linked to a developer’s website so wasn’t local to the BeBits server. I was testing Haiku’s BeOS backward compatibility a few years ago (dang!) which is pretty good besides a few closed-source commercial games.
BeOS PPC emulator? Interesting. I was watching a video of someone running BeOS R4.5 on a G3 updated PowerMac 7300/200.
There is a Hobbit emulator called “Hobbitizer” here-
Of course that was before PowerPC BeOS but it does run Hobbit version of BeOS
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Does it actually boot?
AFAIK yes. It’s been a while since I looked at it.. I remember the author posted screenshots of it booted into BeOS but I don’t recall if I got it to boot.
You can find hard drive images for Hobbit BeBox here https://fsck.technology/software/Be/
And this site has some helpful info on restoration (an amazing archive of old tech!) http://typewritten.org/
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Oh that looks nice!
Would you share the binaries you just made, please?
I managed to build it on Linux only. Not ported yet to Haiku. On Linux it can be built like any regular Rust program.
I figured as much, thanks!
Now to find a machine with free storage space…
I’m going to need your help a bit with it cause I I’m getting warnings all around and the resulting binary doesn’t work…and I don’t think @puckipedia is still around on the forums.
Which version of rust did you use to compile it?
Which machine are you using for emulation and which version of BeOS? Have any patches been applied to the source code?
I tried the PM7300 and BeOS 3 - the boot process stops at the floppy drive. With BeOS 5, it couldn’t find the BFS partition on the CD.
There are no BeOS R3 or R5 for Hobbit BeBox. Hobbit was already abandoned at that time. You are probably confusing it with something else.
Yes, I made a mistake. I thought it was a screenshot from the DingusPPC emulator.
It was possible to launch it, but the mouse is glitchy and the emulator crashes during disk formatting.
Have a look on one of the Mac abandonware sites. There is a pre prepared image.
Hi, where you found it? Does it conatain any documentation about hardware or software with this and\or about that device?
After a long hiatus I’m back in a position to do more BeOS PowePC stuff finally.
I have not accumulated 3 working classic Macs, one with an IDE adapter, one with a BlueSCSI Ultra, and the 9500 which is limping along after literally dying for over a year (I believe the PSU died.)
Along the way I have had an 8500, which died due to capacitor damage, a replacement 7500, which is technically not compatible till you put in the processor card from the dead 8500, a dead 9500 that took the 8500 PSU and resurrected like Lazarus. The Umax C500 that was kindly sold and shipped from Germany gain a missing L2 cache chip (that was a long drawn out search) ironically sold by a German seller on eBay.
I still only get a small window to play with these things, but plan is to carry on and probably make some videos and create some software along the way.
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Is this an onboard IDE adapter or a card? If card, what is the model of the card?
The IDE is a hard drive replacement. It’s a PATA drive emulator that uses SD. It’s not as interesting as a BlueSCSI because the SD card is raw file system, not files. So one needs to use dd or whatever to get the filesystem off the card. But it works well. The UMAX has IDE and SCSI.
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