Re: MacOS emulation

[T <bobs%thelibertytree.org@localhost>]

On Thu, 29 Jul 2021 09:01:02 -0000 (UTC), T wrote:

> Hello,
> has anyone tried using SheepShaver emulator with newer releases of
> NetBSD?
> The project page mentions it worked (to some degree?) with NetBSD 2.x ,
> but I can't find any evidence of anyone trying this recently.
> 
> https://github.com/cebix/macemu
> 
> This does not appear to be in Pkgsrc (or WIP), but might be useful for
> running PowerPC MacOS 7.5.2 thru 9.0.4 applications on NetBSD PPC ports,
> taking advantage of the PPC instruction pass-through.

To sort of answer my own question, I found some discussion an it was 
mentioned that QEMU is faster so it's likely what should be used. One 
person mentioned using this with QEMU:

qemu-system-ppc \
-boot c \
-M mac99,via=pmu \
-m 512M \
-cpu G3 \
-prom-env 'auto-boot?=true' \
-prom-env 'vga-ndrv?=true' \
-drive file="macos_921_ppc.iso",\
format=raw,index=2,media=cdrom \
-drive file="MacOS_9.qcow2",\
format=qcow2,index=0,media=disk \
-name "Mac OS 9.2.1" \
-netdev user,id=mynet0 \
-device sungem,netdev=mynet0 \
-no-reboot