Tuesday, October 05, 2004
Progress.After much messing around with various builds of the emulator executable and tinkering with a proxy server, I now have the ppc mac running with net access and native CD support. Better yet, it's faster than it was too, now thinking it's a 1.15ghz G3 mac.
It has to be said, this is the most interesting emulator I've come across. Like... there's a whole emulator community out there anyway, but this one has a community all of its own. There's around a hundred people working on the emulator itself, many producing different builds, yielding different results. This is handy in that you can often find a build that suits your machine very well, but it can get very confusing when it comes to configurations, coz no two emulated machines turn out to be the same, and one persons fix doesn't work for another.
The best example of this is setting up net access. There's a billion and one totally different walk throughs explaining how to do it, all completely different, and all very confusing.
To finally get it working, I had to install a virtual ethernet card onto my pc which allowed the mac to talk to the pc... even though they're both in the same box. Having done that, even though the mac could "see" the internet, it couldnt connect, or rather, it couldn't find a dns server. It'd probably work just fine if I knew what IP number to stick in what box, but since there's 3 different areas needing different IPs (my pc local area network, my virtual ethernet and the mac itself) I'm damned if I could figure it out. Anyway... the bodge fix of setting up a proxy server on the pc and routing the mac through that worked just fine... though I do worry a little about what that does for security.
Conversly, getting native CD access was an absolute doddle.
All I did was download a new build, copy 2 lines from a config file, and bam... CD access on the mac.
I doubt many people who read this blog are actually very interested in emulators, so I wont bother putting up a billion links to all the places I found the necesary info, but just in case there's anyone who's up for a challenge and wants to try it, this is a good place to start. As for finding an OS to put on it... well, legally speaking, you could download a free version of linux or whatever for power macs, buy a copy of OS X, or if you're not bothered about legalities, find a preconfigured disk image on one of the many peer to peer networks. I hear there's a good one on limewire, though obviously I can't confirm that.
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Steve 5:06 AM [+]
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