October 06, 2006
Feeling masochistic? Run OS X on your 680x0 Mac.
Authored by Dan Moren at 10:37 AM
Category | Hardware » Vintage
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It’s only a matter of time before Apple drops support for the G3 processor. There’ve already been some questions about the forthcoming release of 10.5 and the Beige G3 towers have long been unsupported. But nobody asks about the real disadvantaged users here: I mean, what about 68040-based Macs? What if you want to run a modern operating system on your Centris or Quadra?
Well, it’s possible. Sort of. Using a combination of Linux, PearPC, and sheer derring-do, user danamania got OS X running on a Centris 650. The Centris boasts a 25MHz 68040 processor, which emulates a roughly 0.05MHz G3 under PearPC, 68MB of RAM, and a 4GB SCSI drive. He used a 1.5GB image of a Panther install created on a PC (after a 3GB image failed to copy, due to a 2GB file-size limit), and managed to get Panther to start up.
Unfortunately, his estimations conclude that boot time will be about a week. Almost makes me want to drag out my Mac LC. Almost.
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Now, the challenge is to get it running on my Performa 410.
16MHz (68030)
40MB HDD
4MB RAM
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October 6, 2006 04:15 PM