Mac OS 8 8.1

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Mac OS 8 8.1

Apple Mac OS 8 was another major overhaul of the OS from the earlier Mac OS 7. It added a new Platinum visual theme, a multi threaded Finder, better virtual memory, and many customization options. 8.5 and later require a PPC CPU. It was followed up by Mac OS 9.

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idkwhat

does not work just says i copied a piece of a disk to the original
what happened
i used basilisk ii

jonirob

@idkwhat
It works fine in Sheepshaver, just remember to mark the iso as read only.

jonirob

Mac OS 7.1 to 8.1 now install and run in qemu-system-m68k-MACOS-alpha.
Seen here running Mac OS 8.0.

SomeGuy

M68k? Very nice. I forget, can QEMU run any of the PPC versions?

jonirob

QEMU can run PPC versions 9.0.4 to 9.2.2 but only M68K for earlier versions.
qemu-system-m68k-MACOS-alpha can also now run A/UX 3.0.1.

DPlex64

How do you get it to run?

jonirob

@DPlex64
Check out the forum at the E-Maculation website, there's detailed instructions and links.

DPlex64

I tried the guide, but it's unable to boot.

jonirob

@DPlex64

Here's my install qemu.bat:

qemu-system-m68k-MACOS-alpha.exe ^
-L pc-bios ^
-M q800 ^
-bios Quadra800.rom ^
-boot d ^
-drive file=pram-macos.img,format=raw,if=mtd ^
-device scsi-hd,scsi-id=0,drive=hd0,vendor="SEAGATE",product="ST225N",ver="1.0" ^
-drive file=MacOS8.0.img,media=disk,format=raw,if=none,id=hd0 ^
-device scsi-cd,scsi-id=3,drive=cd0,vendor="MATSHITA",product="CD-ROM CR-8005",ver="1.0k" ^
-drive file=MacOS8.0.iso,media=cdrom,if=none,id=cd0

DPlex64

Tried the same configuration, still gets stuck.

jonirob

@DPlex64

Try with this ISO

https://winworldpc.com/download/c398e280-9d1f-0725-c382-11c3a6e28094

DPlex64

Thanks, got it to install now.