I have been thinking that since we can emulate Mac OS, we should be able to run it natively on an actual PC. There is OSX86, but why not do it for the classic Mac OS? We would probably have to convert the 68k code to C. I think this would be a cool project because it would be a classic Macintosh clone but for PC architecture. What would your opinion be about this? Any ideas of how we could convert the 68k code to C?

Oh dear.Because the 68k CPU for which the classic Mac OS is written is completely and utterly different from an Intel CPU.

This makes about as much sense as making an airplane by gluing lots of butterfly wings to a dolphin.

Except it wouldn't be able to run any applications, since all of the classic Mac OS applications would still require the 68k architecture. This is why we have emulation.

I don't know if you're old enough to remember the old "Star Trek project" from the very early 1990's... and while it's already been done, it was ultimately cancelled.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Star_Trek

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yeah, just write an OS that does nothing but start an emulator (SheepShaver, Basilisk) :D