Hi guys, I am back, it took me a while. Thank you for all your comments. I managed to install the FDTI drivers but it seems that they only allow you to link the Mac serial ports to Windows USB ports. In my case the serial device (MacPile II) is connected to an ethernet bridge, so I do not see how it...

Adespoton, I did set up the ethernet connection bridging the physical ethernet port with the openVPN tap port and the IP of the emulated PPC was in the subnet of the rest of machines of the lab. Also, I check that the ARP table contained the virtual PPC from the host and it was OK. I will investigat...

Hi guys, I have just tried connecting the lab device (MacPile II) to the emulated machine via the AssanteTalk bridge. This is the setup: - The emulated machine is connected to the same network as the host machine. I checked that they are in the same TCP/IP subnet and I managed to ping the emulated P...

Adespoton, that's an interesting point. I have found lots of debate about using raspberry pi for that, but no actual project.

I'l keep searching.

Thanks

Shall I then go ahead and acquire an AppleTalk-2-Ethernet bridge? Can you give me some advice on this? There are a number of such bridges listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LocalTalk-to-Ethernet_bridge You can find used ones on eBay but the more rare they get, the more expensive they are. A...

Hi, Please remember we are still in experimental waters here, so there is no guarantee all of this will work in the end ;-) I see one device as possible solution here: https://www.ecrater.com/p/12689362/asante-asantetalk-appletalk-ethernet-adapter ps: is this the equipment we are talking about? htt...

Hi everyone! It took me a very long time to get back to this project for work and personal reasons. I am very grateful to all the people that have answered so far (Cat_7 and adespoton :) ). The current status is the following: - I am able now to get an IP from the same LAN as the host PC. I followed...

Hi, Thanks Cat_7. I think that my last question was misleading. I am using W10 to run qemu. My question was about if I could emulate something more powerfull than a G4 and run MacOs 9.2. in order to have a faster emulated machine. I had already installed OpenVPN and the G4 can access the internet wi...

Good news! Zipit worked like a charm. I created a CDROM iso with the zip file and I was able to unzip it correctly using Qemu. I have it running on a Mac99 with MacOS9.2. When I run the program it asks to connect a printer to the appletalk device. The printer is not really a printer, but the lab equ...

Thank you very much adespoton. I will try that. The lab was closed for several days for bank holidays and I will try this week. Now, I have a question. How can I transfer the files I would like to execute in the virtual G3 to the disk image? I do not really understand the qemu-img utility. Can I tra...

Hi again, I tried to copy the program that controls the lab equipment using 1.44MB floppy disks. The copy went well and I could see the files from the Mac. However, from Windows I can see all the files, but the executable ones have a size of 0KB (instead of 128KB). I tried copying the files to a pen...

Thanks Cat_7 for your prompt answer. It's encouraging that the G3 with networking capabilities can be emulated, but it's true that I still need to gather all the details of the system setup.

I will find out the details and I will post back soon.

Cheers,

Gabriel

Hello everyone, I would like to ask you for some advice. I've just starting researching in a University Lab and I have been assigned with a wonderful task. We have an old lab equipment (Mac Pile II from he company BioLogic) that is connected to a PowerMacintosh G3 (beige model) directly through the ...