You couldn't press Control-P without two hands (which is a pain in the butt when one of them holds the mouse).

Sure, but how many people used mice back then compared to today? :p

I haven't looked at the source, but you might be able to change SS's input processing so that it traps presses of the Windows keys instead of letting Windows handle them.

You could format a floppy using HFS (even use the PowerMac to format it), copy to it the software required to grab the ROM from the PowerMac, run said software on said PowerMac, saving to the floppy the extracted ROM from said PowerMac, then copy the ROM back from the floppy to your PC. Since you're...

2 GB is 2048 MB, not 2000 MB.

I got hold of a PowerMac 7600 ROM, which SheepShaver claims is unsupported.

From what I have read on this forum it seems that Mac OS < 8.5 is not usable with SheepShaver on Windows. Is this correct? SheepShaver crashes with an "unknown software exception" when I try to boot from either my 8.1 CD or an existing disk image with 7.6.1 installed. I don't have a copy o...

You're asking the wrong person.

The problem is that SoftPC emulates only a 286, and most emulators require at least a 386.

you can change the shell in Win9x from Explorer to any Windows application: simply change the SHELL setting in SYSTEM.INI. :) You can also run the Win95 version of Explorer on Win98, which is many many times faster. This is, of course, one of the things that 98lite can do for you automatically. You ...

Man I love VMware. I wish somebody (not necessary but hopefully the folks here at PearPC) would make a Mac OS X plugin for VMware. It's just an all-around better emulator. But hey, what do I care. I've got it running now with this software just fine. Not going to happen. VMware is a PC virtualizati...

you can use a program such as hjsplit to split the disk image into 650 or 700 MB chunks in order to transfer it via CD

Here's my attempt:


Let's see your efforts.

I tried that without any success.

Thanks for the quick reply. It seems more certain now that my Panther CD image is indeed bad.
Unfortunately I don't have the original Panther CDs so creating my own image is not an option.

Neat. :) Have you tried running Win95 in LinuxPPC using Bochs ? On the topic of multiple layers of emulators, here is my screenshot of Windows for Workgroups running in SoftPC on BasiliskII running on Windows XP: http://10mbit.com/fungus/screens/Windows_for_Workgroups_in_SoftPC_on_BasiliskII_on_Wind...

Next time, use this:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html

LC4 is L0phtCrack, a "security auditing" tool used to decrypt the passwords for Windows NT user accounts.

I have been trying in vain to get PearPC working for days. No matter what I do, whenever I try to boot from my Panther CD image I get this error: [IO/PROM] <Error> can't open boot file The full text of the log is as follows: [CPU/MMU] new pagetable: sdr1 = 0x00300003 [CPU/MMU] new pagetable: sdr1 ac...