You'll probably get slightly better performance connecting to the block device instead of the character device, though. This is what I put in my qemu.command file: cd "$(dirname "$0")" DEVNUM=`hdiutil attach -nomount mac_hd.sparsebundle | perl -ne'if ($_ =~ /^\/dev\/disk([0-9]+)\...

You should be able to convert it to iso pretty easily in the Terminal. Just type 'df' without the quotes and hit Return, and you'll get a list of disks. Look at the right-hand column, "Mounted On", and find your CD there. Then, look at the left-hand column, "Filesystem", for that...

First thing to do is to determine what format the dotfile is in. It's most likely AppleDouble, but if it's something else (like a straight copy of the resource fork), it's good to know that before wasting time on an AppleDouble copy. What happens if you run the 'file' command on the dotfile? Alterna...

You could probably use this trick to install OS 9 straight from the CD, too, without having to image it first.

8| There seems to be some hidden irony in there that software is being written in Swift 3 to create properly partitioned disk images that are compatible with Mac OS 9, when hdiutil can't get it right. I'm going with the general policy that all new projects I make for the Mac are in Swift 3. More fu...

What I was doing was taking a properly formatted existing image, and copying the driver partition to slack space in the image I wanted to work. Sometimes this required an hdiutil resize of the existing partition first, which was annoying, and didn't always work very well. In those instances, someti...

I'm curious how you were doing it in the Terminal with just two steps. My first instinct was to try that with hdiutil and its "UNIVERSAL HD" layout, but it didn't work. It made the driver partitions, and put things in them, but OS 9 wasn't automounting the disk on the Desktop. The fact tha...

So, if you're like me, you might have some old disk images that you were using with SheepShaver, Basilisk II, Mini vMac, or another Mac emulator that contained things you wanted to test on OS 9 in QEMU, only to find that as a more faithful emulation of the old Mac hardware, QEMU is finicky about dis...

MicroMat's app doesn't have much applicability to 1980s hardware (particularly since it came out just this year and the source file with all the MacCheck references in it was last modified four years ago). It's much more likely to be this: https://support.apple.com/kb/TA30339?locale=en_US&viewlo...

Maze Wars+ would have been the big one. I'd actually been planning to port that to OS X for years—grabbed all the sound and graphic resources, but never actually coded it up. Kudos to you for actually doing it.

Other than Bolo, hmm. Is Spectre out of scope? Strategic Conquest maybe?

Are you sure you're not thinking of Marathon or something? Bolo supported UDP/IP natively, at least in the 0.99.x versions that I had, and I'm pretty sure I didn't need a patch to play over the Internet. The trouble was that most of us at the time were stuck using dial-up modems to connect to the ne...

Must be so painful to use PPC these days.. I am still holding to my Intel Snow Leopard and I feel like most OSX updates done since are so pointless. =( If you are still running Snow Leopard, you should probably disconnect it from the network, as SL hasn't been getting security updates for some time...

There's actually an official version of the Zip format, called Zip64, which can handle large file sizes. Unfortunately not everything supports it. OS X didn't when I tried it, but that was years ago; Wikipedia claims that Yosemite and higher will create Zip64 images (but not extract them, which is o...

I think it is time we ported a QEMU manager to Mac OS X. A QEMU manager is software that can make QEMU actually easy to use. It would allow the user to changes settings with QEMU very easily. Right now all the Mac OS X users are probably using the cocoa interface. It is ok, but the maintainer of th...

I'm not surprised that it'd be slow when running OS X, a rather heavyweight OS in its own right, and then running another OS in a virtual machine inside of that. With that said, when I tried the test OS 9 image from earlier in this thread on my MBP, it seemed not to take that long to boot up and fel...

I've got an old Pismo PowerBook lying around in my closet, and if you have some tests you'd like me to run, let me know and I'll give it a shot, assuming the machine still boots up.

There are many more titles than just Nanosaur and Bugdom that require graphics acceleration to run. Just to name a few: Dirt Bike 3D These all exist in DOS and/or Windows versions. Hi Charles, about anything you replied having a DOS or Windows port, that's not the point. 99% of games had a DOS/Wind...

There are many more titles than just Nanosaur and Bugdom that require graphics acceleration to run. Just to name a few: Dirt Bike 3D Don't know this one, so I'll grant the point. Monkey Shines, Hexen II, Mech Warrior 2 RAVE These all exist in DOS and/or Windows versions. Oxyd No way did Oxyd requir...

I get the same crash you get with your command line. Changing two things fixes it:

• -cdrom os9_test.iso instead of -drive file=etc...

• -m 512 instead of -m 256.

Not sure why this makes a difference, but it seems that it does.

Yeah, even once the full OS distribution is made bootable, there's still going to be basic things like sound and networking that would probably warrant the devs' attention before there'd be time to get to things like 3D acceleration. 3D games were still pretty nascent during the OS 9 era, anyway; I...

Yeah, even once the full OS distribution is made bootable, there's still going to be basic things like sound and networking that would probably warrant the devs' attention before there'd be time to get to things like 3D acceleration. 3D games were still pretty nascent during the OS 9 era, anyway; I'...

Hi, I created a disk of 2Gb, partitioned it in two partitions and copied the content of the Mac OS 9.2.1 install CD to the second partition. Then, while booted from the OS92_test.iso provided by gtxaspec, I started the installer from that second partition. The installers normally bombs out directly...

I wasn't able to get it to work when building qemu from the URL that gtxaspec provided—for some reason, it wouldn't get past the cream-colored OpenBIOS screen. However, the changes must have already been incorporated into the master branch, because I built it from the official qemu distribution (htt...

Wow, this looks amazing. What version of the OpenBIOS binary are you using for this? From the official source, or a branch?

Mac OS wrote a Desktop DB and Desktop DF file (or on earlier OSes, just the Desktop file) to each volume, and this was used to track not only what was in the desktop path, but also all Finder Info comments, and in the Desktop DF case, cached icons as well. Basically, it's where the extended metadat...