Holy Crapo!
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Holy Crapo!
Really Ive been reading the site for a long while now. And Ive seen coutless times people say its impossible, buy a Mac and be done with it. Well Its happened, slow and painful, but it happened. Lets hope Mac dont get wind of this and want to shut it down. Anywho, this annoucment made we register so consider yourselves honored.
Holy Crap!
The ROM from the 7500 might, but the ROM image must be 4 MB or SheepShaver will report an error with the size. When I extracted the ROM from my PowerBook 3400c using GetROM, I had a 3 MB ROM image. So I tried "ROM Grabber" (with extentions off) from the Mac-On-Linux downloads page and got a 4 MB image. SheepShaver will report if the ROM is incompatable if\when you manage to get to that point. As this project is in it's infancy, a list of working and non-working ROM images might be benificial to Gwenole.
http://cs.alfred.edu/~maurojc/papers/powerpc.html
http://cs.alfred.edu/~maurojc/papers/powerpc.html
Ok, I reassembled my 7500 PowerMac, disabled Virtual Memory, booted without extentions and extracted a 4 MB ROM image. Getting it off the Mac proved to be easier said then done. My USB Zip drive on my Windows machine died, so it ruled out bringing it over on a Zip disk, the Mac wouldn't access the network, and DropStuff that I had on there wouldn't split the file into floppy sized pieces.
So finally, I find that I had a copy of "ZipIt" which is a shareware Mac Zip tool and was able to transfer the image with 2 floppies compressed. When I tried to extract it under Windows it gave me a corrupt error because ZipIt isn't 100% ZipLib compatable. In order to get it extracted I had to download a version of ZipIt, stick it into BasiliskII, boot my emulated 8.1 68k, and extract it!
Hopefully SheepShaver is compatable with the image, I compiled it and I will need to test it on my Linux box. I will do so tommorow, see if I get the "happy mac" or the floppy with the "?" on it.
So finally, I find that I had a copy of "ZipIt" which is a shareware Mac Zip tool and was able to transfer the image with 2 floppies compressed. When I tried to extract it under Windows it gave me a corrupt error because ZipIt isn't 100% ZipLib compatable. In order to get it extracted I had to download a version of ZipIt, stick it into BasiliskII, boot my emulated 8.1 68k, and extract it!
Hopefully SheepShaver is compatable with the image, I compiled it and I will need to test it on my Linux box. I will do so tommorow, see if I get the "happy mac" or the floppy with the "?" on it.
It worked!
Well, I got the ROM onto my Linux box and tried to use SheepShaver to load it. First it displayed a series of vertical black and white lines, then it turned grey. After a semi-lengthy pause I got the flashing "?" on the disk picture and was able to move the emulated mouse around. I'll my 8.1 system from my Basilisk II HFV and see if I can run the graphing calculator. I'll have to do this under VMware though, since my Linux box has less then 100 MB of space left.
In case someone is keeping track of compatible ROMs, you can add PowerMac 7500 to it.
In case someone is keeping track of compatible ROMs, you can add PowerMac 7500 to it.
stuff
If you call me at home, I will give you head. But only the ladies. Except if I am a woman, in which case I will give head only to the men.
ya?
I'm not the one posting the rom on the web...
If anyone wants to find it, they can find it; I just made it easier. I thought I was helping the people who were having problems copying the image from their Mac.
And the whole bit about the blow job is real mature.
And I do own a Mac - Homophobes
If anyone wants to find it, they can find it; I just made it easier. I thought I was helping the people who were having problems copying the image from their Mac.
And the whole bit about the blow job is real mature.
And I do own a Mac - Homophobes
sorry
ok, well sorry. just didn't understand the issues correctly, or the implications of the post.
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No, it won't work.
Rob Snyder is compiling a list over here:
http://forums.delphiforums.com/stoncold ... ?msg=129.1
"Old World" Macs are what work..
Rob Snyder is compiling a list over here:
http://forums.delphiforums.com/stoncold ... ?msg=129.1
"Old World" Macs are what work..