MacintoshPi - full-screen Mac OS 7/8/9 for Raspberry Pi

[jaromaz]

MacintoshPi is a small project that allows running full-screen versions of Apple's Mac OS 7, Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9 with sound, active Internet connection and modem emulation under Raspberry Pi. All this without the X.org manager, only a multimedia SDL2 library and from the CLI / Raspberry Pi OS Lite. This lets emulators use full power of Raspberry Pi, making them more stable and useful in combination with additional retro-software.

Installation requires running a single script "build_all.sh" on a clean Raspberry Pi OS Lite and waiting about two hours for the packages to compile and install.

The entire MacintoshPi project runs on Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, 2, 3, 3B, 3B+ (at present, it does not run on version 4).
For more information please visit MacintoshPi GitHub project page:

GitHub - jaromaz/MacintoshPi: MacintoshPi is a project that allows running full-screen versions of Apple's Mac OS 7, Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9 with sound, active online connection and modem emulation under Raspberry Pi.

MacintoshPi is a project that allows running full-screen versions of Apple's Mac OS 7, Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9 with sound, active online connection and modem emulation under Raspberry Pi. - jarom...

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[chockimon]

Hi, Thanks for the link. How does the game performance compare to PC emulators like Sheepshaver and BasiliskII? If you're into MAC gaming I would definitely recommend this website. https://macintoshgarden.org/

 

[jaromaz]

But here the same emulators are used Performance is best tested on a full one-hour video below:

Performance is very good except on Mac OS 9, where you have to limit yourself to more static titles. Also, a lot of apps don't run in 9 because they relied on OpenGL (that's SheepSheaver's problem).