Re: Status of PowerMac G5 Emulation support for Mac99

[BALATON Zoltan]

Hello,

On Sat, 25 Jan 2025, marines_96_ringing@icloud.com wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> I am writing to you to inquire about the development of Mac99 to support 
> the G5 for emulation on QEMU. As I’m interested in attempting it.
>
> Looking at the source code, it seems the chipset is the biggest thing 
> missing. I was wondering if these items are in development, or if there 
> is a technical reason for lack of progress?

Cc-ing the maintainer of that part who might have more information on 
this.

Depending on what you want to run it might work or need some more work. 
qemu-system-ppc64 -machine mac99 should be able to run Linux but won't 
boot MacOS X or MorphOS. Another part that might need some fixing apart 
from machine emulation is OpenBIOS which does not correctly describe the 
G5 mac99 machine so OSes that rely on it may get confused. The actual Mac 
ROM does not run as it needs more hardware to be emulated.

The reasons for no progress is not technical just nobody has time for it 
so nobody cared to do anything with it. If you want to try fixing it I 
have some quick intro that might help at:
https://codeberg.org/qmiga/pages/wiki/DeveloperTips

Regards,
BALATON Zoltan

> If you could let me know, I would appreciate it.
>
> Thank you for your time.
>
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