{"id":160,"date":"2023-08-07T07:39:51","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T12:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aflyonthewall.page\/?p=160"},"modified":"2025-11-11T19:18:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T01:18:57","slug":"an-afternoon-diversion-in-macos-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aflyonthewall.page\/index.php\/2023\/08\/07\/an-afternoon-diversion-in-macos-9\/","title":{"rendered":"An Afternoon Diversion in MacOS 9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To satisfy a curiosity, and itch an itch that never got scratched (Mac G3&#8217;s were awfully pretty in their day) I tried installing MacOS9 in a virtual machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lo and behold:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" src=\"https:\/\/aflyonthewall.page\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-300x242.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aflyonthewall.page\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-300x242.png 300w, https:\/\/aflyonthewall.page\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-1024x825.png 1024w, https:\/\/aflyonthewall.page\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-768x619.png 768w, https:\/\/aflyonthewall.page\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image.png 1026w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I can&#8217;t decide what I find more <strong>interesting<\/strong>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>MacOS 9 had a version of <em>Internet Explorer<\/em><\/li><li>It was this easy to get running under QEMU<\/li><li>MacOS 9 isn&#8217;t particularly intuitive at first blush<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I followed  <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jamesbadger.ca\/2018\/11\/07\/emulate-mac-os-9-with-qemu\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.jamesbadger.ca\/2018\/11\/07\/emulate-mac-os-9-with-qemu\/<\/a> ; ignored the parts Mac-specific, used QEMU PPC as available in Debian 12 and used the following as my commandline:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>qemu-system-ppc -cpu g4 -M mac99,via=pmu -m 512 -hda macos9.img -cdrom \"Mac OS 9.2.2 Universal Inst.iso\" -boot c -g 1024x768x32 -device usb-kbd -device usb-mouse<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Obviously, substitute in your hdd image file and cdrom install file names.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To satisfy a curiosity, and itch an itch that never got scratched (Mac G3&#8217;s were awfully pretty in their day) I tried installing MacOS9 in a virtual machine. Lo and behold: I can&#8217;t decide what I find more interesting: MacOS 9 had a version of Internet Explorer It was this easy to get running under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retrocomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aflyonthewall.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aflyonthewall.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aflyonthewall.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aflyonthewall.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aflyonthewall.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/aflyonthewall.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"https:\/\/aflyonthewall.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aflyonthewall.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aflyonthewall.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aflyonthewall.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}