[HN Gopher] Running macOS on the Amiga in the 80s
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       Running macOS on the Amiga in the 80s
        
       Author : marban
       Score  : 30 points
       Date   : 2022-04-17 16:04 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | boboche wrote:
       | Shapeshifter was epic. Could enrage any apple fanboy around
       | running benchmarks much faster than stock mac because roms were
       | loaded in fastram. That expensive Quadra was toasted against my
       | cheaper A2000 + Fusion forthy at running anything, including
       | photoshop.
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       | There was that other board that was supposed to emulate pcs mac
       | and whatnot that ended up only running macos and vapor, that was
       | a shame though. Awh yes, Infamous Jim Drew. 30yrs later, still
       | remember that name...
        
       | icedchai wrote:
       | I remember doing this. Someone from a local BBS mailed me a
       | pirated Amax emulator (it was patched to load the ROM from disk.)
        
       | tejtm wrote:
       | "Shapeshifter" did it for me, even got myself legit physical ROMS
       | to have on hand just in case anyone cared. Mac users were shocked
       | it booted faster than native hardware. Looks like decedents are
       | still around although superseded.
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       | https://shapeshifter.cebix.net/
        
       | sys_64738 wrote:
       | I did this via AMAX. There was a time that the fastest Mac was
       | slower than an Amiga emulating a Mac.
        
       | technothrasher wrote:
       | To his musing about whether he ever convinced anybody at his high
       | school that his Amiga was better than a Mac, I can say as a
       | fellow high school Amiga evangelist... no, you didn't.
        
       | karmakaze wrote:
       | Similarly there was Magic Sac for the Atari ST that could
       | faithfully run MacOS apps with 640px width vs 512px which made a
       | big difference alleviating the need to horizontal scroll to see
       | portrait page width.
        
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