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Making your own "Macintosh" running classic Mac OS

at 8:39 - 31st, December 2025
I posted about this in the chat, but I thought I'd actually post the video as well. for about 150US you can get a working pc running classic mac os 7/8/9.



I'm curious how it'll run some of the heavier games. I've got one running on my laptop which has an core i3 gen 11 with 20 gigs of ram and it works, but not great. I haven't tried it with any rts or action games, mainly just with Strategic Conquest which is an old game my dad used to love.

I have dosbox working on my ryzen 5600x at home to play simtower, but this might be the better option as that version feels pretty limiting. We'll see.

 

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Alex Alex
News comment 1 | User comment 5053 | 8:39 - 31st, Dec 2025


I'd be happy without all the plastic and just buy a small case and mount for the thing to be honest.

Alex Alex
News comment 2 | User comment 5053 | 8:51 - 31st, Dec 2025


Also found this pretty in depth tutorial on installing sheepshaver on different platforms.

Sheepshaver tutorial

Alex Alex
News comment 3 | User comment 5053 | 15:51 - 4th, Jan 2026


I bit the bullet and ordered me a pi 3 b+ with starter kit. should be interesting to see what I can do with it.

Alex Alex
News comment 4 | User comment 5053 | 18:10 - 15th, Feb 2026


Apparently, you cannot alter the clock speed of the emulator. ARM is good at emulating the ppc, but it's not the exact same instruction set so it needs to run instructions at a hightened tick or something making it near impossible to get 1:1.

really a pity. Mac OS 9 will run, but very slow. And running "modern" games on this will be impossible. Mac OS 8 is much faster, and the 68k based Mac OS 7 should be nearly 1:1.

Really disappointed.

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