managed to get 7.1 to boot on powerpc
7.1.2 hangs when launching finder, but giving it 7.1's finder """works"""

[screenshot of llm chatbot]

[screenshot seen in a discord guild]
ah yes, the jump to new zealand instruction

why does this look like a @yassie_j shitpost

i’ve made a couple more releases of the tbxi patchset to fix some issues (most notably 8.0 boots fine now and Desktop Patterns control panel works)

a little while ago i theorised that patching the valid machine ids lists in the CHRP enabler would allow the G3 […]

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me: why isnt this working on real hardware? also me: used `add.l (ptr), a0` instead of `add.l #imm, a0`, and on qemu that address happened to contain zero

patchset has been rebased on the very last classic mac os tbxi

I’ve tried a few different versions with this, it can boot 9.1 and it can boot 8.1 with extensions disabled

first successful boot of 7.6 in qemu using an even more romhacked 9.1 tbxi

#macos #classicmacos #chrp

there's no doubt that unix permanently made its mark on the os landscape

some classic rom hacking techniques later and 7.6 boots on my lombard

the system enabler in chrp 7.6 has a version check in boot3

by patching out the version check you can potentially go lower

search for `0C 50 07 60 65 08 08 38 00 02 0B 20` replace with `0C 50 07 60 4E 71 08 38 00 02 0B 20`

here’s 7.5.5

#classicmacos #macos #chrp

low level emulated imac g3
hfs standard formatted partition
system folder from 7.6 chrp copied over
mac os rom fron imac 8.1 copied in
and... it just boots???

#macos #classicmacos #chrp

got CHRP mac os 8 tbxi booting in mac99 qemu

that said, the driver situation is identical to my gc/wii mac os port right now lol

so I’ve been reversing the classic mac os usb stack

and I found a credits easter egg of sorts.

The OHCI controller driver emulates a hub device, which uses the OHCI root hub registers on the back end.

The USB device string descriptors for this emulated hub […]

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