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Mac OS Copland

Project Alice

Project Alice

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I have been really curious about Copland, and I've been wanting to try it out. I might do so the next free time I get.
I just wanted to know if anyone else on here has ran it, and on what? It technically pre-dates OS 8, and the only Pre-G3 PowerPC I have doesn't work. The one that does is a 68k mac, and it can't run anything north of 7.5.5 anyways.

So, anybody know if Copland will run on a G3? I have two Beige G3s, as well as a Wallstreet PowerBook that works. Aside from those I don't think I have anything that can run it lol. And emulators suck.
 
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wiki says the following:

Hardware requirements​

According to the documentation included in the Developer Release, Copland supports the following hardware configurations:[41]

  • NuBus-based Macintoshes: 6100/60, 6100/60AV (no AV functions), 6100/66, 6100/66 AV (no AV functions), 6100/66 DOS (no DOS functions), 7100/66, 7100/66 AV (no AV functions), 7100/80, 7100/80 AV (no AV functions), 8100/80/ 8100/100/ 8100/100 AV (no AV functions), 8100/110
  • NuBus-based Performas: 6110CD, 6112CD, 6115CD, 6117CD, 6118CD
  • PCI-based Macintoshes: 7200/70, 7200/90, 7500/100, 8500/120, 9500/120, 9500/132
  • Drives formatted with Drive Setup (other initialization software may work; if the user has trouble, he or she can try reinitializing with Drive Setup 1.0.4 or later).
  • For builds up to and including DR1, the installer is set to ensure the user has System 7.5 or later on a hard disk 250MB or greater.
  • Monitors connected to either built-in video or a card set to 256 colors (8-bit) or Thousands (16-bit).
Looking at MacGarden, that seems to be about it. I haven't seen much about tweaking it to run on other hardware but it might be possible. The 9500 seems to be as recent as it gets.

You might have luck in a virtual machine. - QEMU looks like the best bet.
 
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weckart said:
wiki says the following:

Hardware requirements​

According to the documentation included in the Developer Release, Copland supports the following hardware configurations:[41]

  • NuBus-based Macintoshes: 6100/60, 6100/60AV (no AV functions), 6100/66, 6100/66 AV (no AV functions), 6100/66 DOS (no DOS functions), 7100/66, 7100/66 AV (no AV functions), 7100/80, 7100/80 AV (no AV functions), 8100/80/ 8100/100/ 8100/100 AV (no AV functions), 8100/110
  • NuBus-based Performas: 6110CD, 6112CD, 6115CD, 6117CD, 6118CD
  • PCI-based Macintoshes: 7200/70, 7200/90, 7500/100, 8500/120, 9500/120, 9500/132
  • Drives formatted with Drive Setup (other initialization software may work; if the user has trouble, he or she can try reinitializing with Drive Setup 1.0.4 or later).
  • For builds up to and including DR1, the installer is set to ensure the user has System 7.5 or later on a hard disk 250MB or greater.
  • Monitors connected to either built-in video or a card set to 256 colors (8-bit) or Thousands (16-bit).
Looking at MacGarden, that seems to be about it. I haven't seen much about tweaking it to run on other hardware but it might be possible. The 9500 seems to be as recent as it gets.

You might have luck in a virtual machine. - QEMU looks like the best bet.
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Yeah I might have to use a VM...I sure wish I could get my 7500 to work. I got it to almost boot an 8.6 CD once, but it was only one time. It usually won't output video at all.
 
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Project Alice said:
Yeah I might have to use a VM...I sure wish I could get my 7500 to work. I got it to almost boot an 8.6 CD once, but it was only one time. It usually won't output video at all.
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Is that with onboard VRAM? It might have faulty VRAM sticks, funky RAM or the CPU clock multiplier on the card might be set wrong.
 
RogerWilco6502 said:
Think I could run it on a PowerBook 1400? It supports System 7 and OS 8, so I'd think it might work.
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It's not one of the listed supported setups but it is around that era. It might be an issue of driver support, though, as I don't see any notebooks in the hardware list.
 
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I couldn't run Copeland if I wanted to - since the TI G4 only supports 9.2.2, but I could use sheepsaver to do it.
 
So how to install Copeland in G4 titanium ?? Sheepshaver ? Where can I find PowerPC version of Sheepshaver to run Copeland ?
 
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I like your Baltimore Colts avatar btw:, so, how do I install this Copeland on my 1 ghz Titanium ? Do i use sheepsaver ?
 
Amethyst1 said:
It's on winworld in the Copland section but only builds D7E1 and D11E4 are actually Copland.
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I see, I just ran a beta of OS 8, or what was left of Copland when they scrapped most of it.

Seems we need a disk image prepared by the Drive Setup from one of those builds, these versions of Drive Setup don't seem to work under SheepShaver.

So who has a real Mac that can run this version of Drive Setup and create a disk image we can install Copland too?
 
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