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I’m often digging into old bitmap font and UX design out of curiosity - and someday hope to revive a lot of these fonts in more modern formats using a pipeline similar to that for ZX Origins so we can get all the usable fonts, screenshots etc. out of them.

One limitation I’ve run into is digging into old Macintosh fonts. While James Friend’s PCE.js puts System 6 and System 7 at your fingertips when it comes to later 7.5, 8 or 9 the site doesn’t have you covered as PCE doesn’t support PowerPC emulation (it handles Motorola 68000 and Intel 8086 processors).

This is a shame for me as that’s where the interface started diverging by adding color and some more interesting fonts. Additionally some third-party fonts are distributed in .sit (StuffIt Expander) or only work with later Mac OS versions.

Enter QEMU

Thankfully QEMU has us covered. It’s an open-source emulator that unlike regular virtualization tools is quite capable of emulating completely different CPU architectures from ARM through to MIPS, PowerPC, RISC-V, Sparc and even IBM’s big s390x z/Architecture.

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With such a wide variety of options and settings available you can imagine it will require some digging through the user interface and you’d be wrong. There is no GUI however and the third party ones that exist mostly seem to be from 10 to 2 years out of date and many don’t support Windows at all. The only “up to date” one I found - QtEmu - only supports configuring x86 virtual machines.

This is a shame as although I love the command-line for its scriptability when it comes to exploring valid combinations of options the command-line is mostly awful (the IBM AS/400 command-line and prompting system excluded).

You could try and build this yourself but Stefan Weil has you covered for pre-built QEMU Windows binaries

Please note that Mac sound support is missing here. There are “screamer” forks but the only binaries available are for Mac OS X so you’d have to build it yourself and there will probably be a whole lot of hoops to jump through.

Obtaining an OS install image

To install Mac OS 9 we’re going to need a disk image/ISO to install from.

The nice people over at Mac OS 9 Lives have a Mac OS 9.2.2 Universal Installer ISO which is pre-configured and easy to use - it also conveniently includes a few extra tools and apps you’ll need.

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While Mac OS is copyrighted this image has been up for over 6 years so I like to think Apple are turning a blind eye in that people who want to use their legacy stuff can do so without expecting support from Apple - win-win. They also don’t charge for their Operating Systems instead it’s “free” with the hardware and I still have a MacBook Pro 15” so I won’t feel bad about using it. Your mental mileage may vary.

Creating a machine & installing Mac OS 9

First off create a new folder to put your machine config into. (Windows won’t let you stuff it into Program Files). I’ve chosen c:retromac.

Now let’s create an empty hard-drive image file:

This creates a virtual hard-drive that can grow up to 5 GB in size and will allocate disk as it needs (copy-on-write). Return tape mac os. After installation this file will grow to about 660 MB.

Now before we go further remember the keyboard-shortcuts:

  • CtrlAltG as you’ll need it to get the mouse back
  • CtrlAltF to get you in and out of full-screen mode

Now lets start the installer:

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This specifies that we want to use:

  • a PowerPC G4 900MHz CPU -cpu g4
  • a PowerMAC based Mac with USB support -M mac99,via=pmu
  • 512 MB of RAM -m 512
  • Our hard-drive image -hda xxx
  • Our Installation CD mounted -cdrom xxx
  • Boot from CD -boot d
  • 1024x768 32-bit display -g 1024x768x32
  • a USB keyboard -device usb-kbd
  • a USB mouse -device usb-mouse
  • SDL display buffer -sdl

There are many other useful config switches available for the PowerPC emulation if you need to troubleshoot or tweak. The final item, SDL, is required because the default GTK emulation, while faster, has major problems on Windows trying to keep the mouse captured.

You should now be presented after a few seconds with a ReadMe. Just close that with the top-left window control then click into the Drive Setup window, select <not initialized>, press the Initialize button then confirm it with the default on the subsequent Initialize window.

You might now want to click the “untitled” hard drive icon that’s appeared on the desktop, wait a few seconds and you should be able to rename it. Typically Macintosh HD is a popular choice.

Head up to the MacOS9Live CD icon, double click it then double-click on Apple Software Restore. Postico 1 5 8. The following Window will appear. You can accept all the defaults or just change Volume Format to Extended - I did this just in case I want to try and mount the image on my MacBook at a later date.

Clicking Restore, then confirming the dialog will give you a progress bar that is comically fast for installing an operating system (via software emulation no less). Deepwood ash mac os.

Now you’ll need to head to the Special menu and choose Shut Down.

Using our virtual Mac OS 9

Finally, we want to start our freshly created machine without booting from the ISO. The command line is mostly the same just omitting the ISO and boot-from-CD options:

You’ll probably want to put that in a shortcut icon.

Here's a PowerMac G4 'Quicksilver' Icon (128 KB) I put together.

When it boots for the first time you’ll get a Register With Apple “wizard”. Just press WindowsQ to quit this and get to that Platinum desktop!

Head to the Control Panel’s Monitors applet to set the screen size/resolution you want. You might also want to head into Appearance applet’s Fonts tab to turn off anti-aliasing so you can enjoy the fonts in their pixel-glory. (You can also switch from the revised Charcoal front back to the classic Chicago font here). You may also have to switch screen-resolution again if you see some odd artifacts/missing/doubled pixels when turning it off. (There’s a quick resolution changer on the control-strip in the lower left, it’s the one with the checkerboard effect)

Remember to always shut-down correctly! Use the switcher at the top-right to “switch” to Finder then go through that Special, Shutdown process each time. QEMU will close several seconds after it’s complete.

On your hard-drive you’ll find an Applications folder, dig into Internet Utilities, Classilla folder and you can launch Classilla which is a port of the Netscape browser made in 2014 (based on Netscape Navigator 1.3.1 Nokia N90 port). It was a valiant effort given how diferent Mac OS development was prior to Mac OS X - there were no Unix libraries/support so ports were difficult and most applications were written in MetroWerks CodeWarrior - the “classic” Mac OS version was discontinued in 2002.

Still Classilla is much better than IE 5.5 which fails to do anything at all. Google works, for example, but many sites don’t render at all because of the push to later versions of SSL the browser does not support.

You can find a ton of old Mac software at The Macintosh Repository but there are no more capable browsers.

Still, it’s a fun environment to play with and it’s nice to have 100% accurate references to Geneva, Chicago, Monaco, Espy Sans etc. as most “conversions” tend to be hand-converted and mistakes are a-plenty. I’ve done a few conversions myself this way on FontStruct and know how easy it is to make mistakes when working from screenshots especially when it comes to spacing between letters.

It’s also nice to see an old friend again. Despite regularly finding myself on retro machines and emulators spanning 8 and 16 bit machines I don’t have (or have the space for) a classic Mac and emulation has been difficult. I think I last used Mac OS 9 in 2000 on an iMac at work before we put the Mac OS X Public Beta on it (I was a bit NeXT/OpenStep fan and wanted to see what they had done to it!)

My thanks to James Badger for his general article on Mac OS 9 on QEMU.

[)amien

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- 2006.11.17

Verizon's lines were down again for just aboutthis entire past week, so I apologize for Part 3 of our SATA sagabeing a little late. I am grateful for Verizon finally fixing thephone lines so my Internet service can continue unabated. Now wecan close the SATA report with a healthy dose of good news.

I had already tried every conceivable trick to get the Power Mac 7600 to boot into OS X fromany drive connected to the OWC 2+2 SATA PCI card. Swapping cables, swapping powerconnectors, connecting just the PATA (parallel ATA) drive and SATAadapter, connecting just the SATA drive, adding the OS X10.3.9 SCSI hard drive in tandem with either, and then both thedrives connected to the SATA card, but I didn't have any realsuccess.

A Clean Start

Instead of continuing to beat my head against the wall, Idecided to make a fresh start. With the 30 GB PATA drive connectedto the OWC SATA card and the OS X 10.3.9 SCSI drive connectedto the internal bus, I booted the 7600 into Mac OS 9.1 from thePATA drive.

Then I copied some important data onto the SCSI drive, popped ina Mac OS 9 CD, and rebooted from the CD. I erased theOS 9 partition on the 30 GB PATA drive and reinstalledOS 9 onto this 'minty fresh' HFS+ volume.

The installation went flawlessly, and I shut down the computerafter checking to make sure everything I needed was transferredback from the data residing temporarily on the SCSI drive. Iremoved the SCSI drive and swapped the 320 GB SATA hard drive backinto its slot in the 7600's chassis.

Booting the computer was a success, so with fingers crossed Iselected the OS X installer image from the PATA drive's secondpartition.

The 7600 rebooted, showed a bunch of white text on blackbackground (including something about loading an SATA driver!), andthen proceeded to grant my wish by showing me the OS Xinstaller! Disk Utility recognized both the PATA 30 GB Maxtor andthe 320 GB SATA Seagate, which allowed me to reformat the drives intheir entirety, not just erase volumes already formatted inMac-friendly HFS or HFS+ partitions.

Clearly, I could not do much with the Maxtor, as it containedboth the current startup disk and XPostFacto from the OS 9volume. However, the Seagate was fair game, and I formatted the 320GB drive into four partitions. I installed OS X onto the first45 GB partition.

The install ran flawlessly, if not a little slowly. Giddy withmy success thus far, the installer automatically rebooted the 7600after installation was completed.

And then my frown was right side up again (uh, meaning I wasn'tsmiling anymore) after watching my fresh installation kernel panicbefore getting anywhere interesting. I figured XPostFacto mightneed to control the startup activity, and maybe the installer'stomfoolery with those settings was not appropriate.

I Missed Something

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But wait, I was starting to think I missed something obvious.Big slap to the forehead! I was not able to install the necessaryXPostFacto components to the SATA drive before rebooting into theinstaller because it didn't contain any recognized volumes.

Luckily XPostFacto allows for this possibility and has a handyInstall Menu selection.


XPostFacto Install Menu

Consequently, I rebooted into Mac OS 9 by holding down theoption key, changed XPostFacto's preferences to use the newOS X installation on the 320 GB Seagate SATA hard drive'sOS X partition, installed the necessary XPostFacto components,and rebooted.

Grey screen, lots of icon spinning, but the startup drive wasnever located. Booting back into Mac OS 9 we go!

My next guess is that maybe the OS X installation didn't goso well after all. With XPostFacto, I changed the startup disk backto the OS X installer image on the PATA hard drive's secondvolume.

It Worked! Just Once..

Boy was I surprised, because the installer didn't pop up afterreboot - instead the 'Welcome to OS X 10.3 Panther' movie andmusic appeared. Once again giddy with excitement, I dove intoconfiguring the various user account and tweaking settings.

Satisfied with my success, I restarted the 7600.

On restart I received the grey screen and lots of icon spinning,but the startup drive never appearing. None of XPostFacto'ssettings yielded any success in booting from the OS X volumeon the SATA Seagate.

Booting back into the OS X installer image on the PATA wassuccessful, and subsequent attempts to get a working OS Xvolume on the SATA Seagate never went any further from initialsuccess followed by a 'missing in action' OS X startup volumeafter rebooting.

Not one big 320 GB volume, not having the first volume under8 GB in size, and nothing else in between could coerce the7600 to repeated success when booting into OS X from the SATASeagate.

You Can Boot OS 9 from It

Even more curious to my feverishly racing mind, I made ainteresting discovery in my various experiments. Once the OS Xinstaller has formatted the 320 GB SATA, Mac OS 9 can beinstalled and booted from any HFS or HFS extended volume upon thatdrive.

Very weird, but I negotiated a compromise out of this curiousmess. I made the first partition on the 30 GB PATA hard drive myOS X boot volume, and the second remaining as the 10.3installer image.

The 320 GB SATA became four partitions representing data, datacopy, Mac OS 9 boot, and miscellaneous. The first twopartitions are 139.9 GB in size, the Mac OS 9 partition 4.9 GB, andthe miscellaneous partition is a healthy 13 GB. For whateverreason, the OWC 2+2 SATA PCI card can boot into Mac OS 9 or Xfrom the PATA drive, but only Mac OS 9 from the 320 GB SATASeagate (perpendicular storage) hard drive.

Unfortunately, I don't have any other SATA drives on hand totest whether this problem is related to the Seagate SATA harddrive, endemic to all SATA drives on Old World Mac systems, or someother quirk with my setup. However, if one were to understand thelimitations, even Old World Macs can benefit from the low cost andflexibility of the OWC 2+2 (Internal/External) SATA PCI card incomparison to competing SATA cards. Also, Low End Mac readers willbenefit from not having to go through all these hoops, as I havealready done so for any interested party.

Quick Summary

  • Hard drives (whether adapted PATA or native SATA) attached tothe OWC 2+2 SATA PCI card are recognized by the classic Mac OS onlyif previously formatted with HFS or HFS+ volumes or if booted intoa Mac OS X installer via XPostFacto.
  • Formatting attached SATA drives is not possible via theclassic Mac OS Drive Setup application, but individual HFS or HFS+partitions can be erased by the Finder's Erase Disk command.
  • Once booted into OS X, either from an installer or an actualinstallation, Drive Setup can format the entire connected SATA harddrive, not just erase partitions. Although, Drive Setup can do thelatter as well.
  • Adapted PATA drives are capable of booting into Mac OS 9or Mac OS X, but I have only successfully gotten SATA drivesto boot into Mac OS 9.

Feel free to email me any questions, comments, or relatedinformation about SATA drives in general. SATA technology is stillnew to me, as my current crop of computers only natively supportsSCSI and/or PATA. I'm learning on the fly here, and it's quitepossible that I have overlooked some easy answer to the admittedlymuch smaller list of caveats with this SATA setup on legacyMacs.

I'm this close to giving an unequivocally favorablerecommendation to this card for any Mac with PCI slots, but only ifthe users understand the remaining possible issues with suchunsupported configurations. If I uncover more information, I'llmake sure to report back in an SATA epilogue.

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Further Reading

  • Old Power Macs and SATA Not a Marriage Madein Heaven, 2006.11.03
  • Musings on Low-end SATA Cards in PCI PowerMacs, 2006.11.06

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