It worked remarkably well because most Macintosh programs did not use any direct hardware access but used the Apple provided official APIs.Īnother anomaly was that Amiga was dead as a commercial gaming target by then, and so did not receive a port of Doom - but you could run the Macintosh version of Doom:Įarlier, there was even an older Mac emulator for the Amiga which tried to go the legal route by having a little hardware board you could put Mac ROMs into. System 7 was developed for Macs that used the Motorola 680x0 line of processors, but was ported to the PowerPC after Apple adopted the new processor in 1994 with the introduction of the. This is how things worked and remained pretty compatible from something like System 3 up through the end of Mac OS 7 (7.6.1). (Not that anybody did that, they just copied the ROM onto a floppy.) I think the preferred emulator was Shapeshiter. With the release of version 7.6 in 1997, Apple officially renamed the operating system 'Mac OS', a name which had first appeared on System 7.5.1's boot screen.
:-)īut the copyright situation was even thornier then - to start the emulator you'd have to copy ROM images from a real Mac, and the only legal way to do that was to buy a Mac.
Or maybe people used to working on Macs for magazines etc just weren't prepared to switch platforms on a whim.)
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(And Photoshop on Windows must have been faster than both Amiga and Mac pretty much immediately, but if I recall correctly it wasn't as capable on Windows right then. Once Photoshop was released for the PowerPC, this anomaly ended. System 7 Teknik Informatika 3040 .id System 7 System 7 Screenshot of Mac OS 7.6.1 Company/developer Apple Computer OS family Mac OS Classic. The first PowerMac was released in 1994, but it had to emulate the 68k to run Photoshop, which had a serious performance hit. How could this be? Photoshop 4 used 68k instructions, and the fastest 68k based Mac was the Quadra with the 68040 CPU. (Roughly equivalent to a Pentium - a bit slower clock but slightly more powerful instructions.) The version of OT that is supplied with Mac OS 8.0 onwards is more robust than older.
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Some 'Road Apples' such as the 5200 may not be able to run Mac OS 8 without a ROM upgrade the Mac OS installer CD includes a utility to check whether it can be installed. :-)Īt one time, up to at least 1996 the fastest Mac for running Photoshop, was not a Macintosh at all, but an Amiga tricked out with a graphics card and a CPU upgraded from the standard 68020 or 68040 to Motorolas last entry in the 68k line, the 68060. From Mac OS 8.0, Open Transport is built-in to the operating system. 8.0 added a number of features from the stillborn Copland project, while leaving the underlying operating system unchanged. Mac OS 8.x was very much a stop-gap version which was brought out to try and keep the Mac OS moving forward during a very trying time for the platform. I suddenly felt the old Amiga fanboi inside of me pop up. Mac OS 7.5.5 Mac OS 7.6 Mac OS 7.6.1 Mac OS 8.