Barn Owl
Barn Owl is my WinGPD2 handheld PC running Windows 10 Professional. I’m able to do lightweight gaming (via Steam), use Ubuntu 19 either under the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) or as a stand-alone OS when dual-booted. I was amused to see MacOS 9 running on it just fine… 😁✌🏻
Mishamac (Then)
Mishamac began as a physical iMac G3 back when Apple made beautifully translucent Macintosh G3 in a bunch of fruity colors (tangerine, blueberry, strawberry, etc). I had the Tangerine iMac G3/233 with a 250GB SATA HDD after saving it from being thrown away back in 2011.
Mishamac (Now)
Mishamac as a virtual machine (VM) was started as a “passion project” out of my love for Delta Tao Software’s Strategic Conquest and my adoration of Metrowerks Codewarrior.
- Before there was Civilization or Command & Conquer, Strategic Conquest was an awesomely simple and well-balanced game about expansion and world domination that ran beautiful on the Macintosh SE since System 7.5.5.
- Meanwhile, Metrowerks Codewarrior was a beautiful Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that allowed C, C++, Assembly, and Pascal on the Macintosh. Comparable IDE at the time were Borland Pascal and Borland C, but neither were GUI environments on-par with Metrowerks Coderwarrior back in 1996.
So first I devoted my efforts to getting MacOS 9 to run beautifully and smoothly under Mac OS X 10.15.2 (Catalina), and then I focused on repeating my success under Windows 10 Professional, and again under Linux (Fedora, Ubuntu).
Below are my configuration settings and disk images used for making Mishamac run anywhere:
* MishaMacData.dsk is the 3GB app and storage disk.
Application Files and Disk Images:
- Mishamac-MacOSX.zip (87 MB zipped, 675 MB unzipped) … everything you need to make Sheepshaver work under Mac OS X.
- Mishamac-Windows.zip (66MB zipped, 529 MB unzipped) … everything you need to make Sheepshaver work under Windows.
- Mishamac-Common.zip (2.7 GB zipped, 5.0 GB unzipped) … common disk images needed to make Mishamac boot and have storage.
Mishamac In Action
Screenshots of folders, applications, development tools, and games installed on the Mishamac VM image.
