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LeoPanthera on Sept 4, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Winamp Skin Museum

For what it's worth, qemu-system-ppc works extremely well on a modern Mac and setting up a virtual OS 9 system is very easy.

And because you're emulating and not virtualizing, it works just as well on ARM Macs, too.

Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/3usNwXz.png

marcellus23 on Sept 4, 2020 [–]

I think his point was that no average user is going to do that -- whereas any Windows user can just double-click the .EXE and it works.

LeoPanthera on Sept 5, 2020 | [–]

I wonder how difficult it would be to make a wrapper program around qemu to reduce this problem to a couple of clicks.

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