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Architecture: PPC
Gus 1.0d4
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Dave Lyons and Andy Nicholas |
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Apple |
Download gus-gs-10d4.sit
(9.58 MB)
For System 7.0 - 7.6 - Mac OS 9
For System 7.0 - 7.6 - Mac OS 9
Gus, an Apple IIGS emulator for Classic Macintosh (PPC), the development of which was "unofficially" supported by Apple.
DL above now working, thanks.
MD5 checksum: 8631d662ac124aea6987a99582649959 *gus-gs-10d4.sit
A concise description of this software as quoted from Wikipedia:
While Apple discussed creating an LC plug-in IIgs card, they felt that the cost of selling it would be as much as an entire LC and abandoned it. However, the educational community had a substantial investment in the IIgs software as well, which made upgrading to a Macintosh a less attractive proposition than had been for the Apple IIe. As a result, Apple software designers Dave Lyons and Andy Nicholas spearheaded a program to develop a IIgs software emulator they called Gus in their spare time, which would run on the Power Macintosh only. Apple did not officially support the project.
Nevertheless, seeing the need to help switch their educational customers to the Macintosh (as well as sell Power Macs), Apple unofficially distributed the software for free to schools and institutions that signed a non-disclosure agreement. It was never offered for public sale, but is now readily available on the internet, along with many third party Apple II emulators. Gus represents one of the few software emulators developed within Apple (officially or not), including MacWorks and Mac OS X Classic environment.
Hmm... I'm not so sure about the "readily available on the internet" bit, but here it is.
I've included with this archive, 2 disk image files pre-loaded with SSW 6.x for Apple IIGS and HyperCard IIGS (both are free DL's from Apple) plus a few other goodies such as the game Lost Tribes for IIGS, rEdit (similar to ResEdit) and GShrink, a IIGS compression program and more.
Basically; Extract the archive onto anywhere on your pre OS X Mac (or SheepShaver) and double-click the "Gus 1.0d4" icon inside the extracted folder and you're set to go.
Things for the IIGS novice to watch for: Not much, its very similar to a "Classic" Mac OS menu-wise.
Shutting down the emulator; Go to the IIGS "Special" menu and choose "Shutdown", then quit the emulator itself.
Gus can read/write to Disk Copy 4.2 (ProDOS formatted) image files. Placing any image file that can be read/written to, inside the same folder as Gus will be mounted as a disk in the emulator when it launches.
Architecture: PPC
PPC only. Mac OS from 7.5 to 9.2.2. Also on SheepShaver (any platform SheepShaver can run on).
Comments
Makes sense - Have re-uploaded
Even if you going to 'edit' this page to get this d/led directly from this site, a msg pops up, that the file can't be found. So yes, you'll need to re-upload this here. Thank you very much!
Makes me curious tho'...
(1) Why didn't this one ever get pushed up to amazonaws (its less than 10MB)
(2) Has this archive become "lost" at the Garden since uploading? Do I need to re-upload it here?
(3) Rapidshare has a downloads counter, one for the Garden, wouldn't go amiss either.
GS/OS can handle foreign formatted disks by using File System Translators, like:
Apple DOS 3.3 (The Apple O/S on prev. Apple ][ systems), HFS (which is classic Mac OS), MS-DOS (read-only), and probably others, but I can't remember yet.
From my own experience from that time, classic Mac OS formatted disks can only be handled,
if formatted with Mac OS up to 7.x, but Mac OS 8.x formatted disks had some issues.
GS/OS has been abandoned at this time, so it got no updates to handle Mac OS 8.0 formatted disks.
From the bottom, the Apple IIGS (remember: it's not a Mac) can handle GS/OS, which is its native System, as well as older Apple ][ operating systems such as Apple DOS 3.3, ProDOS and ApplePascal.
How does this stack up to Bernie ][ The Rescue?
@Vitoarc: Many Mac games written for Mac SSW 6 will still be able to run on Mac OS 7 etc, it will be a process of elimination on your part.
The only early Macintosh OS emulator I know of that can run on a PPC Mac running OS 8 or 9 and is still under active development, is Mini vMac [See Downloads Page for Mini vMac here].
The Classic Mac OS port of Mini vMac will emulate a 68k Macintosh Plus only, but this is fine for hundreds of old B/W games of the era, and you can run a Mac System from SSW 1.1 to Mac OS 7.5.5 on a Plus. - You are able to play very early games on this. Requires a Mac Plus ROM.
Thanks Mike. Really all this "backwards" learning can be daunting at times. There's more to learn about the old Mac OS than I had thought. I've never heard of GS/OS before so I didn't know.
If someone can recommend an emulator that runs on a Power Macintosh, System 7,8, or 9 that emulates the Mac OS System 6, that's what I'm looking for.
@Vitoarc:
Which System 6? If you mean Macintosh System 6, then No. It does not run Macintosh software.
This is an Apple IIGS emulator that happens to run on a Macintosh. The emulator runs Apple GS/OS (System software version 6.01). See the link IIGS_User gave.
If you do want to play GS/OS System 6 games on Gus, then some of these might appeal.
What's the distinction? Will this run System 6 games on my PPC? That's all I want.
You're talking about System 6 for Apple IIGS.
Great upload! This is a really good solution for running System 6 on my 7100. Thanks for all the tips as well.
Finally, there was an //e card for the LC slot.
And, ah, HyperCard IIGS in colour, I remember using it a lot.
Thank you too for the detailed description of this emulator.
Bolkonskij, I keep some emulators on hand for use on Mac OS 9 or earlier in the Old Mac Archive, including Bernie ][ The Rescue, a IIGS emulator.
If "Gus" works well for me, I'll add it to my emulator collection also.
You are very welcome. I hope that it works as well for you as it does on my Mac.
Thank you for this upload and the very detailed information / screenshots. Awesome! Never had a IIGS, never emulated one. This is going to be the first time