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Christian Bauer took his Amiga 4000 to a meetup of Mac users and showed them text scrolling in an editor. It was running inside ShapeShifter. The reaction, he remembers, was considerable. An Amiga running Mac software was not necessarily the slow curiosity people expected. Basilisk II grew out of that earlier work, but by 1999 its job included hosts without a real 68000-family processor. The Mac desktop could move again, this time… Read more

A new BeOS workstation could be exciting and inconvenient at the same time. Christian Bauer had moved from his Amiga 4000 to a BeBox, a machine whose two processors and new operating system appealed to him. That did not make the Mac applications people wanted to use disappear. SheepShaver put a Mac environment inside that other desktop. Its original PowerPC-hosted form could execute guest code on the real processor. After Be’s decline,… Read more