Mac Pi

Mac OS 8.1 on a Raspberry Pi without a full desktop! ===

*Works with Pi3B or later

*Uses basilisk II emulator.

*Recommended to install rasbian lite as distro choice, otherwise the whole without a desktop (X11) is kinda of useless :)

AUTOMATED FULL INSTALL SCRIPT : https://github.com/djdarien/macpi/blob/780a5938b44f3c93f9247d79024a901998aceb90/macpi_auto_installer.sh

This can be used as alternative or if it doesnt work follow the guide below :)

Install Basilisk II without a full desktop (X11) on raspberry pi ( using raspbian stretch lite for distro)

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

sudo apt install automake gobjc -y

mkdir -p ~/src/sdl2 &&
wget https://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL2-2.0.7.tar.gz -O - | tar -xz -C ~/src/sdl2

cd ~/src/sdl2/SDL2-2.0.7 &&

./configure --host=arm-raspberry-linux-gnueabihf \
            --disable-video-opengl \
            --disable-video-x11 \
            --disable-pulseaudio \
            --disable-esd \
            --disable-video-mir \
            --disable-video-wayland &&
make -j3 

sudo make install

mkdir -p ~/src/macemu &&
wget -O ~/src/macemu/master.zip https://github.com/DavidLudwig/macemu/archive/master.zip &&
unzip ~/src/macemu/master.zip -d ~/src/macemu

cd ~/src/macemu/macemu-master/BasiliskII/src/Unix/ &&

NO_CONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh &&
./configure --enable-sdl-audio --enable-sdl-framework \
            --enable-sdl-video --disable-vosf \
            --without-mon --without-esd --without-gtk --disable-nls &&
make -j3

sudo make install 

wget -O ~/MacOS8_1.iso "https://winworldpc.com/download/7724c394-e280-9362-c382-11c3a6e28094" 

wget -O ~/Quadra-650.ROM https://github.com/macmade/Macintosh-ROMs/raw/main/Quadra-650.ROM

cd /home/pi

wget -O ~/mkmacdisk.sh https://github.com/djdarien/macpi/raw/main/mkmacdisk.sh

You will now need a hard disk image to boot, you can create your own or download the ready made one below

OPTIONAL Ready made hard drive for download

https://mega.nz/file/x3hGRCRb#TB3O35X9jwj_CP_LM_NUyD_eqIw4_UY3YBzc2h1TS9E

creating a mac disk image is easy using the mkmacdisk.sh script as follows:

sh ./mkmacdisk.sh 

name should be MacHDD

MacHDD

size should be 500 , quadra900 supported 500MB since that is the model 14 we will use in our prefs file to match the gestalt ID , even though we will be using Sytem 8.1 which supports larger volumes such as 4GB i found the 500MB to be stable so far. Please feel free to experiment!

500

echo "rom    /home/pi/Quadra-650.ROM
disk   /home/pi/MacOS8_1.iso
frameskip 0
cpu 4
model 14
ramsize 67108864

disk   /home/pi/MacHDD.dsk" | tee -a ~/.basilisk_ii_prefs

Setup is finished lets run our newly created Macintosh system within BasiliskII by running execute command , you may add this command to your /etc/rc.local file

BasiliskII

To install Sytem 8.1 boot up Basilisk and then proceed to install 8.1 as normal and install it to MacHDD disk that we created earlier with easy script.

after installation finished, you can remove the MacOS8_1.iso from ~/.basilisk_ii_prefs , this was for us to boot and install Mac OS onto the machine.