Installing Windows NT 4.0 PowerPC emulator with latest firmware update

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Published 2024-07-22
In this video I show how easy it is to install NT onto the dingusppc emulator. Wack0's maciNTosh project's 0.05 release has made this a SNAP! To make it somewhat easier, I've built a custom CD-ROM image to help with the whole thing.

The command to start the emulator:
dingusppc.exe -r -m imacg3 -b imacboot.u3 --rambank1_size=128 --hdd_img=2000.disk --cdr_img=nt40wks-en_grackle_0.05.iso

dingusppc:
archive.org/details/dingusppc

NT-CD image:
archive.org/details/nt40wks-en_grackle_0.05

Wack0's maciNTosh:
github.com/Wack0/maciNTosh


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All Comments (12)
  • @Mainyehc
    The “whatever the hell that was” sounded just like the Windows 3.1 error alert sound 😂
  • Did you see the action retro video with NT for PPC now running on native G3 Mac?
  • @johnm6785
    This is amazing. I can get the setup to start off your NT351 ISO but not the NT4 ISO, it just keeps saying it can't find the file for some reason.
  • @barnacl437
    thanks for the config, i was almost confused on how to setup dingus to work also i tried booting the arc firmware iso alone on PearPC and it appears to be unable to find a boot file tho, generally it still has a lot of limitations and is greatly outdated, hope someone could continue it lmao
  • @johnm6785
    So like I said I can at least get NT351 to work running your build of dingusppc on windows, but I tried to compile dingusppc on linux and it won't recognize imacg3 as a machine type.
  • @johnm6785
    351 installed but I don't know how to ctrl-alt-del to log in hehe, still fun!
  • @aviumcaravan
    i almost feel cursed, because it's literally not booting for me at all, no matter what i do, even when i try to specify the device from the OpenFirmware command line 😭
  • @asanjuas
    Next @NCommander making a video on this and compile some sound drivers
  • @missiondemolition
    I got NT 3.51 Server working on my G3 Blue and White using this bootloader.
  • @betaswithWack0
    "fantastic story behind it" MS actually implemented NTFS direct formatting in text setup... in Cairo, they wanted to format directly to OFS and NTFS just came along with the ride... really annoying that autofmt didn't make it into NT 4, I had to code a custom NTFS formatter for my ARC firmware partitioner... and that's not 100% correct, autochk in text setup will detect errors and require reboot afterwards... of course it ended up in windows 2000, but still a shame it didnt get into NT4 when it was basically done at the time...