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The first Apple proposal to move the Macintosh to Intel hardware did not begin with Mac OS X. It began in 1985, shortly after Steve Jobs’ departure from Apple. The project was quickly nixed by Apple’s management, but it would be revived several years later in a joint effort by Novell and Apple to port the Mac OS to the x86 processor.

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Spec Ops: The Line – PS3, X360, PC, Mac OS X, Linux (2012) There are only two truly notable games in the Spec Ops series, the first and the last. Spec Ops appeared in the gaming world with Zombie Studios’ Spec Ops: Rangers Lead the Way, one of many tactical shooter franchises to appear in 1998, and one of many who fell to the grueling. Apr 23, 2020 Most of the Mac games released on Steam and different Mac DRM-free stuff on GOG.com, Humble Store (choose option DRM-free in store), Gamersgate, itch.io and such digital stores are 32-bit and will NOT work on macOS Catalina. What works, are games that are 64-bit.

Microsoft released Windows 3.1 in 1992, and it quickly became the best selling program in the industry. Both Novell and Apple were threatened by the new operating system. Novell feared that the new version of Windows (and especially the pending release of Windows NT) would interfere with its NetWare product, which held a near monopoly in PC networks.

Apple was equally threatened. Windows was not as easy to use, but Windows PCs cost less than Macs, and Windows could run standard DOS apps without add-on cards or emulation.

Novell began work modernizing Digital Research’s GEM, best known as the graphical environment used on the Atari ST, and turning it into a competitor to Windows. The legal department at Novell got the jitters over the project and had it canceled, fearing that an enhanced GEM would attract a lawsuit from Apple.

Darrell Miller, then Vice President of marketing at Novell, made a proposal to Apple CEO John Sculley about porting the Mac OS to Intel hardware. Sculley was thrilled by the offer – he wanted Apple to move away from the expensive hardware business and turn it into a software provider.

The project to bring the Mac OS to the Intel 486 began on Valentine’s Day in 1992 and was named Star Trek. The project was blessed by Intel’s CEO Andy Grove, who feared Microsoft’s power in the PC market.

Apple’s leadership gave a deadline of October 31 (Halloween) for creating a working prototype of Star Trek. The group set to work porting the Mac OS to Intel processors.

The task was a tedious one. Much of the Mac OS was written in 680×0 assembly code to make the computer faster and use less disk space. All of this code had to be totally rewritten for the 486. Other parts of the operating system were easier – most of the interface elements had been written in Pascal and only required a few modifications.

There were several other technical hurdles to overcome in porting the Mac OS to Intel processors. The software relied heavily on the ROMs in Macs, which stored much of the operating system and dictated how many GUI features behaved. It would be too expensive to create new ROMs for PC users, so the group implemented the ROMs in software, loading them during startup. (This feature would not be incorporated into Macs until the introduction of the iMac in 1998.)

The group managed to meet its deadline and had a functional demo ready by December 1, 1992. Apple executives were amazed to see the Finder run on an ordinary PC. The engineers did more than that – QuickDraw GX and QuickTime were also ported to x86.

With the first goal of the project completed, the engineers took a vacation in Mexico, and the management at Apple and Novell began to decide how to complete the project.

Unfortunately, John Sculley’s reign at Apple came to an end in the middle of the Star Trek project. The new CEO, Michael Spindler, had little interest in porting the Mac OS to x86 and devoted most of Apple’s resources to preparing System 7 for the PowerPC.

The Star Trek project was canceled, and the Mac OS would not run natively on Intel until after Apple acquired NeXT in 1996, which already had an x86-base operating system, NeXTstep.

In June 2005, Steve Jobs announced that Apple had been concurrently developing OS X on Intel and PowerPC processors for five years – and that within a year Macs would be based on Intel processors and future versions of Mac OS X would run on Apple’s forthcoming Intel-based hardware.

Biographic Links

Nature Images, Darrell Miller, retired Executive Vice President, Novell
John Sculley, Wikipedia
Andy Grove, Wikipedia
Michael Spindler, Wikipedia

Bibliography

Some of the sources used in writing this article:

Apple: The Inside Story of Intrigue, Egomania, and Business Blunders, Jim Carlton
Infinite Loop, Michael Malone
The Second Coming of Steve Jobs, Alan Deutschman
Apple Confidential 2.0, Owen Linzmayer
Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple . . . a Journey of Adventure, Ideas & the Future, John Sculley

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it looks so good! i really want to play it, but when i downloaded it to my computer the frame rate was so low that i cant play it at all. I dont know how to fix it? pls help i'd really want to experience this :(((

I didn't manage to install the game, but I think it's because I have a mac, maybe. Basically when I try to install agnostos there's a popup from itch io telling me 'cannot read property 'build' of undefined', and I saw that clicking install, in the install section there's nothing written (I should choose a file to install but it's empty, idk). Sad but nevermind, the graphics seem really amazing, good work :D Anyways, can someone tell me why does this happen? Just in case it happens again with other games. Thanks.

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If I'm not mistaken, different operating systems run slightly differently from one another. The game seems to be built for Windows, meaning that a Mac OS would not be able to run it. A way to bypass this would be to use a virtual machine. (I don't really know anything about virtual machines, but that link explains a bit about them. Use at your own discretion, I don't know how safe they are.)
I don't know about the itch pop-up stuff, might be related to the OS stuff, but I hope this helps you a little bit :)

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However, I did want to let you know that, while I did manage to install the game manually, the itch app doesn't recognize it if you use its install feature. I'm not sure why that is, but at least the manual option exists.

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