Mac OS 9 Emulation On My Apple M1 Mac Mini (UTM)
Why? Good question. Because I can? In reality, a few old games and an occasional need to run some older Adobe software was at the root of it. I'm happy to report that the small handful of old games DO actually run. I should note that all these games were released pre-OS X era. UTM does not provide any graphics acceleration at this time - so most graphic intense games are not gonna run on it. Why am I blogging it? Well, it was a little tricky to set up and required a LOT of Googling. And I may need to go through the process again, so a handy step-by-step outline of what I did to succeed seems like a good idea. Specs Mac Mini (9,1), M1 2020 - 8 GB RAM, 250 GB HD Mac OS Big Sur (11.5.2) UTM 2.2.4 I'm focussed on the MacOS branch of UTM here. Maybe as Fall and Winter sets in I'll try something similar on my iPad, but I'm more of a desktop user than a phone/tablet user. Setting Up UTM Hard Drive The first thing I discovered is the default qcow2 drive format UTM uses wouldn&