1.44MB floppy disk drives, and ZIP drives, which can then be used directly on vintage Macs. (For instance, macOS is based on BSD UNIX the classic Mac isn’t. ![]() The website E-Maculation is dedicated to classic Macintosh emulators. Both have the advantage of accessing real HFS volumes via USB ports, i.e. There are three main classic Macintosh emulators: Mini vMac, Basilisk II and SheepShaver. Basilisk II also offers similar features, but in my experience is much more difficult to set up, is quite a bit more buggy and hasn't been updated in quite a while. NOTE: I'm pretty sure Mac ROM images (vMac.ROM) are illegal to share online, so download it at your own risk. While Sheepshaver is buggy, it does allow more versatility than Mini vMac at the moment. Luckily, Apple offers older versions of its softwares for free, including Mac OS (classic) up to version 7.6.1 at the Older A blank disk image that acts as the emulator's hard disk (available from. I also use it, running OS 8.1 to open HFS+ images created under Snow Leoapard, into which I have copied compressed archive files, and copy the contents to HFS images which I then use with Mini vMac: the hands down the best vintage Mac emulator out there. This is how I set it up and use it to transfer files between Snow Leopard and an real 128K: ![]() Sheepshaver is my Mac transition emulator of choice, to keep everything within a Mac-like environment. Just hope OS X 10.7 doesn't drop HFS read too following their historical pattern in dropping support of MFS with OS 7.6 & 8. It's nice to know that works for now, until Zydeco's solution works more universally to write to HFS images. Indeed not very Mac-like, but I've never had a problem with cmd-line interfaces as long as I have the commands and especially the step-by-step instructions in front of me. (Although if that were important a better emulation target for vMac might be the Portable/Powerbook 100.) Although, really, if you're running something that needs more then 4MB you probably also want networking support, and that leads right down the slippery slope to Basalisk II and System 7.Thanks too for that info. the 4MB the 68000 Plus/SE/Classic machines could address. Mini vMac for System Software pre-7.x Basilisk II for Mac OS 7.x-8.1 SheepShaver for Mac OS 7. VMware Workstation for later versions of Windows (sometimes early versions), Intel macOS, OS/2 post-3.0, etc. The only possible reason I could see for wanting to do this would be that running a II-series Mac with 24 bit addressing (like System 6) would allow 8MB of RAM vs. 86Box for early versions of Windows, Intel Apple Rhapsody, OS/2 pre-3.0, DOS, etc. Should you want to delve into the Apple period between the Macintosh Plus and OS X. Best Mac emulators guide: Emulate Mac OS 9 with SheepShaver. ![]() (However, it'll identify itself as a Mac II.) To quit, therefore use Mini vMac > Quit Mini vMac. Supposedly the development snapshots of MinivMac have some rudimentary MacII emulation support( see the December 6th and various older news items) which will work with an SE/30 ROM. Once you're running on modern computers that are able to run an emulator faster than the original, I don't see any advantage in using a particular Mac's rom, other than perhaps the novelty value of ogling the About This Macintosh splash. I don't recall Basilisk II working with anything less than a 32-bit clean rom, but mini vMac will boot System 6 with a Plus rom.
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