MINI VMAC II EMULATOR FOR MAC OS
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MINI VMAC II EMULATOR PORTABLE

Mini vMac requires a ROM image file to run, and so can be legally used only by those who own a 680x0 based Macintosh. Work is in progress on Macintosh II emulation. Besides the Macintosh Plus, there are also emulations of the Macintosh 128K, 512K, 512Ke, SE, Classic, and SE FDHD. The meta program and data that generate the emulators (the Mini vMac build system) are rather bigger. The “Mini” in the name now means that each emulator in the collection is as small and simple as possible. But vMac hasn’t been updated in many years, so Mini vMac may now be considered its continuation. It was originally intended to be of limited interest, a simpler version to serve as a programmers introduction to vMac. Mini vMac began in 2001 as a spin off of the program vMac. The first member of this collection emulates the Macintosh Plus. A software application for these 68000 Macs may be downloaded from the Mini vMac website for retrieval of a system's ROM image, along with a complete tutorial for locating an old Mac, retrieving the ROM and working with disk images.The Mini vMac emulator collection allows modern computers to run software made for early Macintosh computers, the computers that Apple sold from 1984 to 1996 based upon Motorola's 680x0 microprocessors. Macintosh system software is available from Apple's Support Downloads Website (see External links below).Īs mentioned, Mini vMac also requires a specific ROM image for the computer emulation desired. This board can also support ROM chips from other early Macintosh systems, but the publicly released versions of vMac only supported the Macintosh Plus. However, the Windows and Unix ports of vMac (not Mini vMac) support the Gemulator ROM board from Emulators Inc., which allows users to add genuine MacPlus ROM chips to their x86 machine via an ISA expansion slot.

Macintosh ROM files are owned by Apple and cannot be legally distributed. VMac and Mini vMac require a Macintosh Plus ROM file and Macintosh system software to work. The precompiled versions available for download at Mini vMac's SourceForge project emulates a Macintosh Plus with 4 MiB of RAM. Due to complaints about the rarity of the original II, it also accepts Macintosh IIx and Macintosh SE/30 ROM files.

MINI VMAC II EMULATOR PORTABLE

Currently Mini vMac supports Macintosh 128K, 512K, 512Ke, Plus, SE and Classic, with active development for Macintosh II, Macintosh Portable and PowerBook 100 support. Mini vMac, vMac's spinoff, is still being maintained and developed by Paul C. Many of the developer e-mail addresses listed on the website are not currently working. Although the website is still in operation, most vMac development slowed to a halt in 1999, and no official releases have been made since.

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Some vMac ports include extra features such as CD-ROM support, basic serial port (SCC) support, Gemulator ROM board support, and various performance improvements. vMac and Mini vMac support CPU emulation from Motorola 68000 to 68040, display output, sound, floppy disk insert, HFV image files, and more. vMac and Mini vMac emulate a Macintosh Plus and can run Apple Macintosh System versions 1.1 to 7.5.5. Although vMac has been abandoned, Mini vMac, an improved spinoff of vMac, is still actively developed.

MINI VMAC II EMULATOR FOR MAC OS

VMac is an open source emulator for Mac OS on Windows, DOS, OS/2, NeXTSTEP, Linux, Unix, and other platforms. VMac 0.1.9 running System 1.1 on System 7.5

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