![]() ![]() If you find Mini vMac useful, please consider helping the Gryphel Project,of which it is a part. How-To guides, Documentation, Macintosh Software, and more. Then click on the close box of the Mini vMac window to quit theapplication. When you’re done looking at this, choose the “ShutDown” command from the “Special” menu on the emulatedscreen: This new version of Mini vMac, will emulate a Mac II with a 68020. Luckily Apple has made systems prior to 7.6 free, and you can download them below. Now you need a copy of the operating system. The goal was to emulate a Macintosh Plus. The emulated computer should boot from thisimage, starting up the Finder, with a menu bar at the top of theemulated screen: The Mini vMac project continues from the vMac project. The Mini vMac window should fill with a gray pattern, with a picture ofa floppy disk in the center, with a blinking question mark on it:ĭrag the icon of your bootable disk image, “System Startup”,onto the Mini vMac window. To get past this, drag the icon of your ROM imagefile, “vMac.ROM”, onto the Mini vMac window. ![]() The System 6.0.8 Development image contains applications such as HyperCard, WorldBuilder, FutureBasic & more to create your very own retro-mac apps. Unless Mini vMac finds the ROM image file in one of the places it looks,it will display this message in the new window it opens: This is a set of three disk images that has everything you need to develop software for Mac OS 6.0.8 using the Mini VMac emulator. For most operating systems, you can double clickon the application’s icon. Indeed, all the code from the Mini vMac core is compiled into a framework that is loaded at runtime, in the current target there are 3, for Mac 128K, Mac Plus and Mac II, but more can be created. Use the ua608dcommand line toolto get the disk image “System Startup”from “SSW_6.0.8-1.4MB_”.(If you don't wish to use ua608d, see the Alternatives page.) Launch XCode 7 or later (download it from the App Store if you dont have it) and load the project. Next, you will need a bootable disk image for the Macintosh Plus. (If you don’t have a Macintosh Plus, you could check the“ Where to buy an old Macintosh”page.)(And before you ask, the FAQ page has a section about ROM images.) Next you will need a ROMimage file from a Macintosh Plus.This file should be named “vMac.ROM”.A utility such as“ CopyRoms”can be used to obtain this file from your MacintoshPlus. (If RAWRITE wont work or gives you problems, try WinImage.) System 6.0.8 bootdisk image (900K). First, if you have not already done so, download a standard variation,choosing the appropriate version of Mini vMac for your operating system.If your web browser doesn’t automatically expand it, doso manually.(For the OS X version, see these notes to makeMini vMac work correctly.) Its free and a very small download (about 36K).
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