Once you have installed this program on your Windows PC, then you will be able to decompress the System disks… almost… The best choice is StuffIt, and I personally suggest StuffIt 9 (that can be downloaded from the Mini vMac setup page). If you are using Windows, on the other hand, then you must use an external program to decompress the System Disks into something you can actually use. image extension to the four 800KB disks, if they don’t have it already. The good news is that, if you are using MacOSX, you can simply open the files with Command + O and they will decompress (since they are Mac Binaries).
#MESS EMULATOR MAC HOW TO#
sea.bin format… and Windows does not know how to handle them! But, when you download them, you will notice that they are in. All of them work perfectly fine for our goal (but read until the end of this section before choosing which one you want to download, depending on the OS you are using).
#MESS EMULATOR MAC INSTALL#
These files corresponds to Install Disks (to use modern terms) of System 6.0.3, 6.0.5 and 6.0.8, respectively.
Therefore, we can forget about the two System 6.0.8 1.4MB disks. Ok, but which files we need? Here, unfortunately, things start to be messy…įirst of all, MESS currently only supports 400k and 800k floppy disks. Luckily, Apple still offers its old OSes, so we can simply go at Apple’s System6.0.x page and fine the files we need. Therefore, we now start a more technical section, to answer to the question: 1. What? where is the BASIC prompt? ow, right, we are not anymore in early 80s with this machine: we have to install an OS to be able to play with this system… at least, this will mean that we will be rewarded with a flashing graphical environment once we are done 😉
Let’s try to fire up emulation as we did with the Macintosh Plus, then: To see which media are emulated for this system: there are two floppy drives (“ floppydisk1 (flop1)” & “ floppydisk2 (flop2)“) and two hard disks (“ harddisk1 (hard1)” & “ harddisk2 (hard2)“)! good to know! Ok, we are now ready to start the proper how-to. Any mistake, on the other hand, is definitely my fault. the guide below would not have been possible without Anna Wu‘s assistance (thanks a lot) and without the wonderful Mini vMac set up page. you can follow the same steps with MESS on Windows, on MacOSX or on Linux without a single change), this howto is definitely more complicate because files for Macintosh are not very happy to be used in Windows (nor in latest Mac OSX, fwiw), and therefore you will need to dirt your hands with file manipulation outside the emulator.ģ. howto was an easy and OS-independent guide (i.e.
#MESS EMULATOR MAC UPDATE#
They represent the best way I have been able to find to set up MESS for this driver, but there might be easier ways: please, let me know if you find ways to simplify some of the necessary tasks below, and I will update my notes accordingly 🙂Īlso, I think the same instructions apply as well if you want to emulate later mac machines in MESS, but there might be shortcuts compared to what I have written here.Ģ.
the following instructions are targeted on emulating a Macintosh Plus in MESS, only assuming you can use StuffIt 4.0.1 on the emulated macplus. Given that the bug has been fixed last October (thanks Arbee), I really wanted to give another chance to this old Apple system and the following impressions/instructions/remarks are the result :).ġ. Unfortunately, I had to give up due to some serious crash in MESS, when turning off the emulated machine after OS installation. My interest on the system first surfaced in Summer 2008, when I spent some days trying to figure out how to make this system work and run some good old Apple software. Do you know this machine? If not, time to fill the gap in your computer history preparation: pages at Wikipedia and at. This time I want to talk a bit about Macintosh Plus emulation in MESS.
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