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How does it work on both Motorola and PowerPC? (i guess it could have been compiled for both or there is some motorola emulator or it doesn't use hardware directly) Together, these allow the Macintosh II emulation to start up much faster.īasilisk II has got too slow music and cutscenes Reply 7 of 18, by filipetolhuizen

#Mini vmac software code

Two programs that will work nicely, in color, are 'Slime Invaders 2.0.7' by Ingemar Ragnemalm and 'Glider 4.10' by John Calhoun, which are both listed in the Arcade Games page.īesides adding color, this snapshot also patches out the RAM checking at start up code from the Macintosh II ROM (as is already done for other models), and initializes the PRAM more suitably for a Macintosh II. The FPU and ASC are still not implemented, which sharply limits what programs will work without crashing (which I may not have made clear enough before). (In fact, you may not see color until selecting it from the 'Monitors' control panel.) However, regardless of the chosen color depth, Black and White is also available, and can be selected from the 'Monitors' control panel. Color depth is a compile time option, instead of run time option, to help keep Mini vMac simple and small. These options only work with the Macintosh II emulation ('-m II').

#Mini vmac software 32 bit

'-depth 0' is black and white (the default for now), '-depth 1' is 2 bit color (4 colors), '-depth 2' is 4 bit color (16 colors), '-depth 3' is 8 bit color (256 colors), '-depth 4' is 16 bit color (thousands), and '-depth 5' is 32 bit color (millions). The desired color depth is chosen at compile time, with the '-depth' option in the build system. So far this only works in OS X, with other platforms to be implemented later.

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If you find Mini vMac useful, please consider helping the Gryphel Project.Today's Development source snapshot adds color to the Mac II emulation.

#Mini vmac software software

Mini vMac is part of the Gryphel Project,about helping to preserve software made for early Macintosh computers.Another component of the Gryphel Project is a list of Alternatives to Mini vMac. And it is easier to transfer files between themodern computer and the emulator. It is much faster (onmodern computers) and you can use a better screen, keyboard,and mouse. And second, the emulation is moreconvenient than the real thing. It is still legal to use the emulation after the realcomputer breaks. It is common for the power supply tofail. Mini vMac requires a ROM image file to run, and so canbe legally used only by those who own a 680x0 based Macintosh.This leads to the question,if you need to own the real computer to use it, whatis the use of the emulator? First, a real Macintoshwon’t last forever. Work is in progress on Macintosh II emulation.

Besides the Macintosh Plus, there arealso emulations of the Macintosh 128K, 512K, 512Ke, SE, Classic, and SEFDHD. The meta program and datathat generate the emulators (the Mini vMac buildsystem) are rather bigger. The “Mini” in the name now means that each emulator in thecollection is as small and simple as possible. But vMac hasn’t beenupdated in many years, so Mini vMac may now be considered itscontinuation.

It wasoriginally intended to be of limited interest, a simpler version toserve as a programmers introduction to vMac. Mini vMac began in 2001 as a spin off of the program vMac. The Mini vMac emulator collection allows modern computers to runsoftware made for early Macintosh computers, the computers that Applesold from 1984 to 1996 based upon Motorola's 680x0 microprocessors.The first member of this collection emulates the Macintosh Plus.