Mar 02, 2020 Mini vMac has no preference settings that persist across quitting and relaunching. This helps to keep the program simple, small, and reliable. But Mini vMac does have options that can be chosen at compile time. You can compile your own variations with precisely the combinations of options you want, following the instructions on the Buildpage. Rather than sifting through eBay looking for an old Mac Plus computer with an original installation of the Macintosh OS, a crafty developer has pulled together the Mini vMac emulator for Android tablets that allows Mac OS to be installed to an SD card for use on the device. Follow the relatively simple steps below to get up and running. Open Mini vMac app from your launcher, when app launches, press menu button on your phone and tap “Insert disk”. You will now boot into Mac Plus. For full screen experience, hit menu “scale”. You can now enjoy fullscreen Mac OS on Android. Download Mini vMac app for Android. A fully functional Mac Plus emulator for the Android platform.
For those of you who haven’t studied your Apple history, the Macintosh Plus was the third model in the Macintosh line that was initially released on January 16th, 1986. It had a starting price tag of $2599 and came with 1MB of RAM and an SCSI port.
The operating the Macintosh Plus ran was sophisticated at the time, and served its purpose. Nowadays such an operating system wouldn’t be bearable however, because of what we are used to with Mac OS X Mountain Lion. For those of you who would like to take a trip down memory lane and play around with the old operating system though, you are in luck… if you have an Android device.
A developer has managed to port an emulator by the name of Mini vMac to Android that allows you to emulate almost any prehistoric version of the Macintosh OS. As such, for the purpose of this tutorial you will learn how to install the Mac Plus OS on your Android device.
How To Run Mac OS Plus On Android
Step 1) – The first thing you will need to do is download Mini vMac to your Android device from the Google Play Store by clicking here. It is compatible with almost any Android device running version 1.5 or higher.
Step 2) – Next download the Mac Plus OS by clicking here.
Step 3) – Using a file manager application of your choice, navigate to the SD card on the device and create a new folder called “minivmac“. With the minivmac folder created on your device’s SD card you will want to extract the Mac Plus files to it.
Step 4) – Open the Mini vMac.apk from your App Drawer, then press the menu button on your phone and tap “Insert Disk.” Once you have done this tap on “896K” to boot the Mac Plus operating system. Once the operating system has booted, you can press the menu button on your phone and tap “scale” for a full screen experience.
Congratulations! You are now running an ancient version of the Mac OS on your Android device. Although the uses of such an operating system are limited, you can play a few classic games such as s Shufflepuck Cafe or Dungeon Of Doom.
An Open Source and minimal Macintosh Plus emulator for Linux-based operating systems
What's new in Mini vMac 3.5.8:
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- Today’s Mini vMac 3.5.8 updates the stable version to fix a problem on PowerPC OS X, and also fixes an issue affecting the Variation Service. Mini vMac 3.5.8 on platforms other than PowerPC OS X (‘mach’), and x86-32 OS X (‘imch’), should be identical to Mini vMac 3.5.7, except for the version string and modification date.
- It was reported that “Mini vMac 3.5.7 wont run on PPC G3 systems”. It turns out that the GCC flag “-mmacosx-version-min” should be specified for all files compiled, not just the platform dependent code. It affects things like the required CPU. Making this change happens to have no effect on Mini vMac for x86-64 OS X, there is some effect for x86-32 OS X, and the largest effect is for PowerPC.
Mini vMac is an open source, free and cross-platform graphical software implemented in C and designed from the offset to act as an emulator for the Macintosh Plus computer system that was created by Apple, running on Linux, BSD, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems.
Being one of the earliest Macintosh machines designed by Apple, Macintosh Plus runs only old Mac software, which, of course, does not work on recent Macintosh computers. Therefore, the Mini vMac software helps to preserve history. It has been designed to be as easy-to-use, portable and simple as possible.
Getting started with Mini vMac
To use the Mini vMac application on your GNU/Linux system, make sure that you download the binary package that corresponds to your computer’s hardware architecture, save the archive somewhere on your computer, unpack it and double-click the executable.
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The application will open, notifying you that a ROM image of the Macintosh Plus system canont be located. This means that you will also have to obtain a vMac.ROM file (more details can be found on the project’s homepage) and place it in the same folder as the Mini vMac executable.
After you have obtained the Macintosh Plus ROM image, you must close the program and reopen it. If the ROM file is valid, the system will automatically boot and allow you to use it like you would use any other virtualized operating system.
Runs on all mainstream operating systems
This software is actually a spin off of the vMac application, which has not been updated in many years. For your convenience, it is distributed as pre-built binary packages for the aforementioned operating systems, supporting both 64-bit (x86_64) and 32-bit (x86) instruction set architectures.
The application’s source code is also available for download, for those of you who want to optimize the software for a specific hardware platform or operating system.
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- runs on:
- Linux
- filename:
- minivmac-3.5.8.src.zip
- main category:
- System
- developer:
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