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Re: MacintoshPi

#31

I so much wish to be able to use Classic Mac OS without all the jumps and hoops. Apple, please open source the darn thing.

What has become of the LISA source code? (It was announced to be just months from publishing a few years ago, but then everything went silent.) Does anyone know?

Re: MacintoshPi

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Interesting. Last summer, I followed the instructions on https://www.instructables.com/Making-a-Tiny-Mac-From-a-Raspb... to get a Pi-zero-based mac emulator up and running with Gryphel's Mini vMac ( https://www.gryphel.com/c/minivmac/index.html ) - it looks incredibly cute on the 2.8 inch LCD. I notice since I built mine, they've now added SE and SE/30 variant front panel models too! Anyone have any sense of the tech…

Basilisk II supports color but AFAIK Mini vMac does not.

No, mini vMac runs in color just fine for me.

Re: MacintoshPi

#33

This is a fun project, but at least for my uses is a bit hamstrung by SheepShaver's capabilities. Most of my desires/needs for Classic Mac OS are PPC-era, which rules out the use of the stable and generally capable Basilisk II… I'd need to use SheepShaver instead, which is ok but generally more crashy and has more shortcomings. Beyond this project, there's a fork of QEMU that emulates a PowerMac G3 pretty well and is…

PearPC may be worth a try.

When I last looked the original dev wasn't working on it as much, but there is at least one fork that brings gets it working fairly well in the 64 bit x86 era.

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