MicroMac, a Macintosh for under £5
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#2one of these running system 7 would be a delight, seeing that's probably where the classic Mac OS hit its peak.
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#3I was hoping this was a super cheap hackintosh running modern macOS. Is that even possible these days?
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#4Holy cow. I took a stab at hacking vMac to run on an ESP32 and gave up (it’s been done on some models, but not on the one I had handy), but this is several levels above and beyond.
I take off my metaphorical hat to you, sir.
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#5I was hoping this was a super cheap hackintosh running modern macOS. Is that even possible these days?
> Is that even possible these days?
It still kinda is as long as macOS supports Intel, but the writing is on the wall: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39728146
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#6I was considering doing something like that for an Amiga, running AmigaOS 3.2. It's a cute idea, especially once you 3D print a shell that looks like the original (shrunken down).
I do think that the lack of an old school floppy drive means that something is kinda missing from the experience, but I do like the idea of having a machine dedicated to running this instead of just firing up an emulator on my existing desktop PC. (Edit: And I love how this MicroMac project isn't just "running Linux and an existing emulator" but actually trying to go lower level, essentially the RP2040 acting as a 68k)
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#7I had a Saturday job at a computer shop when the Mac came out, and we got one as a demo. I remember just staring at the genius of those rounded corners in the corners of the screen, and thinking how beautiful it was that they'd thought of that.
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#8one of these running system 7 would be a delight, seeing that's probably where the classic Mac OS hit its peak.
You can do that comfortably on a "normal" Rasbperry Pi - I have a bunch of resources for that here: https://taoofmac.com/space/emulation
Re: MicroMac, a Macintosh for under £5
#9I was considering doing something like that for an Amiga, running AmigaOS 3.2. It's a cute idea, especially once you 3D print a shell that looks like the original (shrunken down). I do think that the lack of an old school floppy drive means that something is kinda missing from the experience, but I do like the idea of having a machine dedicated to running this instead of just firing up an emulator on my existing desk…
Need CRT too for the authentic experience.
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#10mirror as it looks like the blog is getting overloaded: https://archive.ph/NXWOm