Classic Mac emulation (was Re: Microkernels (WAS RE: New to the list.))

[Ray Arachelian]

Zane H. Healy wrote:
>
> You going to be the one to get companies like Apple to port all the
> Classic apps that haven't been updated in half of forever (i.e. still
> 68k)?  Some of us have applications that there is no modern equivalent
> of.  Sadly the solution needs to be a well integrated 3rd party
> emulator for the newer systems :^(
>
Basilisk II works just fine for me as an 020 or 040 emulator.  I only
wish it would run A/UX and support virtual floppies.

There's also  mini-VMac as well.  The original vMac seems to have fell
off the face of the planet.  Its website is still up, but you can no
longer download the packages.

see: http://basilisk.cebix.net/#download  and
http://www.users.bigpond.com/pear_computers/  and
http://www.gibix.net/dokuwiki/en:projects:basilisk2#downloads ).

http://minivmac.sourceforge.net/  <- emulator here.
http://www.rolli.ch/MacPlus  <- Ancient Mac OS software


I also had lots of fun with MAE 2.0 on Sun machines, though the
AppleTalk and I think a storage driver (floppy? CDROM?) doesn't work
with modern Solaris's.  I was able to download MAE 3.0 before apple
killed off the MAE website, but unfortunately didn't have a serial # for
it, so it's kind of worthless.

There's also Executor which you can find here: http://www.ardi.com/
which is mostly compatible with 68K Mac OS software.  It's not open
source, but there are binaries for windows and linux.