Mini vMac
(updated January 28, 2010)
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Description
Mini vMac is an open source emulator of 68000 based Macintosh computers. The project's main goal being an accurate emulation of the Macintosh Plus computer. In addition to the Macintosh Plus, variations of Mini vMac can emulation the Macintosh 128K, 512K, 512Ke, SE and Classic models.
To get started with the emulator in Windows, check out our setup guide.
Latest Version
Mini vMac for Windows
Mini vMac for OS X
More Versions
- Original vMac Versions (Mostly obsolete. From 1999.)
Help and Documentation
- Getting started with Mini vMac (official documentation)
- System 6 Hell (hard disk images containing games for Mini vMac)
History
Developer Philip “PC” Cummins began work on vMac in 1996. It was ported to a variety of platforms very soon afterwards. The Windows port was developed by Weston D. Pawlowski. Work stopped on the emulator around 1999. In 2001, however, Paul Pratt made an intial release of “Mini vMac,” an emulator intended to be “a simpler version to serve as a programmer's introduction to vMac.”
Pratt continues to work on the emulator and says that mini vMac is “intended to be as simple and maintainable as possible, while still being usable enough that the software running within it is as usable as ever.” Mini vMac is also intended to be easily portable to any system.
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