NFS has been shaky for me on macOS going back to like 10.12. I switched to mounting my server's SMB shares instead and it's both faster and more stable.

BTW, is it possible to rename this thread to show "MAME"? MESS hasn't been updated since May of 2015 when MAME integrated it.

A few updated resources: For emulating Apple I, II, ///, and 680x0 Macs on modern Macs (including Apple Silicon; I'm typing this on my brand new M3 Max and it's indeed scary fast), there's a friendly GUI called Ample that you can get from https://wiki.mamedev.org/index.php/Driver:Mac_68K If you have...

Lots of stuff happened this past year! MAME now supports all desktop 680x0 Macs with the correct ASICS emulated and show the correct Gestalt IDs except for the IIfx, Quadra 900/950, Macintosh TV, and the AV Quadras. (Quadra 700, 800, 610, 630, 650 all work and can run Mac OS 8.1). AppleSC CD-ROM sup...

There's also an "official" setup guide for Mac in MAME now, which is up to date with the emulation changes over the last year or so. https://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=119182#Post119182 And Mac-specific MAME documentation here: https://wiki.mamedev.org/inde...

You can definitely enable "thousands" and "millions" of colors in Mac models that support it in MAME. You can also have multiple video cards in machines with NuBus slots.

There's been some, but they more or less stopped talking once they got things functioning. And that's fine, their primary focus is closer to how Basilisk and SheepShaver work than what we're doing so a lot of it doesn't really translate.

You can in fact have up to 7 hard disks (1 for each SCSI ID). If you check -listslots, you'll see that -scsi:0, -scsi:1 -scsi:2 etc exist, one for each SCSI ID. By default, -scsi:6 is a hard disk and -scsi:1 is a CD-ROM. You can therefore do: ./mame maciici -scsi:5 harddisk -hard1 additional_disk.hd...

Hi! First up, MAME 0.232 can use both hard disks and CD-ROMs that haven't first been converted to .CHD. For CD-ROM either bin/cue or iso is fine. Secondly, we have some Mac-specific usage documentation on the wiki at: https://wiki.mamedev.org/index.php/Driver:Mac_68K There have been reports of issue...

Hi, Like real hardware, MESS requires that a harddisk image include the partition map and driver partition and stuff. If you did a full block-by-block image of the entire drive, that should work (I've personally booted block images from real Macs). If you just imaged the HFS partition, that will wor...

A quick update: selectable cards is in SVN and seems to have gone over well with my testers. Due to core limitations you can only have 4 heads right now, but that should be fixable ;-) Also, System 7 virtual memory now works fine, although it's kind of silly since you can just give the emulated Mac ...

New updates: - I tracked down and fixed a bug introduced back in February that made the '030 emulation unstable (whoops). - I fixed interrupt routing on the IIci emulation so now sound plays fine, just like on the Mac II, SE/30, and IIcx emulations. SoundTrecker and PlayerPRO both now sound great un...

Haven't posted here for a while, but a lot of Mac stuff got done over the last few weeks so I'll mention it. - The Mac Portable and PowerBook 100 and the Powerbook 140/170 series now all boot. ADB isn't hooked up yet so they're not usable though. - I finally got the dumped Egret 6805 code to run and...

FWIW, the death chime on some systems is actually realtime synthesized by ROM code riding the parameters of the ASC's wavetable mode (as is the boot chime). So there is no sample to pull out of ROM in those cases. Wavetable mode did get dropped from most of the all-in-one system ASICs that clone the...

Thanks to some submitted MMU fixes from someone emulating an Apollo Domain/OS workstation in MESS, Mode32 now works in MESS's IIcx emulation to get you 32-bit cleanliness (virtual memory does not work). This means you can now run a decent variety of Mac II apps and games with color and sound. (To cl...

I need a MESS-compatible Mac LC III driver because my normal LCIII.rom file will not function in MESS. MESS wants a truckload of ROMs for the LC in order to boot and re-adding the same LCIII ROM file and renaming them doesn't work unfortunatly. LC III currently needs 2 ROMs: the main system ROM (us...

MESS will indeed play the death chime if you can provoke the ROM into playing it. On current SVN, just run the Mac LC III driver - it'll play the startup chime, wait a second or two, and then death chime. At least until I fix that ;-) Incidentally, the latest update of the MacTracker iOS app removed...

The problem with A/UX isn't a lack of a knowledge of the MMU (MESS 0.140 implements nearly all of the features of the 68030's MMU), it's that the 680x0 emulator itself needs to be able to interrupt instructions in the middle and restart them with no side effects. That's 1) difficult and 2) will resu...

The .a files are 680x0 assembly language. And yes, you really don't want to be distributing that stuff, even though Apple uses none of it since OS X 10.5 dropped Classic support. Incidentally, in spite of the file names and everything, that source is for the Universal ROMs from a time shortly after ...

The floppy problem on the Plus/SE/Classic is fixed in the latest daily builds. Also, the Classic II and IIsi are showing signs of life (they show a blinking ? disk now but don't recognize any media for some reason). SWIM/FDHD progress is happening on my local system as threatened. Nothing cool to sh...

Yup, although there's a regression with floppy disks on the Plus/SE/Classic that snuck in that I'm chasing (the SE/30 and II/IIx/IIcx works for setting up HDD installs in the meantime). Windows users can get updated daily builds at http://bobz38.free.fr/mess_autobuild/index.php since official releas...

There's not really a direct PC analogy to the shortcuts Basilisk and SheepShaver take due to the very different software stacks, but if you boil it down to a pure "they're faster than MESS" thing it's on the right track.

Ambassador: The license is GPL incompatible, but the projects have very different coding styles and structures anyway so it's unlikely code would be easy to share. Most contributors (myself included) do dual-license stuff on request - DOSBox is using our 3Dfx emulation, and one of the MSX emulators ...

As a bit of an update, I recently had good luck improving the Apple Sound Chip emulation so e.g. SoundTrecker now plays music flawlessly on MESS's Mac IIcx support, and games generally work well too (although I suck at Crystal Quest). Sound is less happy in the IIci emulation because of the differen...

Yes, MESS supports the IIci now, which has 32-bit clean ROMs and thus can run 7.6.1.