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Offline gunug

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Just in case you miss your old, old MAC
« Reply #15 on: July 26, 2006, 03:08:43 PM »
I still think it's an interesting idea to have to buy an old MAC 512 or SE in order to power it up and copy it's ROM image into a file in order to run the emulator.  I think it would be hard for most of us to fire a MAC 512 up at all; all of the one's I've seen in the past few years have had either bad power supplies, bad analog boards or funky drives.  I suppose there must be a pirate website (maybe run by the richest of pirates Bill Gates) that has ROM images ready for downloading!

Maybe Apple could be persuaded to turn loose of a ROM image or two for the purposes of posterity!  Think of it, centuries from now, when we're all dust in the wind, someone could fire-up a emulator of an ancient MAC 512 and play a game (original Tetris?) or two!   laugh.gif
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Just in case you miss your old, old MAC
« Reply #16 on: July 28, 2006, 07:18:16 PM »
QUOTE(Randy B. Singer @ Jul 25 2006, 01:29 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
>>I got the impression from the site that it was for emulating Macs on Windows
>>machines and not on newer Macs.

Sorry, I gave you the wrong link.  There are versions for just about every platform, including OS X.

http://minivmac.sourceforge.net/



Thanks for the update Randy.
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