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Knezzen
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on: June 02, 2023, 19:43
Please help! I'm traveling around quite a bit in my daytime job and while on the road I tend to miss working on my little Mac projects quite a bit. The solution must surely be turning to an emulator, but which one? The ideal emulator would let me run 7.1 or 7.5.5 68k with some kind of network ability on my M1 MacBook Air. Where can I find something? What do I need? I haven't touched on this topic for at least 15 years and I don't really know where to start. Some kind of "turn-key" solution would be ideal. |
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wove
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Reply #1 on: June 02, 2023, 20:36
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This site <http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/macos9osx.html> has prebuilt packages for emulating System 7 through System 9 using either SheepShaver for PPC or Basilisk for 68K. I like these packages a lot because they include scripts in the package that allows for excellent communication between guest and host. They do contain a lot of various applications that can be removed if it is something you do not need. Many of the scripts revolve around sharing pdf/print type data between guest and host. UTM is a qemu based emulator available from the Mac App Store. It is also available via a git hub page. Once installed this page <https://mac.getutm.app/gallery/> has prebuilt VMs. I use the MacOS 9 image, which is the only classic Mac that is prebuilt, although you should be able to create a System 7 machine within the emulator. I like it because many of the OS gestures etc are passed through to the emulator. (Two finger scrolling is as nice in Netscape 2 as it is in the latest Safari.) It lacks the nice scripts for sharing on the host, and since there is no spice protocols for the Classic Mac OS, you do not have clipboard or folder sharing available. In my setup(s) I find the screen of the SheepShaver emulation to not very color accurate and overall a bit washed out. UTM provides a much nicer display. Also the scaling on SheepShaver is much harder to use and read on higher density display. The QEMU emulations uses whatever resolution and scaling you use on the host. Using UTM full screen on a laptop makes MacOS 9 look and feel almost like you are working on a PB1400. I am sure there are others more adept at this than I, but overall for me either of these setups is very usable. UTM is more immersive, while the SheepShaver emulation provides better sharing of host/guest resources.
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Knezzen
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Administrator 512 MB Posts: 608 Village idiot
Reply #2 on: June 02, 2023, 20:43
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Thanks a lot for those wonderful suggestions, wove! Giving them a go now 
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wove
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Reply #3 on: June 25, 2023, 03:40
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I was wondering what your experineces with System 7 emulation on The M1 Mac went. UTM would be emulating PPC on ARM. While Basilisk would be an Intel app running on an emulation layer in order to emulate a PPC Mac. Is that a retina screen and how does it handle the resolution?
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