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<title> About Mini vMac </title>
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<i> <a href="https://www.gryphel.com/index.html">www.gryphel.com</a>/c/<a href="index.html">minivmac</a>/about
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- <a href="https://www.gryphel.com/c/feedback.html">feedback</a> </i>
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<h2 align=center>
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About
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Mini vMac
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The Mini vMac emulator collection allows modern computers
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to run software made for early Macintosh
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computers, the computers that Apple sold from 1984 to 1996
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based upon Motorola's 680x0 microprocessors.
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The first member of this collection
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emulator">emulates</a> the
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Plus">Macintosh Plus</a>.
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<p> Mini vMac began in 2001 as a spin off of the program vMac. It was
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originally intended to be of limited interest, a simpler
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version to serve as a programmers introduction to vMac.
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But vMac hasn’t been updated in many years, so
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Mini vMac may now be considered its continuation. </p>
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<p> The “Mini” in the name now means that
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each emulator in the collection is as small and simple
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as possible. The meta program and data that
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generate the emulators (the Mini vMac
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<a href="build.html">build system</a>)
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are rather bigger. Besides the Macintosh Plus, there
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are also emulations of the Macintosh 128K, 512K, 512Ke,
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SE, Classic, and SE FDHD.
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Work is in progress on Macintosh II emulation.
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There are also numerous other
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<a href="options.html">options</a>.
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</p>
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<p> Mini vMac requires a ROM image file to run, and so can
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be legally used only by those who own a 680x0 based Macintosh.
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This leads to the question,
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if you need to own the real computer to use it, what
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is the use of the emulator? First, a real Macintosh
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won’t last forever. It is common for the power supply to
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fail. It is still legal to use the emulation after the real
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computer breaks. And second, the emulation is more
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convenient than the real thing. It is much faster (on
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modern computers) and you can use a better screen, keyboard,
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and mouse. And it is easier to transfer files between the
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modern computer and the emulator. </p>
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<p> Mini vMac is part of the
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<a href="https://www.gryphel.com/index.html">Gryphel Project</a>,
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about helping to preserve software made for early Macintosh computers.
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Another component of the Gryphel Project is a list of
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<a href="https://www.gryphel.com/c/alt/index.html">Alternatives to Mini vMac</a>.
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</p>
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<p> : </p>
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<p> If you find Mini vMac useful, please consider
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<a href="https://www.gryphel.com/c/help/index.html">helping the Gryphel Project</A>.
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</p>
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<a href="https://www.gryphel.com/index.html">
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<img src="https://www.gryphel.com/d/gryphel-32.gif" width=32 height=32 border=0
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alt="gryphel logo, 1K"
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</a>
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<p> Next - <b><a href="screens/index.html">Screenshots</a></b></p>
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<p> Or skip to - <b><a href="download.html">Download Mini vMac</a></b> </p>
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<i> <a href="https://www.gryphel.com/index.html">www.gryphel.com</a>/c/<a href="index.html">minivmac</a>/about
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- <a href="https://www.gryphel.com/c/feedback.html">feedback</a> </i>
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copyright (c) 2011 Paul C. Pratt - last update 12/10/2011
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