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