2020-03-15 00:41:42 +00:00
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<title> About µvMac </title>
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<h1>µvMac - About</h1>
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<a href="index.html">Back</a>
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The µvMac emulator 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, most notably the
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Plus">Macintosh Plus</a>.
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<p> µvMac is maintained by <a href="https://invisibleup.com">InvisibleUp</a>.</p>
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µvMac began in 2020 as a spin off of the program Mini vMac. Mini vMac,
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while great, was inflexible and very difficult to maintain. This fork
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was created to clean up and modernize the code base, make the project
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easier to compile and hack on, and allow for much easier user
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configuration. The intent of Mini vMac was to create a "emulator
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collection" of many very optimized "variations" of the same codebase.
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I consider this much more trouble than it's worth, and intend to focus
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more on maintainability and accuracy.
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The “micro” in the name refers more to the side and simplicity
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of the codebase than of any particular binary. That said, having every
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possible system emulated by one single program would, in fact, be smaller.
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Also it was meant to imply that this comes "after" Mini vMac.
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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, which seems to be mostly
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stable from what testing I've done.
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