Mini vMac running Mac System 6.1.8 on a Unihertz Titan Android phone.Ī Mac Plus! In your pocket! The future is now!Ī few little pointers on emulating a Mac Plus on your Android phone / tablet: Shazam! You’ll now boot right into your desktop! Should only take a few seconds. Navigate to wherever you put your “System7_5_3.img” file and choose it. Tap the floppy disk icon, and then “Select a disk…”. Step 4) With Mini vMac running, tap on the top of the screen to make the toolbar appear. Personally, I use “/storage/emulated/0/minivmac” for all of my Mac Plus disk images, but there’s no hard requirement. So download that and put it wherever you like. Other versions of Macintosh system software will also work (such as version 6.1), but 7.5.3 is one of the latest versions that run on a Mac Plus. You can grab “System7_5_3.img” from the Internet Archive. They seem to have stopped offering the download, but version 7.5.3 is still free to legally download. Step 3) Apple used to make Macintosh System 7.5.3 available for free download for everyone. That’s an old Macintosh way of saying, “Hey! You! Where’s the drive I’m supposed to boot from?!” That little disk icon should have a flashing question mark in it. Luckily finding a “mac plus rom”, or extracting one from the Mac Plus you own, is crazy easy with a little search engine magic.Īt this point, if you launch “Mini vMac” on your Android phone, you’ll see this: But, just the same, gotta keep things legal. Which is super silly, since the Mac Plus was discontinued over 21 years ago. Note: I can’t legally link to a Mac Plus ROM file. Rename that file to “vMac.ROM” and put it in the “minivmac” folder on your phones SD card (for me the path is “/storage/emulated/0/minivmac”). Step 1) Install Mini vMac on your Android device (this should also work on a Chromebook which has Android Play Store support). We can accurately emulate a Mac Plus, right now, on any Android Phone or tablet. Luckily we don’t need to wait for Apple to release such a beast. Let’s be honest, if Apple were to release a “Pocket Mac Plus Classic” - a little hand-held that emulated a Mac Plus faithfully - they would sell a boatload of them.
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