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Released in 1986, the original Macintosh Plus could execute 700,000 instructions per second, or 0.7 MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second). ( 1 | 2 | 3 | Vintage Macintosh Resources )

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You’ll need a relatively peppy Android phone to run this one without lag.This article is the third in a multi-part series related to the vintage Macintosh computers of the late 1980s, and why old software needn’t die, even if it is abandoned by its creators. It works nearly identically to Mini vMac… but slower. If black and white isn’t your thing, there is a build of Mini vMac called “ Mini V II ” on the Android App Store… with Macintosh II support. But 7.5.3 should work fantastically for most things. I tend to like the 6.x series when running most Mac Plus software. The earlier stuff tends to be lighter and faster.

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Emulating a full Mac Plus, in my usage, seems to drain the battery a bit less than most games do.ĭifferent versions of the Mac System software have advantages and disadvantages. I find that Mini vMac is not as big of a battery drainer as you’d think. But I’ll leave that for you to search out and enjoy. There is a lot of software out there that runs on a Mac Plus. You can find some software ready to go over at. You can, quite literally, have the same “Mac Plus desktop” with you on your phone as on your Linux / Windows / Mac desktop. They can also be used in Mini vMac on your desktop computer. Make sure to back up your disk images regularly. You can then mount multiple disk images in order to set them up however you like. You can create your own disk images right from inside Mini vMac.

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If you hook up a Bluetooth (or USB) keyboard and mouse you have a full Mac Plus - with full sized, regular input - on the go. Mini vMac works great with an external mouse and keyboard. I end up leaving the Virtual Mac keyboard up all the time because of that.

You will need those to work with most Mac software. Macintosh have two buttons that your Android keyboard (real or virtual) do not have: Command (also known as “Open Apple”) and Option. Pressing the “Back” button on your Android device will bring up the virtual Mac keyboard. Occasionally smaller items can be a bit clumsy to click. For most applications or games, this makes them work oddly well on a mobile device. The mouse cursor will click wherever you tap your finger. 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.

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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”).

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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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