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Executor – if you simply want to run Macintosh Classic software and are okay doing so without a “genuine” ROM.
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Mini vMac – my old preferred choice for emulating a Macintosh SE. The software and instructions for getting started are pretty nice, just as is the case for Apple Disk Transfer ProDOS. Also, genuine SCSI hard disk drives are not supported, so I can’t setup the virtual Macintosh SE just like I have the real one.
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MESSS + MAME – MESS is now merged into the MAME project, MESS provides a more genuine emulation experience of Macintosh SE than Mini vMac when I last checked, but there was one bug on the timer and processor speed clocking that makes software run unusually slow. Genuine SCSI hard disk drives are supported, but not the kind of internal hard disk drive on SCSI0 that my real Macintosh SE has.
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PCE and PCE.js – this may be more of a newer kid on the block in Macintosh emulation, but it has clearly grown much more popular by its inclusion in the Internet Archive. Also, it supports genuine SCSI hard disk drives.
And there were also a few other Macintosh emulators that I’ve mentioned in previous articles, but won’t revisit those for now.
In any case, the main state of affairs here is that I need to revisit the PCE emulator in more detail. Yeah, the software documentation appears to really not make it easy to get started on genuine emulation, but in terms of software popularity, it appears to be the future of Macintosh Classic emulation.
Also, some other news notes on Mini vMac, PROM handling support has been improved in the official later versions. Now there is a tool, GetPRAM, that allows you to get custom PRAM settings and bake them into a Mini vMac variations build.
In the middle of this topic, I was searching for a more Macintosh-specific solution than Kermit for serial terminal emulation and ZMODEM file transfer that also works on System 6, but no dice.
20190517/https://www.gryphel.com/c/news/index.html
20190517/https://www.gryphel.com/c/minivmac/extras/getpram/index.html
20190517/DuckDuckGo macintosh classic system 6 serial terminal emulator
20190517/https://archive.org/details/mac_MacOS_6.0.8
20190517/https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8546900
20190517/DuckDuckGo pce emulator
20190517/http://www.hampa.ch/pce/
20190517/http://www.hampa.ch/pce/about.html
20190517/http://www.hampa.ch/pce/pce-macplus.html
20190517/https://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/