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Video: Mac Plus emulator for the iPhone
CrunchGear —
Just when you thought you could escape, the Mac Plus is ready to pull you back in. Mini vMac is a crazy emulator for jailbroken iPhones that lets you run the Mac Plus OS on your iPhone. This is not an official appstore product so you’ll have to jailbreak your iPhone and add namedfork.net to your Cydia repository list. It will appear under Emulation.
The program itself also requires a MacPlus ROM image as well as disk images of whatever programs you’d like to run. The iPhone ready website offers a full how-to and a video.
Remember, folks, just because you ...
Mac Plus Emulator now Available for Jailbroken iPhones [IPhone Apps]
Gizmodo —
NOSTALGIA ALERT! There is now an honest-to-goodness Retro MacOS emulator for jailbroken iPhones in the form of Mini vMac, which loads disk images and everything. It's like getting your first Mac all over again. The OS, developed by Named Fork, is based around that found on the Mac Plus (v3.0, presumably). If you can stomach the god-awful nu-metal soundtrack (or whatever they're calling it these days), the video runs through a demo of the different control schemes for using the OS with a touchscreen. Admittedly, it looks like more work than it probably is, especially since you have to ...
Video: Classic Mac Plus OS Running on iPhone
Wired: Gadget Lab —
We all know about Moore's Law and the unstoppable rise of the machines, but nothing actually brings home the real power of modern computers more than the emulator. Hardware that was at the expensive cutting edge just a few years ago can be run, emulated in software, on a modest netbook today, as we showed when we shoehorned a SNES and an N64 into an MSI Wind.
The video above shows just how far we have come. The iPhone is running an emulator of the Mac Plus. It's no novelty, but instead a fully operational OS running on the tiny platform. You can install third party software and even load ...
