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Re: 80s' Macs Emulators To Play Old 80s Mac Games

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On 2018-01-13 22:09:18 +0000, Ant said:

> Thanks guys. So far, I am currently trying Mini vMac in my old, updated
> 64-bit W7 HPE SP1 desktop PC. I got the old Mac ROMs from
> https://www.macintoshrepository.org/7038-all-macintosh-roms-68k-ppc- web
> page. I extracted its 128K's 1986-03 - 4D1F8172 - MacPlus v3.ROM file
> and renamed it to vMac.ROM. I ran Mini vMac.exe and it booted up. I
> heard its beep and saw its floppy disk icon with its "?". From what I
> read, this is OK. At least it finds an old Mac ROM.

Yes. The flashing question mark disk icon means it can't find a disk to 
boot from.




> I ran into a new issue according from
> https://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/mini_vmac_setup and
> http://www.gryphel.com/c/minivmac/start.html web pages' instructions. I
> downloaded and installed the decade old
> http://www.emaculation.com/minivmac/StuffItStandard9.zip successfully.
> However, running its installed program crashed due to Visual C++ runtime
> error as shown in my uploaded
> https://image.prntscr.com/image/1F4eXCK0RwCk6aPOmWNyMw.png screen
> shot/capture. I can't use the newer StuffIt Expander for Windows version
> (http://my.smithmicro.com/stuffit-expander-windows.html) since it
> doesn't support *.sea.bin files
> (http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English-North_American/Macintosh/System/Older_System/System_6.0.x/SSW_6.0.8-1.4MB_Disk1of2.sea.bin 
> 
> and
> http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English-North_American/Macintosh/System/Older_System/System_6.0.x/SSW_6.0.8-1.4MB_Disk2of2.sea.bin). 
> 
> Argh. :(
> 
> Any ideas? Thank you in advance. :)

NEVER EVER unarchive Mac application files on a Windoze PC, you'll ruin 
them because Windoze doesn't understand the separate data fork and 
resource fork used by Mac applications. That includes system installers 
and ".sea" self-extracting archives.


Get the second download from the System 6 page at MacintoshGarden.org
<http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/system-6-collection>
It's a zip archive containing an System 6 boot disk - unzip that and 
use it with Mini vMac.

Or, RedundantRobot.com has a System 7 hard drive image (30MB) for 
SheepShaver, but it should work with Mini vMac as well.
<http://www.redundantrobot.com/sheepshaver_files/disk_images/MacStartupOS7.img>

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80s' Macs Emulators ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2018-01-12 19:10 -0600
  Re: 80s' Macs Emulators Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-01-13 02:19 +0000
  Re: 80s' Macs Emulators Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-01-13 15:21 +1300
  Re: 80s' Macs Emulators To Play Old 80s Mac Games ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2018-01-13 16:09 -0600
    Re: 80s' Macs Emulators To Play Old 80s Mac Games Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-01-14 14:39 +1300
      Re: 80s' Macs Emulators To Play Old 80s Mac Games ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2018-01-13 21:51 -0600
        Re: 80s' Macs Emulators To Play Old 80s Mac Games Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-01-14 19:31 +1300
          Re: 80s' Macs Emulators To Play Old 80s Mac Games ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2018-01-15 20:00 -0600
            Re: 80s' Macs Emulators To Play Old 80s Mac Games Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-01-16 19:15 +1300
              Re: 80s' Macs Emulators To Play Old 80s Mac Games ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2018-01-16 20:55 -0600
                Re: 80s' Macs Emulators To Play Old 80s Mac Games Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-01-17 18:42 +1300

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