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If you're planning on running the treasures of the past you'll find here on real old Macintosh hardware from the 90's, you sir/madame, deserve to win an Internet! For others, there's SheepShaver, a PowerPC emulator capable of running Mac OS 9.0.4 down to Mac OS 7.5.2 and there's Basilisk II, a 68k emulator, capable of running Mac OS (8.1 to 7.0). For everything older than System 7, you will need a Mac Plus emulator like Mini vMacNEW! Since August 2016, it is now possible to emulate a PPC and boot Mac OS 9.2.2 using QEMU!
Quick tip about Basilisk II if you do not have a real old Mac: it even reads high density Mac floppy disks using a normal PC floppy drive! I salvaged many old files using it while 5 different Windows apps failed at the task. I highly recommend backing up all your floppy disks using Basilisk II before it's too late!

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The newest dusted off pieces of old Mac software!


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The 7 newest old Mac software comments!


#1 'Works great on my PowerBook G4 15' Aluminum from 2005.'

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#2 'found a readme file dangling around in the folder, and wow what a difference RTFM makes! Get CarbonLib 1.6 and it runs....'
#3 'Doesn't run on a slot G3 with 9.2.1. Menu bar shows up, then it closes back to desktop without any error. Dragging a ROM...'
#4 'Another video of this game: https://youtu.be/lMdQ91CkkCU'
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#7 'Seems to work perfectly fine under 10.4.11 in QEMU emulator, no problem installing it both CD1 and CD2 no error...'

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