An ISA card with a 68000 would also need its own RAM because ISA DMA is strictly serial - it's not bus mastering - but you'd still be able to get the host PC to own the framebuffer, possibly painting primitives, and forward input. Possibly you're thinking of SoftMac? Check out the 'Macintosh ROM BIOS Information' section, from the second paragraph: 'If you do not have a working Macintosh computer or do not have the necessary model of Macintosh computer, you must use ROM card and plug in real Macintosh ROMs into the card which then plugs into your PC.' It's then a software emulation of the 68000 though, so possibly not. Still, I believe that, insofar as any piece of software can be said to be objectively intuitive, or capable of fostering creative work, MacPaint was that.Īm I misremembering, or was there once upon a time an add on card that was basically a 68k chip and an empty socket for the Mac ROM chip, that could be used to run Mac software on PCs? Was it also called Basilisk? A few years down the line, I did immerse myself in MacDraw, but I think that was a more sophisticated application, requiring (for me, at least) a greater intuitive leap into working with objects, where MacPaint remained about simple mark-making in a way that I experienced as a natural transition from pencil and paper. If I'd been born a bit later, a different application might have captured my attention in its stead.

My love for MacPaint has a lot to do with how old I was when I encountered it.

I did a lot of stuff in MacDraw and I quite liked how ClarisCAD worked. somewhere I have a copy of the version of PhotoShop 1.0 that worked on my Mac II Those are some pretty fancy rose coloured glasses you have there -)īut I know what you mean. I could happily lose myself in MacPaint again. I remember being very happy to run the French pong clone Beebop from the System 6 era in System 7, but it ran full screen and option-tabing out to do something else at the same time (with the built in always on MultiFinder in System 7 and forwards) would kill it.) (Some of the System 6 and older programs would work in System 7 and newer, but it was a bit hit and miss. I just hope they go for a System 7 and forwards solution and not just a System Software 6 and older solution, since most of the really good classic Mac software and games were made in the System 7 to Mac OS 9 days. Bassilisk II, Sheepshaver and the Mac Plus emulator I forgot the name of are less useful for me as a long time Mac user that has switched to Linux, but on Mac OS X, they run well.Ī sort of Wine for Macintosh System Software is really cool if it allows less overhead when running ClarisWorks or the like. Midi through USB from Finale doesn't work, but it works for GUI software and internal sound. Mac OS 9.2.2 in QEMU runs all programs for Mac OS 7 or newer whether 68k, PowerPC or Fat binaries. You can already run newer versions (7.0.1 - 9.2.2) of Mac OS under QEMU on Linux by emulating a PowerPC Mac.

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