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The only tiny complication is that AppleвЂ™s licensing agreement doesnвЂ™t allow the regular edition of Snow Leopard to be installed on a virtual machine, so you need to buy a copy of Snow Leopard Server instead.

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The virtualisation software takes care of interfacing with your modern hardware, so it works even with older operating systems.

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Either of these can create a virtual machine that runs within your existing OS and allows you to install and run a completely different operating system on top of that.

Instead, you should use either Fusion 8 or Parallels Desktop 12.

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Unfortunately, running Snow Leopard isnвЂ™t as simple as just taking the original install DVD and putting the system on an external drive.ДЄn operating system from five years ago doesnвЂ™t have the right drivers for lots of the hardware on a modern Mac, such as a Retina display or USB 3.0 ports. My drive pops up as 'hard disk' so I will be using that to refer to the macintosh drive under linux menus.

Next I need to deal with the hard disk first mounting Once that is done, I keep the terminal window open we will need it a bunch more I am going to link it here unless instructables says something, only with the understanding that you are only going to use it to bootstrap your real physical classic Macintosh computer, and not just leech it for emulator usage, if you do its your own butt, IВ claim no responsibility for the use of this outside of booting your machineДЇirst I need to install Basilisk II, open a terminal window and bang in sudo apt-get intstall basilisk2 Sytem7.0.smi.bin /Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English-North_American/Macintosh/System/Older_System/System_7.0.x/Д«asilisk II starter disk Basilisk II compatible rom, these rom images can only come from a mac you own, course if you can not boot how can you get them? I googled some shady looking sites and finally found a rom image for a 'performa' which works fine with the emulator Macintosh SE, 800k floppy so IВ could not just make a boot disk, if your computer has a 'super disk' you can just download image files on your pc and make floppy boot disks, 800k disks require a different drive mechinism that IBMВ heritage pc's do not supportДЄ amd X64 running ubuntu 9.10, and a compaq scsi card, yes you probably can use other flavours of nix, but that is out of the scope of this article One pc with linux installed and SCSIВ interface (host) What I used:ДЁ0MBВ hard disk out of my dead performa, it would boot but was just a minimal install to only work on the performa 200 / classic 2, so my SEВ would halt One Macintosh computer with a SCSIВ interface (target) capable of running system 7 One working HFS or HFS+ formatted SCSIВ hard disk with apple firmware This instructable also gets sorta complicated, it requires specific things and software, but it is much better than the alternative in this case, which is 800k floppy disk drive (dont have another mac) apple firmware SCSI cd rom (dont have), or have 'someone' snail mail me a floppy disk (bah!) This is a narrowly focused instructable that should apply to any classic Macintosh with a SCSIВ hard disk and that can run system 7.0 but I have no way to test it so run wild with itДЄlso you can use this information to take a hard disk out of a failed computer and retrieve information off of that disk (as long as the hard disk is still ok)

#MAC OS CLASSIC EMULATOR FOR WINDOWS HOW TO#

In the following instructable I will show you how to do it using a apple formatted and apple firmware installed hard disk, a pc running ubuntu, a pc SCSI card, and a emulator so you can transfer the hard drive to a Macintosh SEВ and have it boot With no other working Mac's in the house how do IВ get this thing to boot? So here is the scenario, I have an idea for a project, that project needs a classic Macintosh computer, so I picked a couple 68k compact macs from the local recyclers for a dollar each (ones really dead, atm) the one that functions is a Macintosh SE, with a dead hard disk and a funky 800k floppy disk

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