![]() ![]() When we drag these files onto a 800K Mac formatted floppy disk, it will be readable on our Macintosh Plus. When we open the folder we can see all the files inside. ![]() We need to copy both files to our local web server just like before. After downloading the files on the Power Mac, let's first extract the stuffit archive. Let's download both and see the difference. There are probably ways to find it somewhere on the internet, but the official way to get it, is by using a utility called CopyRoms. When we navigate to the getting started page there is a link where we can download the zipped or the stuff it archived version of the CopyRoms program. It means that in order to run Mini vMac you will need a ROM image of your original Macintosh. Let's see if we can find some other useful software on the Gryphel Project website. If you don't have a real Macintosh Plus there is also this Mini vMac emulator that will allow you to run System 6 software on a modern system and the emulator will also come in handy for the preparation of disk images for the real Mac Plus.Īfter we extract vMac and try to execute it, an error is shown that it is missing the ROM image. After a short while we see the Macintosh has booted the System 6 operating system. We can insert it now into the Macintosh Plus to test it.Īnd this is a success. This will prompt us to insert a blank floppy disk and the image will be written. After the writing operation is finished, the disk will be ejected automatically. Inside the image menu we select: write image back to disk. This disk image can now be mounted using ShirinkWrap application and this way we can write it back to a double density disk. When we double click on it the disk image will be written to our desired location. In order to get our downloaded file onto a floppy disk first we will need to extract it on our Power Mac using Stuffit Expander. This will produce a self executable file. Note that the website needs to be hosted on an unsecure http domain, otherwise you won't be able to connect to it using this old web browser. In my case I have used the good old Netscape Navigator. On this Power Mac we can access the web server and download the file using an old web browser. I did not dive into Apple networking on how to transfer the file, but instead I have created a web server on my local network and copied the file there. Then we will need to transfer that file to the Power Mac G3. ![]() According to this page the license is free, but you can not re-distribute. That includes the Macintosh Plus software and links to download System 6.0.8 can also be found here. Actually the disk images are still hosted on Apple's website. The goal of this project is to help preserve software that was made for early Macintosh computers running on Motorola 68000 processors. To start with we are going to download the System 6 boot floppy disk image from the internet by using a modern computer. This is the website of the Gryphel Project. This is also the reason that only a Macintosh that is equipped with such a drive (like this Power Mac G3) will be able to successfully write disk images that can be read back by the floppy disk that is inside the Macintosh Plus computer. ![]() You can hear that while you are formatting the floppy disk. This floppy drive also uses variable-speed while reading and writing to the disks. The Macintosh Plus was released with a 800K disk drive, so you could only use Double Density floppy disks. There might be other ways to do this, but this method proved to be working for me. For that purpose I will be using a Power Macintosh G3 which is running OS 9.2. It is possible to find one on ebay or some other place, but it is also an option to create one yourself. In order to boot into the operating system you need a Macintosh System 6 boot disk. If you are lucky, you might have an external hard drive that has already been preinstalled with a suitable OS and boot from it. If you don't have it, you won't be able to do anything with it. When you turn this Mac on it will just give you this icon with a question mark expecting a suitable operating system boot disk. Besides that it also shows how to get some software to run on this computer. This blog post takes a closer look at the Macintosh Plus and show how to create a System Boot floppy disk. ![]()
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