New Linux MacPlus emulator

I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: "Macintosh - We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end."  ~Douglas Adams

PCE-MacPlus is a nifty Macintosh Plus emulator. It emulates a Macintosh 128K, Macintosh 512k, Macintosh 512ke or a Macintosh Plus. Making it the third Apple emulator to support Linux, joining SheepShaver and Basilisk, both of which appear to be somewhat dormant when it comes to development, although I could be wrong, since Emaculation Forums announced that a 2010 build of SheepShaver which supports SDL is available. The powerpc emulator appears to get patched periodically, but could really do with an overhaul and proper version management, there is currently no source code available of the latest builds. Nevertheless, the news presents us with hope and at least we can feast our eyes on PCE-MacPlus which is a welcome addition. Ubuntu devs can learn a lot from the emphasis on productivity and user-friendliness that characterised much of the classic macintosh era.

Emulated parts

Part	Status
CPU	A complete MC68000 emulator.
ROM	An unmodified ROM image from a Macintosh Plus is needed.
RAM	Memory configurations of 128K, 512K, 1M, 2.5M and 4M are supported.
Video	Supported (512*342*2)
Sound	Not yet supported
Floppy disks	Supported by a custom driver. For this to work the ROM is patched at runtime.
SCSI	Up to 7 SCSI harddisks are supported.
Serial ports	Supported
Mouse	Supported
Keyboard	Supported
AppleTalk	Not supported

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Source code



















File name
Description
pce-20100920-36bf765.tar.gz
PCE 20100920-36bf765 sources
pce-0.2.0.tar.gz
PCE 0.2.0 sources
pce-0.1.8.tar.gz

PCE 0.1.8 sources

The Latest Source code can be checked out via git

git clone git://git.hampa.ch/pce.git

VISIT PCE-MacPlus home page for disk images and MacPLus ROMS.

System 6 and 7 is still available from Apple.Com

Macintosh Garden is a great place to pick up free Apple Software and Abandonware.

SheepShaver in Ubuntu 9.10

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This is SheepShaver 2.3.1 running in Karmic.  It was patched and compiled from a 2006 source snapshot. There is slightly newer code available from CVS, but the Linux code is not being maintained and SheepShaver is still not available in the Ubuntu repository. It appears most development of the wonderful PowerPC emulator is being done on OSX and Windows. A forked development would really assist Apple System 9 lovers on Ubuntu. If you want to see what all the fuss is about and wish to  avoid the hassle of compiling, I've uploaded a patched deb here. Be warned, it's the 2.3.1 unstable version.


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