The original Macintosh had a native screen resolution of 512×342.Ĭonceptually, the iPad has a logical screen resolution of 1024×768, which when running in pixel doubled mode equates to 512×384. The only gotcha with this approach is that you’re best moving the file to the emulated system’s main disk drive otherwise you’ll encounter various oddities with certain apps that don’t know how to cope with files located on this type of drive. You can use the Share Sheet in the same way as Mini vMac, but you can also simply copy/move a file to the BasiliskII folder and it will be accessible inside the emulator. With BasiliskII things are easier as it has a drive mapped to the app’s file sharing folder. These extra steps are just enough friction to make the emulator annoying to use. With Mini vMac you need to run a special file import app, and then whilst it’s open use iOS Share Sheet to send a file to Mini vMac.

This works a treat in both emulators, but the experience is better in BasiliskII.

Native iOS interface for settings panel, negating all the issues with the desktop GUI.Dynamic screen resolutions through Monitors control panel, or automation.Odd interface using Control key shortcuts.Many thanks! They need to be built from source using Xcode but it’s a pretty straight forward process. So it’s a good time to talk about how I turned an iPad Pro into the ultimate Classic Macintosh.īoth Macintosh emulators available on iOS we’re ported by who has done an amazing job making them feel truly at home on iOS. I’ve started work on the next in my 1-bit Woodblocks series: “Tekagami” (Ito Shinsui’s “Hand Mirror”).

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