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Oops. I missed seeing this reply before. Better very late than never? The trick to get color to work in System 6 in the current state of Mini vMac Macintosh II emulation is to install 32-Bit QuickDraw (which is available from the System 6.0.8 installer). Macintosh 68k ROMs seem to contain...

Another alternative in recent versions of OS X is using the macbinary command from the Terminal application. (http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/macbinary.1.html) It can be used to convert a single file into MacBinary format, which can be loaded...

A lot of information about MPW can be found at the main MPW site (http://developer.apple.com/tools/mpw-tools/) including reference books (http://developer.apple.com/tools/mpw-tools/books.html). Many of the old Apple Inside Macintosh books can be downloaded for free from Apple. I provide...

Hi, I'm catching up on mail after a trip. (I'm posting this same reply on both discussions on E-maculation and 68kmla.) I believe that "Dog Cow" is generally correct, though this may or may not apply specifically to Wizardy. Mini vMac does not emulate the disk hardware at low level, and so most...

I've just updated a program I used to use and uploaded it to sourceforge: http://minivmac.sourceforge.net/examples/blacken.html Blacken paints the entire screen black, and stays that way until a key is pressed or the mouse is clicked. The program itself is 3k. The archive includes the source...

Mac128 pointed out this thread to me. Thank you all for your support. How to keep Mini vMac development going is certainly a concern. But MacGeek417 is permitted under the GPL license to distribute his builds. I have no complaint. MacGeek417 started compiling his variations before the Mini...

Some of the desk accessories in the shareware disks of the Boston Computer Society (http://www.applefritter.com/software/bcs/index.html) might work. Such as 'Extras' in "Desk Accessories 1" or 'Heap Doctor' in 'Developer 2'.