Tag: mac68k
Linux enthusiasts who still own a vintage Macintosh machine with a Motorola 68020, 030, or 040 CPU and an MMU will be delighted to know that a new release of the developmental branch of Linux/m68k port is now available for download. The version 4.14.309 Test kernel can be found on the project’s official website, The Linux/m68k for Macintosh. The project’s objective is to enhance the Linux support for 68k-based Macintoshes and its related hardware. Almost all Macs with a 68030…
If you have not played a Davide Bucci adventure yet, you re really missing something. Created in the old style of Interactive Fiction games, Davide has created a number of adventures including his multi platform title, The Queen’s Footsteps. Synopsis of the game: “ Today is August 27th, 1904. Nine months ago, you, Emilia Vittorini, joined the Italian Archeological Expedition in Egypt led by Ernesto Schiaparelli, the director of the Egyptian Museum of Turin. You are now back in Genova,…
One of the more interesting projects I came across today is Travis DeRose’s iPad replacement for the internals of the Macintosh Plus. While there are Mac 68K users who might get a bit peeved at the sacrilege, it is more pleasing and appealing the some of the other horrid changes and supposed updates I have seen such as fish tanks and beer dispensers. This is one upgrade that allows the coolness of the Macintosh 68K while having a modern computing…
The NetBSD project has announced the availability of the sixteenth major release of the NetBSD operating system. NetBSD Version 8.0 includes a number of bug fixes and includes new hardware support as well as additional security features. NetBSD is designed to run on over 50 platforms including the Macintosh 68K and Power PC machines. Some of the fixes and enhancements included in the latest version are as follows: USB stack rework, USB3 support added. In-kernel audio mixer (audio_system(9)). Reproducible builds…
The latest version of the Mini vMac emulator has been released. The Paul Pratt managed project is now in version 3.2.3 of the emulator. The Mini vMac emulator emulates a 128K Macintosh and runs on a variety of platforms including Mac OS X. One requirement is that you have a 128K Macintosh ROM in file form. The operating system on the other hand is little problem as Apple, Inc. has released all Apple OSes through 7.5.5 as freeware. The Latest…
Everyone has probably had one or two programs over the years that they had during the early days of Macintosh that they wished there was a modern equivalent to. While most of us only dream of those retro packagers, one early mac user, Scott Baret wrote an interesting post on just such a list of items he wanted over at the 68K Macintosh Liberation Army Website about his list of items complete with his equivalent finds in the computing world…
