Running Mac OS 7 on Raspberry Pi with COLOR

[@kjamison5951]

I have an empty SE/30 case. It came as part of a huge lot of Mac stuff. 5 cases but enough parts for just 4 compact Macs. I have the parts for a Raspberry Pi Mac and a 3D printer to create parts for fixing the 10” 4:3 LCD panel and other components into the case. This video is a massive help! Thank you!

[@booboyBL]

Thanks for this. I'm fairly new to RasPi and to Linux, but have been a Mac user for about 10 years, from OS X 10.4 (Tiger) Your instructions are excellent, and I've successfully installed OS 7 and upgraded to 7.5.5 so far. The rest will have to wait until later, but I'm looking forward to some nostalgia (it's not what is used to be) later.

[@dvuemedia]

I just installed it on my new RPi400, works great! Thanks for the video.

[@grayday8089]

Reminds me of buying my ruby red iMac. I think it came with 300 mhz and 64 mb ram. Oh and dial up. It would take a half hour just to pull one song off of Napster. It's incredible how much things have changed.

[@JamesWoodOfficial]

Thanks so much for this, it's awesome! If you name your disk image "disk1.dsk" instead of "mac.dsk", then macvmini will automatically mount it without needing to specify it at the command prompt. (You can also have others, disk2.dsk, disk3.dsk, etc)

[@RonLeblanc]

Oh man! Guess what I'm doing this weekend!!! Thanks for this.

[@NovaspiritTech]

Sweet!

[@artbecker5618]

Thank you for this, Don. It is exactly the kind of fun project that I like. I even remember buying SimCity 2000, once upon a time. I loved all the Civilization games, too. And who could ever forget Zork etc?

[@NovaspiritTech]

+Art Becker zork!! >Watch KZbin video If you liked the video be sure to give thumbs up and share to family and friends >(Your move...)

[@GerardGodin]

I'd love to retry all the Leisure Suit Larry games :)

[@artbecker5618]

My favorite was LSL goes to Las Vegas. He's in the bus station, broke, finds a coin in a pay phone slot, plays it in a slot machine, hits a jackpot, and ...

[@MegaManNeo]

Ha, nice video there. I'm more of a DOS guy myself when it comes to computers that old other than the Commodore64, but having classic MacOS fully running on the RPi makes me think of how awesome it'd be to get hands on some old AppleII case, replace the inside with a LCD screen and the RPi and well, basically get a new born Mac out of this. In fact there are people who did that already, I probably wouldn't have the guts to do so but it sure sounds like fun to realize. Otherwise... thumbs up for being a fan of SimCity2000! Have the CD variant myself that includes the DOS, Windows and Mac versions of the game, still use to play it every now and then because it's so much fun :]

[@ninline2000]

I had a Powermac 9600 I picked up from a yard sale for $50 in 2003. Took it home and set it up and downloaded hundreds of programs off of usenet group for it. All kinds of cool programs and it worked pretty well. I put a G3 upgrade card and 768MB of ram in. This is a machine from 1997. 6 PCI slots as well. Theoretically it could go up to 1.5GB of ram but I never needed more for system 9. A real beast. Now I can emulate it with a damn $35 credit card sized computer.

[@arnaudlecomte4381]

This Pi is definitely a nice thing to play with and learn. I use the retropie file manager as a treasure map. So its intuitive. Thanks for the great work. And yea, awesome guy !

[@ianhollis51]

I've been trying to find a good MAC OS emulator and "how to" for my RPi3 for a while. This is great. AND you've done the same for Windows. How good is that! Thank you heaps!

[@TheDefpom]

I still have the original installation floppies for system 7... as well as a bunch of the old software on some hard drives in storage.

[@stevebez2767]

Sell me hard drive ya?

[@AdventurePunk]

Sir, you've just given me a reason to gut my old dead Classic ii. Thank you!

[@helloworld4553]

Nice video...really liked it

[@NovaspiritTech]

THANKS!!!

[@franklicht9829]

Is there a way to get the Pi to boot right into the Mac ROM when you reboot the Pi?

[@vapcdoc]

This is awesome, you need more subs!

[@NovaspiritTech]

thanks!! i agree

[@vapcdoc]

I'm literally still watching the video lol

[@Tom2112Tom]

Thanks for this video! It makes getting Mini vMac up and running quick and easy. I'd love to see you put together one for Basilisk II. I'm really struggling to get Basilisk running on the Pi.

[@WLOoDE]

many ideas u just give me amazing video

[@CorporalDanLives]

Great video, very clear and concise!!! I'm playing the heck out of this on my Pi now!!!

[@Pocket-Calculator]

What's the icon theme you're using? Looks very good.

[@johnDingoFoxVelocity]

awesome thanks for this

[@edgarpug9235]

Can you Please make a 480 x 320 mac file?

[@georgeabrahumph6164]

Edgar Pug yes i want it too

[@TorutheRedFox]

building Mini vMac is pretty simple if you have the right tools to do it all you need is a C++ compiler for your target platform, a copy of Mini vMac, system disk image, and the source generator disk (which allows you to specify build options, which it then spits out as a zip file containing C++ sources)

[@peanutbuttercrabcake]

Same here, except 320 x 240.

[@peanutbuttercrabcake]

320 x 240?

[@cuddles6938]

Install it in a stereo case for your car probably better then that SYNC crap that came in my POS 2012 Ford Focus.

[@Tophat112-Ev]

So, I wanted to play a certain game but the disc I created is too small for it to fit on! Is there any way I could increase the size of the disk without creating another one and reinstalling MacOS?

[@encycl07pedia-]

Is there any reason you tend to put the ./ at the beginning of your paths? It seems redundant to me. The only use case I've seen is for running local shell scripts. Good video!

[@skowvegas1968]

Great vid! What are the top 5 games you would load on mac os7?

[@gordoncraig8238]

Good stuff. I ran this on a Pi4 32bit. I then looked at the 64bit raspian and it doesn't work there, so inspired by your video on compiling I got it going. Here's some details. You need libx11-dev installed. Follow the mini vmac webpage, changing the options to ./setup_t -t lx64 -m II -hres 960 -vres 540 -depth 3 > setup.sh. The strange thing is that lx64 is for x86_64 and larm is for ARM, but that doesn't work! This works with the same mac disk I used on the 32 bit. I guess they haven't code for a 64 bit ARM, but it is fast enough on lx64. I guess these options are what you used.

[@nosuchthing8]

Is there a version of wine for mac OS 7

[@ChicagoBob123]

Can this be done with the ODROID C2 or ODROID-XU4? It would be cool

[@NovaspiritTech]

yes, there is a android version of mini vmac compiled on their site. check it out and let me know how it goes.

[@ChicagoBob123]

On more question. Did you overclock the Pi to make it run so smooth?

[@NovaspiritTech]

nope, stock settings

[@AlexandreLollini]

You did a great job explaining all that, thanks !

[@mayankb]

Awesome video! How did you record your screen on RPi3? I tried one time and video came all pink..

[@alexneustadter4498]

Could you help me, I'm trying to run it on windows with your minivmac.exe but when I put the Install 1.image into it it starts, then freezes (and the program says"(Not Responding)") while its loading.

[@fredericderose-jacques1887]

How do I resize the full screen mode ? When in full screen I still have large black bands around the screen.

[@jamescoats74346]

Same Problem

[@kydox3262]

This brings back memories....thanks! One question...when you press "Ctrl, H, F" isn't the image suppose to fill the entire screen? If it is, I must be doing something wrong because all it does is center it and black out everything else, with no size change.

[@NovaspiritTech]

+KYDox do u have gl enabled on your pi?

[@kydox3262]

Crap...tried enabling it, but ended up just bricking it. Well...I'll try again later tonight with a fresh image of Pixel.

[@NovaspiritTech]

KYDox remember to do rpi-update to update to latest kernel and drivers

[@demonicsweaters]

great video. I'm curious, how were you getting such good screen recording on a Pi, and with the webcam view too?

[@NovaspiritTech]

haha by cheating!!... i use a hdmi capture device on the raspberry pi and a dslr for webcam =)

[@demonicsweaters]

ah cool, thanks for the reply. I was wondering if there were such a device!

[@ti994apc]

MacOS9 with the system bar at the bottom is still my fav OS.

[@craigolio1]

Nice video - Thanks for doing it! A few questions: * I desperately want to hear that old 'bong' when powering up the mac. I'm connecting via VNC, but I am getting no sound. Does sound work? * You mention the plugin for making internet work. Which plugin is it? It would be fun to play with that. * Do you know which version of toast is needed? * I cannot seem to get 'full-screen' working properly via VNC on my 24" screen (1920x1080). Should I re-compile with different settings? Thanks again, and sorry for so many questions!

[@NovaspiritTech]

unfortunately, VNC does not support sound pass through

[@SalvatoreBognanni]

Nice tutorial. Out of curiosity, what did you use to record the pi screen?

[@NovaspiritTech]

Salvatore Bognanni HDMI capture device

[@Rex55590]

How would you get the pi to boot directly into Mac OS

[@Suzuki-RGB500-57]

Great video, thanks for this, sorry to be such a novice but I cant find the fikle you said you had included to do this on windows. Can you upload a link please. Thanks Alan

[@silverlightLP-gk9bl]

oh yeah.... is it possible then to upgrade or install os 9.22 ? i know, wht im doing next weekend (if i find any time...) thanks for the useful video edit: another questions: would it run on an pi2 ? what about ethernet-connections (i think not)

[@hawaiifiles]

As I vaguely recall MiniVMac only supports Mac OS 6 and 7x.

[@hakemon]

No, VMac emulates only a 68k, OS 8.5 and higher required PowerPC.

[@faccina.9410]

Can you do It in a piedi zero w or the hardware is too low?

[@faccina.9410]

slow*

[@barnacl437]

I am thinking that we can install ANY OS into a Raspberry Pi (yes, if you find a mistake, pls reply me)

[@peytoneberle7495]

Thank you. Worked like a charm.

[@DavidSpirk]

hey man, great video with really easy to follow instruction. I do have a question... after I drag I drag the install1.image file into minivmac and then drag the mac.dsk file in, easy install says "The selected disk named "Mac" is locked. Click Switch Disk to choose a different disk." I cant find any info on this anywhere and I watched your video up to that point a dozen or more times. how do I unlock this disk or create an unlocked disk? any help is appreciated.

[@NovaspiritTech]

check the user rights on the mac.dsk. it should be user pi:pi

[@DavidSpirk]

I'm an idiot... I was logged into an account without the rights to the file... like and thumbs up for quick response.

[@CarlosDeSedas]

GREAT TUTORIAL!! thank you very much... I have one question though. I created my mac.dsk of 200mb and now I ran out of space... is there a way to resize it instead of having to do all the steps all over again? Thanks!!!!!

[@NovaspiritTech]

i don't know how to resize it, i think you might be able to with qemu-img butttttt you can make a new disk that's larger, mount it and boot the mac os. then you can disk copy to the new drive and boot from new drive when done

[@CarlosDeSedas]

great.. thanks for the quick response... when you mean "disk copy", it's just drag and drop from the old drive to the new?

[@MrPrr0]

Great tutorial Don, great work, you have to make a tutorial on how to create a RPI3 desktop that runs like yours, keep your great work

[@NovaspiritTech]

i was thinking about making a new updated raspberry pi 3 desktop video. this just confirms that i should =)

[@MrPrr0]

Great!!

[@icarus901]

Yes please! I was just going to ask, so that would be great

[@adrien3967]

Could you please make an updated version so in the emulator is optimized for the Pi's official Touch Screen because when I try it on my touch screen, it works but the window (resolution of the emulator) is way to big for it.

[@NovaspiritTech]

Adrien Lesage the resolution is 800x480 for official touchscreen?

[@adrien3967]

Novaspirit Tech Yes, it is 800x480.

[@adrien3967]

Novaspirit Tech If you made a 800x400 version I would definitely do this project this weekend.

[@NovaspiritTech]

Adrien Lesage I did about to upload it soon. and it auto full screens too. I will have a link soon and it will be posted on my blog

[@adrien3967]

Novaspirit Tech Thank you so much!

[@rockyshumacher8934]

Incredible as usual.

[@forfashire]

For some reason I don't have System 7.5.5 Update - 2 or 3, just 1. Help?

[@NovaspiritTech]

try redownloading it, i just did and it's in there

[@josephflower4209]

Nova spirit tech I get a error after I try the install.dsk it says “one of the system access modules could not be installed (the rest were installed successfully): apple photo access

[@elijahwood687]

IT keeps sayin that UNable to fine MacII.rom even though i have it?? I need Help PLS

[@TheElliotjd]

Great, helpful video. Thanks for uploading!

[@Goo38]

Can this emulator run PowerPC applications or only 68000? I wonder if Mac OS 8 or later would run?

[@NovaspiritTech]

you can try other emulators like pearpc or sheepshaver. i have not tried to compile them for arm but i will. eventually

[@kneekoo]

Oh, man... the VM crashes when I try to install the 7.5.5 update. Segmentation fault. :( What's so hot about 7.5.5 over 7.5.3?

[@heyhocodyo97]

Now i can see why 1984 wont be like 1984 im planning on doing this to my original macintosh it doesnt work and its too hard for me to fix this will be much simpler

[@thestigmister]

Would this work on a Pi 1 512MB model? I hope so, if it does, then you can even do it on a Pi zero which is technically better than the Pi 1

[@NovaspiritTech]

someone here on the comments did this on a pi zero and said it works great. hope that help

[@CorporalDanLives]

Don, do you have instructions on compiling this? I really want to make alternative versions with different screen resolutions/color depths/memory allocations for compatibility's sake!

[@peanutbuttercrabcake]

Did you ever get an answer to your question?

[@LogosByLogos]

What webcam are you using? The picture looks great!

[@dormanricha]

Could you choose any of the Mac OS versions?

[@energyideas]

Any chance you could make an image file available for loading onto a rpi2 or rpi3? Thanks for the video!

[@jamescoats74346]

That would make things much easier!

[@destroyer6470]

Can you do a remaster of this?

[@JeffFlowersgoogle]

Damn! Great video - and great work!

[@totaltwit]

Wow to see OS7 run on a Pi is amazing! Ok I keep my old Mac OS7 running because I use the scsi for transferring audio sample data to a music sampler and midi, obviously the Pi doesn't have scsi but what if I use a desktop and put an Adaptec scsi card in, do you think my Mac software can still use it?

[@kso123420]

Im heading lib/linux-so.armhf .3things while excute the vmac . could you help me?

[@budandbean1]

Pretty slick, thank you...

[@grayday8089]

Reminds me of buying my ruby red iMac. I think it came with 300 mhz and 64 mb ram. Oh and dial up. It would take a half hour just to pull one song off of Napster.

[@uzairmohammed5134]

For some reason, I can't boot after updating to the first update. Can someone upload their disk file? Thanks

[@SO_DIGITAL]

any possibility of more than 256 colours?

[@Genkds]

Awesome video, thanks!

[@esconnell]

Are you able to install OS 9.x? I have some old applications I would love to run on my Pi. Thanks for the video!

[@NovaspiritTech]

Not with mini vmac we have here but pearpc and sheepshaver can emulate powerpc chips which can run upto 9.x. i'm still playing around with that. hopefully i can get everything compiled and working for PI. i'll keep you posted

[@esconnell]

Thanks so much for the reply. I have been trying to start a project using some older software and installing it on a Pi would be much easier than on a real old mac... and probably faster. Cheers!

[@CyricFTW]

Great video thanks very much. Incredible. Tho whenever i click 256 colour minivmac immediately crashes. Aside from that works very nice. Thank you millions. Tho how can i give it more ram? And make the disk larger After setup?

[@willikusche3587]

Same problem here!

[@CyricFTW]

ok I think I solved. some of the versions of raspian buggily doesn't have necessary opengl versions. either we have to manually install them or use a recent version of raspian. this solves the problem... FYI.

[@jamiesowell]

Great vid. Still doesn't sound work?

[@caseysutherland]

Would this run on a Pi Zero, in your opinion?

[@aathish04]

In theory, yes. But it would be unusably slow.

[@TorutheRedFox]

Mini vMac is pretty lightweight, so probably

[@julianmaymon5862]

Ugh. Everything went well until the Mac OS 7 installer told me the 'mac.dsk' was locked. :( How do you fix that on a virtual machine. Yikes. Oh well. I tried.

[@julianmaymon5862]

For anyone else who has this issue, you can find "blank disk" files with various sizes that arent locked!

[@lindseybianco]

@@julianmaymon5862 Hey I had this issue too! I tried right clicking and changing permissions but was not allowed. So to resolve this I just opened the file on my Mac, or just use any other PC, and I then changed the permissions and replaced the file!

[@mifo1133]

cant wait for more! :)

[@airthrow]

Your videos are so awesome, I don't even know I want to try to do something until you put up a badass tutorial!

[@MrTAKKURA]

its working for raspberry p B+ or not

[@charge03]

DOS game on Mac??

[@sebastianp.279]

Thumbs up for the cool video! Thumbs down for recommending Mac Repository, which is just a website that leeched the Macintosh Garden without asking, taking other people's work to make money. (the Mac Garden is the original Mac abandonware movement - they don't ask for money and they don't have download restrictions btw)

[@mfdgaming7181]

how can we get internet on minivmac on android

[@oldchannel8039]

only thing is, when it is fullscreen, it does not fill the screen.

[@thomastempelmann]

Nicely done. I wonder if I can also run MagiC!Mac on it and then run Atari ST apps. Gotta try when I find some time to play with this. Cheers from a co-author of both Toast and MagiCMac.

[@stevebez2767]

Well done that must've been loads if work thinking all that mac back haa!!!

[@stevebez2767]

You chi out mac garden.org it has qemu an rims links too!

[@Outlandak]

I installed everything without issue, but don't understand the stuffit program to play/extract the games - I transferred a .sit file over, but the stuffit program won't recognize it. Love your tutorial videos, just wanted that simfarm nostalgia XD

[@NovaspiritTech]

Master5hake you need stuff it 5.0 or higher

[@Outlandak]

You the people's champ!

[@JoshuaFergusonAz]

Well, tomorrow is gonna be a wash. Sim City, System Shock 2, Escape Velocity.

[@NovaspiritTech]

+Joshua Ferguson lol I know the feeling. I did the same when I first got it setup

[@topshot2219]

Yes, you brought back the old feelings alright. OS 7 one of the most beautifully designed interfaces ever (imo). I'd really like to learn more about it's development. Who worked on it, how it evolved, all that.

[@d4.2g]

Has anyone tried this recently? I'd love to take a crack at it. So many old lucasarts (I do know about scumm), snakes alive, giza, mortal pongbat...

[@hari_bg]

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

[@mememe84]

can u do os 9?

[@NovaspiritTech]

maak Mac os 9 video is coming soon

[@MUDMAD83]

full screen not working for me

[@AngelSaiddelaVegaGarcia]

great video .... 👍 thanks a lot ....

[@mjerzyko]

Great job!

[@ChozoSR388]

Can't tell if American Eagle logo or rip in shirt...

[@parrotgaming3805]

I Get a error message in windows

[@FlerfDestroyer]

Just got my hands on a non working LCII. Gonna mod it to use a pi

[@rOSScOGITANS]

Super! Thumb up!

[@pepitoczw]

Sorry... yes working... I have a problem with z7p version.

[@guenterwirth6046]

Hallo schönes Video suche eine Anleitung für Windows, habe keinen MAC. Hello nice video looking for instructions for Windows, do not have a MAC

[@mikehill9806]

Brilliant!