#Macintosh roms retropie install#
#Macintosh roms retropie update#
#Macintosh roms retropie full#

I had PC then but for doing school work, the old Mac Plus was adequate for my sister and brother. Like the other models it was a nice work horse and it worked a lot longer than it was needed in the company so it found its way to our home and was one additional family gaming/writing computer for the most of the mid-90s. In some point the company needed additional computer just for writing and they ended up buying an used Macintosh Plus 1MB with the RAM upgraded to 4 MB + internal 30 MB hard drive. To skip most of the trip down the memory lane I just say that especially in the beginning playing with Macintosh IIci felt like a christmas every day for a first grader. My dad happens to be a Mac enthusiast and in the 90s he had a company which did DTP and other graphics intensive work suitable for the Macs of the era so I had access to bunch of awesome computers like Macintosh IIci, Powerbook 140 and later on even more powerful models like Power Macintosh 8100/80 and G3/300. Hope to hear from you for tips to solve this.Or why I ended up storing an empty Mac enclosure for 15 years Is this a bug, or do I have to put the folder in the home root like you did and it must be named “mac”?

#Macintosh roms retropie update#

And when I try to use the command line to launch the app with the dsk file name, it gives an error called “pcm update error: Broken pipe” 4 times. – I have placed all the software in a folder on the desktop named “Mini vMac”. I haven’t tried Rasberry OS, is that the default user/owner name and group? It chown to Pi:Pi but I had to do it manually as my user wasn’t set to name as Pi. – I noticed when using it on Ubuntu, your script for making the the HDD doesn’t seem to work.

#Macintosh roms retropie full#

– Is there a way to make the minivmac open instantly into full screen and Magnified automatically? Is there a command option to do so? I have a few questions I am wondering if you could help solve

I am currently running it on Pi3 on Ubuntu MATE OS. And you putting everything on a nice download package with the installer disk is making things so convenient for everyone. The compiling it to 1/2 HD display is a great touch. Just wanted to say thanks for your great work on the macvmini. Was there a system command, or was it done physically by moving the write protect tab on the physical floppy disk? Hoping there is a software workaround or I’m missing something in my permissions somewhere.Īny tips on installing from a. Its been so long since I used 7.55, I can’t remember how you unlock a disk.

#Macintosh roms retropie install#

My script executes fine from the ~/mac directoryīut the Icon script in ~/desktop doesn’t properly execute the start script in the mac directory.īut my big problem is trying to install some software from image files, I drag them into the desktop and everything is great, but the install program wants to write my user information (registration) information back to the floppy disk – which is showing as locked (write protected?) – I set the file permission to read/write by anyone but it still fails and tells me disk is locked, and the disk locked icon shows in the top left corner of the folder. 2 problems so far, 1 is trying to create an icon to launch it in full screen from