• The Mac 68k emulator is a software emulator built into all versions of the classic Mac OS for PowerPC. This emulator enabled running applications and system...
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  • Basilisk II (category 68k emulators)
    Bauer (developer of a Mac 68k emulator ShapeShifter for Amiga) released the first version of Basilisk II in March 1999. The emulator was expected to be highly...
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  • comparison with 68k-emulator development, PowerPC emulation is more complex and requires more CPU power. The emulator is capable of running Classic Mac OS and...
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  • Rosetta (software) (category MacOS-only software made by Apple Inc.)
    on a software layer to emulate the previous ISA on the succeeding one. With the launch of Power Macintosh, the Mac 68K emulator is part of System 7.1.2...
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    Power Macintosh (redirect from Power Mac)
    Existing software for the Motorola 68k processors of previous Macintoshes do not run on it natively, so a Mac 68k emulator is in System 7.1.2. It provides...
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  • on arm64 platform Mac 68K emulator: For PowerPC classic Mac OS PearPC Rosetta: Apple's emulator for PowerPC processors, built into Mac OS X WarpUP: Amiga...
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    Amiga emulator Basilisk II, Apple Macintosh emulator which uses UAE to emulate the 68k processor Hatari, Atari ST/STe/TT/Falcon computer series emulator which...
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  • tightly integrated Mac 68k emulator, were written by emulation consultant Gary Davidian. Its main purpose is to allow the existing Motorola 68k version of the...
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  • Descended from Copilot, Palm OS Emulator is used for writing, testing, and debugging Palm OS applications. Palm OS Emulator emulates Motorola 68000-class devices...
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  • in 1992. From 1993 to 1995 he worked for Apple Computer, creating a Mac 68K emulator to be used in PowerPC-based Macintoshes. His work on this project led...
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    VMac (redirect from VMac (emulator))
    an emulator of later 68k Macs. Executor (software), a emulator/compatibility layer for early 68k Macs. SheepShaver, an emulator of early PowerPC Macs. PearPC...
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  • Microsoft Office (redirect from Office:Mac)
    Windows leading many customers to comment that it wasn't Mac-like enough. The final release for Mac 68K was Office 4.2.1, which updated Word to version 6.0...
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  • Rosetta for Mac OS X on x86, allows PowerPC code to be run on the x86 architecture. Later versions of the Mac 68K emulator used in classic Mac OS to run...
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    the 9500 outperformed the Quadra 950 when running older Mac software in the Mac 68k emulator, posting speeds almost twice as fast as the Quadra 900. The...
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  • very high level of reliability, performance and compatibility (see Mac 68K emulator). This allowed Apple to bring the machines to market with only a partially...
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  • WriteNow (category Classic Mac OS word processors)
    Macintosh operating system, including in the Mac 68k emulator on PowerPC Macs and in the Classic Environment under Mac OS X. Its biggest claim to fame, however...
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  • System 7 (redirect from Mac OS 7)
    intervene) by a built-in 68k processor emulator. Fat binaries, which contained the code necessary to run natively on both PowerPC and 68k systems, became common...
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    featuring the PowerPC 603e chip. All PowerPC Macs shipped with a built-in emulator that ran unmodified 68k code, including much of the system software...
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  • FX!32 for Alpha and IA-32 EL for Itanium, open-source DAISY, the Mac 68K emulator for the PowerPC.[citation needed] The Transmeta approach set a much...
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    Macintosh clone (redirect from Mac clone)
    went by, the emulator was not updated to work with later versions of the original Mac OS, however, supposedly because Apple's own 68k emulator eventually...
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  • PearPC (category Macintosh platform emulators)
    PearPC is a PowerPC platform emulator capable of running many PowerPC operating systems, including pre-Intel versions of Mac OS X, Darwin, and Linux on...
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    Motorola 68000 (category 68k microprocessors)
    The Motorola 68000 (sometimes shortened to Motorola 68k or m68k and usually pronounced "sixty-eight-thousand") is a 16/32-bit complex instruction set...
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    intended to speed software development. NeXTSTEP originally ran on Motorola's 68k processors, but was later ported to Intel's x86, Hewlett-Packard's PA-RISC...
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    the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro laptops, and the iMac, Mac Mini, Mac Studio, and Mac Pro desktops. Macs are currently sold with Apple's UNIX-based macOS...
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    natively on x86, but includes a 68K emulator to run older software in a method similar to Apple Inc.'s Mac 68k emulator for PowerPC. For application development...
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  • Old World ROM (redirect from Old World Mac)
    while booting. All Power Macs emulate a 68LC040 CPU inside a nanokernel; this emulator is then used to boot the predominantly 68k-based Toolbox, and is also...
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  • so Snow Leopard is the last version of Mac OS X that is able to run PowerPC-only applications. Mac 68K emulator – lower level program, similar in purpose...
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  • [citation needed] Two of the more popular 68k Macintosh emulators are vMac and Basilisk II, and a PowerPC Macintosh emulator is SheepShaver; each are written by...
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    Macintosh Plus (redirect from Mac Plus)
    reset at POST. MESS Mini vMac - can emulate a Mac Plus on a variety of platforms including Linux, macOS, Windows, DOS, classic Mac OS, Pocket PC, iOS, Nintendo...
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  • MagiC (category MacOS software)
    released under GPL v3 lately. The software integrates in part the Musashi 68k emulator written in plain C. AtariX is not as optimised as its predecessor once...
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