{"id":47669,"date":"2025-05-09T17:17:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T21:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=47669"},"modified":"2025-05-09T23:16:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T03:16:43","slug":"the-macintosh-repository","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/09\/the-macintosh-repository\/","title":{"rendered":"The Macintosh Repository"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/pixelbeat\/status\/1597929210546651137\">Davo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/x.com\/pixelbeat\/status\/1597929210546651137\"><p>The Macintosh Repository is a community driven effort to preserve old software from the classic Mac OS era.<\/p><p>It has ~18k entries of software images from floppys &amp; cds, scans, fonts, icons and everything in between.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macintoshrepository.org\">The Macintosh Repository<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macintoshrepository.org\"><p>If you&rsquo;re planning on running the treasures of the past you&rsquo;ll find here on real old Macintosh hardware from the 90&rsquo;s, you sir\/madame, deserve to win an Internet for doing it THE ONLY CORRECT WAY! But for others, \n\t\tthere&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emaculation.com\/forum\/viewtopic.php?f=34&amp;t=9028&amp;p=53807#p53788\">QEMU, a PowerPC emulator<\/a> capable of (slowly) running Mac OS X 10.5 down to Mac OS 9.1,\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/sheepshaver.cebix.net\/\">SheepShaver, a fake PowerPC emulator<\/a> capable of running Mac OS 9.0.4 down to Mac OS 7.5.2, \n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/basilisk.cebix.net\/\">Basilisk II, a 68040 emulator<\/a>, capable of running the 68040 version of Mac OS 8.1 down to 7.0. Finally, for everything older than System 7, \n\t\tthere&rsquo;s Mini vMac II (which emulates 68020\/color Macs) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gryphel.com\/c\/minivmac\/\">Mini vMac<\/a> which emulates the original B&amp;W 68000 Macs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/11\/festivitas\/\">Festivitas<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/26\/mini-vmac-for-ios-rejected-via-notarization\/\">Mini vMac for iOS Rejected via Notarization<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/02\/delta-emulator-in-the-app-store\/\">Delta Emulator in the App Store<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/26\/infinite-mac\/\">Infinite Mac<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"the-macintosh-repository-update-2025-05-09\">Update (<a href=\"#the-macintosh-repository-update-2025-05-09\">2025-05-09<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/gingerbeardman\/status\/1921033008473104724\">Matt Sephton<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/x.com\/gingerbeardman\/status\/1921033008473104724\">\n<p>Macintosh Repository paywall\/request donations for the content they lifted pretty much wholesale from <a href=\"https:\/\/macintoshgarden.org\">macintoshgarden.org<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Davo: The Macintosh Repository is a community driven effort to preserve old software from the classic Mac OS era.It has ~18k entries of software images from floppys &amp; cds, scans, fonts, icons and everything in between. The Macintosh Repository: If you&rsquo;re planning on running the treasures of the past you&rsquo;ll find here on real old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-05-09T21:17:28Z","apple_news_api_id":"f51a8e10-4b21-4f53-9e7c-b9fdcc73a5c2","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-05-10T03:16:45Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A9RqOEEshT1OefLn9zHOlwg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2767,733,295,30,32,923,924,2765,2768,2766,2708,922],"class_list":["post-47669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-basilisk","tag-emulator","tag-history","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-mac-os-8","tag-mac-os-9","tag-mini-vmac-ii","tag-qemu","tag-sheepshaver","tag-system-6","tag-system-7"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47669"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47674,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47669\/revisions\/47674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}