Setting up 68k Macintosh emulator
I’ve got the real thing in my retro collection, but it’s useful to have Macintosh Plus emulated, too. Here’re some notes.
UPDATE: I have now written a bit more detailed guide on how to set up Mini vMac and Basilink.
The options for emulator seem to be:
I do not recommend downloading old software or other assets using these links.
For both emulators, you will need a Macintosh system ROM. You can grab the ROM from a real Macintosh. For Mini vMac, copy a working vmac.rom to the same folder as Mini vMac application, and you are good to go. The same ROM may or may not work with Basilink II. You may also try Macintosh Plus ROMs inside this archive.org collection.
If you use Disk Copy images (usually .img extension) on Mini vMac, they are read only. To make such image writable, you need to convert to raw format using on of these tools.
The real reason I have installed Mini vMac is that I need in my process to create floppy disks I can use with real 68k Macintosh.