About

Tools, movies, apps and games for the first Macintosh: the Mac 128K, 512K and Plus, with their 8 MHz 68000, 512 by 342 black and white pixels and 400K floppies.

The tools are open source and let anyone build software for these machines on a modern Linux or macOS computer. The movies show how, and the apps and games show what comes out of it: programs in 68000 assembler for the real machines, to play in your browser too.

Contact

Email
mac68k@bircher.ai
GitHub
github.com/bircher988
YouTube
Mac68k Programming (@mac68k)

Bug reports and ideas for the tools are welcome as issues on GitHub.

This site

  • No cookies, no tracking, no analytics, no fonts or scripts from other servers.
  • Videos are loaded from YouTube (youtube-nocookie.com) only when you press Play.
  • The Mac ROMs you choose for the emulator stay in your browser's storage; they are never uploaded. The "Forget the ROMs" button deletes them.
  • Disk images you insert into the emulator stay in the page's memory and are gone when you leave it; they are never uploaded either.

Credits and licences

  • Mini vMac, the emulator:

    The emulator is Mini vMac by Paul C. Pratt and many contributors, version 37.03 from github.com/minivmac/minivmac with a few changes for the browser, compiled to WebAssembly with Emscripten. Mini vMac is free software under the GNU General Public License, version 2: the source code of these builds is at github.com/bircher988/minivmac (branch browser), the licence text is here.

  • Chicago, Geneva and Monaco and the bomb of the "page not found" alert are Apple's, designed by Susan Kare for the first Macintosh.
  • mac68k-asm and mac68k-disk are MIT-licensed; see their repositories.
  • Macintosh and Mac are trademarks of Apple Inc.; the Macintosh ROM, System software and fonts are Apple's. This site is not affiliated with Apple Inc.