You may have seen these lists other places - commonly refereed to "Awesome Lists" - meaning a curated list of links for a specific topic. eg: https://github.com/alnacle/awesome-emulators
One of the most difficult things for a new vintage user to do is get a set of OS installers they need in the format their device requires. Say you have a FloppyEMU and need disk copy 4.2 images (in a archive format you can extract on your modern machine), or a bootable ISO, Toast/ISO/dmg, or a language variant, 800k version for a early SE, etc.
This also might help build find and fill in gaps for installers/formats.
Using this thread as a planning area and will move the content to a resource once we get a good list of content.
Another thing we could do is build a "System Software" Banner for the garden so we can easily jump between all OS versions.
machut is a great place to start - though they're all in .sit.hqx so you must extract them first in an emulator before using. This list is just a starting point for the installers/files.
Mac OS X
... coming
Please reply with links and missing items!
One of the most difficult things for a new vintage user to do is get a set of OS installers they need in the format their device requires. Say you have a FloppyEMU and need disk copy 4.2 images (in a archive format you can extract on your modern machine), or a bootable ISO, Toast/ISO/dmg, or a language variant, 800k version for a early SE, etc.
This also might help build find and fill in gaps for installers/formats.
Using this thread as a planning area and will move the content to a resource once we get a good list of content.
Another thing we could do is build a "System Software" Banner for the garden so we can easily jump between all OS versions.
machut is a great place to start - though they're all in .sit.hqx so you must extract them first in an emulator before using. This list is just a starting point for the installers/files.
System Sets (CD/DVD)
- Apple Legacy Installer CD - Includes System 5 to 7.6.1 installers in disk copy 6.1 format. Bootable
- Mac OS Anthology - 7.0 to 8.6 - DVD's - all languages.
Bootable Floppy Disk Images
- System 6.0.8 - 1.44MB (System Startup)
- Mac Hut System 6.0.8 Recovery Floppy - 1.44MB (Collection of recovery utilities on a bootable minimal 6.0.8 install)
- System 7.0.1 - 800K (MiniSubstitute/No Finder - For Plus, SE, II, Classic)
- SuperBooter75 (created by Gamba - see details here via archive.org)
- System 7.5 Bootable Image for troubleshooting/repair/low level formatting and partitioning.
- Mac OS 8.0 Disk Tools 1 - 1.44MB (68k)
- Mac OS 8.0 Disk Tools 2 - 1.44MB (PPC)
Pre System 6
- System 1.1 - 400K
- System 2.0 - 400K
- System 3.2 - 400K
- System 4.1 - 800K
- System 4.2 - 400K
- System 4.3 - 800K
System 6
- System 6.0.3 - 800K
- System 6.0.5 - 800K
- System 6.0.8 - 800K
- System 6.0.8 - 1.44MB
- System 6.0.8L - 1.44MB (for Classic, Classic II, PowerBook 100, LC, LC II only)
System 7
- System 7.0 - 800K
- System 7.1- 1.44MB
- System 7.1.x (Macintosh Garden)
- System 7.1.1 - 1.44MB (also known as System 7 Pro)
- System 7.1.2 - 1.44MB (first Power Macintosh compatible release)
- System Update 3.0 For 7.1
- System 7.5 - 1.44MB
- System 7.5.3 Revision 2 - 1.44MB
- System 7.5.5 Update - 1.44MB
- System 7.6 - 1.44MB
- System 7.6 - Combined disk image
- System 7.6.1 Update
Mac A/UX
- 1.0?
- 2.0?
- 3.0.1 & 3.1 Update
- All here https://www.aux-penelope.com/software.htm
Mac OS 8
- Mac OS 8.0 - Combined Disk Image
- Mac OS 8.1 Update - Combined Disk Image
- Mac OS 8.1 Update (ISO Image - archive.org)
- Mac OS 8.0 CD (ISO Image - archive.org)
- Mac OS 8 Tour (ISO Image - archive.org)
- Mac OS 8.5 (ISO Image - archive.org)
- Mac OS 8.5.1 (Macintosh Garden)
- Mac OS 8.6 Updater CD (ISO Image - archive.org)
- Mac OS 8.5 & 8.6 (Macintosh Garden)
Mac OS 9
- Mac OS 9.0 (Macintosh Garden)
- Mac OS 9.0.4 (ISO Image - archive.org)
- Mac OS 9.1 (Macintosh Garden)
- Mac OS 9.2.1 (ISO Image - archive.org)
- Mac OS 9.2.2 (Toast - Macintosh Garden)
- Mac OS 9.2.2 Universal Install (MacOS9 Lives)
Mac OS X
... coming
Please reply with links and missing items!
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