Wordstar Emulator Mac10/13/2021
I haven't been able to actually test it out with software. It can be built both on 32 and 64 bits host environments and should be easily portable to other platforms.I've been uploading an Amstrad CPC emulator to the Garden but it has been sitting on my 8600's hard disk for some time now, unused. RunCPM is an application which can execute vintage CP/M 8 bits programs on many modern platforms, like Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, Arduino DUE and variants, like the Teensy or ESP32. Something these machines are capable of, it we're talking early 80's - Apple II, Apple //GS, C64 etc.Several years ago George RR Martin, that fantasy writer we all know and love (and sometimes hate), let loose to the world that his choice of writing software was actually WordStar 4.0 for DOS.RunCPM - Z80 CP/M 2.2 emulator.And then there's the compatibility issue - some emulators work with special formats or older ROM dumps that are hard to come by nowadays. An assortment of microcomputers, minicomputers, terminals, programmable calculators, and arcade machines are available, along with an archive of historical software and documentation.First, Netscape 4 won't work with those big ROM sites. Run DOS, Windows, OS/2 and other vintage PC applications in a web browser on your desktop computer, iPhone, or iPad. Wrote a 300+ page user manual for the Multibus '86 product I was working on using this pokey emulator.PCjs offers a variety of online machine emulators written in JavaScript.CP/M was actually ported by Digital Research to run on Macs. Sure, I could use modern hardware but then it's much more fun to emulate the blocky graphics of an Apple II on my Power Mac 8600 than on a Mac Pro with its insanely high resolution.Am I the only person feeling it would be cool to have a resource for that? (no, this would probably not be S7T)Anyone else emulating older 80's hardware on their System 7 Macs?Any attempts / experience as to how good emulation with various emulators is?Does anyone else know a good resource on that matter?Just a short list of emulators for System 7 that I found on the Garden:Last Edit: May 30, 2021, 16:05 by Bolkonskij woveMinix runs on old Macs for those who are interested in a Unix/Linux environment. It competed directly against many word processors, including WordPerfect , Microsoft Word for DOS , and Multimate. It was ported to a number of CP/M architectures as well as Unix and PC/MS-DOS.
![]() Wordstar Emulator 64 Bits Host EnvironmentsIt consisted of a run time layer which created a pseudo Unix environment on whatever system you were using. Maybe there was some demand to run a CP/M niche software on Macs, otherwise I can't think of any good reason either.I do not find things so much as I just recall using things.Minix was included in a computer text book. Any hands-on experience with them?And yes, porting the old CP/M to Mac doesn't seem to make sense at all. Of course RealPC/RealDOS emulated MS' environment on Mac.I came to Mac from Commodore GEOS, so I actually felt like my first Mac was just a Commodore emulator.Last Edit: May 18, 2021, 11:09 by Bolkonskij BolkonskijWow, two awesome finds, wove. Check this thread:Btw I think, the Apple Macintosh Application Environment 3.0.4 for Solaris is a MacOS emulator for Solaris, not the other way around.Last Edit: May 18, 2021, 19:32 by galgot BolkonskijGreat stuff, galgot! added it to the list!Wove, CP/M was before my time, but I've briefly seen CP/M running mid to late 80's on one of our family business computers as a child. Runs well (well , as much as Windows can p).But never tried to install an old old Linux or BSD on these, that something to try.EDIT2, There also a vMac version that runs on 7.So one can have System 6 (or 7?) running on System 7. Very cool.For Intel proc emulation, I managed to run BSDs and Linuxes on VirtualPC6 and 4, but that on MacOS 8.6 or 9.Only tried this last one with a Windows 3.1 image on a PB3400c in System 7.6.1. All runs on the Macs processor. CP/M's gui was used for the Atari ST, although the under lying OS was not CP/M.While I am not positive, I would guess I have the installer floppies in my collection somewhere, even though I no longer have any system that could either read them or make use of them.There is also MachTen for 68k, which is a BSD running atop System 7 :Though it is virtualization, not emulation, as no proc is emulated there. So it is not surprising that it was ported to run on Macintoshes, although by that time CP/M was in its twilight and micro users had found other ways to be productive. Zip files (which requires a modern computer to unzip first) and of course the Creator Code / Type is missing but that can easily be fixed. Dsk files you find all over the internet. :-)The emulation itself works very well on my 8600 and 7.6.1. He's very friendly, let's cross fingers he still finds some stuff. I can't think why anyone would have chosen to run WordStar over MacWrite on his new Mac 512K, so I naturely figured that there must have been some very specialized / niche software that might make someone shell out the money for a CP/M emulator on a Mac.Meanwhile I've e-mailed the author of the original CPC++ emulator for Mac OS, btw! Asking him for sharing the sources and serials (if he still finds stuff!) and some anecdotes too maybe. ![]() But it's barely playable on my 8600 - choppy graphics and single digit fps. Came preconfigured and easy to start.Then loaded a game: California Games. I played around with GUS (an Apple IIgs emulator) yesterday evening. Need to test it out.There's PowerST as well for the Mac, but I can't find it anywhere.I will upload it to the garden and post a link to it here ASAPAccording to the Garden's description, it should run on 7.6. Though I hardly remember how it worked.NoSTalgia 0.65 indeed runs on 7.6.1, Tried on a PB3400c.I took the TOS.IMG and Auto Saved State files from the NoSTalgia 1.1 folder :Btw, any idea why the screenshot don't show ? I've tried both BBcode and HTTP images links provided by the MG image host service, but neither shows.Last Edit: June 01, 2021, 09:25 by Knezzen BolkonskijYou did everything correct - we decided to convert any images to links to retain retro compatibility. So I don't have high hopes for emulating a ST on System 7 unless on a system with a G3/G4 upgrade card.So, I'm curious what your results on the 5500 would be likeAn Atari 400 being the first computer I ever touched, I had to try. And we're talking about computer less capable then the ST family.
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