TECH - run Macintosh on your Pocket PC

I remember the old days of wondering why my pictures disappeared from the computer every time I shut down the machine. It took a while for me to realize that I had to save them first. My first real computer experience was with the Mac Plus so I was pretty excited to learn that I could relive those experiences with a mac emulator for the Pocket PC. I couldn't find a complete walkthrough, but after a little while of surfing, this is what I found out...

Getting Mini vMac for Windows Mobile 2003 to run on a pocket PC goes like this:

Go to Mini vMac for Windows Mobile 2003 and download Mac Plus 2.6.1 (F) binary (32 KB)

Go to MacPlus Antique System and download vmac.rom, System 6.0.8 - Finder 6.1.8., MacPaint 1.4 and MacDraw 1.9.5

Uncompress those files and put them all into the same folder and then copy that folder onto the memory card of your PDA

From the PDA, navigate to the file minivmac.exe and launch it

Once it launches, you'll see an icon of a disk with a question mark, at that point, hit the center button of your directional thingie on your PDA and a virtual keyboard will appear

Tap the key called Ctl and then tap the letter O key

A Dialog box will appear which will prompt you to open a disk image, you'll need to open the system disk called Disk608

Once your booted up, use the same method to insert the MacPaint or MacDraw disk you downloaded and start pixelating

Here are the key commands that you can use once in the emulator:

'A' - About - version information
'O' - Open Disk Image
'Q' - Quit
'L' - Limit Speed toggle
'M' - Magnify toggle
'F' - Full Screen toggle
'K' - emulated 'control' Key toggle
'R' - Reset
'I' - Interrupt
'H' - Help - show this message

You should shut down the emulated machine before quitting to prevent corrupting the mounted disk image

Quick Warning, I haven't quite figured out how to close thekeyboard once I'm done typing. If anyone knows, please leave me a comment.