Geek Posted January 7, 2011 Posted January 7, 2011 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/run-mac-os-on-iphone.gif" alt="run mac os on iphone" title="run mac os on iphone" width="480" height="320" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-10753" /></p> <p>This is hilarious, you can run classic Mac OS from a Macintosh Plus directly atop iOS on your <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/iphone/">iPhone</a> or iPod touch thanks to an emulator called Mini vMac.</p> <p>What you’ll need to get this working:</p> <ul> <li>A jailbroken iPhone or iPod touch (<a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/jailbreak/">here’s our jailbreak downloads and info</a>)</li> <li>Mac Plus ROM image (you can <a href="http://minivmac.sourceforge.net/doc/start.html">get those here</a>)</li> <li>Disk images for older Mac software you want to run (various places on the web)</li> </ul> <p>Now that you have those requirements met, on your jailbroken iPhone or iPod:</p> <ul> <li>Launch Cydia and add the following repository: http://apt.namedfork.net/iphone</li> <li>Then find and download “Mini vMac”</li> <li>Place the previously downloaded ROM file (it must be named vMac.ROM) into /var/mobile/Library/MacOSClassic</li> </ul> <p>Disk images for other software should be placed in that directory as well to be loaded.</p> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/run-old-mac-software-on-iphone.png" alt="run old mac software on iphone" title="run old mac software on iphone" width="480" height="320" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-10754" /></p> <p>Is this particularly useful? Of course not, but it sure is fun. You can read more about Mini vMac for iPhone at <a href="http://namedfork.net/iphone/minivmac">the developers site, namedfork.net</a>.</p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/xeNoRaSHDSqHBhKjg5ronkhflD8/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/xeNoRaSHDSqHBhKjg5ronkhflD8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/xeNoRaSHDSqHBhKjg5ronkhflD8/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/xeNoRaSHDSqHBhKjg5ronkhflD8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=MNyYLBCD6Hw:k6m0o9hEQqU:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=MNyYLBCD6Hw:k6m0o9hEQqU:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=MNyYLBCD6Hw:k6m0o9hEQqU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=MNyYLBCD6Hw:k6m0o9hEQqU:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=MNyYLBCD6Hw:k6m0o9hEQqU:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=MNyYLBCD6Hw:k6m0o9hEQqU:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=MNyYLBCD6Hw:k6m0o9hEQqU:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/MNyYLBCD6Hw" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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