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I played with both this and Basilisk II when it hit HN about 9 months ago. Basilis kII is harder to setup, mostly driven by fears of hosting Mac roms leading to
by tl 5y ago
I played with both this and Basilisk II when it hit HN about 9 months ago. Basilis kII is harder to setup, mostly driven by fears of hosting Mac roms leading to incomplete instructions and shady download sites. And Mini vMac (like Basilisk II but for older Macs) was also far easier to get up and running.
Macintosh.js is one download and ships with a handful of interesting productivity tools and games. Why Basilisk II cannot do the same (one is as legal as the other) is an open question.
- slacka 5y ago> fears of hosting Mac roms leading to incomplete instructions and shady download sites I'm a bit of an emulator hobbyist and have played with the native version of Basilisk II. If you weren't an outsider and part of the communities on reddit/discord you'd know the torrents trackers to use (public and private). Sure, there are shady sites, but that's not the emulators fault. And the fix is definitely not killing the good performance of a native emu by transpiling it to JS. Improved documentation could help send new users down a better path.
- bombcar 5y agoClearly Macintosh.js doesn't care, and if Apple whips them with a DMCA they'll just go away (it's a toy project).
- dylan604 5y agoWhat would be the point of the DMCA though? I understand it is Apple, and their infinitely funded lawyers need something to do. However, this is an old and dead OS that generates $0 income for them. If this was a method to use modern/current release of the OS without buy Apple hardware, then I could understand the lawyers.
- ben_w 5y agoDon’t underestimate the power of left hands not knowing what the right hand is up to. A previous employer was once sent a C&D by the lawyers of a well-known British corporation, demanding that my employer stop distributing a certain app, apparently oblivious that said corporation had paid my employer to make and distribute that app on their behalf in the first place.
- dylan604 5y agoYou just described Getty Images
- ben_w 5y agoAny similarities between Getty Images and the client of my former employer are entirely coincidental.
- dylan604 5y agoSorry, I wasn't implying they had anything to do with each other. I was just saying you described the incompetence of Getty. There are similar stories of photographers hosting their images on their own site, but the lawyers sending them C&D letters because Getty reps that image for them and saying that the photog is violating the copyright that they own. Left hand, meet right hand.
- AshamedCaptain 5y agoSo, the apparent improvement here is that they just don't care about hosting and distributing Mac roms openly.
- anthk 5y agoThis is HN. If you can't get LCIIsI and/or Quadra 650 ROMs right, then this page should change its name. Back in the late 90's/early 00's we had it more difficult to finish a lot of emulation tasks because you couldn't get these with ease. Now you can set System 7.5.3 with ease and legally except the ROM. I think the Gen-Z generation it's pretty much spoiled and this should be changed.