My page for Stuffit Expander describes a work around for this problem when using System 6.

Oh yes, and gryphel, have you looked at this project? It looks interesting. I've added mpw to my Mini vMac Alternatives page. Naturally, I personally prefer running MPW tools in MPW in Mini vMac, since I'm more familiar with MPW than the OS X command line. A main reason Mini vMac exists is so that ...

I wonder why my MiniMac does not remember the system settings after a restart. Specifically, I'd like to turn down the system beep volume and it always comes back up full blast. The same goes for other settings, although they don't bother me so much. From the FAQ : "A real Macintosh has a smal...

would it be possible to add auto-binhex into ImportFL so that people wouldn't have to worry about losing the resource fork? Or is this not done as the only platforms that would be able to handle this are Classic and OS X (and they handle it differently)? It is not possible to do this by just adding...

Beats me how this works... I thought the MacPlus couldn't draw more pixels that it does in its box. A Macintosh Plus can't. For one thing, the size of the screen, and its position in memory is written into the ROM in several places. To get a larger screen size, Mini vMac emulates a hacked Macintosh...

Above is MiniVMac but MiniVMacII can do pretty much everything MiniVMac can do and more. Some of oldest Macintosh software may run better on a Macintosh Plus, or better yet on the original Macintosh, than on a Macintosh II. Further, Mini vMac's emulation of a Macintosh II is incomplete and buggy. I...

These options do not include the MacPlus, correct? At least I can't find one. Any variation without an "-m" option emulates the MacPlus, since that is the default. For example, number 2427, as pointed out by 24bit. You can also just request your own variation from the Variations Service ....

I'm trying to import some files into my vMac using ImportFL. The procedure works as expected in that I get the prompt to open a file. However, the imported files are almost all 0K or rarely above that. Are you trying to import applications? (Or other file type that consists mainly of a resource for...

As mentioned by emendelson, the easiest way to get a custom variation is to ask me to compile it for you, using the custom variations page . But you are also welcome and encouraged to compile your own variations. I wondered why you are using Visual Basic when it is Visual C++ project. But looking at...

The easiest way to get Stuffit Expander 4.0.1 into a disk image is to download the zipped disk image from http://www.gryphel.com/c/sw/archive/stuffexp/index.html.

So at this point, I'm wondering whether the SDL support works at all in Mini vMac. A copy of my reply on Mini vMac Mail : The SDL port is believed to be functional, but it is true I've only tried it on OS X recently. Bug reports are welcome. I'll try it on Linux when I find time. One possible issue...

Can anyone make the OS X version of mini vMac mount a disk image from the command line? The mini vMac site says nothing about this ability under OS X; the site says it can be done under Linux and Windows, but does not describe it working under OS X. OS X applications do not usually take command lin...

A copy of my feedback form reply:

The Macintosh Classic ROM actually is 512k, some utilities for acquiring ROM images are incorrect. My CopyRoms should work correctly. Also see my 680x0 Macintosh List.

The last I heard from Paul IIRC (a few months ago), regular life was getting a bit busy, so he was making Mini vMac a lower priority than is for-pay projects for a bit. However, I can't figure out where I heard that from now, so it's possible I'm thinking of someone else. He does read these forums ...

No, there is no easy way to determine the compile options used given a Mini vMac binary.

That could be a useful feature to add.

I installed StuffIt 4.01 on Mini vMac and it won't 'see' the .sit files on the same disk. One difficulty with Stuffit Expander in System 6 is getting it to operate on files which don't have the right Macintosh file type. But there is a trick to make it work. If you hold down the command key before ...

An issue I've found in Ubuntu 11.10 is that there is a conventional order for how libraries should be specified in the link command, which I didn't know since I hadn't come a across a linker that cared before. Libaries need to come after program object files. ( A reference ) This is fixed in the 3.3...

Another possible approach is to make an image of the hard drive, use an emulator to install System 7.5.5 in the disk image, and then write the disk image back to the hard drive. I've just tried this approach with a floppy disk (in OS X 10.6.8) and it worked. The steps are: Run Disk Utility and selec...

still getting my head around how the existing ports handle sound, they seem to be doing they're own queueing with TheSoundBuff..? The basic idea is a ring buffer that the platform independent code writes to, and the platform dependent code reads. The platform dependent code also adjusts how fast th...

I requested a build. :) I requested a build with 32 drives and with the default speed set to 1x. Your custom variation is available: http://minivmac.sourceforge.net/doc-3.2/cust/b1.html The beta is over and Custom Variations are now live. Thank you for participating. I presume that it will work on ...

I'm not sure what the status of sound in the Mac II emulation is. There hasn't been an update about that on the site in some time. Last time Paul wrote about it in the news section it wasn't really working. It may still be disabled. Yes, this hasn't changed. Sound doesn't yet work very well in the ...

I tried following the mkisofs instruction ... [Edit: Never mind, I got it all to work just fine with Basilisk II.] I'd still like more details, please. Perhaps the mkisofs in your distribution doesn't work as well in the version I tried it on long ago. What version of what distribution are you usin...

ClockWise wrote:Go exploring and see if any of them might come in handy!

And if you'd like a different variation, at the moment you need only ask.

... the program that is created doesn't run because of "segmentation fault." Has anyone had any success getting Mini vMac built in Ubuntu 10.10? I follow the directions on the official page, but it all ends with this ... Sorry, I somehow missing seeing this question sooner. With a bit of ...

Menu bars are also not part of the X API. There is a beginning of a gtk port for Mini vMac, which has menu bars, but missing much else, and is not worth using yet. Are you sure about that? Notice the file manager in this screenshot: It doesn't use the GTK toolkit. As I understand it, the X API is f...