Mac OS 7 running on Windows Mobile

By David Ciccone, posted Thursday, Sep. 7th, 2006
Reader Comments: 5

Ok now this is really cool! As many of you already know I am a big Apple fan (thanks to my local store) and most recently found my old Powerbook 1400cs. Now I know you are probably saying you could care less but the OS on the Powerbook was the exact same OS that is running on the HP iPAQ 4350! Mac users rejoice and welcome little iPAQ to the family

Cool thanks for sharing!

Posted by David Ciccone, Friday, Sep. 8th, 2006

Wowza... Finder running on my Sprint PPC6700. My day is made. Now to find a HyperCard disk image. Thanks for the inspiration!

1) Grab the vmac application for pocketpc
http://digilander.libero.it/jpdefault/mvm_index.html
2) Own Mac roms. Grab an image of the roms from here: http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/bit/6458/vMac.html
3) Get Disk images from here:
http://www.penlug.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/MinivMac
4) extract and transfer the files onto your WinMobile device.
5) fireup the minivmac app on your winmobile device (BOING - Happy Mac Sound!)
6) Use the D pad action key to display the keypad.
7) Press CTRL to get into emulator mode
8) press O and choose the disk608 image

and there you have it. Finder on your smartphone.
Good Therapy! I'll think I'll go listen to some 80's tunes.

Posted by IndyMikeV, Friday, Sep. 8th, 2006

IndyMikeV: I have not tried it out yet, but there's some documentation on the official site.

http://minivmac.sourceforge.net/

Posted by bbrockie, Friday, Sep. 8th, 2006

I did a bit of Googling today and found the following site, which I think may be of interest to you :)

http://digilander.libero.it/jpdefault/mvm_index.html

Posted by bbrockie, Friday, Sep. 8th, 2006

Hmm, the HP Newton Message Pad 4350!! :)

Posted by Reidan, Thursday, Sep. 7th, 2006

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