Flickr Find: Macintosh on Nintendo DS

While browsing Flickr this afternoon, we came across a shot of a Nintendo DS running Macintosh System 6 in emulation on reader Ken Fager's Flickr stream. Of course, we contacted him to ask how he did it. Here's what he had to say.

First, grab a DS flash card and install MiniVMacDS onto its root directory.

Once that's done, place the Mac Plus ROM into the "vmac" folder along with a System 6/7 install disk (you can make a blank disk image using Disk Utility).

Finally, turn on the DS and select MiniVMacDS. It will boot the disk images. From there, install (minimal) System 6 onto the blank disk image.

Ken notes that it's a bit pokey, but hey, this wasn't done for speed! Have fun if you try this for yourself. Thanks for sharing, Ken! We love it.

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Source: http://flickr.com/photos/kenfagerdotcom/2595426079/

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Ricardo Sato

Really interesting application! Have to try.
Ah, please, the link is kinda broken... actually wrong in MiniVMacDS, "http://" is duplicated.

Cheers

July 07 2008 at 1:31 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

ken fager

The flash card I used was the TopToy DSTT w/ 2gb MicroSD card. Not the most expensive or prettiest of the flash cards, but it does the job.

@Tony Bowman

I did the Basilisk on PSP thing a long time ago too. I just got sick of the constant PSP Firmware nonsense locking out homebrew. My PSP is now collecting dust. It truly was nothing more than a bit of novelty at the time.

July 06 2008 at 8:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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TonyRockyHorror

hah. i SOLD my PSP not too long after i got Basilisk running on my PSP, with the money (along with what i got from selling my windows PC) going toward the purchase of a Macbook Pro. :)

July 07 2008 at 10:42 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

WetMogwai

Couldn't this be simplified with the use of a Mac Classic ROM? It already contains System 6.0.7.

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Simon Arch

The Mac Classic ROM carries a pared-down version of 6.0.3 for use as a rescue system, BUT you need a keyboard to hold down a certain key combo to access it.

July 06 2008 at 8:32 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

TonyRockyHorror

stuff like this is neat.

i remember running Mac OS 7 via Basilisk on my PSP about 2 years ago.

but it's all more of a novelty than anything.

July 06 2008 at 7:02 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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jodamiller

I remember running System 7 on my Quadra 608 15 years ago.

July 07 2008 at 12:59 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

jodamiller

I remember running System 7 on my Quadra 605 15 years ago.

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