MAME just became the first Apple IIgs emulator capable of emulating an Apple II with a SCSI CD-ROM drive attached. This means the IIgs driver can boot from and use the Golden Orchard CD-ROM, and it can browse other CD-ROMs.

Here we are after booting from the Golden Orchard 1.2 CD-ROM:

And here’s the IIgs Finder browsing a PlayStation game disc:

In addition to adding more 4am preserved software to our Software List functionality, 0.208 has the following things of interest to pre-Mac Apple fans:

-As a side effect of UNIX workstation work in MAME, a nasty SCSI bug that had been plaguing the Apple II SCSI Card (Rev. C) emulation was squashed. It’s now possible to partition, format, and use emulated SCSI hard drives with no problems, including using the System 6.0.x drivers.
-qkumba fixed the default state of the language card on the II/II Plus. This solved compatibility with some games.
-I fixed the TransWarp card emulation to slow down to 1 MHz when reading the joysticks/paddles. This allows playing the IIe version of Tomahawk and any other 8-bit accelerator-aware games.
-I also added a ton of NiftyList-style annotations to the IIgs disassembler, including Toolbox calls, all the I/O locations, and all of the bank $E0 and $E1 system globals mentioned in the System 6 source code.
-I re-added Vulcan and Vulcan Gold support for the IIgs. Unfortunately the boot ROMs we currently have are for the IIgs version of the drive and have 65C816 instructions. If someone has one of these drives that works on a //e, reading the ROM out would be very helpful.
-I saw David Schmidt’s Apple /// SOS drivers for the Focus Drive card, obtained a copy of the card’s ROM and software, and added support. It works on the IIe, IIgs, and /// emulation.

As always, if you’d like to see MAME support more Apple II cards, we need dumps of any and all ROMs on them and any supporting software/drivers. Hit us up with what you’ve got by emailing messdrivers at gmail dot com, and II Infinitum!

MAME’s Apple II and IIe emulation soon will be able to run at 3.6 times normal speed, because we’re emulating the TransWarp accelerator card from back in the day.

The business: several of us are available on Reddit on /r/MAME and /r/emulation. I’m /u/arbee37, Vas Crabb is /u/cuavas, and Carl is /u/cracyc.

The Internet Archive may use a less-capable Mac emulator, but you don’t have to. Here’s how to use their HyperCard stacks on MAME:

Initial setup

Download the HyperCard startup image from this page. Click “Download ISO Image” to get HyperCardBootSystem7.img.

Run MAME maciicx with RAM size set to 8 MB, the “image” card in slot B, a System 7.1 or later boot disk as “hard1”, and IA’s HyperCard Boot disk as “disk”. From the command line that looks like this:

mame64 maciicx -ramsize 8M -nbb image -hard1 mac755.chd -disk HyperCardBootSystem7.img

When it comes up, drag the HyperCard folder from the BootSystem7 disk to your startup disk and shut down cleanly. (Before shutting down you may wish to go to the Monitors control panel and enable color if you haven’t already; 256 colors is good for HyperCard without slowing things down.

Running a Stack

See a stack you like? Click the stack page’s “Download ISO Image”; this will give you a .img file. Run as you did before, but this time select the stack you want to run as “disk”.

mame64 maciicx -ramsize 8M -nbb image -hard1 mac755.chd -disk disk.img

Double-click the stack and HyperCard should auto-launch.