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All versions of Mac OS up to an including Mac OS 8.0 include a boot floppy disk usually labeled 'Disk Tools'. If you do not have a bootable Mac OS CD-ROM, you can use a Mac OS boot floppy disk. That's right, even though Windows itself does not understand Macintosh formatted disks, your PC's floppy disk and CD-ROM drives are already capable of reading them! Next, you need to install a ROM card into your PC (with valid Macintosh ROMs plugged in) or install a Macintosh ROM BIOS image file which you have created from your own Macintosh computer.įinally, take your Disk Tools Macintosh System boot floppy and place it in your PC's 3.5' floppy disk drive, or take your Mac OS CD-ROM and place it in your PC's CD, CD-R, CD-RW, or DVD drive. You may install your files in any directory on the C: drive, D: drive, or any other hard disk drive letter on your PC. For the purposes of this tutorial, we are installing all of the SoftMac files, disk images, and ROM image files to a SOFTMAC folder on the PC's C: drive. If you download SoftMac, you may run the online installed, or manually download the SOFTMAC.ZIP file and use PKUNZIP or WinZIP to uncompress it. If you have a SoftMac CD-ROM, simply run the installer on the CD-ROM. In order to run Mac OS 8 and Macintosh applications on your Windows computer, you need four things:Īn Apple Macintosh emulator for Windows such as the new SoftMac 9.0 Beta, or an older one like SoftMac 2000, SoftMac Classic, or SoftMac XpressĪ 68020, 68030, or 68040 compatible Macintosh ROM BIOSĪ Mac OS 8 boot floppy ('Disk Tools' disk) or Mac OS 8 installation CD-ROMįirst, you need to have a version of SoftMac on your PC. And don't forget to get your free Mac OS 8.1 CD-ROM from us.

If you do not own a CD-ROM release of SoftMac, you may download a free release of SoftMac. You should install some version of SoftMac so that you may follow along with this tutorial. It then demonstrates how to install a sample Macintosh application, in this case, the ClarisWorks 4.0 which is also available bundled with SoftMac. A very similar installation procedure can also be used when installing other CD-ROM based versions of Mac OS such as 7.6 or 8.0. This tutorial specifically demonstrates the installation of Mac OS 8.1 from CD-ROM, the same Mac OS 8.1 CD-ROM which we bundle with the SoftMac product and which can be purchased from any Apple computer dealer. You will most likely run SoftMac at much higher screen resolutions since SoftMac does support color screen resolutions right up to the 1920x1080 HDTV resolution supported by many of today's video cards and monitors. Click on a thumbnail image to view it at full size. To conserve screen space and minimize load time of this page, all screen shots are taken at low resolution and presented as thumbnails. SoftMac is the easiest and fastest way to run Mac OS on your Intel based Windows computer.ĭue to the large number of screen shots on this page, please several minutes for this page to fully load if you are using a slow modem. This page is a step-by-step tutorial that shows you in detail how to install and configure any recent version of the SoftMac Apple Macintosh emulator for Windows. Welcome to the Beginner's Guide for installing and running Mac OS 8 on Microsoft Windows. To installing and running Mac OS 8 on Windows

Download color mac emulator os on windows 7