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December 19, 2006

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Mac OS 7.5 on a Nintendo DS

Posted Dec. 19, ’06, 7:38 AM PT by Derik DeLong
Category | Geekery

System 7.5.5 on a Nintendo DS Seriously, this has to be one of the best hacks I’ve seen in a while. Using Lazyone’s Mini vMac DS, you can run up to Mac OS 7.5.5 (really known as System 7.5.5 to those in the know). Sure, it’s black and white, you have to pan around, and you almost can’t run anything, but it’s still a Mac operating system on a great game system.

I would have embedded the video, but it’s long. Over ten minutes long. It’s neat to see, but that’s a bit much. I think a couple minutes would have sufficed. Seeing my roots makes me want to break out the old Quadra 660av. Who’s with me?


6 Comments

Chris said:

I love to see the aquivilant Win OS on the DS and a bench mark test.

I started on them old Quadras.... now wheres my wheel chair...

December 19, 2006 8:16 AM
Len said:

Quadras? Children! Why my first Mac was an SE. 9 inch black & white...not even grayscale. Even plunked on a Plus a few times. And this was after starting on an Apple II & Commodore 64. (Tell us about command lines, grandpa.)

December 19, 2006 2:03 PM
ex2bot said:

Sheesh! Timex Sinclair 1000 in 1982. Or even Trash 80 in 1980. Beat that, whippersnappers!

Nowadays, the kids have these newfangled GOOEYs. We didn't need them. Course, I can hardly move my fingers due to too much typing back in the day. But we LIKED IT!

Bot

December 19, 2006 6:51 PM
Elbereth said:

I still have my (working!) Apple II, Monitor III, and dual disks.

December 19, 2006 9:02 PM
Paul said:

I've got a stack of punch cards in my desk drawer, my first program.

Get the heck off my lawn.

December 21, 2006 7:57 AM
David Lynn Coles-Dobay said:

Groovy fortran on a 5150
Pilot 4 Apple IIE
Swappin Floppies on a Mac512
Sanyo Robots on a MacIIVX
Autovision 90 with 64meg Nubus Solid State Drives
Apple Gateway Router on MacIIsi
21" AppleVision Displays
Cramming Magazine issues on to 1.4MB floppies
Oh the memories 7.5 brings back seams like yesterday I would lock my Se30 in my locker each night. I hope the new users can find the sole of Apple as all of us oldtimers once knew.
First learned to type on a keypunch 36years later and over 100 keyboards I still can be heard typing from outside my office.

January 6, 2007 11:32 PM

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