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Re:Basilisk II Macintosh 68K emulator ported to iPadOS by ddingus on Sunday October 09, 2022 @01:00AM (#33138395)
Apple could supply those ROMS perhaps. They won't, but it seems a shame to ignore their own heritage.

Now, from Apple's point of view? That's old news, and the future is more compelling. Totally get it.

But it is stuff like this which keeps the iPad in the catagory of "toddlers toy" for me personally. It's really nice hardware too.

I own one. Was given to me. It really did end up being used as an excellent toddler toy!! The various touch games I found were really good and did promote some key skills.

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Re:Basilisk II Macintosh 68K emulator ported to iPadOS by msephton on Sunday October 09, 2022 @09:44AM (#33140923)
In the past Apple made old versions of their classic system available for free. Notably that included 7.5.3 which is what I use https://web.archive.org/web/19991002011823/http://download.i...

I would have to check about ROM files!

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Re:Basilisk II Macintosh 68K emulator ported to iPadOS by ddingus on Sunday October 09, 2022 @10:02AM (#33141131)
I did not know. Spiffy!
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Re:Basilisk II Macintosh 68K emulator ported to iPadOS by midislack on Sunday October 09, 2022 @05:11PM (#33145390)
When Steve came back to Apple he had ALL lab prototypes destroyed. ALL.
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Re:Basilisk II Macintosh 68K emulator ported to iPadOS by ddingus on Monday October 10, 2022 @01:05AM (#33147961)
No surprise there.
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