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I took a dive down a rabbit hole to try and get an old Macintosh OS system emulated on my m2Pro Mac mini. It looks like Basilisk II is the ticket!

1) a system boot rom (precursor to the NVRAM?)

2) a system boot disk (either as a floppy or HDD image)

The live system floppy disks are how old systems without a HDD booted. Even “newer" systems could use them and just not install the OS to the HDD. The modern equivalent are LiveDVDs that most Linux OSes provide.



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Basilisk II download for macOS:

emaculation.com/basilisk/Basil

Basilisk II Config GUI for macOS (you could edit the config file manually but this GUI seems like the way to go if you're new):

emaculation.com/basilisk/Basil

ROM image (the MacOS8-linked ROM from emaculation.com didn't work for me, use this one instead):

smb4.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.co

System 7 boot floppy image:

emaculation.com/System70_boot.

System OS 7.5.3 Install image:

emaculation.com/basilisk/OS753



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