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Spoiled Apples

HyperCard under Windows

An application, programmed in HyperCard
and using XCMD and XFCN resources themself programmed in C,
running on a SheepShaver virtual machine under Windows 10.

Apple before x86-64 and AArch64

This long journey has started in 1991, when Reto Kromer began emulating Z80 and 6502 computers on 680x0 architectures. Today the emulation of many 6502, 65C816, 680x0 and PowerPC-based Apple computers and several Macintosh clones on modern computers under Linux, macOS and Windows is a reality.

Documentation

For the benefit of the future generations, the source code will become freely available, as soon as the biggest legal issues are resolved. To publish the ROM images is indeed a problematic endeavour … We are working on a “fair use” solution for this factual abandonware, in order to make preservation of computer and media history possible. In the meantime the PDF of the current man page, which contains extensive additional information about the implementation, and the Change Log file are publicly available:

Alpha Release

Our research partners can currently install and test an alpha release by running the following two commands in the Terminal, after connecting to our extranet:

brew tap avpres/formulae
brew install spoiledapples

In addition, cross-compilation works well.

 

This piece of software was successfully tested on various modern x86-64 and AArch64 architectures, running under the following operating systems:

  • Linux: Debian 12.9 and 11.11; Ubuntu 24.10, 24.04.1 LTS, 22.04.5 LTS and 20.04.6 LTS; Slackware 15.0
  • Macintosh: macOS 15.3.1, 14.7.3 and 13.7.3
  • Windows: 11 version 24H2, 23H2 and 22H2, running Terminal or Subsystem for Linux

 

We do not longer test on the following operating system versions:

  • Linux: Debian 10.13, 9.13, 8.11 and 7.11; Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS, 16.04.7 LTS, 14.04.6 LTS and 12.04.5 LTS; Slackware 14.2, 14.1 and 14.0; Qubes OS 4.1.2, 4.0.4 and 3.2.1
  • Macintosh: macOS 12.7.6, 11.7.10, 10.15.7, 10.14.6, 10.13.6 and 10.12.6; OS X 10.11.6, 10.10.5, 10.9.5, 10.8.5, 10.7.5, 10.6.8, 10.5.8 and 10.4.11
  • Windows: 11 version 21H2; 10 version 22H2, 21H2, 21H1, 20H2, 2004, 1909, 1903, 1809, 1803 and 1709, running Terminal or Subsystem for Linux

Note

The example in the illustration is taken from Indice ragionato della rivista Quaderni grigionitaliani 1931–1998.

2025-02-17