Spoiled Apples

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 solution based on the principle of “fair use” for this “abandonware” – a matter of established fact – in order to make the preservation of computing and media history possible, given that Apple is, to put it mildly, not very cooperative. 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:

• spoiledapples – Emulation of 6502, 65C816, 680x0 and PowerPC-based Apple computers and clones
• Change Log

Research Release

Our research partners can currently install and test the current release. It is necessary to connect into our extranet to download the package. As usual, directions are recalled in the README.txt file: run the following four classic commands in the Terminal:

cd spoiledapples-2026-09-02
./configure
make
sudo make install

This piece of software was successfully tested on various modern AArch64 (ARM64) and x86-64 (AMD64) architectures, running under the following operating systems:

• Debian 13.7, 12.15 and 11.11
• macOS 27.2.1, 26.7.3 and 15.8.3
• Ubuntu 26.10, 26.04.1 LTS, 24.04.5 LTS and 22.04.5 LTS
• Windows 11 version 26H2, 25H2 and 24H2 running Subsystem for Linux (WSL 3.0.5)

We no longer test on the following operating system versions, but most likely it still works on them:

• Debian 10.13, 9.13, 8.11 and 7.11
• macOS 14.8.9, 13.7.8, 12.7.6, 11.7.11, 10.15.8, 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
• Qubes OS 4.1.2, 4.0.4 and 3.2.1
• Slackware 15.0, 14.2, 14.1 and 14.0
• Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS, 18.04.6 LTS, 16.04.7 LTS, 14.04.6 LTS and 12.04.5 LTS
• Windows 10 version 22H2, 21H2, 21H1, 20H2, 2004, 1909, 1903, 1809, 1803 and 1709 running Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
• Windows 11 version 23H2, 22H2 and 21H2 running Subsystem for Linux (WSL)

Note

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

2026-11-11