Mind's Forge : Classic Mac Emulation on Linux

I recently picked up a Macintosh SE from eBay and wanted to get a head start on making a bootable disk image for when I finish restoration and installation of a disk drive emulator, like a Floppy Emu or Blue SCSI*

minivmac doesn't work to mount device (SCSI) images that BlueSCSI needs, but I found infintemac.org to work, notes here

I found Mini vMac to be very simple to work with on Linux. I tried using Basilisk II but I couldn't get it working (probably because I didn't have the correct bootable disk images at that time).

I was able to build minivmac with modern gcc if you're interested in doing that. Just follow the directions in the README.

After that you need a ROM image file and bootable images which are linked on the Mini vMac page along with ua608d to extract the image files.

Macintosh Repository has a lot of useful files, including the "Old_World_Mac_Roms.zip" that contains the MacSE.ROM file, just extract and copy the correct ROM file to minivmac directory with the correct name. After that you can drag and drop the bootable image disk 1 of 2 and the system should start up.

I created a blank disk file using dd: dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/nak/Downloads/minivmac/sys.img bs=1M count=100, dragged that into the minivmac window and allowed it to be formatted.

Also drag disk 2 of 2 onto the finder desktop, and then open the System disk to install. Click change disk until you see whatever you named the blank disk you formatted and install the system there.

From there I was able to load extensions into the system folder, like After Dark 2.0 which included the flying toasters! You may run into *.sit files, (StuffIt compression) which can be decompressed using unar which was in the Void repositories.