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Turn An iPad Pro Into A Classic Macintosh

Source: https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/

Remember Apple System 7? It’s been a while. To be exact, 30 years, 3 month and 7 days passed since it’s release. 

And of course there are people, who still use classic Mac OS 7 software today. One of them is Matt Sephton. Matt does cool things and writes about his journey in his worthwhile blog.

This time he decided, to run a Macintosh emulator on an iPad Pro. 📲

In fact this is kind of a challenge, because the simple ./configure; make; make install which translates into search in appstore; ignore the reviews; push the install button on iOS does not work here. Thanks to Apples policies. So Matt had to go back to Xcode and compile an emulator on his iPad from source.

Not only did it work. According to Matt the experience is fantastic. In his highly recommended article he details his journey and the time reading is well spent.

Have a look at Matt’s blog as well, might be something for your blog roll.

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