I have the ones that came with the 512k Mac. I think they are probably the same. Good enuf?

Click to expand...

Thank you but, I'm trying to track down the disks that came with the original Macintosh. Thanks for offering though

I'll save you a bit of trouble with the Guided Tour emulation. But it would be cool to see something interactive, via Flash, or to be more Apple politically correct, HTML5. How do you plan to implement this emulation, or is it just for yourself?

http://www.youtube.com/user/Mac128DOTcom

You can also check out this rough test site done in basic HTML gif animation of the original 128K system navigation experience. I discovered rather quickly, that while approximating the same speed as an original 128K, this method is simply not fast enough on the web to be as seamless an experience and so abandoned it.

As for the link to Eric Rasmussen's site, it is the most thoroughly researched and accurate information regarding the early Macs. You can rest assured, those items are exactly what was packaged with the original Mac.

Disk Based MacWrite did not come out until later, when everyone complained about how limited it was on a 128K. System and MW/MP as well as MW on a single disk are from later editions, after MacWrite had grown in size.

Also, why are you using the red 128K logo? That was not the original 128K Mac, but rather the Second generation 128K, which did not come out until late 1984, with a completely different logic board.

Click to expand...

For now, it's just for myself. Once I compile all of the needed files, I might share my "collection" with people. My goal was to preserve the original Macintosh (albeit in emulated form). Oh & that logo? I was just seeing how that looked. Yeah, I know it refers to the 2nd Gen 128K. Oh & using the 128K in the name of the custom build of Mini vMac helps to differentiate it from other builds. Might whip up a website of my findings/process of locating stuff.

edit: Woah, might've just hit the jackpot! 8-o :O

Someone just sent me the 4 original disk images. First in 400K format (MFS) & then in 800K (HFS). The 400K disks won't mount in Snow Leopard but, the "System Disk" & "Guided Tour of Macintosh" 800K disks do (the other 2 don't). When I try using the System Disks to boot Mini vMac 128K, I get the flashing disk/question mark/ X logos. When I use a known bootable disk first, and then mount the images in Mini vMac, I get the error message that "It's not a Macintosh Disk" and do I want to initialize it. Is it ok if I send them to someone & see if they can salvage/make them mountable (bootable) them somehow?

Oh & if anyone is wondering, here are the build options that I'm using for my custom Mini vMac build:

-n "Mini vMac 128K"

-m 128K

-mem 128K

-t imch

-speed 1

-sony-tag 1

http://minivmac.sourceforge.net/doc/options.html

http://minivmac.sourceforge.net/doc/build.html