The more people using the source code the better, in the long run. He has made several bug reports....The variation service can be thought of as just a way to more strongly encourage people to donate, since it is so easy to get around it. (Otherwise, the donation rate for open source projects is about 1 in 10,000, which unfortunately isn't enough to make a significant difference for Mini vMac.)

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Paul, you are indeed a true gentleman and far more forgiving than I. Kudos.

Anyone who has made it this far and NOT just immediately downloaded MacGeek's builds and moved on, PLEASE visit the variation service store and donate anyway. $5 is not a lot to ask to help support Mini vMac and keep more improvements coming. Especially, if you are not handy with compiling source code and are otherwise enjoying the benefits of the variations.

For those of you running real hardware, Mini vMac is going to be the best hope for natively manipulating vintage files on a modern Mac. His Macintosh II emulator will hopefully bridge that gap between HFS & HFS+ and System 7.5.5 and 8.1, before HFS support is eliminated completely from OS X.