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Turning an iPad Pro into the Ultimate Classic Macintosh (2021)

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I’ve started work on the next in my 1-bit Woodblocks series: “Tekagami” (Ito Shinsui’s “Hand Mirror”). So it’s a good time to talk about how I turned an iPad Pro into the ultimate Classic Macintosh.

Emulators

Both Macintosh emulators available on iOS we’re ported by @maczydeco who has done an amazing job making them feel truly at home on iOS. Many thanks! They need to be built from source using Xcode but it’s a pretty straight forward process.

Mini vMac

Supports System 1.1 to 7.5.5

Limited RAM and CPU emulation

File Sharing via bespoke method

No dynamic screen resolution changing

Odd interface using Control key shortcuts

Source code

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