I suggest using DD or similar tool to create an image of your SD card, CF card, drive, or removable media. Create the image file you want to initialize

Download, unzip and rename from OS_755_2GB.dsk to mac755.chd 4. Mame only works with drive image files, I suggest using my System 7.5.5 2GB drive image from my downloads page.

zip file to your the rom folder in your MAME folder (from section 1)ģ.

Download the macplus.zip, macII.zip or maciici.zip file from the internet archive (this is a bundled zip file, from other sources you’d need the BIOS for the separate floppy bios file and the keyboard bios file).

I’ve personally tested several of these files with MAME, but for this example I’m going to use the Macintosh Plus Luckily some of these ROM files are now available on the internet archive and can be used for personal/research purposes. To run MAME as a Macintosh System you’ll need to get the proper ROM files that represent the system you want to emulate.

Create a destination folder on your system that you will install MAME in.

The latest versions for Windows, OSX and linux can be found on MAME’s site.

Exit Mame and write or copy the initialized blank.cdd image file to your target media.

Run Mame and Initialize your image file using the patched version of: HD SC Setup 7.5.5 or Drive Setup 1.5 or Drive Setup 1.7.3.

Use DD or some other similar tool to create a image of your physical drive, SD card, CF card or other media and rename to blank.cdd (or whatever you want).

Download my 2GB System 7.5.5 drive image and rename to mac755.chd.

Download the Mac IIci rom files from the internet archive, and put the macplus.zip in your ROM folder.

Download and install the latest version of Mame (this guide has been update for MAME version 0.277).

For this blog entry I’m going to walk through setting up MAME to emulate a Macintosh Plus with the assumption your using MAME instead of Basilisk II because you want to initialize and partition an image file that you created from a physical drive, SD card etc. Most people use it to emulate old arcade systems and gaming consoles, but it also provide support for several of the 68k Macintosh Systems (search the page for mac.c). You likely already know what MAME is, but if not, the simplest description is a multi-purpose emulator.

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