This setup literally connects two Apple Macintosh ROM chips (from a Mac Plus, in this instance) to the Amiga’s floppy drive, and via some unholy alliance of A-Max controller software + Apple ROM code + the Motorola 68000 CPU in the Amiga (the same chip that powered all the early Macs), this is a “hardware” emulation system. “Worth noting that this is not “software emulation” like how you might run Mini vMac on a modern computer. Hacker has explained his accomplishment in the following manner: The clever hacker in-fact was able to accomplish the hack with an old retail app called Amx, “the Macintosh emulator for your Amiga.” This is a ‘Frankenstein project’ wherein a vintage Mac’s ROM chips have been connected to Amiga’s Motorola 68000 processor (which was the same CPU used in Macs way back in 1980s). Similarly, it is difficult to witness a vintage Mac emulate a vintage PC at a full speed for the simple reason that it lacks the “bandwidth” to pretend to be another system.Įventually we can say that this “hack” of Mac OS 6.0.1 running on the Amiga from the 1980s is ‘not real emulation’….then what is this? For instance, one would never use an Xbox One to emulate a Wii U at full speed.

Thus it indicates that one can emulate systems which are older than the current hardware. It has been observed that when one runs a program on the original hardware it would run much faster and on the contrary due to emulation the program becomes slower.

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