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Mac OS 9 Emulation On My Apple M1 Mac Mini (UTM)

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 Why? Good question. Because I can? In reality, a few old games and an occasional need to run some older Adobe software was at the root of it. I'm happy to report that the small handful of old games DO actually run. I should note that all these games were released pre-OS X era. UTM does not provide any graphics acceleration at this time - so most graphic intense games are not gonna run on it. Why am I blogging it? Well, it was a little tricky to set up and required a LOT of Googling. And I may need to go through the process again, so a handy step-by-step outline of what I did to succeed seems like a good idea. Specs Mac Mini (9,1), M1 2020 - 8 GB RAM, 250 GB HD Mac OS Big Sur (11.5.2) UTM 2.2.4 I'm focussed on the MacOS branch of UTM here. Maybe as Fall and Winter sets in I'll try something similar on my iPad, but I'm more of a desktop user than a phone/tablet user. Setting Up UTM Hard Drive The first thing I discovered is the default qcow2 drive format UTM uses wouldn&
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Portativ Organ Project

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What is a Portativ Organ  My love and fascination with pipe organs began at a very young age (like before I can even remember). When I started participating in the SCA (long, long age... in a galaxy far, far away), it was great that my passion for pipe organs was most definitely "period". However... the standard pipe organ is NOT a very portable instrument. All of my music training and lessons was for keyboard instruments... and basically none of the period keyboard instruments are very portable (organ, clavichord, harpsichord, etc). Until I started finding paintings and drawings of "laptop" pipe organs in period manuscripts and research. I had stumbled on the "portativ organ" (portable organ). From that moment on... I wanted one. A Bit of History About Pipe Organs Without diving into too much documentation... the origins of the pipe organ date back thousands of years. The origins of the pipe organ can be traced back to the hydraulis in Ancient G
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Welcome

Welcome to my newest attempt to keep a journal of projects and ideas. I don't have a great track record keeping up on these things... but I really do desire a place to collect my thoughts and share my research on certain projects. So I'll try my best to reserve time to write up what I'm working on.
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