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A modern fork of the classic Mac emulator

12 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 1 story, 11 comments · first 2020-06-27 · latest 2026-05-27

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  1. Probably the closest thing I remember existing to this was (in its "modern"-ish form) https://github.com/autc04/executor Not quite what you're looking for I think but it was a Wine-style reimplementation of MacOS.
    comment by phs2501 · 2026-05-27 · in SimCity 3k in 4k (2025)
  2. …(there's a fork under Github) or some other project: https://www.v68k.org/advanced-mac-substitute/ https://github.com/autc04/executor https://github.com/jjuran/metamage_1/
    comment by anthk · 2025-12-23 · in Adobe Photoshop 1.0 Source Code (1990)
  3. https://github.com/autc04/executor is a more recent fork of executor (but based on the issues, it does build on recent OS)
    comment by homarp · 2025-06-26 · in Snow - Classic Macintosh emulator
  4. https://github.com/autc04/executor
    comment by anthk · 2023-08-02 · in Tetris Max 2.9.1 and Macintosh System 6.0.8 Bugs
  5. You can compile and build a fork: https://github.com/autc04/executor
    comment by anthk · 2023-08-02 · in Tetris Max 2.9.1 and Macintosh System 6.0.8 Bugs
  6. Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executor_(software) / https://github.com/autc04/executor
    comment by Lammy · 2023-05-22 · in Advanced Mac Substitute is an API-level reimplementation of classic Mac OS
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    Executor: A modern fork of the classic Mac emulator
    story by homarp · 2023-03-28 · 1 comment
  8. Also: no full emulator needed with the ROM and the disk image. m68k translator on the fly. https://github.com/autc04/executor
    comment by anthk · 2023-03-28 · in Infinite Mac: Infinitemac.org
  9. https://github.com/autc04/executor Clone the repo recursively. It needs SDL2 and QT5 devel libraries.
    comment by anthk · 2022-02-04 · in Assimilate: A Flood-It game for Mac OS 9, released in 2021
  10. …OS9. https://github.com/autc04/Retro68 Also, this guy has a Classic Mac tool sw "runner" a la Wine: https://github.com/autc04/executor Forked, that's true, but that's the best Ardi Executor fork by a mile.
    comment by anthk · 2022-02-04 · in Assimilate: A Flood-It game for Mac OS 9, released in 2021
  11. https://github.com/autc04/executor
    comment by anthk · 2021-06-15 · in You can legally get and run WordPerfect for free
  12. …WINE does. It was released as open source under the MIT license and this is the most active fork: https://github.com/autc04/executor It needs no ROM or Mac System files.
    comment by orionblastar · 2020-06-27 · in Rosetta 2 is Apple’s key to making the ARM transition less painful