Platform: Apple Macintosh Classic (68k)

I neglected mac emulation for quite a while, but it actually is doing quite well.

The Macintosh platform is interesting for emulation because it has gone through (so far) FOUR processor architectures: Motorola 68000, IBM PowerPC, Intel x86/x86_64, and ARM.

The classic macs ran on the Motorola 68k, think the black in white macs that people make fishbowls out of now. There are two emulators I've used successfully: the Minivmac emulator which is good for smaller early mac games, and standalone Basilisk (I haven't tried the Retroarch Basilisk core) for early/mid nineties macs with color screens. TODO: map these to MacOS systems

Minivmac: this can run MacOS up to system6 or system7, essentially this emulator is for the original mac / mac plus / mac classic black and white floppy based experience of a macintosh. Note that minivmac doesn't have a lot of interface features with the host OS. It can be hard to transfer files (especially .sit files) into a working image that minivmac can use. TODO: I think there is a virtual disk drive image that can help transfer files from host os into minivmac, but I usually use Basilisk

Basilisk: this can run MacOS System7 and perhaps 8? This is more for the Quadra level of macintosh and color macintosh experience with a hard drive. Basilisk under some MacOS versions can access a virtual hard disk that links to the host OS filesystem, great for getting .sit files unpacked and onto disks.

NeXT: SOMETHING is emulating a NeXT in a browser, I have not figured it out yet. OpenStep-Intel should technically be installable in a VirtualBox VM.

OSX: Intel-based OSX should be installable into a VirtualBox VM, and I believe Bochs or Qemu can also run it.

MAME: mame can run the early black and white macs and I believe a quadra level mac with "good" accuracy, but the performance is generally better in Minivmac and Basilisk. Still, it is here in case the others don't work.

Sheepshaver: PowerPC macs, and System 8/9 MacOS support. I haven't actually had a reason to use sheepshaver yet.