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I have an ancient Mac program called MiniCAD 7 which runs on Mac System 7.1 and would like to operate this program on my new MacBook Pro laptop that has the OSX operating system. Also I have floppy discs with MiniCAD 7 drawings on them which I would like to access.

How can I run this program and access these files?

user
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Bob
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If you encounter crashes running the software in SheepShaver/Basilisk, you might want to try a Mac II build of Mini vMac. I've seen this work better with picky software that requires System 7.1.

If your floppies are High Density (1.44mb) ones, they'll work in a regular PC USB floppy drive. You can connect one to your MacBook, and use the Disk Utility software included with Mac OS X to create read/write disk images of them that will work in an emulator.

Giacomo1968
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rakslice
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Ironically, the fact that you are running modern Apple hardware and an Apple OS does not help you any. Before Apple moved to x86 they supported, and shipped, machines running both OS X and OS 9.

You have the issue of having to emulate a 68K/PPC processor, on top of needing a license/installation media for MacOS 7.

SheepShaver will definitely get the job done, but you still need to acquire a copy of MacOS 7 from somewhere to use it. eBay might be your best bet, unless you actually own an old Mac.

Andon M. Coleman
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