[Covenant550]

Hey guys I'm new to the forum. I had a few questions about vMac.

I recently got it runnign and was wondering what the newest or best OS for it is? right now im using OS 7. also is there anywhere to get the .dsk's? I can't find any games?

[CharlesS]

First of all: Use Mini vMac, not vMac. Despite its name, it's a lot more current and full-featured than the official vMac branch, which hasn't been updated in years.

The latest version of the Mac OS you can get for free is 7.5.3, which is available from Apple's site here. Additionally, you can update that to 7.5.5 via a free update available here. However, since Mini vMac emulates a Mac Plus, and I'm not sure how well 7.5.x would run on a Plus, you might be better off with System 6 or System 7.0.1, depending on what old stuff you're trying to run (System 7 broke a lot of black-and-white stuff, so System 6.0.8 or even 6.0.5 might actually be your best bet if something doesn't work in 7.x). It's a pity Apple doesn't provide System 7.1 for download, because it was the most stable of the 7.x versions ("stable" of course being a relative term when we're talking about System 7).

For the disk images, all you have to do is make a disk image in Disk Utility. Make sure the format is Mac OS Standard (not Mac OS Extended), encryption is set to none, partitions is set to no partiton map, and image format is read/write. Then you can put whatever you want on it, unmount it, change the extension to .dsk, and you should be good to go.