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emulate
Macintosh II - Initial Macintosh II emulation for Mini vMac. Color - first must complete Macintosh II project. Macintosh SE FDHD - Macintosh SE FDHD emulation for Mini vMac. Macintosh Classic - Macintosh Classic emulation for Mini vMac. Better timing - Make 1x speed in Mini vMac more accurate by counting cycles rather than instructions. Floppy Drive - Make Mini vMac emulate the floppy drive. port to Maemo keyboard - Make the Mini vMac emulator support the virtual keyboard on Maemo devices, such as the Nokia N800. OLPC XO-1 - (wish) Port the Mini vMac emulator to the XO-1 laptop from the One Laptop per Child non-profit organization. |
You can increase the priority of features that you want
added to Mini vMac,
and support their development,
by pledging bounties.
The projects you can support this way are listed on the left hand side of this
page. No payment is required until a project is finished to the point of a
release candidate of Mini vMac containing it. Upon the official release,
supporters of the project will be publicly thanked. (Unless anonymity is
requested.)
There is more possible work to do on Mini vMac than I could get done even if I could afford to work on it full time for the rest of my life. So I want to work first on what is of the most interest to the most people. The project bounties are a way to help judge that, and might also help me to afford to spend more time working on Mini vMac. I look at both the number of pledges and total amount to judge how much interest there is in each project. (So even small pledges have influence.) How it works This is a very simple and informal system. If you see a project that you would like to support, just contact me in any fashion, most likely using my contact form. Let me know the project that interests you, and what you wish to pledge. Be sure to include a valid email address. I'll email you back a thank you note. Also please include your name, which I'll add to a list of pledgers on the project page. (Or else give an alias that you wish to use instead of your name, including just "anonymous".) When the project is completed to the point of a release candidate, I'll email you to let you know. You can try it out, and if you are satisfied you can send a donation, such as through as PayPal or mailing a check. I'll update the project page to show supporters. (The list of supporters will be in order from highest donation to lowest, but the amounts will not be listed). The project page, with this list of supporters, will remain online indefinitely. There is no penalty for not fulfilling a pledge, other than being listed on the project page under pledges not yet collected. And I'll waive even that given any sort of reasonable excuse. There is no guarantee when or if work will start on a project. But if a project no longer interests you, and you wish to end your pledge, just let me know. Some of these projects are "wish" projects. This means that they are not yet well defined and I would need to do further research before it would be possible to create a real project specification. Pledging to a "wish" project will encourage me to do this research. Such a pledge is completely nonbinding, it only means that when I create a real project, I'll email you, so you have the opportunity to pledge to it if you think it is suitable. |