Kero's SE WevMac: a Mac SE in your browser
While I was editing ROM images for the SE ROM-inator I'm developing, I kept thinking it would be handy to have a Mac SE I could open in a browser tab. So I made one.
The original vMac emulates a Mac Plus, so I changed the build to match the SE. Other than that it's Mini vMac put on the web as is, and it works the way Mini vMac always has. You can load your own disk image, install and edit things on it, and download the finished file.
There's nothing to set up. Right now I think it's the easiest emulator there is to get running.
All you need is a startup disk image. Make your own, or if that's too much trouble, I've put some here. Use them with care.
How to start it
Download a disk image from the MEGA link above (or have your own ready)
Open the SE WevMac page
Click "Insert disk image…" and pick the image
Click "Start" in the middle of the screen
You get the Happy Mac, and it boots to the Finder.
If the keyboard doesn't respond, click the Mac's screen once. The 1×, 1.5× and 2× buttons at the lower right change the screen size. To start over, click "Restart".
You can insert more disks after it's booted. Same button for the second and third.
BlueSCSI and FEMU images work as they are
It reads .dsk, .img and .hda files.
The .hda images most of us use on a BlueSCSI go straight in, and so do the .dsk images from BMOW's Floppy Emu (FEMU). It works the other way too: put an image you edited here back on the SD card and it runs on the real machine.
That's handy when you want to check what's on an image before taking it to real hardware.
Any system version that runs on a Mac SE will work. If you're not sure which to pick, I wrote a guide here (in Japanese). I recommend System 6.0.8, or 6.0.7 if you want KanjiTalk. 7.1 works too, but take it to a real SE and, well, it's pretty slow!
You can download the image you edited
After adding files, installing apps or changing the system inside the emulator, you can save that disk as a file. A "Download" button appears next to the name of each inserted disk. Just click it.
One thing to watch out for.
Before you click Download, choose Special → Shut Down on the Mac (dragging the disk to the Trash to eject it is fine too). Mac OS doesn't write changes to the disk right away, so if you skip this, the folder you just made may not be in the saved file.
Other notes
Your images aren't uploaded anywhere. All the reading and writing happens inside your own browser. The flip side is that your changes are gone when you close the page, so download anything you want to keep first.
Each image can be up to 512 MB for now.
If you have the ROM from your own Mac SE (256K), choose "Your ROM file" and it will boot from that instead.
It doesn't work on a phone. Use a desktop browser. Google Chrome is recommended; Safari isn't.
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