68000 Assembler for the Original Macintosh – Full Setup on Linux

Set up a complete development environment for the first Macintosh models on Linux: the 68000 assembler toolchain mac68k-asm, the floppy disk tool mac68k-disk and the Mini vMac emulator compiled from source. Then we build a program, put it on a disk image, run it on an emulated Mac 128K, and turn the example into our own little program. Recorded on a Raspberry Pi 5 with a fresh Debian 13; works the same on any Debian/Ubuntu machine. 🔗 Links mac68k-asm (MIT): https://github.com/bircher988/mac68k-asm mac68k-disk (MIT): https://github.com/bircher988/mac68k-... Mini vMac: https://www.gryphel.com/c/minivmac/ On a Mac: brew install bircher988/tap/mac68k-asm bircher988/tap/mac68k-disk ⏱ Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:53 Packages 1:06 Build mac68k-asm 1:33 Build mac68k-disk 1:46 Build the example 2:10 A look at the source 2:46 Build Mini vMac 3:26 A disk for our programs 4:21 Run it 4:52 Your own program 5:31 Build and run 5:56 Wrap-up 💻 Commands from the video sudo apt update sudo apt install -y build-essential git wget libx11-dev git clone https://github.com/bircher988/mac68k-... cd mac68k-asm && make && sudo make install mac68k-asm version mac68k-asm build example/Hello.Job -o out cd ~ git clone https://github.com/bircher988/mac68k-... cd mac68k-disk && make && sudo make install cd ~ wget https://www.gryphel.com/d/minivmac/mi... tar xzf minivmac-36.04.src.tgz && cd minivmac gcc -o setup_t setup/tool.c ./setup_t -t lx64 -m 128K | tee setup.sh # PC AND 64-bit Raspberry Pi (-t larm builds, but shows a black screen) bash setup.sh && make -j4 Mac128K.ROM (from your own Mac 128K/512K) and System.dsk go next to the emulator mac68k-disk new Apps.dsk # 400K MFS; --hfs for an 800K HFS disk mac68k-disk add Apps.dsk ~/mac68k-asm/out/Hello.bin mac68k-disk ls -l Apps.dsk ./minivmac System.dsk Apps.dsk ℹ️ Not included: the Mac 128K ROM and the System software are copyrighted by Apple – use the ROM of your own machine. The voice-over was generated with a text-to-speech model from a recording of my own voice. #retrocomputing #macintosh #68000 #assembly #linux #raspberrypi