
When SoftMac became separate from Gemulator, it no longer required a physical ROM card. Other emulators, such as Fusion and vMac allowed users to use a ROM file that could be dumped from a physical Mac (and therefore distributed illegally online). A 1999 release of Gemulator included a separate Macintosh emulator, now called SoftMac, which could emulate up to a 68040 Macintosh.Įarly releases of Gemulator required that a Macintosh ROM card be plugged into a free ISA slot on the host machine. SoftMac spun off of Gemulator, an Atari emulator for Windows, which in 1997 was expanded to include emulation of the 68000 Macintosh classic.

SoftMac is developed by Emulators, Inc., a fairly old name in the Macintosh emulation field.
