Memory sticks (or thumb drives) are a necessity nowadays. They are also used to store and transport files. Some people even use them for running their files in public machines and for booting Linux. A few though, use thumb drives to run classic versions of Mac OS. Maybe for nostalgia. Maybe just for fun.

Anyway, you can also do that with the help of an open source emulator, which is now available for download. It is available for multiple platforms like Classic, OS X, Windows, Linux, and Pocket PC. This actually allows you to use Mac on Windows and Linux.

Before you get started, get all the components you need here. After that, for purposes of description, the following steps assume that you are using Mac OS X. Windows users though can also work on this:

    1. Create a new folder and rename it Classic Mac.
    2. Unpack the Mini vMac archive and the vmac.rom file and copy them into the Classic Mac folder.
    3. Unpack the blanks-x.x.x.zip archive and unzip the disk image you want.
    4. To be sure, you might want to choose the largest disk image, which is in the hfs24M.zip archive.
    5. Copy the hfs24M.DSK file into the Classic Mac folder.
    6. Unpack the System_7.0.1.smi.bin archive and move the image files into the Classic Mac folder.

Then after a little downloading, you can now enjoy playing with old system software and applications without digging your old Mac.