First, Lazyone lures us in with news that he had successfully ported Macintosh System 6 on the DS but has not released the emulator yet. Just to show us though that he is in the process of perfecting the emulator and that indeed the news is real, he posted a video on YouTube showing System 6 running on DS. But in a world where some people get a kick out of tricking others, we cannot exactly blame the DS community for doubting the truth of the System 6 emulator. Lazyone's answer to the doubting thomases? He did not fake the whole and thing and he "never will fake any sort of release or software".

Just to assure you guys that this is not a hoax, he is posting photos of the emulator running on a real DS. In addition, he promises to release a proof of concept version as soon as he's able to fix a few issues with the mouse code.

I hope (and I'm pretty sure so does Lazyone) these pictures have put all your doubts to rest. And come on, Lazyone has already released a nice homebrew game that I'm sure most of you DS owners have been enjoying. Remember Wolfenstein 3D? Yup, that's his! So let's all shut up with the "It's a fake!" accusations and wait patiently for the emulator to be released.

We earlier reported about one of the Nintendo DS' surprising capabilities, and that is the ability to run Macintosh System 6 Operating System. System 6 belongs to the family of Classic Mac OS which was used widely on the late 1980s. This archaic operating system supported only 24 bits of addressable memory rather than full 32 bits, allowing it to address a maximum of 8MB of RAM. It also has no built-in support for virtual memory.

So now, to prove that the Mac System 6 could run on a DS, here is a video posted by TheLazy1, whom we think is also the one who posted those pics that was shown in the earlier report. Now, if you think that this is true or just one of them hoaxes, well, that's your call.

Used in the late 80's, the Macintosh System 6 operating system was made in machine code (as opposed to recent Mac OS, which is programmed in C) and supported only 24 bits of addressable memory rather than full 32 bits, allowing it to address a maximum of 8MB of RAM. Also, this OS had no built-in support for virtual memory.

Features of System 6 may seem not just a bit outdated to today's generation, but a recent article we ran showed charts that revealed how the vintage Macintosh System 6 operating system outperforms a 3GHz Windows 2000 PC. If that article perked you up and you're quite interested on laying your hands on a System 6, unfortunately, it's no longer available - but here's an emulator that will most probably the closest you can ever be to controlling a System 6.

Lazyone has posted photos of his System 6 emulator for the Nintendo DS. Although not a "speedy emulation due to the lack of optimization at this point", Lazyone assures it was faster than he initially thought it would be. Now if only he can soon share this emulator to all of us...

Lazyone's Macintosh Plus emulator called MiniVMac has had its share of highs and lows during the past couple of days. Although, he has proven that early Macintosh emulation is indeed possible, the output he produced wasn't exactly what he was hoping for. Maybe to clear his thoughts, he worked on tracking down a sound bug with Wolfenstein 3D first, before delving into MiniVMac. And on July 12, 2006, with the much appreciated help of the people from DSDev, the display corruption on the MiniVMac has been fixed. In this photo, it shows the emulator looking for a startup disk.

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Just to refresh your memory, the Macintosh Plus was the third model in the Macintosh line, introduced two years after the original Macintosh and a little more than a year after the Macintosh 512K. It even made an appearance on Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and Back to the Future II.