is not normally included in your PATH on a nix operating system like OS X. 'To get this proof-of-concept running, it took me about 4 hours,' he told El Reg 'Most of that time was spent getting Mini vMac to compile on the watch’s architecture.'įrom there, Mini vMac could be equipped with a boot image and the Watch was able to load up the emulator and boot MacOS 7.5.5, a build of the old MacOS introduced in 1996 for the PowerMac/Performa lines that you may remember disabling the enemy mothership in Independence Day. I get Command Not Found when I try to run Android Emulator on Mac OS X.
Lee, who when not sending Watches back in time works as a software architect for Tendigi, said the install process mostly consisted on porting the open source Mini vMac emulator to the Apple WatchOS platform. Why run watchOS 2 when you can run Mac OS 7.5.5? New Yorker Nick Lee said he used an emulator to get his Apple watch running a disk image of the MacOS 7.5.5 operating system.
An Apple Watch tinkerer has managed to get his wristslab running an operating system that hasn't been updated in nearly two decades.
