![]() (On the upside, apps that run well in Mini vMac should run well on the 1991 Macintosh Classic I’m working on reviving back to life.) I’ve been running Mini vMac with some luck, but I hate the limitations it presents. ![]() Basilisk II ran perfectly on the 2014 MacBook Air (which is still on Sierra), but I always hit a brick wall when trying to install it on my 2019 MacBook Pro. As we know, Catalina drops support for 32-bit applications, and I’m guessing Basilisk II was somehow one of them. My go-to classic Mac emulator was Basilisk II until Catalina hit. (Note: I have not yet covered SheepShaver on this site.) Mini vMac covers the compact Mac/System 6 era by emulating a Macintosh Plus (circa 1986.) Basilisk II covers the later System 7 era by emulating a Macintosh Quadra 900 (circa 1991.) SheepShaver’s specialty is PowerPC Macs running OS 8 or OS 9. However, recently, there’s a new kid on the block.Įach emulator has its era of specialty. Zoom also revealed earlier today that it had 10 million daily meeting participants in December, and that figure has now grown to 200 million during the ongoing pandemic.On this blog, I’ve covered Basilisk II and recently Mini vMac, two of the more popular classic Macintosh emulators. Zoom will now spend the next three months fixing all these problems as it struggles to avoid becoming a victim of its own success. Do the recent patches and update along with the company’s apology and 90-day action plan restore your trust in the service? Share your thoughts in the comments below!Īs for the company’s recent growth, it jumped 20x from 10 million daily users to 200 million last month. Zoom certainly has responded quickly and appropriately with security and privacy fixes. “I expected them to maybe change the dialog, but since the ‘zero-click’ aspect was so important to them, I thought they would stick with the preinstall-trick.” “I must say that I am impressed,” says Seele. The fake prompt has also been removed so users have to specifically click through and install Zoom. “They completely removed the preinstall stuff, so you now need to click through the installer as it ought to be,” explains Seele in a message to The Verge. ![]() He even noted that he was “impressed” with Zoom’s new implementation and that they did it the right way. Today he’s happy to report (via The Verge) that after 48 hours, Zoom has fixed the issues. ![]() Those included it quietly sending data to Facebook, misleading advertising about call encryption, two Mac flaws that could give hackers webcam, mic, and root access, and what was described as a “malware like” macOS installer.įelix Seele, who uncovered the installer issue called Zoom’s practice an abuse of preinstallation scripts as it loaded the software on a Mac without a user clicking install. In the last week, we’ve seen a number of security and privacy issues with the popular Zoom video call service. After writing an apology note earlier today, fixing two serious Mac flaws, and detailing a plan to improve its security, privacy, and transparency moving forward, Zoom has also fixed its “malware-like” installer with the latest macOS update. ![]()
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