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Written by OSNews on 2025-01-28 at 14:23

The invalid 68030 instruction that accidentally allowed the Mac Classic II to successfully boot up

A bug in the ROM for the Macintosh II was recently discovered that causes a crash when booting in 32-bit mode. Doug Brown discovered and documented the bug while playing with the MAME debugger. Why did it never show up before? It seems a quirk

https://www.osnews.com/story/141616/the-invalid-68030-instruction-that-accidentally-allowed-the-mac-classic-ii-to-successfully-boot-up/

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