What is MacFlim 2.x?

MacFlim is an open source package of tools including a 68K video player app on a floppy disk image, plus instructions on how to build a modern program that will let you convert any video file to a streamable tiny B&W video that will play back on a 1980's Macintosh (e.g. Mac 128K, Plus, SE, etc...) using that 68K video player app.

MacFlim older than version 2.0 did not feature sound but starting from MacFlim 2.0 it now produces a video file that has mono sound, but it requires ffmpeg 5.0 or newer to convert the video files.

More information, install instructions and source code are on the MacFlim GitHub page

But basically, install dependancies:

brew install ffmpeg
brew install yt-dlp
brew install ImageMagick

Then download the source, go into the src folder and build it:

git clone https://github.com/fstark/macflim.git
cd macflim/src
CFLAGS=-I/opt/homebrew/include/ LDLIBS=-L/opt/homebrew/lib/ make

Then the built app is ready to use, so let's try it against a YT video:

cd ..
./flimmaker 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ' --mp4 out.mp4

So finally, in the same folder as flimmaker, we have a big .mp4 file that can be played back on modern computers and a smaller .flim that can be played back on a 1980's Mac using the MacFlim app on the floppy disk image.

 

Download MacFlim 2.x for Mac

Architecture

Intel x86-64

System Requirements

From Mac OS 11.0

Compatibility notes

Architecture: Intel x64 + Apple Silicon

macOS 11.0 - current

 

Emulating this? It could probably run under: QEMU