How To Emulate Some Specific Retro Systems?

[jippa_lippa]

Hello.

 

I need to study a specific type of aesthetics for an animation project, which is the typical looks of computer operative systems commonly used in the late 80s and early 90s.

Let's take 1993 as the target year, but i would mind taking influences from previous operative systems (like Amiga OS) and later ones (like windows 95).

 

I'd love to know if there's an easy way to emulate (possibly on Mac OS X, but i also have a windows 7 hard drive) these systems:

 

- Windows 3.1

- Windows 95

- Mac System 7.1 (colour version)

- Apple GS/OS (Apple IIGS)

 

Feel free to add other systems to the list, as long as they fit the 1988-1995 time period.

 

If there could be an easy way to find and use some old software as well (like very early early versions of photoshop ecc...) that would be great, but i'm not a 100% about the legality of the thing (I'd love to have more info on that).

I await suggestions and instructions, thanks!

 

Being just for reference, 100% accuracy in the emulation is not necessarily needed.

[ProjectBox153]

For Windows, you can just install them in Virtualbox. It's free and works. I've already got a Windows 3.1 VM that I use from time to time. 

[HarryNyquist]

Virtualbox will work only for the first two.

For Windows 3.1 you'll need to install DOS 6.22 first and then 3.1, 95 should install on its own.

 

System 7 IIRC can be emulated using miniVMac, and I have no idea about IIGS.

 

Google is your friend.