Note that PowerPC ROMs are trickier to come by, as are OS 8 and 9, so you may want to try Mini vMac, a great Mac Plus emulator that is easy to set up and will be fine for MacPaint. Basilisk II and Sheepshaver work well enough that they are worth trying if you want a full-featured emulator to run systems up through 9.0.4. With system 6 or 7 will give you reasonable usability and plenty of authenticity, but it will definitely run on any OS through 9.Ī more practical way is to run a 68k or PowerPC emulator on a modern Mac/Windows/Linux PC. It under OS 8 or 9, you will probably need to switch your color depth to Black and White.
It will run perfectly on any classic Mac OS (system 1-9). The most fun way to run MacPaint today is by using a computer it was actually designed for, an old Mac that you can
