Welcome to pimac.net

A classic Macintosh on a Raspberry Pi

RPi-Mac turns a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W into a classic 68k Macintosh. Flash an SD card, power on, and the Pi boots straight into a Quadra-class Mac — grey checkerboard, Happy Mac, desktop. No visible Linux anywhere.

Grab a ready-made image below, or use the SD Card Builder to compose your own: pick the Mac OS disk images and install CDs you want on the card and bake in your WiFi settings, so the Mac is on the network the first time it boots.

Build a custom SD card… Download a stock image

Stock Images

The stock image boots System 7.5 with Mac OS 8 on a second disk and a System 7.5.3 install CD attached for recovery. Flash it with Raspberry Pi Imager or balenaEtcher (8 GB card or larger), then optionally edit mac.txt on the boot partition to set WiFi.

Image	Released	Size
`image_2026-06-12-RPi-Mac.img.xz`	2026-06-12	997.7 MB	Download bmap

About the SD Card Builder

1. Compose

Choose from 2 Mac OS disk images, 2 CD-ROM images and 1 ROM in the library, add blank disks to install onto, and enter the WiFi network the Pi should join.

2. Bake

This server assembles a personalised SD card image: your picks are written into the system image and your settings into mac.txt, then everything is compressed for download. It takes a few minutes.

3. Flash and boot

Download the finished .img.xz, flash it like any other image, insert the card into a Pi Zero 2 W and power on. The Mac appears on your WiFi with a web control panel at http://rpimac.local/.

Custom images contain the WiFi password you enter, so download links are private and builds are deleted from the server after 24 hours.