Mike Cane got the OS running on his Nook with help from developers on the . One member, "zydeco", got software running on Android, which you port onto your Android device. This will then let you use Mac OS 7 and 7.5, although that 7.0 is more reliable than later versions. Mike then used Mini vMac for Android and hacked it onto his rooted Nook Simple Touch.

Of course, there are a couple of . The screen of the Nook Touch can get a (that's where certain images burn onto the screen), and also suffers from the occasional flickering that apparently can render some applications unusable. Although the onscreen keyboard works well enough to let you use Microsoft Word and a paint program, it has no arrow keys, which can be annoying if you want to play some retro games.

Other than that, the software generally reacts to being touched as though it's being clicked. There are a couple of minute niggles, like the Apple menu being a bit awkward to select, but that is probably to be expected when the OS was designed for a little pointer rather than a finger.

To get a vintage version of Mac software running on your Android gadget, visit . You can also see more images of the hack running on FlyingToaster's .

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