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Infinite Mac: Infinitemac.org
- metadat 4y agoDirect link to the goods: https://infinitemac.org/ https://infinitemac.org/ > Using a new Emscripten port of Mini vMac, it is now able to run almost every notable version of Mac OS, from 1984’s System 1.0 to 2000’s Mac OS 9.0.4.
- lockhouse 4y agoThis is a very impressive effort. It is mind blowing that the computers and game consoles of my childhood are available online via efforts like this.
- Drblessing 4y agoWow, this is mindblowing. Oregon Trail is on the most recent version if anyone wants to check it out.
- anthk 4y agoAlso: no full emulator needed with the ROM and the disk image. m68k translator on the fly. https://github.com/autc04/executor https://github.com/autc04/executor
- bacchusracine 4y ago>Executor Wow, now there's a name I haven't heard in a very long long time. I must have missed when they opened the code. Nice! I remember back in the day when I was first learning about 68k emulation and Basilisk II was the one everyone I knew used despite Fusion PC and SoftMac (with prerequisite rom card) was also popular. There was always something amazing about Executor's vision to make a complete solution which required no rom file. I wasn't sure if they'd ever get there but I was enthralled that someone was actively pursuing such a path.
- duskwuff 4y agoThere's an interesting project along those lines here: https://mace.software/ https://mace.software/ Sadly, the source isn't available (yet?), but there are some demo executables available.
- EricE 4y agoGood times and brings back a lot of memories! My favorite hack (right after upgrading my Mac Plus to 4MB of RAM) was using SteppingOut! to create a large virtual screen to improve scrolling in Sim City (basically by eliminating scrolling in game and using SteppingOut! instead to virtually pan around). The amount of hours I spent playing Sim City - yowza! This inspired me to dig into a box I haven't yet unpacked after a recent move and I have MacUsers from 87-91, a few MacWorlds and some other misc late 80's/early 90's computer mags. Should be some fun going through them again. Looking back at the advertisements are hilarious - also looking forward to re-reading some of Dvorak's columns again. He sure served his purpose well - I would often turn to the back page first when I got a new Mac User - looking forward to getting incensed at his hot takes. Ha!
- kitsunesoba 4y agoPlaying with 8.x/9.x in these VMs makes me wish that modern OS light mode themes would go back to using light mid-grays instead of stark whites. The color choices in Platinum are so much more usable… it doesn't make me feel the need to flip on dark mode immediately.
- astrange 4y agoThe colors don't look like they used to because modern displays are much brighter and higher contrast. (and are 2.2 gamma not 1.8)
- kccqzy 4y agoConversely I also think dark modes shouldn't be plain black; it should be a dark shade of gray.
- post-it 4y agoExcept on OLED displays (or whatever Macs have), where black looks extremely nice.
- sharkjacobs 4y agoI like black blacks on OLED screens but otherwise agree with you
- heyoni 4y agoNot only that but they’ll add longevity to the monitor by avoiding burn in
- crazygringo 4y agoNot sure what you mean, current macOS uses light gray for UX backgrounds, no stark white at all. Except for content areas like your document or the Finder content, but those have always been 100% white. Or are you talking about a different OS?
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- PcChip 4y agois there anything like this for Win 3.x and Win95/98SE, with games pre-installed just like this?
- mihaip 4y agohttps://www.pcjs.org/ https://www.pcjs.org/ is a similar project on the PC side. The Internet Archive also has some collections: https://archive.org/details/classicpcgames https://archive.org/details/classicpcgames and https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games
- Maakuth 4y agoOne cool feature of Infinite Mac is missing from these, unfortunately. That is the clever virtual disk system and block by block fetching of the images over HTTP that allows for practically instant execution. Most people have internet connections that are at least as fast or even faster than the HDDs of 90s computers, so reading a remote disk allows for emulation that has no slower I/O than the real machines had.
- smusamashah 4y agoI have a list here https://gist.github.com/SMUsamaShah/6379649c0cbade9abc02b2427bd33210 https://gist.github.com/SMUsamaShah/6379649c0cbade9abc02b242... which needs updating now after this article
- trm42 4y agoOh wow, before this I haven't used old System versions than 6.0.8 or so and it's just super amazing how ready and well thought even the System 1.0 feels usability-wise! Compare to any Windows before Windows 95, which finally caught on enough of the System/Mac OS classic desktop metaphor and made things feel not too clunky. I've probably said it before and I say it once again: the old Mac OS windowing and spatial Finder feels even today better and more usable than any of the current DEs, macOS included. They managed to cram bunch of windows and widgets in the paltry 512x384 resolution when nowadays we manage to have max 2 windows in one screen or one window per display. (and yes, there are tiling WMs etc but that's a different story...)
- kitsunesoba 4y agoOn my personal mac there’s a couple of folders that I only ever use in a specific workflow that I have spatial mode flipped on for. It’s nice to know that a folder’s window will always open at a specific on-screen location with a specific size every time… might sound silly but the removed friction is significant.
- karmakaze 4y agoMac's are nice. As for Windows the best version IMO was NT 3.5.1 which is a different flavor beast than Mac/Win95 but did it's job exceedingly well, with the one exception of the nested MDI (multiple-document-interface) windows like in Program Manager. Fortunately I rarely opened more than one document per app.
- technothrasher 4y agoI remember going to a computer store and watching somebody demo System 1.0. But by the time my dad brought home a Mac 128 for the family they were already on System 1.1. So that was my first Mac OS version.
- nobleach 4y agoI used the original vMac! I had a Mac SE that I tried to pull the rom from. I ended up having to find a rom from "the internet". It was the holy grail at that point in my life. I had the demo version of Excecutor (from ARDI - a clean room reimplementation of the Mac ROM/OS). A year or so later, I had Shapeshifter running INSIDE WinUAE (the Amiga Emulator) I was able to procure a ROM from a Macintosh Quadra. Man.... such good old days!
- dpedu 4y ago> Using a new Emscripten port of Mini vMac Last I heard, the author of Mini vMac, Paul C. Pratt, is missing. Not missing in the police sense, but in that no one has been able to contact him nor find evidence of a continued online presence in the last couple years. If you know anything, please post. https://eggfreckles.net/notes/paul-c-pratt-is-missing https://eggfreckles.net/notes/paul-c-pratt-is-missing https://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11570 https://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11570
- cjblack 4y agoWent down a rabbit hole after reading your comment - clearly a lot of the people in this community (that I also just learned about) care about him very much. Hope he turns up. I did notice that his site was renewed on 2022-06-09 16:56:27 UTC, although from a comment on Emaculation it appears that this is exactly one year to the day that it was last renewed, meaning it was probably done automatically.
- emmelaich 4y ago[flagged]
- cmg 4y agoBefore anyone looks up and emails that relative, please note that it's been attempted already: https://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=75314#p75314 https://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=75314#p753...
- emmelaich 4y agoI found about three email addresses for her and a few phone numbers. Have they been tried? Maybe some snail mail too?
- basilgohar 4y agoNot to call into question your intentions nor methods, but I highly doubt going to this length, which sounds painfully close to doxxing someone, is what anyone that cares about him needs or wants anyone to do. If that's the degree of distance someone is seeking, perhaps they should be allowed to have it for whatever reasons they have chosen it.
- V-eHGsd_ 4y ago> I am Mihai Parparita and can be reached at oh man, mihai! his greasemonkey scripts made the internal version of gmail (caribou) usable back in the say.
- jakedata 4y agoFirst impression: "oh god, I'm old" Second impression: "I should dig out the SE30 and let the kid have a go at it" Third impression: "I'm probably being emulated too."
- karmakaze 4y agoemulated!? The simulation is the actual you.
- cellularmitosis 4y agoWhen the Zen master said you were one with everything, he was referring to memory address space.
- jakedata 4y agoThen why is it randomized? Oh yeah...
- lostlogin 4y agoChuck Yeager Air Combat, the Marathons and that paper dark game. So many good times.
- jmiserez 4y agoMarathon is still alive! AlephOne is the new engine for Marathon, runs all 3 games on modern platforms and is GPL: https://alephone.lhowon.org/ https://alephone.lhowon.org/ The original Mac OS 9 game files are freely available if you want to run them on a old Mac: http://trilogyrelease.bungie.org/ http://trilogyrelease.bungie.org/
- lostlogin 4y agoThank you! So many great memories!
- tgv 4y ago
- harel 4y agoI learned C on an old Mac Plus or Mac SE... It felt useless at the time since I didn't have access to the computer outside the class but I can't forget the joy of making a circle move across the window...
- sacnoradhq 4y ago:D Somewhere in my NAS lives Mac classic OS, system ROM images, and hgx and sit files. I'd love it if there were an abandonware place for all of the good stuff, with serial numbers, well organized similar to winworldpc. Archival is important. It's not stealing, it's preservation. Without preservation and history, cool things and knowledge dies in unknowable, unseen distant obscurity.
- duskwuff 4y agohttps://macintoshgarden.org/ https://macintoshgarden.org/ is pretty good for that.
- sacnoradhq 4y agoSweet find. Thanks. I remember I bithoarded Marathon from https://trilogyrelease.bungie.org/ https://trilogyrelease.bungie.org/
- footlose_3815 4y agoThis has gotten better. Last time I tried playing hellcats on the emulator, it wouldn't run. Now it runs perfectly!