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Infinite Mac: Classic Macintosh system releases and software on a web browser
- jeffreportmill1 3y agoI am so thankful for this project - for years I have been obsessed with a game I loved on my old Mac SE, but I couldn’t remember the name and only remembered that it was like Asteroids, but in a maze. I found it on several of the releases at this site - it’s called Continuum. So fun to get to play it again after all this time!
- JKCalhoun 3y agoContinuum is awesome. It has a level editor built in?
- radicaldreamer 3y agoI loved Mantra II, which was ported to OS X a couple of years ago.
- EGreg 3y agoWho here played Lemmings by Psygnosis? How about Bungie’s Myth: TFL
- im_down_w_otp 3y agoI nearly failed out of college my first year due to obsessively playing ranked online games of Myth and Myth II. I still fire up the game on my Linux workstation from time to time. It bums me out that nothing like it has been made since. I would absolutely kill for Bungie to buy back the rights to the franchise and have a go at modernizing it.
- markneub 3y agoYou may be interested to hear that community developers [1] have updated Myth II to be run on modern systems (even native Apple Silicon!) with a variety of enhancements to the game client itself and other goodies like hi-res map textures. There's also a community metaserver to replace bungie.net. [2] Join us on Myth Discord and register for Myth World Cup 2023! [3] There are dozens of us left. Dozens! [1] http://projectmagma.net/what/ http://projectmagma.net/what/ [2] http://gateofstorms.net/ http://gateofstorms.net/ [3] https://discord.gg/S2qHX8MnP https://discord.gg/S2qHX8MnP
- dylan604 3y agoThe dwarves "Yeah, wadda you want?" cracked me up, and their reactions when their tosses were closer than danger close
- Avshalom 3y agoNow see when I was young if some one was obsessed with a game kinda like Asteroids but in a maze called Continuum they would have been talking about Subspace: Continuum.
- jeffreportmill1 3y agoWow, I didn't know about that one, but just watched a video. I wonder if it was inspired by the Mac game from the late 80s.
- kgbcia 3y agoI was obsessed with this game too. Was a care free time in my life
- iJohnDoe 3y agoPretty cool! Quick story. The first real computer I bought for myself was a Mac B&W G3. Amazing system. When Steve Jobs came back to Apple. I originally went to a Gateway store (remember those?) and configured a system. Went through the process to get approved for the loan to buy the system. I got denied (was a teenager). The loan people called me the next day to discuss more details and then approved me. I think they sent me a check or something. Can’t remember. I used those funds to buy the B&W G3 instead. Best decision I ever made. Was there for the birth of Mac OS X. Not the same fan today that I was of Apple and OS X like I was back then, but it shaped my computer knowledge of Mac, and later Windows.
- chongli 3y agoMy first Mac was a Performa 5200CD that I bought in 1996 with my paper route earnings. My second was a B&W G3! Loved both of those computers! I still use Macs today but I really miss those days. I miss Mac OS 9 the most. But I also really miss all the high quality desktop software for it. You don’t see that anymore! Everything is a service, a rental. Even though most of the SaaS products out today are just plain inferior to the perpetual licensed desktop software of old.
- kristianp 3y agoWas it a blue and white G3? https://apple-history.com/g3blue https://apple-history.com/g3blue
- iJohnDoe 3y agoIndeed. Had a really nice GPU. Quake 3 Arena was released to Mac OS first before Windows.
- mac-chaffee 3y agoI've been messing around with this for the past week, it's very cool. There's even a CloudFlare Durable Objects-based AppleTalk networking stack, which I think is such an interesting fusion of old and new: https://blog.persistent.info/2022/07/infinite-mac-networking.html?m=1 https://blog.persistent.info/2022/07/infinite-mac-networking...
- sroussey 3y agoI have data files from Family Tree Maker 1.0 that I would love to open up. But v2 doesn’t open them (v1.5 changed file types). I have v1 files and the install CD for v2. Out of luck! :/
- giantrobot 3y agoHave you looked on Macintosh Garden for the old software? It's got quite the library of Mac abandonware.
- mitchbob 3y agoCool! I loved Dave Winer's MORE outlining application [1] back in the day and it would be fun to try it again. I'm sure I have my MORE data on a floppy somewhere, and Symantec gave Dave permission to distribute the old software. [1] http://outliners.scripting.com/default.html http://outliners.scripting.com/default.html
- lampiaio 3y agoThank you for the recommendation, I've been looking for good mindmapping / idea outlining software for the classic Macintosh and hadn't heard of MORE before.
- mrcwinn 3y ago7.5.3 on my dad’s Quadra 950 at the Philadelphia Inquirer. Coolest thing ever (except there were SGI Indy’s a few floors above). Not to mention SCSI!
- smusamashah 3y agoA list of in browser VMs like this https://gist.github.com/SMUsamaShah/6379649c0cbade9abc02b2427bd33210 https://gist.github.com/SMUsamaShah/6379649c0cbade9abc02b242... These were shared here over time.
- dwighttk 3y agoWhat happened to system 4?
- classified 3y agoShutting it down produces an emulator error: "unreachable executed". Shutting down your Mac is truly the poster child of undefined behavior! Thank Zeus this never happened yet when shutting down my hardware Mac, but who knows...
- alfonsodev 3y agoDoes anyone know how to run hypercard on any of these systems ? I'd like to try the software and so far these seems the easiest emulator to run.
- smurpy 3y agoDoubtless there are lots of other ways to get it running but I just tried it myself by: * 1990 * System 6.0.5 * Customize... * Machine: Mac II * Infinite HD > Multimedia > HyperCard > HyperCard
- alfonsodev 3y agoThank you!
- DrNosferatu 3y agoCool! Is there an Amiga version of something like this?
- lph 3y agoYou can emulate Amiga software in-browser from the Internet Archive's collection [1], but AFAIK there's no emulated web system that's has a bunch of stuff installed on a hard drive like Infinite Mac does. The Amiga Forever [2] package comes with a lot of software you can run locally, but not through a browser. [1] https://archive.org/details/lynx_Shadow_of_the_Beast_1992 https://archive.org/details/lynx_Shadow_of_the_Beast_1992 [2] https://www.amigaforever.com/ https://www.amigaforever.com/
- DrNosferatu 3y agoMaybe this? https://scriptedamigaemulator.net/ https://scriptedamigaemulator.net/
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- DrNosferatu 3y agoOr this? https://taws.ch/WB.html https://taws.ch/WB.html
- aldousd666 3y agoI love this! I spent my formative coding years in a THINK C editor on a Mac Classic, so this is goals.
- coldcode 3y agoI can't run anything between System 2 and System 7 on my Mac Studio. Maybe the emulator used for those doesn't like Apple Silicon?
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- pcurve 3y agoWow....... I'm speechless. I wasn't expecting to see actual working software like Infini-D. This is the real deal. It brings back so much memory.