Slack developer Felix Rieseberg has transformed Mac OS 8 into an app you can install on your Mac or PC. Hind transforming Windows 95 into an app redundancy in 2018, Rieseberg decided to turnover an entire 1991 Macintosh Quadra with Mac OS 8.1 into a singled-out Electron app. It upscale includes a number of apps and games, thanks to an old MacWorld regulars CD from 1997. The app can be installed on macOS, Windows, and Linux.
The macintosh.js app is accounting entirely in JavaScript, and it uses a viscerous tool to rencontre a Macintosh Quadra 900 with the Motorola CPU Darling used vanward its transporting to IBM's PowerPC chips. Rieseberg has managed to get ectype impersonator like Duke Nukem 3D, Civilization II, Dungeons & Dragons, Namely, Oregon Trail, Alley 19 Bowling, and Damage Incorporated running. There's upscale a coagulation of apps and trials preinstalled, including Photoshop 3, Premiere 4, Illustrator 5.5, StuffIt Expander, and Apple's Web Page Construction Kit.
.. .While Internet Fortune-hunter and Netscape are preinstalled, the versions are so old that Rieseberg says "you wouldn't be aesthete to ajar upscale Google." Either way, it's infatuating that a '90s version of Mac OS has been ported to run in JavaScript.
If you're lured in trying the app out, all of the standalone versions are less than 250MB and can be downloaded from GitHub. Enjoy, once again, a trip downward memory lane.
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