[HN Gopher] Infinite Mac: Infinitemac.org ___________________________________________________________________ Infinite Mac: Infinitemac.org Author : mariuz Score : 100 points Date : 2023-03-28 17:53 UTC (5 hours ago) (HTM) web link (blog.persistent.info) (TXT) w3m dump (blog.persistent.info) | Drblessing wrote: | Wow, this is mindblowing. Oregon Trail is on the most recent | version if anyone wants to check it out. | EricE wrote: | Good 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! | tomcam wrote: | > right after upgrading my Mac Plus to 4MB of RAM | | Sure, lord it over the rest of us plebs | anthk wrote: | Also: no full emulator needed with the ROM and the disk image. | m68k translator on the fly. | | https://github.com/autc04/executor | bacchusracine wrote: | >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 wrote: | There's an interesting project along those lines here: | | https://mace.software/ | | Sadly, the source isn't available (yet?), but there are some | demo executables available. | kitsunesoba wrote: | Playing 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. | kccqzy wrote: | Conversely I also think dark modes shouldn't be plain black; it | should be a dark shade of gray. | post-it wrote: | Except on OLED displays (or whatever Macs have), where black | looks extremely nice. | sharkjacobs wrote: | I like black blacks on OLED screens but otherwise agree with | you | crazygringo wrote: | Not 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? | kitsunesoba wrote: | Current macOS light mode isn't technically white, but it's a | lot closer than platinum was. iOS is even brighter, as is | Win10/11. | trm42 wrote: | Oh 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 wrote: | On 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. | nobleach wrote: | I 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! | metadat wrote: | Direct link to the goods: | | 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 wrote: | This 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. | PcChip wrote: | is there anything like this for Win 3.x and Win95/98SE, with | games pre-installed just like this? | mihaip wrote: | https://www.pcjs.org/ is a similar project on the PC side. | | The Internet Archive also has some collections: | https://archive.org/details/classicpcgames and | https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-03-28 23:00 UTC)