If you want to try it out - and let’s be honest there are far worse ways to spend an idle 10 minute - you can do so quickly and easily.
All of the apps work this isn’t a superficial reconstruction that cracks beneath its veneer. While there’s no working internet connectivity (meaning the bundled copy of Internet Explorer will go largely unloved) but aside from that it is a fully functional version of Mac OS 8.
This roster even includes well-known tools like Adobe Photoshop 3, Adobe Premiere 4, Netscape Explorer, Duke Nukem 3D, and plenty more. “The virtual machine is emulating a 1991 Macintosh Quadra 900 with a Motorola CPU, which Apple used before switching to the PowerPC architecture (Apple/IBM/Motorola) in the mid 1990s,” Felix says of his effort.Ī suite of era-specific software and games come bundled as trials, demos, etc. there’s no need to fuss around with installers, partitions, or set up dialogs). It runs as a standalone app that boots to the OS directly, i.e. This free-to-use-but-don’t-ask-me-if-Apple-approve version of Mac OS 8 runs like a champ on Windows, macOS and Linux (I tested it on the latter). The technical feat is made possible by JavaScript and everyone’s favourite¹ app creation framework Electron. In macintosh.js Felix puts Apple’s ancient Mac OS 8 system in the paws of the masses. Having delivered an Electron-based version of Windows 95 in 2018, Felix is back with a new virtual machine package (and a new apology for creating it in the first place). Of course you don’t 😉 but that hasn’t stopped Slack developer Felix Rieseberg from giving you (and the rest of the world) the unrequested ability to do it - and do it pretty darn well, I might add. Fancy running Mac OS 8 on your modern Mac, Linux, or Windows 10 desktop as a standalone app?
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