[HN Gopher] Infinite Mac: Infinitemac.org
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Infinite Mac: Infinitemac.org
Author : mariuz
Score : 100 points
Date : 2023-03-28 17:53 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| 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
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