Slack developer Felix Rieseberg has transformed Mac OS 8 into an app you can put in on your Mac or Computer system. Immediately after reworking Windows 95 into an app again in 2018, Rieseberg decided to switch an complete 1991 Macintosh Quadra with Mac OS 8.1 into a one Electron app. It even features a quantity of apps and game titles, many thanks to an previous MacWorld demo CD from 1997. The application can be set up on macOS, Windows, and Linux.
The macintosh.js app is created completely in JavaScript, and it utilizes a virtual device to emulate a Macintosh Quadra 900 with the Motorola CPU Apple utilised before its transition to IBM’s PowerPC chips. Rieseberg has managed to get classic game titles like Duke Nukem 3D, Civilization II, Dungeons & Dragons, Namely, Oregon Trail, Alley 19 Bowling, and Hurt Included functioning. There is even a bunch of apps and trials preinstalled, such as Photoshop 3, Premiere 4, Illustrator 5.5, StuffIt Expander, and Apple’s Internet Site Building Package.
Even though Online Explorer and Netscape are preinstalled, the versions are so old that Rieseberg states “you would not be equipped to open even Google.” Either way, it’s amazing that a ‘90s version of Mac OS has been ported to operate in JavaScript.
If you are fascinated in striving the app out, all of the standalone variations are a lot less than 250MB and can be downloaded from GitHub. Enjoy, the moment once again, a vacation down memory lane.
