Fancy running Mac OS 8 on your modern Mac, Linux, or Windows 10 desktop as a standalone app?
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.
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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).
In macintosh.js Felix puts Apple’s ancient Mac OS 8 system in the paws of the masses. The technical feat is made possible by JavaScript and everyone’s favourite¹ app creation framework Electron.
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). It runs as a standalone app that boots to the OS directly, i.e. there’s no need to fuss around with installers, partitions, or set up dialogs). Design app free mac.
To run Mac apps on Linux, you’ll need some sort of virtual machine or translation layer. Run a macOS Virtual Machine (All Apps) The most reliable way to run Mac apps on Linux is through a virtual machine. With a free, open-source hypervisor application like VirtualBox, you can run macOS on a virtual device on your Linux machine. Sure: $ ssh -X myuser@mypc $ runsomething I don't know if that works on OS X, since I'm a Linux user, but give it a try. Also, if you're going to do this outside a LAN (fast connection), try NoMachine. If you are running Linux and want to run Windows application, then you have following choices. Install Windows via virtualization software. Then install your Windows application on top of it. Pros No need for dual booting. You can switch from Linux apps to Windows. You can share files between Linux and Windows (some configuration required). Shell scripts are easier to run on macOS compared to Windows 10 because macOS is based on UNIX. It’s something the system has in common with a Linux system. Shell commands will run without trouble and you will be able to use a few select apps Linux apps too though you would benefit more from a macOS version of them if they’re available. By default, Mac-on-Linux requires root privileges to run. The following command makes sure you can run Mac-on-Linux as a normal user. Sudo dpkg-statoverride -update -add root root 4755 /usr/lib/mol/bin/mol. Now you should be able to run startmol -osx (just startmol for Mac OS 9), and Mac OS X will boot up in a window or on a new.
“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.
A suite of era-specific software and games come bundled as trials, demos, etc. This roster even includes well-known tools like Adobe Photoshop 3, Adobe Premiere 4,Netscape Explorer, Duke Nukem 3D, and plenty more.
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. All of the apps work; this isn’t a superficial reconstruction that cracks beneath its veneer.
This works.
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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. Just keep in mind that Macintosh.js is more of a nostalgic novelty rather than a serious attempt at platform resurrection, something Felix himself notes:
“[This is] not the best nor the most performant way to emulate an old Macintosh. It is, however, a quick and easy way to experience a bit of nostalgia if you’re not trying to do anything serious with it.”
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You (and everyone else) can grab an installer from the project’s GitHub releases page.
¹ Jokes.
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- Source: GitHub
- (via: Engadget)