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Macintosh Garden – Celebrating Macintosh Abandonware

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Re: Macintosh Garden – Celebrating Macintosh Abandonware

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Post by matheweis »

Somewhere I saw a 68k emulator that ran MacOS in the browser. It would be super cool if these guys linked that into their site so that every piece of software was running within the browser... :D

Edit: Not the one I remember, but: https://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/

Re: Macintosh Garden – Celebrating Macintosh Abandonware

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Post by dragonshed »

Still a great site. A few months back I downloaded some handy utilities from it while down the nostalgia rabbit hole. [1]

After setting up Sheep Shaver (seems to be the best ppc emulator capable of running MacOS 9), I dusted off my old copies of Marathon 2 and Myth. It was rather enjoyable, running all that stuff on my 2012 MacBook Pro.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12476605

Re: Macintosh Garden – Celebrating Macintosh Abandonware

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Post by feelix »

dragonshed wrote: post #5

Still a great site. A few months back I downloaded some handy utilities from it while down the nostalgia rabbit hole. [1] After setting up Sheep Shaver (seems to be the best ppc emulator capable of running MacOS 9), I dusted off my old copies of Marathon 2 and Myth. It was rather enjoyable, running all that stuff on my 2012 MacBook Pro. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12476605

You can run Marathon 2 on the latest macOS, Sierra https://alephone.lhowon.org/

Re: Macintosh Garden – Celebrating Macintosh Abandonware

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Post by Esau »

crooked-v wrote: post #4

http://www.pangeasoft.net/nano/ Nanosaur is still available for purchase, for anyone who has an OS 9 machine floating around.

I really like Nanosaur II and it still runs on OS X (at least it did in 2014). I installed it on my 2013 Macbook Air and it caused the fan to come on full blast.

Re: Macintosh Garden – Celebrating Macintosh Abandonware

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Post by matheweis »

matheweis wrote: post #3

Somewhere I saw a 68k emulator that ran MacOS in the browser. It would be super cool if these guys linked that into their site so that every piece of software was running within the browser... :D Edit: Not the one I remember, but: https://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/

Oh looky, another site that almost does this with a JAVA emulator: http://virtualapple.org from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13621524
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