Mac OS 9

#1

Post by Shank » Mon, Dec 05, 2022, 5:00 PM UTC

Mac OS 9
macos9.app

Re: Mac OS 9

#2

Post by 5amdotis » Mon, Dec 05, 2022, 5:05 PM UTC

Brings back memories!

Re: Mac OS 9

#3

Post by autotune » Mon, Dec 05, 2022, 5:08 PM UTC

Oh wow this actually has The Oregon Trail available to play, this is impressive!

Re: Mac OS 9

#4

Post by johnthuss » Mon, Dec 05, 2022, 5:10 PM UTC

This is awesome! I still love the look of the Finder from this era, and I love that this has the Window Shade extension turned on too.

Re: Mac OS 9

#5

Post by bri3d » Mon, Dec 05, 2022, 5:10 PM UTC

This is really impressive and goes way above and beyond the normal "emscripten an emulator into a browser" shenanigans.

There's seamless file copy in/out, and a really clever setup where accessing the same subdomain as someone else puts you in an AppleTalk zone together.

Extremely cool stuff.

Re: Mac OS 9

#6

Post by Not_John » Mon, Dec 05, 2022, 5:11 PM UTC

Reminds of this https://github.com/felixrieseberg/macintosh.js/

Had a lot of fun with this some time ago.

Re: Mac OS 9

#7

Post by poundtown » Mon, Dec 05, 2022, 5:14 PM UTC

KPT Bryce!

Re: Mac OS 9

#8

Post by bastardoperator » Mon, Dec 05, 2022, 5:16 PM UTC

Sick!

Re: Mac OS 9

#9

Post by agys » Mon, Dec 05, 2022, 5:16 PM UTC

Makes me remind (and appreciate) of how beautiful and clean the UI was. Designed in the tiniest detail!

Re: Mac OS 9

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Post by slowmotarget » Mon, Dec 05, 2022, 5:16 PM UTC

It's a great reminder of how well MacOS 9 UI and UX were designed, and how space efficient the whole OS was on screen.

Even the window handle bars were subtly shadowed, the window shadows evolved when they were collapsed. Like Windows 95 at the time, Mac OS 9 was a beautiful work of interaction design.