MacRelix – Unix-like features for classic Mac OS
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MacRelix – Unix-like features for classic Mac OS
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Re: MacRelix – Unix-like features for classic Mac OS
#2I remember seeing multiple kinds of options like this for MacOS over the years, including some attempts to port tools or create different environments within MacOS.
Like: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/mac06
Or MachTen: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/professional-machten-68k
Or Mac Minix: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/macminix-15
Really fun and wild stuff. Curious how MacRelix relates or differs.
Re: MacRelix – Unix-like features for classic Mac OS
#3It doesn’t really go into what all it can do
Re: MacRelix – Unix-like features for classic Mac OS
#4You can also install MPW (Macintosh Programmer's Workshop) and access a pretty decent command line environment via official Apple software.
Re: MacRelix – Unix-like features for classic Mac OS
#5This makes me wonder.. Are there any quirky whimsical or nostalgic but still functional desktop OS out there.. Like the fantasy console PICO-8, but for Desktop applications?
Re: MacRelix – Unix-like features for classic Mac OS
#6This makes me wonder.. Are there any quirky whimsical or nostalgic but still functional desktop OS out there.. Like the fantasy console PICO-8, but for Desktop applications?
There's this https://www.haiku-os.org/
Re: MacRelix – Unix-like features for classic Mac OS
#7This makes me wonder.. Are there any quirky whimsical or nostalgic but still functional desktop OS out there.. Like the fantasy console PICO-8, but for Desktop applications?
Nothing's stopping you from making classic MacOS that OS – infinitemac.org is a tremendous website full of emulators with a large software collection and drag and drop file transfer! It has very good ergonomics if you just want to play around with it, throw some software you downloaded on to it, etc. When coding for the very early Mac, you just targeted a B&W 512x384 display.
The Macintosh Toolbox is a bit verbose, though.
Re: MacRelix – Unix-like features for classic Mac OS
#8It doesn’t really go into what all it can do
Yeah, could use a readme for sure.
Re: MacRelix – Unix-like features for classic Mac OS
#9This makes me wonder.. Are there any quirky whimsical or nostalgic but still functional desktop OS out there.. Like the fantasy console PICO-8, but for Desktop applications?
The makers of Pico-8 just released a fantasy desktop called Picotron, and it's rather amusing. Not really a suitable daily-driver yet, though.
Re: MacRelix – Unix-like features for classic Mac OS
#10I wonder if there would be a way to adapt this to also use MacTCP instead of OpenTransport.