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Re: Infinite Mac

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Post by reaperducer »

lekevicius wrote: post #3

Fantastic! It even has Adobe Photoshop 3. So much fun.

Fantastic! It even has Adobe Photoshop 3. So much fun.

Makes me wonder if in the year 2040, we'll be able to do anything similar at all.

"Oooh! Photoshop CC on Microsoft Windows 13 running inside a browser running on macOS 43! Oh, wait. 'Cannot connect to DRM server.' 'Cannot connect to advertising server.' 'Cannot connect to marketing server.' 'Cannot connect to telemetry server.' 'Cannot authenticate login. Aborting.'"

(I'm not harshing on MS. Just moaning that software is so tied to ephemeral services these days.)

Re: Infinite Mac

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Post by snerbles »

Narishma wrote: post #37

Font rendering seems off. It looks too pixelated and the pixels aren't even the same size. That said, I haven't used a real Mac so I don't know if that's how it's supposed to look.

It looks like a fractional scaling issue.

Re: Infinite Mac

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Post by wlesieutre »

gr33nq wrote: post #25

This took me on a trip down memory lane back to my days in elementary school. I recall our class going to the computer lab once a week and having an hour to spend on an iMac G3, of which some were on OS8 and others OS9. Going back even further to kindergarten, our logins on those Macs were forced to use a simplified UI that displayed only icons/tiles of applications -- no browsing files or anything sophisticated from…

I believe you're remembering "At Ease"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Ease

Re: Infinite Mac

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Post by lostgame »

nsxwolf wrote: post #36

I was hoping I could use Netscape Navigator to go to Hacker News and post a comment from it, but it has no network connection. And I guess it probably wouldn't be able to HTTPS.

I’m sorry this is so vague, I’m in transit right now; so I’m a little lazy to try to Google this from my phone - but there is some sort of proxy-type thing for these old Macs that allows you to use the ‘modern web’, to an…extent?

I think it kinda works the way Opera Mini does or something, if that makes sense?

It does totally solve the HTTPS issue. You could easily access HN using this method through even Netscape.

There is also - I want to say - again pardon me if I’m wrong here, but I believe it’s called ‘Classzilla’?

This is for - AFAIK - at least MacOS 9 (you might be screwed for 8, though) and does old.Reddit.com pretty okay for me as long as I have enough RAM in the unit, so it should also handle HN totally fine.

I actually think it - along with, unfortunately; an absolutely incredible modern Firefox port for PPC Macs running 10.4/10.5 called ‘TenFourFox’, are now abandoned - but very much still available.

It was a pretty big hit to the (admittedly small) PPC Mac community when it happened.

I personally still use TenFourFox almost every day as I use my PPC Mac collection often for various tasks, especially my quad G5 that has 16GB(!) RAM.

(Yeah, a PPC Mac with I believe 2 processors/4 G5 cores at 2.5(?)ghz, 2 512 GB SSD’s and 16GB of RAM. There is literally no better way to experience the heights of the PPC Mac days. So cool.)

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