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Re: Infinite Mac

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It runs? I guess. Neither Sim City 2000 nor Warcraft II could start. Is this just another enscripten rush port or something?

“The marvel is not that the bear dances well, but that the bear dances at all.”

With the amount of in-browser emulators how there it doesn't seem particularly difficult to recompile something existing to WASM. Archive.org has been doing something like that for years at this point

This project is a nice resume badge. Just wish it was called that

Re: Infinite Mac

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I'm not sure how many people will remember this, but macOS 8 came with a program called Hotline, who's main activity was "publishing and distribution of a multi-purpose client/server communication software." Most people I knew used it to pirate software and MP3s. The way most of us used it was we'd find a server that had something we wanted (software, a crack, or music), and the login would be password protected. The…

Hotline didn't come bundled with the OS but was definitely good times. Edit: oh and Carracho!

What's funny is I didn't remember it coming bundled, but it was on the linked site so I figured I just forgot.

Re: Infinite Mac

#63

You know what's nice? The 13" (rescaled) 4:3 screen is easier to read than my current setup. Also, the menu's are nice and short. Very focus. I totally understand how I, and many people in the past, were able to pump out huge amounts of code in a week

Other forgotten niceties are the spatial Finder and how double clicking on a window title basically folds the window into just the title bar.

Re: Infinite Mac

#64

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.

This system was designed to be used primarily with CRT based displays, so back in the day it wouldn't have "looked" as pixellated even though these things were definitely defined that way.

Re: Infinite Mac

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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. T…

https://github.com/tenox7/wrp WRP - Web Rendering Proxy

Re: Infinite Mac

#69
What does one have to do to get as clear and pretty of a UI as that on the modern desktop OSes? Everyone switched from bitmaps to vectors over a decade ago and now everything is fuzzy, antialiased, scalable, flat, hard to make out.

Of course you can always run dwm on linux with a hodgepodge of makeshift utility apps, write your own keybinds to set your brightness and volume and other such inanities, but in order to get a 'complete' desktop experience you kinda have to opt-in to GNOME/KDE which are trying to do the same things as Apple or Microsoft, aesthetically speaking. And tough luck if you actually use Apple or Microsoft to begin with. I tried running bug.n and it seems to not work in win10, let alone win11.

Re: Infinite Mac

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I'm not sure how many people will remember this, but macOS 8 came with a program called Hotline, who's main activity was "publishing and distribution of a multi-purpose client/server communication software." Most people I knew used it to pirate software and MP3s. The way most of us used it was we'd find a server that had something we wanted (software, a crack, or music), and the login would be password protected. The…

Just seeing the logo gave me flashbacks to hogging two phone lines at night downloading - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotline_Communications
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