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That is awesome :D I know it should work... it's too easy to make work today, but I can't help imagine being back in the 90s and showing someone classic MacOS running on a tablet. It would blow their mind.

Also the e-ink display running classic is very reminiscent of one of the early LCD displays in this old thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Portable

That's awesome! Now, if only one could find a working 3.5" floppy drive to read all those old disks...

You kidding? That's incredibly cool. What are the refresh rates like?

A lot of e-ink devices just run Android so it's relatively easy to run whatever you want on them.

Refresh rate depends on how much of the screen is updating at once. Scrolling a whole page is pretty bad, updating a small region is reasonably quick. Some devices have an 'A2 mode' that makes it somewhat faster by just doing black/white instead of grayscale.

I mean, classic Macs didn't exactly have turbo charged refresh anyways. Yes, things like scrolling chunks of text is probably faster on an actual first-gen Mac than an e-Ink screen, but they weren't really... turbo for graphics rendering.

This is amazing. Do you have more info on how to do this?