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Infinite Mac: Classic Macintosh system releases and software on a web browser

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Pretty cool!

Quick story. The first real computer I bought for myself was a Mac B&W G3. Amazing system. When Steve Jobs came back to Apple. I originally went to a Gateway store (remember those?) and configured a system. Went through the process to get approved for the loan to buy the system. I got denied (was a teenager). The loan people called me the next day to discuss more details and then approved me. I think they sent me a check or something. Can’t remember. I used those funds to buy the B&W G3 instead. Best decision I ever made. Was there for the birth of Mac OS X.

Not the same fan today that I was of Apple and OS X like I was back then, but it shaped my computer knowledge of Mac, and later Windows.

My first Mac was a Performa 5200CD that I bought in 1996 with my paper route earnings. My second was a B&W G3! Loved both of those computers!

I still use Macs today but I really miss those days. I miss Mac OS 9 the most. But I also really miss all the high quality desktop software for it.

You don’t see that anymore! Everything is a service, a rental. Even though most of the SaaS products out today are just plain inferior to the perpetual licensed desktop software of old.

Was it a blue and white G3?

https://apple-history.com/g3blue

Indeed.

Had a really nice GPU.

Quake 3 Arena was released to Mac OS first before Windows.

Cool! I loved Dave Winer's MORE outlining application [1] back in the day and it would be fun to try it again. I'm sure I have my MORE data on a floppy somewhere, and Symantec gave Dave permission to distribute the old software.

[1] http://outliners.scripting.com/default.html

Thank you for the recommendation, I've been looking for good mindmapping / idea outlining software for the classic Macintosh and hadn't heard of MORE before.

I am so thankful for this project - for years I have been obsessed with a game I loved on my old Mac SE, but I couldn’t remember the name and only remembered that it was like Asteroids, but in a maze.

I found it on several of the releases at this site - it’s called Continuum. So fun to get to play it again after all this time!

Continuum is awesome. It has a level editor built in?

I loved Mantra II, which was ported to OS X a couple of years ago.

Who here played Lemmings by Psygnosis?

How about Bungie’s Myth: TFL

I nearly failed out of college my first year due to obsessively playing ranked online games of Myth and Myth II.

I still fire up the game on my Linux workstation from time to time. It bums me out that nothing like it has been made since. I would absolutely kill for Bungie to buy back the rights to the franchise and have a go at modernizing it.

You may be interested to hear that community developers [1] have updated Myth II to be run on modern systems (even native Apple Silicon!) with a variety of enhancements to the game client itself and other goodies like hi-res map textures.

There's also a community metaserver to replace bungie.net. [2]

Join us on Myth Discord and register for Myth World Cup 2023! [3]

There are dozens of us left. Dozens!

[1] http://projectmagma.net/what/

[2] http://gateofstorms.net/

[3] https://discord.gg/S2qHX8MnP

>You may be interested to hear that community developers

Why yes, yes I am. Thanks for the post. Just in time for a weekend light in the calendar!

I still played on war2.ru until recently. Anyone? DOZENS TOO!

The dwarves "Yeah, wadda you want?" cracked me up, and their reactions when their tosses were closer than danger close

Now see when I was young if some one was obsessed with a game kinda like Asteroids but in a maze called Continuum they would have been talking about Subspace: Continuum.

Wow, I didn't know about that one, but just watched a video. I wonder if it was inspired by the Mac game from the late 80s.

I was obsessed with this game too. Was a care free time in my life

A list of in browser VMs like this https://gist.github.com/SMUsamaShah/6379649c0cbade9abc02b242...

These were shared here over time.

I've been messing around with this for the past week, it's very cool. There's even a CloudFlare Durable Objects-based AppleTalk networking stack, which I think is such an interesting fusion of old and new: https://blog.persistent.info/2022/07/infinite-mac-networking...

I have data files from Family Tree Maker 1.0 that I would love to open up. But v2 doesn’t open them (v1.5 changed file types). I have v1 files and the install CD for v2. Out of luck! :/

Have you looked on Macintosh Garden for the old software? It's got quite the library of Mac abandonware.

Wow....... I'm speechless. I wasn't expecting to see actual working software like Infini-D. This is the real deal. It brings back so much memory.

7.5.3 on my dad’s Quadra 950 at the Philadelphia Inquirer. Coolest thing ever (except there were SGI Indy’s a few floors above).

Not to mention SCSI!

I can't run anything between System 2 and System 7 on my Mac Studio. Maybe the emulator used for those doesn't like Apple Silicon?

Shutting it down produces an emulator error: "unreachable executed". Shutting down your Mac is truly the poster child of undefined behavior! Thank Zeus this never happened yet when shutting down my hardware Mac, but who knows...

Cool! Is there an Amiga version of something like this?

You can emulate Amiga software in-browser from the Internet Archive's collection [1], but AFAIK there's no emulated web system that's has a bunch of stuff installed on a hard drive like Infinite Mac does. The Amiga Forever [2] package comes with a lot of software you can run locally, but not through a browser.

[1] https://archive.org/details/lynx_Shadow_of_the_Beast_1992 [2] https://www.amigaforever.com/

Maybe this?

https://scriptedamigaemulator.net/

Or this?

https://taws.ch/WB.html

Does anyone know how to run hypercard on any of these systems ?

I'd like to try the software and so far these seems the easiest emulator to run.

Doubtless there are lots of other ways to get it running but I just tried it myself by: * 1990 * System 6.0.5 * Customize... * Machine: Mac II * Infinite HD > Multimedia > HyperCard > HyperCard

Thank you!

I love this! I spent my formative coding years in a THINK C editor on a Mac Classic, so this is goals.

What happened to system 4?

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