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This is super cool. I love that look. Something about classic black & white macos has a timeless "alternative timeline" L'Air de Panache aesthetic that to me says credibility and stability. Maybe it's the memory of the rows of Macintosh SE or Plus, those solid little upright beige bricks, in the computer room at my elementary school.

I made a MacOS system 7 web desktop UI with real web browsing: https://win9-5.com/macos/

A re-imagining.

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Oh wow. Once I saw the smiling machine and empty progress bar, I went straight to NoScript and enabled your domain without a moment's hesitation — highly unusual for me. It's charming! I laughed out loud when I saw your screen-saver.

It's familiar and alien at the same time, like I'm seeing an alternate universe.

I made my own web-based Mac simulator some time ago: https://www.metamage.com/apps/maxim/

It was a way to become more familiar with CSS and JS (and indulge my classic Mac OS nostalgia), but my biggest takeaway was that the web wasn't a foundation I wanted to build complex structures on, and indirectly helped spur me to create Advanced Mac Substitute.

Sharing our Mac themes simulators? Here is my entrant: https://hcsimulator.com/ Full compatibility with HyperCard stacks, including their resource forks if they are in StuffIt archives.

Beautiful little story about Ziggy

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