Click the 'Help' button at the bottom of the running application to see instructions. There are also various apps and trial versions preinstalled, including Photoshop 3, Premiere 4, Illustrator 5.5, StuffIt Expander, Apple Webpage Building Kit, and more.Ĭan I transfer files to and from the machine? Yes you can. Namely, Oregon Trail, Duke Nukem 3D, Civilization II, Alley 19 Bowling, Damage Incorporated and Dungeons & Dragons. You'll find various games and demos preinstalled, thanks to an older MacWorld demo CD from 1997. Rieseberg says it should run most Mac OS 8 compatible apps, and even comes bundled with some apps. The underlying emulator is Basilisk II, a 68k Macintosh emulator from Christian Bauer et al, modified and compiled with Emscripten by James Friend.

Keep in mind that this is written entirely in JavaScript, so please adjust your expectations. The virtual machine emulates a 900 Macintosh Quadra 1991 with a Motorola processor, which Apple used before switching to IBM's PowerPC architecture in the late 1990s. You can also run it on a Windows or Linux machine. It all works on your Mac as a single, stand-alone JavaScript application. Thanks to Slack developer Felix Rieseberg, you can now run Mac OS 8 on a 900 Macintosh Quadra 1991 without having to worry about separate emulators and operating system installations. I love that some people have too much free time.

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